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Tue May-26-09 09:57 AM
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| 13. Um, I was being sarcastic. Lighten up. Spare me the lecture. |
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Edited on Tue May-26-09 09:59 AM by ClarkUSA
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| -Gov. Gen. eats slaughtered seal's raw heart to show support for seal hunt |
Freddie Stubbs |
May-26-09 08:43 AM |
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I hope the seal was infected with heartworm. |
ClarkUSA |
May-26-09 08:44 AM |
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Good Idea... |
Rebubula |
May-26-09 08:56 AM |
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Nicely said. NT |
NYCGirl |
May-26-09 09:12 AM |
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Um, I was being sarcastic. Lighten up. Spare me the lecture. |
ClarkUSA |
May-26-09 09:57 AM |
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The classic backpedal when called on a stupid statement (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:14 PM |
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A lack of humor and self-righteousness usually go together. Your comment is a prime example. |
ClarkUSA |
May-26-09 01:28 PM |
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Actually, seals do get heartworm |
petronius |
May-26-09 10:56 PM |
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oh c'mon, you were not being particularly lighthearted. or at all funny. |
La Lioness Priyanka |
May-28-09 08:12 AM |
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If you eat meat, it's always enlightening to get close to the slaughtered animal |
KittyWampus |
May-26-09 08:45 AM |
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Not at all (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:17 PM |
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That's just VILE ... SAVAGE. |
ShortnFiery |
May-26-09 08:46 AM |
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The Inuit's "savage" ways have enabled them to survive in a harsh climate |
Freddie Stubbs |
May-26-09 12:28 PM |
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Inuit's use spears, not clubs. They don't skin animals alive |
Lorien |
May-26-09 03:03 PM |
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They do use clubs and it's actually a more humane way of dispatching the animal |
MajorChode |
May-27-09 09:28 AM |
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for several thousand years. |
Thothmes |
May-26-09 06:38 PM |
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watch...this isnt tradition |
Mari333 |
May-26-09 10:07 PM |
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Is it any more "VILE" or "SAVAGE" than paying $30 for a medium-rare filet mignon? n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 12:55 PM |
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You see, that's okay because the filet mignon just magically appears on our plates (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:14 PM |
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Its nice how it works that way, isn't it? |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 01:28 PM |
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Yep |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:39 PM |
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Cute animals always have more rights than non-cute animals |
MajorChode |
May-27-09 09:31 AM |
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So are the methods employed to farm livestock |
NickB79 |
May-26-09 01:20 PM |
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I find your judgementalism far more vile. |
Seldona |
May-26-09 01:47 PM |
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The photo op was vile |
Horse with no Name |
May-26-09 10:22 PM |
#92 |
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are you vegan? |
La Lioness Priyanka |
May-28-09 08:13 AM |
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Here's a film of Anthony Bourdain with an Inuit family partaking of their raw |
NYCGirl |
May-26-09 08:47 AM |
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"The Inuit waste nothing." |
tuvor |
May-26-09 08:55 AM |
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that was very interesting |
dugaresa |
May-26-09 01:51 PM |
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Once they put a face of Inuit Poverty on the Seal Hunt I began to realise ...... |
slampoet |
May-27-09 09:19 AM |
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Bourdain usually is good about showing local culture |
XOKCowboy |
May-28-09 12:33 AM |
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Freaking disgusting. |
chatnoir |
May-26-09 08:56 AM |
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Disgusting! n/t |
Triana |
May-26-09 09:10 AM |
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I know! Don't those Inuit know they should be eating Doritos and drinking Coke |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 01:40 PM |
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its about fur coats for wealthy people |
Mari333 |
May-26-09 10:07 PM |
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Why don't you read the story again for the first time and reconsider. n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-27-09 08:50 AM |
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See? We're not bloodthirsty |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 09:10 AM |
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Are you vegan? NT |
NYCGirl |
May-26-09 09:13 AM |
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No. |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 12:50 PM |
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Hmmm, so the Inuit should tailor their culture to fit the... |
Spazito |
May-26-09 01:19 PM |
