[astropop]

Hi

Did any Park Slopians (or others) happen see or, better yet, eat at a Panini stand run by 2 kids on Saturday May 27?

http://www.astropop.com/parkslope for a visual.

If so, I would love to interview you for a piece I am writing.

Please contact me at joanna@astropop.com

Thanks!

[steveo]

[findcate]

I just checked out your site. Are you a member of safari club?

[steveo]

[armchair_warrior]

[steveo]

[quijibo]

[findcate]

The site actually mentions the Safari Club International.

BTW, For anyone who doesn't know about it, Safari Club International is a subsidiary of Chanel. They promote trophy hunting around the world--culminating in a huge annual convention. It's all about how rich you are--who can afford to shoot one of the last remaining white rhinos with the most expensive guns, etc. It makes me sick to my stomach, and makes me feel depressed about the human race. The highest honor goes to the person who kills like 300 species across different continents. These are people who see life and their instinct is to extinguish it. Among their members are george bush sr. and schwarzkopf. Nice people.

I recommend a book called Dominion. The premise is that humans today assume animals exist for our use. The call is to show compassion and responsibility towards animals, compassion being our only real redeeming quality. Here's an excerpt from a safari club member:

"'One day, for example, he and his professional guide came upon a herd in Africa, feeding on some trees. "Suddenly", in that dramatic tone of all safari stories,"All hell broke loose." In fact, hell had just arrived."There was a great thundering of earth, a crashing of brush and the shrill trumpeting of an elephant stampede...[A] smallish elephant broke through the trees and came charging directly at us!...This beast meant deadly business...The damn thing meant to destroy us just as it had the tree!" After a flurry of shots from both men, "the vast form became motionless, then it was very silent". 'This was Jim Carmichael's contribution to the world that day--to terrify and kill a mother elephant who had been watching over her dead calf.' "The damn thing was grieving." From that day to this, recapturing the experience has been "my true hunting passion".

Sick yet?

Elephants bury their dead and then stand guard over them for days, they communicate across thousands of miles with sounds that we can't even hear. This club and it's members embody a cynical, arrogant lack of appreciation for diversity and animal life on this planet, and they make me ashamed for the human race.

A quote that describes it better: "Something that wanted to live is dead. There is that much less vitality, consciousness, and, perhaps, joy in the universe. I am the spirit that denies". So if you buy a chanel bag or perfume, that's what you're giving your money to--not that I do, but I now have a less glamorous image of Chanel.

[eggcream]

Ever see a partial birth abortion?

Sick Yet?

[findcate]

no, i'm sure it's gross, but what does that have to do with anything? I always get annoyed with people who seem to think i should choose whether to show compassion to animals or people.

they're not mutually exclusive. actually you could argue that they go hand in hand. the modern catholic church for example, has reinforced the popular notion that animals are here for our disposal... they are also responsible for the deaths of millions of africans by preventing them from learning about and using condoms.