Good morning!

You know when you find something of interest on the net, and you just keep clicking links and going deeper into a subject, sometimes changing your focus altogether to something drastically different? I’ve been doing that this morning. I started off with Mitt Romney, (Ugh! not on a Sunday!)   meandered my way through a website called “Girls Gone Green”…interesting but not for today, and landed in a place that said “Yes, this is what I am going to blog today”.

I don’t know what it is, but lately I am drawn to the beauty of the beast. The beast being the Elephant.

Last November Ringling Brothers circus, a circus in my opinion that should be put to rest because of the abusive treatment of their animals, animals that are their money makers, will pay a $270,000 fine for allegedly violating the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). It’s about time. Every year this circus goes on the road and every year I get calls to head to the Oakland Coliseum in protest. Now finally something is being done.

Ringling Brothers Agree To USDA Fine For Allegedly Violating Animal Welfare Act

Life’s no circus for the Ringling Brothers these days.

The USDA announced Monday that an agreement was reached where Feld Entertainment, Inc., doing business as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (Feld), will pay a $270,000 fine for allegedly violating the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

According to a USDA press release, Feld also agreed to “develop and implement annual AWA compliance training for all employees who work with and handle animals, including trainers, handlers, attendants and veterinarians starting March 31, 2012, and to establish an AWA compliance position on its staff by February 28, 2012.”

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement, “The civil penalty and other stipulations in the settlement agreement will promote a better understanding of the rights and responsibilities of all exhibitors in maintaining and caring for animals under their care.”

According to the Associated Press, Feld Entertainment does not admit to violating the law. CEO Kenneth Feld said in a statement, “We look forward to working with the USDA in a cooperative and transparent manner that meets our shared goal of ensuring that our animals are healthy and receive the highest quality care.”

Actress Olivia Munn recently blogged for HuffPost about Sarah, a 54-year-old elephant with a chronic infection, forced to perform with Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus despite recently collapsing. Munn wrote, “An elephant who reaches out her trunk to another in friendship or for comfort is punished with a whack of a bullhook — a heavy baton with a sharp point and hook on the end — the ubiquitous device used by Ringling to keep elephants fearful and compliant.”

According to a PETA website, “In the Ringling Bros. circus, elephants are beaten, hit, poked, prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until bloody. Tigers are viciously struck with sticks so that they’ll perform difficult and confusing tricks.”

The blame doesn’t stop at the circus, though.

Mother Jones found in a year-long investigation that the USDA has conducted over a dozen investigations of Feld Entertainment, and yet regulators have not acted on their findings of abuse. A former head of the animal care unit in the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said that with a limited budget, the agency was unable to prosecute many cases.

PETA has been fighting Ringling Bros. for several years, complaining about the death of a baby elephant, the killing of a lion, and the beating of other elephants. The organization’s fight against the circus has gained support from Munn as well as other celebrities including Pink, Sarah Silverman and Cloris Leachman.

PETA wrote in a press statement, “The government has taken a first step, and now it must confiscate the elephants. What remains to be done is for the public to be made aware of this history of abuse so that people will know to keep their children away from the circus.”

Earlier this month, former game show host Bob Barker went to Capitol Hill to advocate for the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would prohibit the use of exotic animals in traveling shows. Barker told HuffPost, “I’d like to see Ringling Brothers closed … It’s all animal exploitation. It’s heartbreaking.”

Elephant abuse isn’t contained to circus environments. Earlier this year, reports and video footage allegedly showed that the elephant featured in “Water For Elephants” was abused while training for movies. The video claims to reveal elephants being beaten with bull hooks and receiving electric shocks.

Even as Feld is paying its fine, some wonder — Are entertainment-seeking humans partially to blame for funding the abuse?

WATCH a PETA undercover investigation:

Readers: Yes, to answer the above question, we are to blame if we attend circuses such as this one. I can barely watch the video, the abuse that these precious animals have to endure at the hands of these thugs with bullhooks and whips is unbearable. I look over at Lucy, my beloved dog, and give her a big hug, thinking how lucky she is to be so well taken care of.  And yet it shouldn’t be “luck”, it should be a natural living “right” for all animals.

Okay, I lied. I said that I wasn’t going to blog about “Girls Gone Green”, but I found myself back there and this is what I found. A beautifully made video showing the cruel and barbaric treatment of circus animals.

If you are not nearby, please help us fight circus cruelty on a national level by contacting your government reps about H.R. 3359: The Traveling Exotic Animals Protection Act. You can use the link about to find your Representatives or Senators, or you can send an automated message already filled out for you by Break The Chain – but remember, the message is stronger when it contains your own words! Speak straight from your heart.

