Abused and in Jail: The Return Favor For The Unconditional Love Dogs and Cats Give Humans.

Humans are as cruel to their pets as they are to each other. This is why pet lovers have to work harder to keep our four legged companions safe. Read these articles and be disgusted.

Posted on Thu, Jul. 31, 2008
Animals 'jailed' for owners' legal woes
By DANA DiFILIPPO
Philadelphia Daily News

difilid@phillynews.com 215-854-5934

THE DOGS SIT in rows of chain-link fence and concrete wall blocks, one to a kennel. Many lunge at passers-by or offer toothy scowls and menacing growls.
Others cower in corners. Most are pit bulls and wear yellow collars identifying them as a security risk.

Across the room, dozens of cats sleep or lie languidly in stacked metal cages, ignoring the half-dozen mutilated, militant roosters confined nearby.

The room resounds with ear-splitting cocks' crows and dogs' blustery barking.

The stench of waste is nauseating.

Welcome to Pet Prison.

Far from the cuddly cuteness in the adoption kennels, more than 900 animals are essentially jailed at the Pennsylvania SPCA's six shelters, held hostage there by ongoing court cases against their owners.

First victims of merciless masters who use them to fight for profit, abuse them in puppy mills or hoard them in filth, the animals then become victims of a legal system that considers animals property.

"Until the court orders that 'property' to be our property, we can't find new, loving homes for them - we can't even spay or neuter them, so that causes behavioral issues," PSPCA CEO Howard Nelson said, adding that even dogs deemed irrevocably dangerous can't be euthanized until the court or the owner signs over custody.

"Some of these court cases can go on six months to a year, and then there's the appeal process as well," Nelson said. "So these animals are living in shelters that frankly aren't set up for long-term stays."

With animal cruelty at epidemic levels - a cruelty hot line launched in January has fielded more than 4,700 calls, quadruple what the agency had projected - the PSPCA is feeling the strain.

Nearly half of the 2,044 animals in PSPCA care - including 560 in its North Philadelphia shelter on Erie Avenue near Whitaker - are being held in "protective-custody" from cruelty cases, Nelson said.

Posted on Thu, Jul. 31, 2008
Amid rise in abuse, a bad day for animals
By GLORIA CAMPISI
Philadelphia Daily News
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935

Left behind after its owner moved out, the poodle mix was so severely infested with fleas that maggots had developed in wounds caused by its incessant scratching, according to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The dog was only one of four found at an apartment on 28th Street near Berks Tuesday, a day when the PSPCA found seven animals in abusive situations. Three were dead. One of the dead was a puppy.

The animal-welfare agency said that the cases were part of a dramatic rise in acts of animal cruelty in Philadelphia and across the state this year. The severity of abuse also has spiraled, the PSPCA said.

Among the dead dogs was a pit bull found along with the poodle mix and two schnauzer-mix puppies at the 28th Street apartment, PSPCA officials said.

Their owner no longer occupied the apartment but had left clothing, other items and the four dogs behind, said George Bengal, PSPCA director of investigations. The four animals were without food or water, despite that the owner kept returning to the apartment, Bengal said. The owner will be charged with abandonment and other violations, he said.

Cases of abandonment have been reported across the country, where people who are in foreclosure or can't pay the rent have moved and left animals behind.

PSPCA chief investigative veterinarian Rachel Lee said that the poodle mix received a blood transfusion and had a good chance of survival. The puppies were a little thin but otherwise okay, Lee said.

As bad as the 28th Street case was, it was not the most horrific on Tuesday, said PSPCA spokeswoman Heather Redfern. The worst involved the torture and killing - allegedly by a 12-year-old boy - of his neighbor's cat in the Lower Northeast, she said....The number for the abuse hotline is 866-601-SPCA.

the black olive ban at merion cricket club

Why dahhhhhhhhhhlinnnnnnnnggggs! It's no longer proper to have black olives at Merion Cricket Club...yes you can text message and chat away on cell phones, although that is supposedly verboten....but try and order black olives and see what happens! (Of course, this will be a test of how many people read my blog on the Main Line...the Main Line is one big ridiculous platinum plated petrie dish, so I can't resist snarcasm about it!)



