44 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By Crazy People”

  1. and the law of unintended consequences dictates it would be prudent to short any fromagerie stock one may have in one’s portfolio…

  3. What’s with the surprize? After all this is a mere reflection of America. It’s move to elect a leader like Obambam is part of that insanity…
    -Most of the world’s oil supply (By design from greed) comes from the Middle East and is in total turmoil so what does the leader of the free world do? NOTHING…The French and British have taken the challenge…Barry’s a UN boy…Let’s see if Soetoro wakes up and announces oil drilling permits this morning at 11:30…Or will he preach windmills, solar panels, Chevy Volts and putting air in tires again? I won’t hold my breath.
    -America is bankrupt and the leader delegates all the dealings to his VP; then in the middle of the talks he sends him overseas to Russia.
    So many issues like jobs, deficits, unions, home grown terrorism, energy, wars and what does the commander in chief of the world decides to tackle?
    Well, the very pressing situation of school bullying of course. Poor Barry even gave a speech of how he was intimidated for his big ears and funny name when he was a kid (He still his, IMO)
    A total disgrace and dangerous because of the obvious total incompetence and I will not mention the more terrifying prospect that this guy is doing it on purpose which is subject to more and more debate.
    I think the most pressing issue is to look at removing this incompetence away from the controls ASAP.
    BTW, Fill up your tank this AM before Barry talks at the same time Saudi Arabia (The largest producer) might be in turmoil…Energy prices might skyrocket overnight.

  4. Lets see, a 25 year old son and a daughter have serious anger management issues and the mom is up on felony charges? And the authorities were able to perform an autopsy on the deceased hamster? It almost sounds like a set up or at the very least a lot of information missing. Not that I’m saying this woman should have responsibility for a pet, let alone children, but please, let’s get some perspective on this. Owners of snakes regularly buy baby mice, hamsters and such to feed their reptiles (some need something alive or at least warm to eat). I don’t see SWAT teams following snake owners home from the pet store.
    Perhaps we need a hamster registry.

  5. I believe it helps if you wrap them in duct tape first.
    Posted by: Brian M. at March 11, 2011 8:31 AM
    Thanks a lot Brian…I just spit tea through my nose all over my keyboard..bhuhahahahahahahahaah….duct tape…bhuhahahahahahaah

  6. Texas Canuck
    Steady there old son…..I know this is distrubing but….
    ….mom’s name is Teresa….19year-old daughter is Monique…who was arrested.
    9 months after the fact???
    I encountered a mouse in the dog food bag t’other day….I let the dog deal with it…seemed fair to me….besides the dog is much faster than this old guy and the mouse was…game….

  7. Since wen is it the right of the ASPCA to “investigate” and “charge” anybody? They are a private NGO. It’s up to the cops and prosecutor’s office to act on a complaint.
    I hope this gets thrown our of court because it sounds like busy bodies are running a witch hunt as a make work project. Only commie thugs operate this way.

  8. Appropriate training before one purchases a pet would contribute to a community free of pain and suffering. Our education system could be used to bring this about. Stricter fines and enforcement could also considered. As well as changing the culture of pet ownership to a culture of mutual coexistence and equality with our animal companions leading to a more peaceful beneficial life for all residents of our community. Of course societal change takes about ten years as shown with the charge to curb drinking and driving, and smoking led by concerned citizen groups affected by the impurities in our society.
    But our goal must be the elimination of all pain ,suffering, illness and fatalities when it comes to our brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom. (the cute ones anyways)
    I’m just practicing being a regulator,as it seems there will be a new bureaucracy growing (metastasizing) soon.
    Just another snowball of insanity headed downhill, that eventually no one will be able to dodge.

  10. The absolute best comment from the original article was:
    “Good Lord. They could give Richard Gere the needle for what he’s done.”
    (Posted by: Rich Fader | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 07:18 PM)

  12. “Good lord. They could give Richard Gere the needle for what he’s done.”
    Firstly I think Gere should get the needle not for anything he did to a ‘gerbil’ but for his horrid schmaltzy movies that only a woman could watch.
    PLEASE NOTE: I don’t believe Gere put a gerbil up his ass, I believe that is impossible. If you don’t agree. I will take your bet and watch you try it. In fact, you don’t have put up any money. I’ll pay just to watch you make the effort.
    If you succeed, I will also pay for any rehab required by the gerbil.

  13. Story belongs on Dr. Phil or Jerry Springer, not the courts.
    However, we have the comfort of knowing that the Ontario SPCA does not have and exclusive monopoly on stupidity.

  15. A good opportunity for these people (both sides) to assess their need of anger management.
    And an opportunity in Canada for the greens and left to assess the need for more prisons once they’re management.

