This is (no pun intended) no shit technology…now you can spend hours in the crapper listening to you favorite tunes and drown out your family’s desperate screaming and banging to get in and use the toilet.
This is so simple. If the place that Ellen DeGeneres adopted the animal from had stipulations regarding adoption, then they are well within their rights to get the dog back.
Besides…it’s a dog! It’s not like she gave away an adopted child. A dog…an animal with a VERY LIMITED lifespan.
First lets take a step back and really look at the whole situation:
- The agency that Ellen adopted the dog from is a “rescue” shelter – meaning these are SERIOUS pet fanatics who believe more in saving the lives of a dog or cat than the guy on death row (OK…I have to admit that I’m actually OK with that philosophy).
- Ellen DeGeneres and her partner, Portia de Rossi take the dog home and it has issues with their cats and rather than being responsible to the agreement Ellen gives it to another family.
- The shelter calls to inquire about how the dog is doing (remember the PET FANATIC item in the first bullet?) and learn that it’s been given away. They dispatch someone to recover the dog.
All of this happens in less than three weeks with the situation of the giving of the dog and subsequent retrieval happening in less than a week.
I blame Ellen and her partner for all of this. There were stipulations to adopting the animal and she violated them.
And don’t give me that “it was her trying to do good” crap either.
Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t like pets. My philosophy is the difference between a pet and food is a choice…and I choose to eat! I’m a member of PETA (people for the eating of tasty animals). I can easily show you several better reasons to get an electric blanket over a damn cat or dog. But for the people who truly love those animals and want to take care of them “properly” (as in they aren’t pissing and shitting in my yard) then more power to them – and I can understand where they have controls set up for the rescued animals.
While I think it’s over the top…their rules are really no different than child adoption. If you and the child don’t work out, you don’t give the child to, say, your insurance adjuster because YOU think they will be a better parent. You return the child to the agency for re-adoption.
Simply…Ellen DeGeneres is another Hollywood elite who does not feel that the animal she “pro ported” to want to take care of for the rest of it’s life is worth anything. She is, frankly, the very model of the people the shelter is trying to protect the animal from.
And because of her antics on her show – the shelter (website, etc.) is dead. Good going there Ellen!
Worse yet…there’ll probably be some lawsuits or settlements (and large sums of “shut up” money) along with meaningless apologies. And I do mean meaningless (I mean c’mon…Don Imus is back on the air)!
Lastly…what about the dog? Who’s going to adopt it? A celebrity hungry person/family? If not, it has to be done quietly to keep the media from bothering some dog lover who just wants to take the dog.
I don’t know which is scarier…she said or she MEANT it!!!
This is more of her invade-and-Christianize-the-world mentality, that keeps me wondering if she has any real mediocrum of coherence in that mind of hers. I read all the time that she’s smart and intriguing, but then I watch her interview (they ran it on CNN) and I have to wonder if there is any thinking before she opens her mouth.
Worse than GW…she is in bad need of some serious editing and some self-censorship – or what I commonly refer to as “reasoning.”
This is all part of the sad truth of celebrity status today. Where would she be in the media pecking order if she didn’t say outrageous things like that. I believe it’s why people like Paris, Lindsey, and Brittney do the outrageous things they do. If they didn’t they’d drop off the celebrity radar.
For those who have known me for a long time I joke that I am “Catholic by birth.” The people of my homeland (Jamaica), the Carib Indians, were literally wiped to extinction by the Jesuit priests who came with Columbus and afterwards. You see, back then (around the time of the inquisition), it was OK to kill non-converts…even if they were supplying you with sugar and chocolate.
Seriously…thousands upon thousands in the Carribean were crucified on the beaches of Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc. using the “convert or DIE” scenario. If it weren’t for the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, my ancestors would have been wiped off the face of the earth!
Like todays, “White Collar” petophiles….the Catholic church murdered as many (I believe more but those records are sealed within the Vatican archives) people as Adolf Hitler during the 12th-16th centuries in the name of God to stop “heresy.”
I really have to wonder if Ann truly believes that if everyone was a Christian (which is also the “fast track” to God according to her) we’d have world peace. I guess like most Christians, she has not actually studied how bloody Christianity in it’s various forms have been – especially against itself (ala 30 years & Pesant’s wars).
Jesus gave us Christians one commandment “Love one another as I have loved you.” If only Ann & her fans truly followed that commandment….
Congratulations to Al Gore for his winning the Nobel Peace Prize (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/12/nobel.gore/). Since his concession seven years ago to GW, Al has seen some successes as a statesman for the world.
So…now there a call for him to step up and run for office, the call is so loud that there is even a campaign called Draft Gore where you can sign a petition being sent to him to please run.
I have to tell you…had Al Gore run earlier, I’d have actually considered a democratic candidate! He is a very well educated man who, unfortunately, was the second banana to one of the most charismatic presidents in modern history (I mean how do you outshine the saxophone playing, womanizing boss that seems to be loved by everyone?) so even with his accomplishments he is unfortunately only remembered for the comment that he “invented the internet” (which by the by was actually false – http://web.archive.org/web/20001027190912/http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39301,00.html). Nothing was attributed to him, even the things he did do.
And Al would have been a HELL of a candidate…he was against the war, he was correct about the current economic crisis, world crisis (particularly North Korea and yes…he talked about turmoil in the Middle East – though it was about Iran and Israel, which would have probably happened had we did not invaded Iraq), and so on.
However, now is NOT the time for him to enter the race.
And I’m sorry…you can’t use the Fred Thompson argument. Fred was toying with the idea from the outset…using his hesitation as a weapon against the other candidates.
We’re less than 12 weeks from Iowa, and Al has not raised any money (hell…Ron Paul has more campaign funds) and there simply isn’t anything he can bring to the table except notoriety. At this point his climb would be astronomical. Where would he campaign? Where does he really stand on issues of health care and so forth? What would his plan be to accomplish his plan?
Can Al Gore help America? Absolutely! Ambassador Al Gore or better yet Secretary Of Energy Al Gore!!!
There are so many things he can do for us and the world and now in his real “hour of power” running for President would truly hold him back.
To those wanting him to run for office, let it go. Draft Gore to be the savior of America’s FAILED energy policy.
With their approval ratings closely matching GW, why in the HELL do they think that Americans will somehow see these wastes of taxpayers money to be anything more than the farces they are?
The fact that these resolutions are non-binding has caused many supporters to tout that there is no harm being done, and that these resolutions simply serve to send a message to the President that Congress disapproves of his handling of things, and will be watching him closely from here on out.
Watching him…wow.
This is pure politics at its very worst. These are nothing more than political moves wasting our time and tax money so that these politicians can get some limelight.
There are many so many serious issues – the mortgage implosion, increased unemployment, deflated dollar, more manufacturing plants shut down – and while the Iraq war is one of them these exercises are not helping to fix any of those issues.
This is just another part of the Democrats (Liberals) limp strategy to destroy the president and keep the fires of hated for Republicans burning at teh expense of our beloved Republic. They will do this all the way to 2008 elections in hopes of getting a Democratic president, and complete democratic control.
What they are forgetting is that using the “everything is Bush’s fault” will only go so far…and the pier is coming to a swift and abrupt end.
With the current roster of candidates (from all sides), the ridiculous shit coming from capitol hill – i.e. the condemnation of moveon.org’s ad against General Petraeus (a clear use of the first amendment) which hadcandidates like Joe Biden and Barack Obama both leave the senate floor when this hit – how can these politician really believe that Americans will stand behind them?
I guess I’m wanting too much from my elected officials….
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