Anyway, Merion has had loads of changes as they have moved towards the future...they remodeled the dining room again and put it in the old bar where you could sneak a smoke - and while some think the dining room is lovely, I feel it looks like any anonymous hotel restaurant dining room now with over sized chairs that will get grubby in no time...they have removed tradition by taking the Cricket Room from the basement and moving it to the OLD dining room, and they fired a whole bunch of swell staff who were there forever and shall remain nameless...and they hired a new Kitchen Nazi, err, Chef. So Chef has taken it upon himself to ban things HE doesn't like...including the humble and rubber like sliced black olive. Ah yes, the sublime staple of snotty club food everywhere. Only not in his kitchen. Doesn't matter I suppose that his kitchen comes courtesy of dues paying members? Seems like Chef is forgetting his place, doesn't it? Tsk, tsk....never bite the manicured hand that is writing the pretty checks to feed you....Oh, and do you know that Merion Cricket Club made it in a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court? Check this out:

U.S. Supreme Court
MERION CRICKET CLUB v. UNITED STATES, 315 U.S. 42 (1942)
315 U.S. 42

MERION CRICKET CLUB
v.
UNITED STATES.
No. 83.

Argued Dec. 12, 1941.
Decided Jan. 12, 1942

and...

U.S. Supreme Court
Merion Cricket Club v. United States, 315 U.S. 42 (1942)

Oh, but then here's some fun - a civil rights case circa 2007?

ASULFAT v. THE MERION CRICKET CLUB
Case Number: 2:2007cv01978
Filed: May 16, 2007

Why dahhhhlings, didn't you learn proper etiquette when dealing with "staff"?

What ever came of the Upper Crust Cat Fight from Christmas Past?

oh goody, main line brothels

Swell, McMansions and hookers. How perfect together. Will we soon be the focus of a Sundance Channel Documentary? Shall we call it "More Money Than Sense"?
So......... there I was minding my own business checking out the front page of a local web site and BAM! there it was: a story about a brothl in Berwyn and then about another place in Wynnewood? Sweet, while I am off getting a facial and a seaweed wrap, my honey can get a rub and a tug at the very least?

Well, ladies of the Main Line, now you are warned: if your significant other is fond of massages, best make sure y'all get tested regularly for STDs and AIDS, right?

And not to harp, but if people say not so subtly that these places are everywhere, why is that? Wouldn't you love to see the "client" lists to find out? Whouda thunk it, right? McMansions, Ferraris, cheap hookers? Wow. Wonder how many stupid Main Line jackasses paid for you-yanky-my-wanky with credit cards?

I actually drove past that Berwyn location last week on the way to a store in Malvern and now I am wondering if those skeevy Skippies who sell BMWs had frequent brothel miles? And if the boys went into Casey's after team softball, what other nearby team activities were they participating in?

Authorities raid day spa
By Jennifer Miller, Staff Writer07/25/2008

Federal authorities arrested three people Thursday for allegedly operating an Easttown brothel in the guise of a day spa and attempting to force two immigrants into prostitution.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), assisted by state and local police, conducted raids at day spas in Easttown and Upper Uwchlan. Authorities arrested William J. Strunk, 68, of Las Vegas; Chun Yong Madden, 54, and John G. Evans Jr., 63, both of Parkesburg.

According to a federal indictment, the three defendants operated the Swan Day Spa in the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue in Easttown, where multiple women were allegedly paid to perform sexual acts for men. The indictment characterizes Madden, Strunk and Evans as being co-conspirators in the brothel as far back as April 2005.

Not a pleasing finish for Berwyn bordello owners

Sally Hemings in Paris
A good Negro in corporate America.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Mainline Brothel: Who knew?

I've driven by the Swan Day Spa a thousand times. Berwyn is so tiny, you are through this town before you know it. Two maybe three lights.

It is terrible how these women were treated. Since it is the Mainline, Dateline will just love this story.

I'm sure there will be collateral damage when they release the names of those who paid for the Spa services...

Berwyn brothel trio charged
They used Chinese women as prostitutes, U.S. charges in indictment
By KITTY CAPARELLA & DAVE GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News

caparek@phillynews.com 215-854-5880

Brothel on the Main Line…so funny!

WHO KILLED THE PUPPY?