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No. What I object to is the marketing of the seal hunt |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 07:44 PM |
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Here is what she actually said as opposed to the misleading headlines... |
Spazito |
May-26-09 08:53 PM |
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You're right. She doesn't seem to say anything about the hunt |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 09:00 PM |
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Yep, can't create a controversy by simply reporting that... |
Spazito |
May-26-09 09:04 PM |
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How is it any more "shocking" than carving off a piece of fresh sushi from a salmon? n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 01:29 PM |
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Look, I have no problems with Inuit culture |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 07:47 PM |
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Well |
CHIMO |
May-26-09 06:28 PM |
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I'm not making a comment on the diet of the Inuit |
Canuckistanian |
May-26-09 07:51 PM |
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Judgmental.. |
livetoride |
May-26-09 09:22 AM |
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welcome to DU |
merh |
May-26-09 12:33 PM |
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Seld-delete |
LanternWaste |
May-26-09 03:00 PM |
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There are also people here who would prefer that others starve |
Matariki |
May-27-09 04:49 PM |
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But - but - seals are cute so hunting them is intrinsically evil! |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:13 PM |
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Fuck cultural relativism. |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 01:17 PM |
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So when are you going to start building that chain of grocery stores up there then? |
NickB79 |
May-26-09 01:24 PM |
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Well, you'd have to force them all to be vegan first |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:35 PM |
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Cultural relativism? |
MellowDem |
May-26-09 01:24 PM |
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Fuck that, I'm no cuddlytarian. |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 01:28 PM |
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So all the grocery stores you're building for the Inuit will be stocked with tofurkeys then? |
NickB79 |
May-26-09 01:42 PM |
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"Killing and eating any feeling being is fucked up." |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 01:44 PM |
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Something that doesn't suffer. An animal is not a resource to be harvested. |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 01:53 PM |
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Please be specific. What "something that doesn't suffer" is available in the arctic? n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 01:54 PM |
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The vast, glowing fields of maize, the bountiful orchards, the dietary-supplement bushes.. (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:57 PM |
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I don't know why they don't eat at that new vegan place |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 02:04 PM |
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Are populations not mobile? |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 01:58 PM |
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That's a level of dumb that makes "let them eat cake" sound wise (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 02:00 PM |
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Indeed |
HughMoran |
May-26-09 10:33 PM |
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Yeah, that's what I thought. They should move to Sacramento like you and buy their food in |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 02:01 PM |
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Of course. Nowhere else do people manage to live without slaughtering threatened species. |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 02:33 PM |
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Not in the arctic, they damned well don't |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 02:36 PM |
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First, I do not believe that the seal population is "threatened" by Inuit hunting. |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 02:53 PM |
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It's horrifying either way. |
LeftyMom |
May-26-09 02:54 PM |
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So you don't really know what you're talking about, but you're sure of it nonetheless. n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-26-09 02:59 PM |
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+10 |
Ghost in the Machine |
May-26-09 03:29 PM |
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It's wholly unreasonable |
livetoride |
May-26-09 03:48 PM |
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On the bright side, global warming will melt the ice caps, making way for acres of farm land. |
J-Lo Biafra |
May-28-09 05:11 AM |
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Why don't they buy their meat at Raley's like us civilized Sacramentans? |
Throd |
May-26-09 02:35 PM |
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um, what? |
uppityperson |
May-26-09 02:59 PM |
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So you're saying that people should move out of the desert instead of relying on aid from others? |
Ghost in the Machine |
May-26-09 03:04 PM |