  16. The weird thing is that the article doesn’t say it was tortured.
    The animal was killed violently and close to instantly if you believe the news report.
    If that’s the felony, just about all hunters, pest eradication, and slaughterhouses are S.O.L.
    Heck. HOSPITALS and Dr.’s are in serious hot water. And goodness knows humane societies put animal to death regularly too…perhaps the ASPCA is engaging in projection for their own acts?

  17. Hamsters are a favoured animal for lab testing the progression of cancer.
    Will the SPCA be arresting lab technicians next for purposely giving hamsters cancer?

  18. Oh no! I might need to go into hiding.
    I had a snake when I was in grad school. Before feeding a mouse to the snake, I had to swing it around and stun it. Wouldn’t want the mouse biting my snake!
    And then there were all of the crickets that we fed to chameleons (broke the crickets’ back legs first so they couldn’t get away) and mealworms fed to geckos (popped the worms’ heads off so they wouldn’t burrow into the sand).

  19. Mugs @ 9.30 am said “Appropriate training before one purchases a pet would contribute to a community free of pain and suffering. Our education system could be used to bring this about.”
    Get a grip man, the education system hasn’t got the wherewithall to teach the kids how to read write or dress themselves. How in the h-e-double hockeysticks to you expect them to teach “appropriate animal training” successfully?
    Sheesh.

  20. Finally, a post that relates to this blog! I hope Kate, that you change your banner post haste. What is that anyway? A prairie dog? How did it meet its demise? Were you responsible? We you the last one to see that rodent alive? How did you manage to just “happen upon” the body? Why didn’t you report it to the SPCA immediately? To avoid the necropsy?
    So many questions Kate. You have stepped in it this time.

  21. Vermin Tim,
    That small dead animal is a gopher whose ‘homes’ cause larger animals to drop a hoof in and break a leg. Therefore gophers are regularly shot my ranchers and farmers and Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
    I believe Kate did shoot that little pesky, but oh so lovable creature.
    Now you know the rest of the story.

  22. “…law enforcement agents from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…”
    Wait, ASPCA has its own cops? Are you f-ing kidding me?
    Obviously cops that are hard up for something to do, if they have nine months to spend looking for hamster murderers.
    Tax cut anyone? Maybe the ASPCA could do with a smaller budget.

  23. Hey Phantom the humane society has been roaming the rural roads of Ontario for awhile now, mostly due to complaints and to be fair mostly giving an old stubborn farmer a dressing down for not wanting to give up his livestock that yeah could use better shelter water and feed. So we have em too.Good thing is this fall will find out just how broke we are 🙂
    bethesdaguy I don’t disagree with what you said about the education system, although I think it’s the parents job to teach a kid how to dress.But I’ll put money on a school system somewhere working to stomp out “animal murder” if enough of the useful idiots push it.

  25. “Wait, ASPCA has its own cops? Are you f-ing kidding me? ”
    For sure, animals are fuzzy and cute, but what about the plants?
    The National Forest Service are a bunch of “big stick” freaks.
    Bobby Unser, yes Bobby Unser, is having the wood put to him behind their disgusting, gigantic, bureaucraptic woodshed as we speak

  27. I don’t believe jail time is appropriate, but certainly a hefty fine for deliberate cruelty to animals.
    A hamster is a tiny ball of fluff and they make wonderful pets. To violently harm a tiny animal that has harmed no one in that fashion is certainly wrong, and cruel to God’s creation. Poor little thing.

  29. mugs: take a look around, the parents aren’t doing a terribly good job in the “how to dress like a recognizable human being with a ounce of self-respect and decency department” so maybe the education system should be giving a whack.
    heaven knows they don’t seem to be interested in the 3 r’s anymore.

  31. “The world is being run by crazy people” has to my favourite Kateism, tho it’s a toss up with “not rioting is a failed conservative policy”.
    SO, it was with keen interest that I read this quote on the back of of Nock’s bio of Jefferson which I just received from mises.org.
    QUOTE:
    Throughout his life, Mr. Jefferson consistently maintained that “the most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate so far as possible the minds of the people”. He had no doubt that “if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, … it expects what never was and never will be”. He seems never to have suspected, however, the ease with which mere literacy is perverted, and that it is therefore quite possible for a literate people to be much more ignorant than an illiterate people – that a people of well-perverted literacy, indeed, is invincibly unintelligent.
    – Alberta Jay Nock (author of the mind-blowing Our Enemy the State, which I believe (?) I first encountered via maz2 here).

  32. Mugs, the Humane society is supposed to go to complaint sites, that’s why we pay taxes for them. But they aren’t “law enforcement officers” per se. Actual cops have to do the charges and the investigations.
    And I’m sorry, but there’s a hell of a difference between starving a horse and whacking a frickin’ rodent. Horses aren’t VERMIN for one thing…

  33. The difference between slamming a hamster to death on the floor and medical experimentation is intent and quality of care. One is cruelty, a crime, the other is necessity where every option to minimize cruelty is taken. It’s easy to fling poo but as far as I know it isn’t a conservative or libertarian value to torture animals. I kinda thought it was more of a personal responsibility thing where if you take the responsibility for an animal you should follow through on it. If an animal must die for our purposes it seems only humane to do it quickly and as painlessly as possible.