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this hyperlink for more Who could be so cruel? Who could do this to a little puppy? Why do people like this walk among us? Why aren't animal cruelty charges more meaningful when levied on those caught? If you know anything, please, please come forward!

A reward of more than $1,500 is being offered for information that helps officials find the person who killed the dog. Anyone with information is asked to call 609-926-9325 or 609-927-9059

Posted on Tue, Jul. 29, 2008
Dog thrown from overpass near A.C. Expressway
By Sam Wood
Inquirer Staff Writer

Animal activists are counting on a $1,550 reward to help smoke out the killer of "Angel," a Boston terrier puppy thrown to its death from an overpass near the Atlantic City Expressway.

The puppy, with distinctive black-and-white markings, was discovered just before midnight on Thursday by a motorist who heard a thump on the roof of his Jeep Cherokee as he emerged from a tunnel, said officials from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The driver stopped to investigate. He found the dog's battered and bloody carcass on the connector road to the Expressway near mile marker 0.8 in Atlantic City.

"There's no way that dog fell off," Nancy Beall, president of the Atlantic County SPCA, said in an interview yesterday. "There are two fences - one of which arches over the roadway.

"Somebody had to fling her over those fences," Beall said. "It looks like she was thrown over head first."

The 6-month-old puppy died on impact of massive head injuries, Beall said.

Angel - named by Beall - was not wearing a collar, marked with an identifying tattoo or implanted with a microchip.

Still, the SPCA is certain someone can help lead them to the person who deliberately threw Angel onto the highway.

"This is not a cheap dog," Beall said....Anyone with information is asked to call 609-926-9325 or 609-927-9059

6 Month Old Puppy Thrown from Atlantic City Expressway Overpass - REWARD

And if that wasn't bad enough, there is some 9 year old kid who torched a kitten?
9-Year-Old Charged With Setting Cat On Fire

POSTED: 7:54 pm EDT July 28, 2008
UPDATED: 10:05 am EDT July 29, 2008

NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A 9-year-old boy was arrested on charges that he set a cat on fire.

New Castle County police and agents from the Delaware SPCA arrested the boy at his home on Friday.

He has been charged with one felony count of "cruelty to an animal that causes death."

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NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A 9-year-old boy was arrested on charges that he set a cat on fire.

New Castle County police and agents from the Delaware SPCA arrested the boy at his home on Friday.

He has been charged with one felony count of "cruelty to an animal that causes death."

The child was arraigned and committed to the New Castle County Detention Center after failing to post $4,000 bail...

Another First For Philadelphia

Honestly, every day brings new embarrassment for Philadelphians and those is the greater Philadelphia region. How about we're on the front page of the New York Times website for number of stolen manhole covers? Murderdelphia and Stealadelphia.

The New York Times: Philadelphia Streets Unsafe for Manhole Covers
By IAN URBINA
Published: July 23, 2008

PHILADELPHIA — Francis McConnell is a field supervisor for the Philadelphia Water Department, but lately he is acting more like an undercover police officer.

Several hours a day, five days a week, he stakes out junkyards. Pretending to read a newspaper, Mr. McConnell sits near the entrances and writes down descriptions of passing pickup trucks and shirtless men pushing shopping carts.

His mission is to figure out who is stealing the city’s manhole covers and its storm drain and street grates, increasingly valuable commodities on the scrap market. More than 2,500 covers and grates have disappeared in the past year, up from an annual average of about 100.

Thieves have so thoroughly stripped some neighborhoods on the city’s north and southwest sides that some blocks look like slalom courses, dotted with orange cones to warn drivers and pedestrians of gaping holes, some nearly 30 feet deep.

Two adolescents were injured in recent months after falling into uncovered holes, motorists and cyclists are increasingly anxious about damaging tires...

Interesting Blog Post About The Music Biz

Now this was sent to me and it is an interesting commentary on the music business, which for all the beauty it produces also seems quite cut-throat. I saw an familiar political name in this post. I don't care for her politics, but this other more personal project of hers is actually kinda cool, and demonstrates a welcome side to a person many of us merely perceive as a politician.

JazzWax/Marc Myers blogs daily on significant jazz artists and recordings: Learnin' the Blues

Be a Filmanthropist! SnagFilms Presents: Dig!

Be a Filmanthropist! SnagFilms Presents: The Ladies

SnagFilms: What a find! I Found "Nine Good Teeth"!

