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Who would spend $20 on a lobster just to throw it into a pond?

Tell that to PETA

Of all the pointless, idiotic, Liberal bashing threads I've ever seen at MAF, this one is the worst. At least Comp USA usually puts some sick, twisted humor into his diatribes. Thanks for wasting 20 seconds of my life pastor macman.

Oh, and by the way, anytime you want to debate real issues (that affect more than one person) instead of starting a thread just to tell us that you don't like Liberals, let me know.

You forgot to stipulate in the bashing thread title that she was female. And you didn't mention her race, height, weight and marital status. You didn't mention her place of birth or residence, so you missed out on slamming East Coaters or West Coasters or Californians or Texans, etc.. What's wrong with you? You could have slammed a whole BUNCH of groups all in one go.

Married Female Asian Nut just brutalized an animal.
Harvard University gratuate nut who just brutalized an animal.
Tall Skinny Christian nut who just brutalized an animal.

Tall Skinny Christian Married Female Asian Harvard University gratuate nut who just brutalized an animal.

Your assumption that she's liberal is irrelevant to the story. Except it's just a nice little group bash. Bigot.

Wow, Flipper made a mistake.  Of course, it is one of the dumbest mistakes I've ever heard of.  Come on, if you're going to go to effort of releasing the lobster at least do it right.

But the really annoying thing is that Sean Hannity gave her the lobster in the first place.  I am a vegetarian and people give me meat all the time as a joke.  Fine, I just give it to someone else or throw it away (obviously, I am not militant).  But giving a vegetarian a LIVE ANIMAL!?!  Sean knew that her convicitons were such that she couldn't kill the animal and that she would try to release it.  Why make someone go to the effort of caring for an animal? 

I like Sean Hannity, but this was stupid and mean.

First off, lobster is one of the more, umm.. disturbing things you can handle if you're a vegan for more than strict health reasons. Unless you're buying it prepackaged and cooked, you're dealing with putting a live and kicking animal to death right in your own kitchen.

So what if her husband is not vegan? Why not just give them a coupon for a nice restaurant where they can both eat what they prefer, or a box of frozen steaks or even a cooked lobster if you MUST give them something you KNOW she'll never touch? Why give them a live lobster? That's pointedly assinine and plain ol' mean spirited to do to your own co-worker.

The idiot in this story is Hannity.

And PM still hasn't explained why he chose to slam her for being liberal. Would she have magically remembered to remove the bands if she voted Republican? What does political views have to do with that? Nothing. Other than just an opportunity to slam.

lobsters?
<blech>

big ocean cockroaches is all they are

I looked at Hannity's web site, and frankly, I think the whole thing is an act. It's about as vaild as "reality" TV.

Mars is nearly a bird vet himself. VERY good with the little buggers

Mars_Attacks, based on that picture I would presume that the cockatoo is diseased. I've seen that or a similar condition before. From my understanding it's a disease similar to aids. Have you taken it to a avian veterinarian? Is it around other birds? Where is its anklet?

Your understanding is likely askew. That's feather plucking and typically comes about from a bird being neglected. Say one that spends all it's time in a cage with no interaction with it's flock, in this case the family that had it. It's a manifestation of stress, a psychological problem, most times curable by changing the bird's environmental conditions, giving it the interaction it needs as a very social animal, and improving it's likely crappy diet of cheap seed mix, adding toys, etc..

If it were a disease, it would equally affect the bird's head and wings. As you can see, the wings are plucked at the edges where the feathers are small, but the larger, less easy and therefore more painfull to remove flight feathers are still there. The head feathers are intact since the bird cannot reach that area with it's beak. It may take a year, after the bird is in a better situation for the feathers to grow back, assuming this hasn't turned into a permanent habit. A few birds never stop, but most respond to proper treatment.

Here is a fine example of poor animal husbandry.
The people we got her from deserved a good flogging.

Shoot! I forgot to ask the more important question:
Was the previous owner liberal, or conservative?

Here is a fine example of poor animal husbandry.
The people we got her from deserved a good flogging.

Shoot! I forgot to ask the more important question:
Was the previous owner liberal, or conservative?

Ooo! That's a toughy! If they were liberal, they would have let it go free. If they were conservative, they would have simply eaten it. Hmmm... Wonder which it will turn out to be.