So I’m sitting in the center (left turn) lane of a busy five lane road, blinker on, waiting for a break in traffic to complete my left turn. There is a person in a vehicle behind me, that I can see quite plainly in my rear view mirror.
Apparently she has noticed a window of opportunity that I chose not to take, being rather stiff and sore this morning and not prone to jerky driving movements. Perhaps I *could* have made it, if I’d jammed on the gas pedal and cranked the wheel, I *might* have been able to shoot through that brief pause in steady traffic. It’s conceivable.
But I was rather amused at the display of disbelief in my rear view, the shocked look of thinly veiled anger, the hands thrown in the air. How DARE I not go when that opportunity was so very available?
So there I sat, in the left turn lane, blinker steadily blinking without enthusiasm, waiting for the next suitable gap in traffic, and completing my turn more slowly than normal because I can barely turn my neck; something is pinched in my shoulder and extremely painful. It had to have been at least 15 seconds later, maybe 20, when I made my bold move. She rides my bumper as I once again use my turn signal half a block later, and slowly approach a drive on the right, taking great care not to bounce a tire off the sharp edged curb.
I wish I had so few other things to be stressed about that the simple act of someone missing a left turn opportunity could bring me so much angst. I waved as she passed and hoped her day would get better.
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PeTA is Michael Jackson. No one would leave their small child or dog with him, but as long as he isn’t in their living room, he’s considered harmless. Never mind the walk-in freezer in the back for the bodies.
HSUS is Michael Jackson in a very convincing Mister Rogers mask. Most people trust him because on the outside he seems completely harmless, associated with good and wholesome things. Peel away the layers, and you find an organization run with the same basic leaders and fundamental beliefs as PeTA.
The good work that many local humane societies do has nothing to do with HSUS. They are a powerful political lobbying group. No one that I would leave a small child or dog with unattended.
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Humane Society of the United States,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
I sent this bulletin out to my many friends on MySpace this past Monday morning:
Jackson County is charging the taxpayers $22,000 a month to care for 68 horses they seized from Turn 3 Ranch in Grass Lake in March. Most were healthy at the time of seizure, according to the prosecution’s expert witness testimony.
After reports of horses that Jackson County Animal Control ran through a livestock auction last month that were skinny, parasite infested and lacking basic hoof care, I went to the auction this weekend myself … and found the reports to be true. While this batch of horses seemed to be fed adequately, their hooves were very overgrown and they had the tell-tale signs of intestinal worms. (These are easily managed with a $3 tube of deworming paste.)
Where is the money going that Jackson County demands for the “care” of these horses, that they are now selling for as little as $100 a head to any buyer with cash? Just read the Jackson Citizen Patriot … they’re replacing their condemned, filthy and disease-ridden Animal Shelter. On the very backs of horses unjustly taken from their rightful owners, who have yet to go to court on the charges made against them (3 of their 69 horses in poor condition) and without due process. No warnings were issued. No attempt was made to investigate the reason for these three horses to be so thin… instead JCAC rolled in and took over the farm, animals, vehicles, personal property, whatever they could get their hands on. They found a horse-ignorant judge, who believes among other ridiculous notions that you must not care about your animals if you buy used tack.
Visit the forums at GLHorseTruth.com yourselves. Every animal owner should be angry. Innocent until proven guilty is not the modus operandi for Jackson County. People who have dared to speak out have been harrassed, surprise inspections have been done on their farms and records. Letters to Jackson County officials have been answered with threats. And the nation is watching the outcome of this case.
To help spread the word via social networking, please add GLHorseTruth.com to your MySpace friends list.
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Turn 3 Ranch
There has been a lot, an awful lot, of stuff going on lately, but nothing I could share outside of my very closest friends and family on my private myspace account.
And that other means of conversation which requires face to face contact and spoken words.
But then people want to /hug/ and I don’t care too much for touching and {cooties} and sterf.
One person brought cookies, and that was pretty okay.
When I be gooder I writes more, khey?
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