Well, you missed the point of this discussion- which is to identify people & causes that would seem to be part of your “side” but which you don’t care for.
You also seem to miss the point of the protesters, which is abortion, not health care for poor people.
Please try again!
I saw Monica on McLaughlin Group tonight- she is ag-ing’, yes, but didn’t really look all that ag-ed’.
And Monica needs to fall a long way to get to Ann’s or Laura’s level.
Me too.
Check out this job ad.
Title: PETA India Animal Rights Campaigns Chief
That’s their #1 basic requirement for a complex position that requires a large amount of experience and skill. I’m not sure that specification would even be legal in many other countries, would it? (While noting that the job description is a bit more relaxed, in that the candidate “must be vegan [or at least vegetarian]”.)
Is it my correct impression that PETA started out OK, but has become progressively crazier?
OTOH, might veganism be easier in India? After all, their culinary culture, IIRC, doesn’t have as much emphasis on, and history with, meat.
Well, India’s got a billion people and hundreds of different cultures so it’s difficult to make a generalisation. I’ve certainly eaten plenty of mutton, lamb and chicken in northern and western India. There’s a prevalence for vegetarianism/vegan-type eating in the south, so I guess more of the country is exposed to those requirements, but I don’t know about in Pune.
Only if she is not, in fact, pro-life, or even politically conservative. She didn’t say.
Also, her point, which is a good one, is that no one should have to fight their way through a throng of screaming freaks to get a pap smear.
One of my favorite (generally conservative) Catholic bloggers hold up Sarah Palin as proof of his Nancy Kerrigan Principle: “Just Because You’re A Victim, That Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t A Jerk.”
Sarah Palin HAS been treated extremely unfairly… but she’s STILL utterly unqualified to be president.
I think she might be saying she’s a Christian, and in that sense she considers rabid pro-lifers to be on her side. You didn’t specifically mention in the OP that they were supposed to be on your political side.
Alternatively, she might be saying she’s a conservative and that the pro-life movement is a cause “on her side” she doesn’t like.
Either way would fit your question in the OP.
It’s not difficult to find vegans anywhere in India except Muslim-majority areas. Pune is a city of three million people, but it’s also somewhat removed from other urban areas - it’s a long train ride across the Ghats from Bombay.
Considering that veganism is already quite common in India, requiring that local PETA employees be vegans is not particularly onerous.
I’m certainly a liberal.
But, it’s hard to give Ed Asner much credit for holding that it is everybody’s right to have a job. I think it should be everybody’s right to not go to a certain doctor, or not eat a certain cook’s food, or not buy a certain artist’s painting, and if it’s everybody’s right not to consume some particular person’s output, how can that person have a right to a job?
I often enjoy Olbermann and Madow, and like to think that they are truthful at least in points of fact, but I think they are too selective in choosing stories to count themselves as “news” programs, and tend to discredit news in general. I also liked watching the O.J. police chase; I just don’t confuse these entertainments with news.
Al Sharpton is generally the most entertaining of the presidential candidates, when he is running, and this is sometimes because he’s the only one who tells the truth. But I don’t always trust him and he’s been quite an embarrassment a few times.
Hillary, who does not even require a last name anymore, has some nice credits to her name - but her underhandedness during the primary campaign was appalling, and having seen her executive style when running her own campaign organization, I’m breathing a sigh of relief that she isn’t doing that to the federal government now.
Let’s see:
Ann Coulter
Mark Levin
Rush Limbaugh
Michelle Bachmann