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Are you advocating for the genocide of Inuit and other artic peoples? |
HiFructosePronSyrup |
May-26-09 03:05 PM |
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Oh, good, I wasn't the only person wondering that (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 03:07 PM |
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Oh come on |
rockymountaindem |
May-26-09 10:01 PM |
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While I generally agree with you on most things... |
BreweryYardRat |
May-26-09 10:20 PM |
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WOW... |
Rebubula |
May-28-09 08:27 AM |
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Try living in a resource-scarce environment for awhile before getting back to us |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:57 PM |
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The last 5-6,000 years of human civilization beg to differ. |
proteus_lives |
May-26-09 03:01 PM |
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Slaves were our second. |
LanternWaste |
May-27-09 05:13 PM |
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Comparing the two? |
proteus_lives |
May-27-09 11:58 PM |
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Dear god... |
Rebubula |
May-28-09 08:30 AM |
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What is the growing season for |
Thothmes |
May-26-09 06:43 PM |
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Homo sapiens have "harvested" animals for about the last |
Thothmes |
May-26-09 06:47 PM |
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well we draw the line with other things |
iamthebandfanman |
May-27-09 08:57 AM |
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why not animal killing? Here's why.. |
livetoride |
May-27-09 09:13 AM |
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Good politics. I wonder how it tasted. |
alfredo |
May-26-09 12:56 PM |
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Great politics! |
proteus_lives |
May-26-09 02:52 PM |
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Of course she might like eating the hearts of dead animals, then the good |
alfredo |
May-26-09 09:55 PM |
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Well, there isn't much room for doubt on Jean's position now, is there? (nt) |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 01:15 PM |
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As Bob Dylan said.... |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
May-26-09 01:16 PM |
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Bullshit fucking "solidarity." The Inuit hunts aren't affected by the EU ban. |
flvegan |
May-26-09 01:44 PM |
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It's about money, the Inuit are being exploited as a photo op background |
SOS |
May-26-09 09:43 PM |
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Sarah Palin will need to top this |
Enrique |
May-26-09 02:05 PM |
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Maybe she'll do the same thing to a Russian or something? |
Posteritatis |
May-26-09 02:06 PM |
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My Thoughts, Too |
NashVegas |
May-26-09 03:46 PM |
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Love to see Sarah slice open a moose and stick her head in the chest cavity |
HughMoran |
May-26-09 10:35 PM |
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Eat your heart out, Sarah! I mean, er, um...never mind |
AspenRose |
May-28-09 07:48 AM |
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Hardcore! |
proteus_lives |
May-26-09 02:56 PM |
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Kudos to our GG |
gula |
May-26-09 06:12 PM |
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she condones murder for fur coats for the wealthy? |
Mari333 |
May-26-09 10:09 PM |
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My computer doesn't suport you tube, however |
gula |
May-27-09 03:50 PM |
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While I understand the traditions |
Sheepshank |
May-26-09 06:58 PM |
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Animals have become our slave food..being carnivorous wouldn't be bad ..EXCEPT |
cbc5g |
May-26-09 07:51 PM |
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killing of the baby harp seals for fur coats |
Mari333 |
May-26-09 10:04 PM |
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No matter how many times you post that same YouTube link, it doesn't change the fact |
Raskolnik |
May-27-09 08:56 AM |
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Ostensibly the topic is hunting by the Inuit, but it's not |
SOS |
May-27-09 10:23 AM |
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The Inuit are not exempt, there are some exceptions.... |
Spazito |
May-27-09 10:37 AM |
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Barbaric. What did she have for dessert? |
Horse with no Name |
May-26-09 10:21 PM |
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No more "barbaric" than ordering prime rib. n/t |
Raskolnik |
May-27-09 08:54 AM |
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Barbaric? The death penalty is barbaric.... |
Spazito |
May-27-09 10:48 AM |
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That's one classy broad... |
LanternWaste |
May-27-09 05:05 PM |
#109 |
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As long as she didn't serve it with dijon mustard... cause then she's an elitist. |
Bucky |
May-27-09 05:10 PM |
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If you're somehow feeling protest-y... stop. They need to eat. If you don't like it, you feed them. |
AB_Positive |
May-28-09 08:11 AM |
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good point. if the meat isnt endangered what is the problem here? |
La Lioness Priyanka |
May-28-09 08:15 AM |
#119 |
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