It Ain't Natural, Folks

This statistic isn't one bit surprising. People aren't designed to be vegetarian or vegan. Their digestive systems reflect that reality. These animal "rights" people are crazy, and their half-baked "philosophy" makes NO sense whatsoever. In their demented world, animal "rights" people believe humans are just another animal with no special rights and considerations from other species, yet they advocate AR for "ethical" reasons, ethics being a concept unique to humans since animals operate entirely on instinct. People like the PETA crowd don't understand their guru, Peter Singer, espouses ideas that would fit in with Nazi Germany, such as the killing of disabled babies if their parents are not "happy" having "defective" children. He also has no qualms against bestiality.

In the old days before the hippie movement and the back-to-nature bullshit of the late 1960s or early 1970s, vegetarians and vegans were rightly regarded as weirdos and cranks. It's time the vast majority of people regard these people as the crackpots they are and marginalize them. The ones who commit violence in the name of "animals" need to go to prison as the terrorists they are.

Speaking of weirdos and cranks, Paul McCartney is doubtless suffering from years of dietary deficiency and marijuana abuse and is once again making a fool out of himself.

Etc.

Better late than never, I suppose. Probably his new wife has something to do with it.
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Another state declares wars on teachers and "tenure."
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The parents aren't going to get anywhere with this. Their complaints against a principal and filed with Oregon's backlogged TSPC are frivolous and will get absolutely nowhere:

Parents of Prospect Charter School students have lodged a series of complaints about the school's principal, leading to an investigation by the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.

Prospect Parent Teacher Organization President Terry Cryts claims that Principal Jennifer Pettit is unfair and discriminatory and doesn't comply with set discipline guidelines.

"She is rude and abrasive," said Cryts, who transferred her daughter to Eagle Point High School.

Cryts said she is not alone, and at least a dozen families from the 200-student school have filed separate complaints with the Oregon TSPC.

A principal can be "rude and abrasive" and have procedures that make parents unhappy, but those aren't grounds to discipline a principal, let alone suspend or revoke a license.

The most they can do is try to get the principal to resign.
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Miscellaneous News

Heather Mills really is greedy.
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Miscellaneous News

Kristy Grant gets to keep her 150 cats.

It's clear this is not a case of hoarding animals, unlike other cases. The cats appear healthy and well-cared for.
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If one is so inclined, here is a link to a 1979 Tomorrow Show interview with Paul and Linda McCartney.

Boy, how he screwed up after Linda died.
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And McCartney isn't the only one who has screwed up: If this story has any basis in fact, it appears 20-year-old Katia Ivanova has won over a wrinkled, drunken, filthy rich man old enough to be her grandfather.
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Miscellaneous News.

The WSWS notes the cyclone disaster worsens in Burma.
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Dolly Parton has paid tribute to gospel singer and friend Dottie Rambo, who was killed in a bus crash yesterday in Missouri.

Consider how well known Rambo is, I am surprised there is no obituary from the New York Times yet. They did one of Vestal Goodman a few years ago.

More from the Tennessean is here.
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A judge decreed the McCartney marriage over, but fans of the former Beatle knew it was over from Day One.
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So is Tony Rezko a crook or was he framed, as closing arguments were made in his trial today.

Miscellaneous.

Darren Mack's lawyer wants the judge presiding over his (non)case tossed out.

Mack now resides in luxury at Ely State Prison, Nevada's only maximum security prison, serving a life sentence with parole possible in 36 years.
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Ten cents says Paul McCartney makes an ass of himself again.

He still remembers wife number one, though.
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Miscellaneous.

Heather Mills should have kept her mouth shut.
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Miscellaneous.

Paul McCartney finally gained his freedom.

One thing about him I always liked was he has insisted his children attend public schools (called "state schools" in Britain). He felt it was important his kids were treated no differently than other children.

Video is here.
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Today New York gets a new governor.

Let's hope there are no further scandals.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur was probably right in identifying those who attacked him and left him for dead in 1994, a couple of years before he was murdered.

Edit: Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, categorically denies the report.
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Former ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert has died in a freak accident at his home in Spain. He was 61.

Details:

Police believe Brunkert hit his head on a window and shattered the glass which cut him. A post-mortem is taking place.

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The musician was found by a neighbour late on Sunday in a pool of blood.

He had managed to wrap a towel around his neck before leaving the house to summon help before collapsing in the garden.

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A baby suffers from a rare disease, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, which causes the body to age far quicker, and children invariably die of it.

It occurs once in 8 million births. Only about 100 cases have been identified in medical history.
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Miscellaneous.

Somebody should remind Heather Mills the saying about a person acting as his or her own lawyer.
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Miscellaneous.

How nice it is the dogs can go to Michigan from Iraq.

More pictures can be found here.
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Is the Hollywood writers strike near an end?
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Darren Mack will be an old man before he gets out of prison.
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Supposedly Heather cheated on Paul while they were married.
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As the World Turns.

You wonder what in the goddamned hell was the matter with Paul McCartney to have made such a goddamned fool out of himself for marrying Heather Mills.

God.

As the World Turns.

It's all over between the mayor and the reporter:

"They broke up earlier in the fall. They've both moved on. And Antonio is focused on his relationships with his kids," said one person who said he learned about the breakup in October.

The other source -- who described himself as a longtime friend of Villaraigosa's -- said the relationship ended two or possibly three months ago.

"I think it was a tough summer. I think it was hard on his family. And I think he's trying hard to get past everything that was that summer," the friend said.

Like that was ever going to go anywhere after all of the negative publicity.
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And now with one southern California fire now being extinguished, another one takes its place.

I am sure readers will not get my drift.
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Oh, brother, the British tabloids are trying to get Paul McCartney married off even before he gets divorced.
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Somebody has the nerve to ask whether men are necessary.

Unfortunately, the article is rather wishy-washy despite the provocative title.
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As the World Turns.

Workers once again got sold down the river.
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Is a one-time prominent atheist being exploited by the evangelicals?
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This has to be one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.

Who the hell made you god?
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Prince Charles had somebody unsavory sponge off of him.
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Heather shot off her mouth a bit too much, so now Paul wants full custody of their daughter.
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Oh, brother, talk about an anticlimatic article and interview.
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As the World Turns II.

The McCartney divorce could get very, very ugly.
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Orion the cat somehow survived a house fire.
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A bald eagle found shot unfortunately had to be euthanized.
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As the World Turns.

Northwest tire magnate Les Schwab, 89, has died. He had been in poor health in recent months.

He bought a dilapidated tire store in 1952 and ended up with a chain of over 400 stores throughout the West generating over a billion a year in sales.

Schwab was the personification of Prineville, Oregon.
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Have Paul and Heather arrived at a truce?
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As the World Turns.

Perhaps Bill Gates ought to get his own house in order before pontificating about how American high schools ought to be fixed.
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Is a settlement in the works for Paul and Heather?
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Religious right leaders are afraid the evangelical movement they overtook in the 1980s
is straying too far from the hot button issues which have served them so well in the past.

In other words, many evangelicals are too liberal for the likes of Dobson and other religious fascists.
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