  34. @Phantom – in Ontario and BC SPCA investigators are police officers, special provincial constables, and they can both investigate and “lay charges” – although in BC at least it is provide information to crown counsel. These constables have powers of arrest and can apply for an execute search warrants.

  35. I CAN”T TAKE IT ANY MORE!
    Okay,I CONFESS!
    When I was a kid on the Prairies, I and most of the kids in my home town, would go out into the bush and pastures and shoot grouse,rabbits,and gophers!
    By the end of the year I’d probably have tallied a hundred or so gophers, a few dozen rabbits,and a dozen or so grouse. I won’t even mention the ducks as I know so many here remember Daisy,Donald and Scrooge with a tender fondness.
    If there isn’t a statute of limitations, I ‘m willing to turn State’s evidence,and will rat out dozens of guys from my home town who did the same.
    I wanna public defender,I wanna plea bargain! Wahhhhh!
    For F***’s sake!

  36. My sister fed my hamster to the cat. I fed her guinea pig to a local hawk. Sh!t happens.
    And to the commenter who thinks lab testing a rodent is more humane than instant death: what are you smoking?

  37. The Rat, yes, they are OPP constables that handle animal complaints. They don’t have a whole separate organization and chain of command as is implied of ASPCA by the article. (A conclusion I jumped to, I must add in all honesty.)
    As in, they don’t work for the OHS, they work for the OPP investigating stuff for the OHS. Possibly a distinction without much of a difference, given their behavior around rural Ontario of late, but at least they aren’t justifying their continuing existence hunting down hamster murderers.

  38. If an animal must die for our purposes it seems only humane to do it quickly and as painlessly as possible.
    ~The Rat
    Do you really think the cancer they give to lab hamsters kills them quickly?
    Do you think that the cancer stricken hamsters are given morphine?
    I’ll give you the purpose part, but the end product on the part of both is going to kill the hamster.
    I’d rather die from a sudden impact than to have the inside of my cheek swabbed with cancer cells and rot to death from the inside of my face over a period of months sans painkiller.
    Bottom line: If the power of the SPCA is stretched far enough by applications such as we see in the thread story, we’re not only going to lose the ability to use animals for lab experiments, we’re going to be forced to become vegetarians.
    I doubt the people in this story who are being prosecuted were going to make a life long hobby of flying into fits of rage and killing hamsters.

  39. Last nights supper consisted of sausage made from a cow that had to be put down because it broke a leg (we believe while being put on the run by ‘wild’ boars) I’m just trying to figure out who should face the most time: the boar? us? perhaps the other cows in the heard for not taking action in this event? One of the ‘comments’ mentioned that it was not as serious as killing a horse or a dog. While I think cruelty of any sort to an animal is deplorable, I can’t square that with one animal is more deserving of non-cruelty. All life deserves respect. That in no way means that it can’t be food, or used for transportation etc. We also often are called upon to provide population control. Mice, flys, gophers and coyotes come to mind.

  40. @Oz – I am sure the hamsters suffer. That’s why they have ethics committees vet every animal experiment to be sure that that suffering involved is balanced against real benefit. There is a very big difference between unnecessary suffering and purposeful suffering. Further, if you believe that hamster died quickly then you’d be a great witness for the defence because that is the essence of the crime, that the hamster suffered. We have laws against animal cruelty, and to use a phrase I’d bet many posters here have heard, size doesn’t matter. A horse or a hamster, inhumane treatment is the crime.
    I really enjoy reading the comments that insinuate killing is equivalent to suffering. That level of ignorance is rather stunning, actually. If a cow is killed for food the law says it must be killed humanely. In fact, isn’t that why so many conservatives are against halal slaughter? Or is it just a convenient cover to bash Muslims?

  41. Or is it just a convenient cover to bash Muslims?
    I did not know I needed any cover to bash Islam.
    I thought that the fact that Islam is trying to destroy my way of life was enough reason to destroy Islam.
    And no, I don’t believe the hamster suffered.
    I’ve seen a great many mice killed the same way, I’ve done it myself back in the ’70s when we had a plague of mice in southern Alberta.
    One day after school 3 of us went out and killed 88 of them in about 30 minutes by crushing them under our boot heals.
    In those days there were so many dead mice the stench of them was almost overpowering on a hot day.
    Their little carcasses were all over everyone’s lawns like so many dandelions.
    You could walk around the base of everyone’s home and find anywhere from 3-15 mice in each windowell where they had fallen in overnight and couldn’t get out every night.
    That lasted for a whole summer and through the fall.

  43. A Death on Knickerbocker Avenue – Coming to a theater near you! I’m sure there is a lot of death by liver damage in NYC, along with death by blunt (and sharp) trauma too!

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