Be a Filmanthropist!
...
So I was reading this article in the Wall Street Journal by Walter S. Mossberg:

SnagFilms Finds Virtual Theaters for DocumentariesJuly 16, 2008
by Walter S. Mossberg
Thousands of feature-length documentary films are produced every year, but almost nobody gets a chance to see them. A few dozen are shown to small audiences at major film festivals, and a handful make it into theaters. For every blockbuster like “An Inconvenient Truth,” there are hundreds of documentaries that never find an audience.

Starting Thursday, however, there will be a new online service that aims to change all that. The service, called SnagFilms, allows anyone with a blog, a Web site, or even a page on a social-networking site, to open a virtual movie theater and show these documentaries, free. The virtual theater is a small widget that contains the film, and that can be embedded easily and quickly in a wide variety of popular social-networking services and blog platforms. No technical knowledge is needed.

...Once a site or page owner “snags” a film in this way, visitors to the site can view it in a larger window that pops out from the widget. This window plays the film, displays some ads and provides links to charities or organizations related to the topic of the movie. The films can even be played in full-screen mode. Many also include links for buying a DVD of the film. All that’s missing is the popcorn.

These aren’t homemade, three-minute YouTube (GOOG) clips. Nearly all are feature-length, professionally produced documentaries, from both small independent filmmakers and well-known sources such as PBS and National Geographic.

The owner of the site or blog gets no direct revenue from posting the films. He or she is, in effect, donating space to support the film or the cause it highlights, a decision SnagFilms calls “filmanthropy.”

So...I found a documentary I adored to embed called "Nine Good Teeth":

Philadelphia Inquirer Blunders Again...

I already had my growing doubts about the Phialdelphia Inquirer under new ownership recently when I made the blunder of trying to call one of the newsrooms to get info on a story...I couldn't reach the reporter per se, because the reporter wasn't a reporter but an INTERN? Now, no disrespect of interns, but for what I have to PAY to get a daily paper, I would like my reporters with a little seasoning and experience. Mind you someone I know in the PR biz who worked for the Inquirer's big cheez once upon a time as an intern said this was that BigCheez's normal M.O. - interns do the work, keep the real staff streamlined, and can you run a NEWSPAPER that way? So if interns are writing the stories, what are the REAL reporters doing? Delivering the newspapers? Cleaning the bathrooms?

First came the acquisition of the Inquirer and Daily News by BigCheez, then the layoffs. And we read about the layoffs everywhere on the web - a LOT coming from the Inquirer's own blogs...but try and find all that today? (Good thing Philadelphia Weekly hangs onto stuff!). After the layoffs came all that oddness of "when pigs fly" and then there was the news that the Inquirer had sold the bricks - the landmark Philadelphia Inquirer Building. Lately (or until I opened my paper today), it has been quiet. I have all but given up finding anything on the Inquirer and Daily News website because they keep reinventing the wheel and every time the website sucks a little bit more.

Recently there was a report on the death of the daily newspaper on NBC Nightly News, and is covered exclusively on websites like "Newspaper Death Watch"....and it makes me wonder how long we have left with our papers in the Philadelphia region? Will they eventually put the newsrooms of The Inquirer and Daily News together and make ONE paper? One boring homogenized and thoroughly news sanitized paper that will eventually go belly up and we will be left with only weeklies and free papers? That is still a lot of jobs to lose, right?

Well start the betting pools...today I noticed a little note on the "Neighbors" section of the Inquirer. As of July 27, 2008 they are discontinuing the section that

"Has been a staple of local coverage since 1982....Some of the Neighbors content will be available on the Inquirer's Web site and Philly.com. Also, we will bolster our coverage of Pennsylvania suburban news...In an era of rising costs to produce and deliver the newspaper, closing Neighbors was necessary to balance our commitment to editorial excellence with our need to carefully manage resources"

What utter and complete bullshit. Maybe they could "conserve" if executives took pay cuts, and they didn't run dumb ass ads on TV mimicking "The Honeymooners". Wha' happen to all the money from selling the bricks? All the money they saved from getting rid of all our favorite reporters and columnists? All the money from deep pocketed investors?

In the end will have been letting a publicity hound buy a newspaper been like letting the fox into the hen house? A massacre?

