Drowning 375-Pound Bear Rescued From Gulf Of Mexico
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Category: Pets and Animals
APALACHICOLA, Fla. -- A drowning 375-pound bear was rescued from the Gulf of Mexico after fleeing from a neighborhood into the surf.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists said the large bear was spotted in a neighborhood near Apalachicola in the Panhandle over the weekend.
The bear was hit with a tranquilizer dart but managed to escape and bolt into the Gulf of Mexico before he was sedated.
As the tranquilizer drugs took effect, the bear began to drown in the Gulf.
However, biologist Adam Warwick jumped in to keep the bear from drowning.
Warwick managed to get the bear to shore, and then a backhoe operator helped load the animal to a truck.
The bear was relocated to Osceola National Forest near Lake City.
Reward offered!! (I will also throw in)
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Category: Pets and Animals
Kahlua was a sweet pony who gently carried children on his back and was always the first equine in his pasture to trot up to and greet visitors. His friendliness was all the more touching -- and unexpected -- because he was blind.
The trusting nature of the 10-year-old gelding, and his blindness, undoubtedly played a role in his torture and death. Owner Tory Morgan found his mangled body in her Shenango Township, Mercer County, pasture on Wednesday afternoon. Investigators think he was roped and dragged behind an ATV.
Both of Kahlua's back legs were broken. Large pieces of skin had been ripped away from his legs, chest and belly.
"There were enormous [bruises]" all over his body, especially on his withers, where another bone may have been broken," said Ms. Morgan, who is a trained veterinary technician. "There were rope burns that went down to the bone. Severe swelling indicates he was alive when those injuries happened. He died a slow and torturous death."
Renee Dorogy, humane agent for the Humane Society of Mercer County, said, "there are tire tracks in the pasture, we think from an ATV." The shelter has put up a $500 reward for information leading to an arrest, and donations were coming in yesterday to up the reward ante.
Four young horses shared the pasture with Kahlua -- three Arabians and a National Show Horse, which is a breed derived from crossing Arabians with American Saddlebred horses. Those four were not injured, though they have some cuts and scratches. Ms. Morgan thinks they spooked and ran away from whoever brought a vehicle into the pasture.
"But Kahlua was blind," Ms. Dorogy said. "He wouldn't have seen what was coming. And he was very sweet. He always went up to people."
Kahlua is a breed known as POA -- Pony of the Americas.
"In the summertime I have 5-20 kids here every day visiting the horses and Kahlua. I teach them about horse care and they ride. Kahlua was the safe one" that any child could ride.
"There are many angry people around here," Ms. Morgan said. "My mother is physically ill because of this. My 14-year-old son is just numb. How can you explain something like this?"
Anyone with information about Kahlua's death can call 724-981-5445.
Mugabe and the Devil
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Category: News and Politics
And Mugabe awoke with a hoof on his throat and he struggled and howled to be free, And tripped on the racks of his English shoes and clawed at his English suits, And crashed down the unlit corridors where his wife has collected her loot, Screaming "You may not condemn me - there are by-laws and statutes and fines" But the Devil replied "God's law trumps that, and by his law you're mine."
Come, see what you've done to your people, see what you've done to your land, And then I'll haul you back into the light, and see if you understand; Then the Devil seized him by his neck and dragged him up into the night And Bob hung limp, for one against one was not his idea of a fight They spiralled down to a wasteland, and Mugabe sprawled on his face, "Spare me, spare me" he whimpered, "spare me this terrible place",
For he saw charred beams and scattered bricks, filth and ruin and weeds, And through the dawn came children, sifting the dust for seeds. "Eight years ago" said the Devil, "this place was heavy with maize, There was fruit on the trees and crops in the earth and grass for the cows to graze, It was farmed by those who loved the soil, who knew it and tended it well, And now it's farmed by cellphone, from the Monomotapa hotel."
"Racist" screamed Mugabe, "Imperialist, Colonist, Queer! These people are free, that's down to me and that's why I rule here!" "Free to do what?" asked the Devil, "to cower and cringe to survive? The farms are going, the work is gone, now only your thugs can thrive, Preying on women and children, feeding on horror and fear, Flying flags of hate and despair that had no business here;
Look at your mindless militias, look in each alien face, Condemned by their own insanity, exiled for life from the race, Watch them go into action, cheer as they take up the fight, Beating up Zimbabweans for the crime of being white, Red-eyed from drink, thick-tongued from drugs, watch them go off on a spree
Burning the homes of Africans who dared to be honestly free." Mugabe licked his lips and whispered, "All freedom comes at a price," "Indeed?" said the Devil "And for the record - what was your sacrifice? Did you give blood to the struggle? How many times were you mortared? Or did you play politics in a hotel, and wait till your rivals were slaughtered?
If ever you tasted honour or pain those tastes were long since forgotten, Eclipsed by the flavours of power and greed, the aromas of all that is rotten. Come, Mugabe" and up they flew and soared over country and town And each time they swooped, hunger and horror reached up to pull them down,
And the souls of children streamed past them, and on and up into the light And Mugabe whimpered and twisted, to shield his eyes from the sight "Sons of despair," said the Devil "and daughters of desolate selves,
It's the West that gives food to your people, while your cronies are stuffing themselves, The West you despise and prosecute is the innocent's sponsor and friend, But when your young 'veterans' seize the supplies, these fragile lives have to end;" "I did not know," croaked Mugabe and the Devil applauded with glee: "Save your lies for Mbeki, they make no impression on me.
