Musings of a Liberal Texan

The Story of Britches Read this story. Watch the video labeled “Britches..Rescued”. Honestly, it is inspiring. Don't be afraid, the other videos are worse than this. These guys – ALF – are considered the number one domestic terrorist threat in our country today. Look at the way they pick up the animals. There is tenderness, kindness in their handling of these guys. Now, I want you to think about what a terrorist is. I consider this to be someone who uses fear of violence, fear of harm to get what they want. The label seems misapplied to me. It seems to me that someone who is willing to go in and rescue defenseless, tortured animal is in no way, shape, or form a terrorist. Who have they terrorized? Who have they caused to be fearful? I applaud these guys. I see people moved beyond what most of us would consider doing. Walking around with leaflets and signs, boycotting certain entities, speaking out against cruelty is one thing – going in, under cover of darkness to release little an...

Intelligent, Emotional, Ingenious: the Amazing Truth about Whales and Dolphins by Michael McCarthy Jumping through watery hoops? Forget it. They can solve problems and use tools. They exhibit joy and grief. They live in complex societies. And although we have always instinctively thought that cetaceans - whales, dolphins and porpoises - are special members of the animal kingdom, scientific evidence is piling up that they are truly out of the ordinary in terms of their intelligence. A growing number of behavioural studies strongly suggest that whale and dolphin brain power is matched only by the higher primates, including man, according to a new review of the scientific literature by one of Britain's leading save-the-whale campaigners. It means that the potential impact of whaling may be far greater than it appears, and we should adopt a new approach to the conservation of these species which takes into account their intelligence, societies, culture - and potential to suffer, says M...