Honestly....facebook games

It seems candidates are up on facebook as per a random post on PoliticsPA:

Features

Update: Facebooking for votes As candidates strive to reach as many potential supporters as possible, Internet-age campaigns are turning to networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace as a low-budget but highly effective way to get their messages to voters, especially younger ones.


On Facebook: Totally Obvious Reasons to Vote for Lance Rogers 3. Speaking of "Lance" that's also like a knight's sword. And "Rogers" is like Roy Rogers. He's a knight AND a cowboy. We all know that knights and cowboys are the new pirate vs. ninja.

So I checked out facebook, and is this by the candidate? Read it:

Totally Obvious Reasons to Vote Lance RogersGlobalInformation
Basic Info
Type: Common Interest - Politics
Description: Who is Lance Rogers? Well he's running for State Senate in PA. I could tell you his school hstory or that he was namned "budget hawk" as a township commissioner. But this is not the time nor the place. Instead, I'm listing the most obvious reasons to vote Rogers in November. If I can't convince you, maybe no one can. And maybe you shoud just stay home on election day.

Contact Info
Website: http://www.lancerogers.com
Location: Ardmore, PA
Recent News


1. Lance Rogers looks like a Ken doll-As in Barbie's ex, and that means he has half of Barbie's dreamhouse somewhere in the divorce settlement.

2. His first name is Lance, that's a noun AND a verb.

3. Speaking of "Lance" that's also like a knight's sword. And "Rogers" is like Roy Rogers. He's a knight AND a cowboy. We all know that knights and cowboys are the new pirate vs ninja.

4. He once modeled for a Crest comercial. (Ok so maybe I made that one up but he could, I mean look at those pearly whites!)


5. Oh and once again for the name game- if we vote him in we can say that our state senator is MR. ROGERS! come on, won't you be his neighbor?

6. His contender? A guy nammed Leach... sounds like an evil villan. And 9.9 times out of 10 evil villans do NOT make good leaders (think Darth Vader)

_______________________________________________

Did you know?

Lance was the first to say, “There’s more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking.” He was nice enough to lend it to Ben Stiller. The more he spoke of? Being a State Senator.

On that same note, the Lower Merion High School renovation project was originally entitled “The Lower Merion Township High School For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.” Lance, being the budget hawk he is said that should simply be called “The Lower Merion Township High School” to cut the costs of the extra lettering on the building.

I have never seen Lance and Superman in the same room at the same time. Coincidence? I think not.

Lance has already taken action against the recession-by handing out pictures of himself in the form of campaign lit. Just the sight of that dashing smile brings hope.

You know the boy who was raised by wolves, Lance is kind of like that but he was raised by Ronald Regan and a personal stylist.

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Stephen wrote at 9:58pm on July 16th, 2008
Some things you could consider adding:
7. Dailyn sounds like "Day," and Lance reminds you of a knight, which sounds like "Night." And come on, night is sooo much cooler than the day. Just think of how many songs have something to do with night in their title...
8. Although he drives a Grand Cherokee to work, Lance's weekend cruiser is the Batmobile. (And don't be fooled by the rockets in the back, it's actually a hybrid)
9. Weren't leaches a plauge or something like that?
10. Lance is so frugal, that he removed the letter "d" from his last name to save ink on his documents.

sigh....love this song

Brother, Can't a Bank Get a Break? Wachovia Gets Raided

BAM! Wachovia Securities' new St. Louis HQ was raided this morning. In general, Wachovia Bank as a whole is one of the larger Philadelphia region employers. Wachovia Securities is under the Wachovia umbrella. In recent months there have been waves of layoffs, as well as firing the last King of all Wachovia, Ken Thompson and replacing him with The Man of Steel, Robert Steel. They also recently hired Goldman Sachs for loan stuff. So the stock has been in the proverbial crapper, and now this? BAM! OUCH!

WSJ:Auction-Rate Probe Hits Wachovia
By LIZ RAPPAPORT
July 17, 2008 12:39 p.m.

In the latest sign of a regulatory crackdown of the auction rate securities market, a team of 10 state securities regulators showed up at the St. Louis headquarters of Wachovia Securities Thursday to demand documents and conduct interviews about the firm's sales and marketing practices, according to Missouri authorities.