Now, look at the shuttered factories, look at the overnight queues." "Blame the British," Bob stammered, "the whites, the Norwegians, the Jews." But the streets sent up a whisper, a whisper as loud as a roar: "The old man who stole three elections - it's time that we showed him the door!"
A scream rose up from the city, a scream rose up from a cell, And the Devil plunged them into the earth and a cameo from hell Of shadowed figures with smiling lips that shone with delight and disdain, Of a body convulsing and wrenching, shaking apart from the pain;
"Applaud your police," said the Devil, "corrupted beyond repair, And caress the electrodes, the batons and guns, and the innocent tied to the chair." But as Mugabe stretched out his hand the scene was gone in a flash, And he stared instead at a drive full of Mercs and a house full of money and trash,
And then at the gloom of an upstairs room, heavy with malice and lies, Where fat men sat and talked poison, avoiding each others' eyes: "Here are your generals," the Devil hissed, "your ministers, judges and hacks, They have fortunes and forex and farms they can't farm, it's only a future they lack, Do they flee for Malaysia , Libya , France with their women and all they can pack? Or do they just turn and remove you, and claim dispensation for that?
Look at the wealth that seeps from them, and then hold your nose at the stench Of the paltry crew that cleave to you, the cowards, the fools and the French; See them plotting and scheming; hear your folly despised, Even your reptiles want you gone - you made them, are you surprised?
Now do you know what you are Mugabe, now do you understand? You're the Lord of the bloated thousand, and King of an empty land. What gave you most pleasure Mugabe? Which wickedness tasted most sweet? The mass murder of Ndebele? The children with nothing to eat? The whites you had casually butchered? The election results that you changed? Or the war that you fought in the Congo , for diamond commissions arranged?
The perversion of half of the system? The enrichment of those you despise? The limos and money and power? The lies and the lies and the lies? I ought to admire you Mugabe; you've certainly earned your hellfire, And all for small motives, self interest and fear, that aspect I have to admire;
Better by far that you never had lived, Robert Gabriel, The world will heal the wounds you've left, but I cannot heal you in hell!" Then the Devil's right hand grabbed Mugabe, and Mugabe he screamed in his fright, And scrabbled and pleaded and whimpered and begged… And awoke to an African night,
And sweated and panted and shuddered, calling his aides to his side, Reconstituting his ego, his vanity, evil and pride, But then screamed again, recoiling, from that he could not bear to see: The slogans burning his eyes from the walls and the words… we want to be free!
Enough is enough! Zvakwana!! Sokwanele!! The Devil meandered down Second, and strolled up Samora Machel, "The brave will inherit," he murmured, "when I have Mugabe in hell: And the dawn will return to Zimbabwe , and children will learn how to smile, Zimbabwe is one of God's countries… but at least it was mine for a while!"
The video of a US soldier hurling a defenseless puppy from a cliff top in Iraq has continued to stir outrage and repugnance amongst online communities across the world. But, it doesn't stop there.
Soldiers throwing grenades at sheepherders and sheep and finding it funny:
I for one already feel sick to the stomach but should you wish to watch more of this brutal barbarism, prisonplanet forum users have continued to post more videos here.
Should we really be surprised that the soldiers in the latest video find it so easy to kill a small dog?
Not judging by this marine facebook group, which boasts about snapping the necks of puppies in order to graduate bootcamp. For non facebook users here is a screenshot.
On the go!
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Category: Friends
I finally got around to settng up my Yahoo on my cell fone. Now friends can contact me while I am on the go, which is all the time lol. I have been VERY busy lately but loving every minute of it doing my part for wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Warriors! I miss you Pamela and Tina, you girls are my inspiration!
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Feel the Heat
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The Radiators
Release date: 11 May, 1994
US Abattoir workers filmed ’waterboarding’ cows
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Category: Pets and Animals
The Humane Society says a California slaughterhouse has been using a range of torture, including 'waterboarding', to force unfit cattle into the slaughterhouse.
The Society has shown a video from its own undercover investigation that it says shows abuse by workers at the Hallmark Meat Packing Co of Chino, California. However, the name of the plant is not visible in the video.
The video showed workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades, applying electric shocks and even using a hose to simulate the feeling of drowning so the animals would revive long enough to pass federal inspection.
"The attempt was to make them so distressed and to cause them so much suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse," Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, told reporters,
"We've heard a lot about waterboarding in 2007 as a torture technique and we saw this applied to these animals where a high pressure hose was put in the mouth and through the nose," he said, referring to a controversial technique used in the past by the CIA in its terrorism interrogation program.
The company was not immediately available for comment but said in a statement that operations had been suspended at the plant and two workers fired.
Mr Pacelle said the plant supplies meat to the Westland Meat Co, which is the second-largest supplier of beef to the USDA Commodity Procurement Program Branch.
This branch distributes beef to needy families, the elderly and to the national school lunch program.
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