The group includes investigators from Missouri, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other states, all of which are part of a task force of states regulators investigating auction rate securities and led by the Massachusetts securities regulator. They are all members of the North American Securities Administrators Association.

The Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office has also subpoenaed more than a dozen Wachovia Securities agents and executives seeking more information and records on its auction rate securities business, according to a statement issued by the office.

The Missouri Securities Division launched an investigation in April into Wachovia Securities and others requesting records and information. Wachovia has not fully complied with requests, "prompting today's onsite inspection," according to the regulator's statement. The Securities and Exchange Commission also requested information from Wachovia earlier this year.

The state's Securities Division is also conducting investigations into auction rate securities sales at Commerce Bank N.A. and Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc.

Wachovia Securities Raided In Auction Rate Probe

Wachovia Inspected by States Over Auction-Rate Sales (Update1)

Auction rate probe hits Wachovia
By IEVA M. AUGSTUMS

WSJ:July 17, 2008, 11:38 am
Investigator Look at Wachovia Drops Shares
Posted by David Gaffen

Going to The Dogs in PA!

Dogs in PA need your help! Check out these action alerts from the ASPCA:

PA: House Recessed--Puppy Mill Reform Bills on Hold till Autumn

PA HB 2525 & PA HB 2532—Changes to the Dog Law and Cruelty Law
Sponsor(s): Rep. James Casorio and more than 90 cosponsors; Rep. Thomas Caltagirone and more than 70 cosponsors.
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: None at this time.

Update, 7/07/08: In the final days of the PA General Assembly’s extended legislative session before adjourning for summer recess, certain Republican representatives introduced over 100 frivolous amendments to HB 2525 to stall the bill and prevent it from being voted on by the full House. Their efforts worked. However, the fight is not over—the bill will be voted on in the fall when the Assembly reconvenes. We will also be launching a big campaign to bring both bills to the PA Senate at that time. Please stay tuned and keep checking back all summer—we will be updating you and letting you know how you can help.

Pennsylvania, Urge House to Pass Strong Tethering Restrictions

PA HB 1065—Tethering Restrictions
Sponsor(s): Rep. Mario Scavello
ASPCA Position: Support
Action Needed: Please call your state representative to request support for the original, unamended version of HB 1065.

Pennsylvania State Rep. Mario Scavello (R-Monroe County) and other legislators have sponsored HB 1065, a bill prohibiting the tethering of dogs between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. and restricting tethering during the day. HB 1065 has been reported out of the Judiciary Committee. It will likely be reviewed by the Appropriations Committee, and then voted on by the full Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

As you may know, tethering—also known as chaining—is cruel to dogs and dangerous for people. Tethering exposes dogs to injury by other animals, people, extreme weather conditions and the tether/chain itself. By isolating these social animals from their packs and depriving them of the ability to flee from perceived threats, tethering creates anxious, frustrated, aggressive dogs. In fact, tethered dogs are almost three times more likely to bite and are responsible for a substantial percentage of fatal attacks.

Cities and states around the country—including Texas—have enacted laws significantly limiting tethering, in many cases banning the practice altogether. Lawrence, KS, has drastically reduced cruelty and dog fighting complaints by enacting an ordinance prohibiting the tethering of a dog for longer than one hour.

What You Can Do
Some amendments have been proposed to HB 1065 that would significantly dilute its impact.

Please call your state representative to urge support for the original, unamended version of HB 1065. You can look up your representative’s phone number here. When calling, politely remind your representative of the significant threat that tethering poses to the welfare of both people and dogs.

More information on animal advocacy issues can also be found by visiting the website of Main Line Animal Rescue . Sign up for other alerts on the ASPCA website

Support animal rescue!

Save The Wild Horses in The USA

Help the ASPCA and other groups save the wild horses in this country. Don't let horses languish in animal concentration camps and become part of a government directed animal cleansing project!

USA: Speak Out Against Plan to Kill Thousands of Wild Horses

Bureau of Land Management Proposal to Euthanize Wild Horses
ASPCA Position: Oppose
Action Needed: Please email the letter below to your U.S. senators and representative to request opposition to the BLM’s plan.

In 1971, Congress unanimously passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to stop the mass slaughter and commercial exploitation of these magnificent animals. Unfortunately, in the last few years, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior that administrates the National Wild Horse and Burro Program, has changed leadership and direction—and tragically, wild horses have paid the price.

Despite protests from wild horse advocates, the agency began rounding up wild horses at an unprecedented rate. Adoption demand could not keep pace with such drastic removals, requiring the BLM to pay for more and more private, long-term holding facilities. Today, this policy has resulted in almost one-half of the wild horse population languishing in holding pens.

Now, BLM officials want to euthanize thousands of these healthy horses due to “budget constraints.” However, there are many unanswered questions that the agency needs to address before such drastic measures should be considered.

As Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, wrote in a July 9 letter to the BLM: “The potential for wholesale killing of thousands of healthy wild horses marks a complete turnaround in management policy. … [I]t has never been used in the history of this 37-year-old Act.”

Please contact your Congresspersons today and ask them to prevent the BLM from moving forward with this irresponsible course of action that will yield tragic consequences for our wild horses.

Add your personal comments to the letter below, which will be sent to your U.S. senators and representative.

This blog mentions it already too: Alasandra and The Cats

JibJabbin at Campaign '08!

My fellow Americans, there is NO substitute: JibJab on Campaign '08. We couldn't survive election season without them!

So Bob Roggio, what's your plan? To Be The Most Dumb Ass Congressional Candidate Ever?

(Cartoon photo credit: gotta love PA Watercooler!)Have you been dying to tell Bob Roggio what an asshat he is? I have. Too bad I found out about his soiree too late. (I just love a party) I'm sure he has a stellar plan to defeat Gentleman Jim Gerlach....just like when the Congressman's Mom died....only better. Is Lois Murphy on his campaign? She could give him some pointers as well as nifty fashion advice!

Chesco Dems:

Bob Roggio Campaign Malvern Office Kickoff Party
Wednesday, July 9 from 5:30 until 7:30
9 Old Lincoln Highway, Suite 101
Malvern, PA 19355
* Hear Bob’s plans for defeating Jim Gerlach
and giving Barack Obama a Democratic majority in Congress.

....Please contact Nick Jackal to RSVP:
(610) 251-0550 or nick.jackal@bobroggioforcongress.com

Bob Roggio, you are such a loser. My vote belongs to Jim. Sorry...an end note? If my last name were Jackal I would change it....visions of pointy teeth abound recklessly...ROFL

Also, although I am an Above Average Jane devotee at times, does she back every Dem just because they are a Dem?

Above Average Jane: Get to Know Bob!

Nathan Gonzales over at the Rothenberg Political Report has an interesting post ("Pennsylvania 6: It's Not that Simple")on the 6th congressional district race, between incumbent Republican Jim Gerlach and Democratic challenger Bob Roggio.


The Roggio campaign has boiled the race down to a simple task.

“As soon as voters are introduced to Bob Roggio through a biographical paragraph, Gerlach’s lead vanishes and Bob Roggio assumes a 7% lead,” according to the campaign’s release.

Well, that should be easy. At least the 500 likely general election voters sampled in the poll know who Roggio is, but he’s going to have a hard time introducing himself to the larger electorate in one of the most expensive media markets in the country.

Also see: PA-06: Gerlach Well Ahead of Roggio in New Poll
by: James L.
Tue Jul 01, 2008 at 3:37 PM EDT

Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts

Ok, so like many people in suburbia, for years I have enjoyed Concerts Under The Stars in Upper Merion, even if from year to year it is essentially the same performers. Now that venue is, I guess, truly non profit as it is part of Upper Merion Township, right?

So last summer, midway through, I discovered the concert offspring of Concerts Under the Stars, Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts. Now they are pretty cool, even if while they are supposed to be alcohol and cigarette free I have seen both, but you can't police every inch I suppose....

With regard to Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts, there is something that bugs me: the ads in local papers, sometimes posters and signs ask for a "$10 donation". O.k., if it is a true non profit I have no problem with that, only I can't find that Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts is a non profit enterprise. I had thought maybe it was because all these companies donate money, and because the state gave money, only if this concert series is a true non profit, what kind is it and where is that listed?

Because if this concert series is in truth FOR PROFIT, then they need to disclose that in literature and at shows. Let us know what we are paying for. Concert promoters have the right to earn a living, only if that is what this is, why is the per head charge called a donation?