Please watch the video below to hear Jacksonville residents and Girls Gone Green members speaking passionately to the City Council to call for a ban  of Ringling Bros. from our city. You will also see in the video why they are speaking up for these tortured individuals.

Please do not support Ringling Brothers. Please support HR 3359 for the animals. Thank you.

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Christine Elizabeth: My pleasure, and nor I. Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Got to run…

Peace out.

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Good morning!

Elephants are at risk like many other animals that call Earth home. Last night 60 minutes had a special called As you know, animals live very close to my heart. Yet it is hard to give time to all my passions…all the things that I care about. I have said it before, and it is always worth saying again. If we just focus on one thing to hep make lives better, whether it be improving the recycling system for the love of the environment,  helping impoverished or abused women get back into the work force, or help in saving elephants, a magnificent mammal from being killed for their precious ivory tusks…and give that one thing a few hours a week, how different our would would be.

Elephants Increasingly At Risk Of Extinction, Group Says

JOHANNESBURG — Large seizures of elephant tusks make this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by poachers, experts said Thursday.

“2011 has truly been a horrible year for elephants,” said Tom Milliken, elephant and rhino expert for the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.

In one case earlier this month, Malaysian authorities seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth $1.3 million that were being shipped to Cambodia. The ivory was hidden in containers of Kenyan handicrafts.

“In 23 years of compiling ivory seizure data … this is the worst year ever for large ivory seizures,” said Milliken.

Most cases involve ivory being smuggled from Africa into Asia, where growing wealth has fed the desire for ivory ornaments and for rhino horn that is used in traditional medicine, though scientists have proved it has no medicinal value.

TRAFFIC said Asian crime syndicates are increasingly involved in poaching and the illegal ivory trade across Africa, a trend that coincides with growing Asian investment on the continent.

“The escalation in ivory trade and elephant and rhino killing is being driven by the Asian syndicates that are now firmly enmeshed within African societies,” Milliken said in a telephone interview from his base in Zimbabwe. “There are more Asians than ever before in the history of the continent, and this is one of the repercussions.”

Some of the seized tusks came from old stockpiles, the elephants having been killed years ago.

But the International Fund for Animal Welfare said recent estimates suggest more than 3,000 elephants have been killed for their ivory in the past year alone.

“Reports from Central Africa are particularly alarming and suggest that if current levels of poaching are sustained, some countries, such as Chad, could potentially lose their elephant populations in the very near future,” said Jason Bell, director of the elephant program for the fund based in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

He said poaching also had reached “alarming levels” in Congo, northern Kenya, southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique.

Milliken thinks criminals may have the upper hand in the war to save rare and endangered animals.

“As most large-scale ivory seizures fail to result in any arrests, I fear the criminals are winning,” Milliken said.

All statistics are not yet in, and no one can say how much ivory is getting through undetected, But TRAFFIC said it is clear there’s been a “dramatic increase” this year in the number of large-scale seizures – those over 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) in weight.

There were at least 13 large seizures this year, compared to six in 2010 with a total weight just under 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds).

In Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve alone, some 50 elephants a month are being killed and their tusks hacked off, according to the Washington-based Environmental Investigation Agency.

With shipments so large, criminals have taken to shipping them by sea instead of by air, falsifying documents with the help of corrupt officials, monitors said.

In another sign of corruption, Milliken said some of the seized ivory has been identified as coming from government-owned stockpiles – made up of both confiscated tusks and those from dead elephants.

Rhinos also have suffered: A record 443 rhino were killed this year in South Africa, according to National Geographic News Watch. That surpassed last year’s figure of 333 dead rhino despite the government deploying soldiers to protect the endangered animals this year in its flagship Kruger National Park.

National Geographic reported this week that 244 of the rhino killed this year were poached in Kruger, and that figure is expected to rise before the end of the month.

South Africa is home to 90 percent of the rhinos left on the continent, and Kruger has more than 10,000 white rhinos and about 500 black rhinos.

Africa’s elephant population was estimated at between 5 million and 10 million before white hunters came to the continent with European colonization. Massive poaching for the ivory trade in the 1980s halved the remaining number of African elephants to about 600,000.

Following the 1989 ban on ivory trade and concerted international efforts to protect the animals, elephant herds in east and southern Africa were thriving before the new threat arrived from Asia.

A report from Kenya’s Amboseli National Park highlighted the dangers. There had been almost no poaching for 30 years in the park, which lies in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro until a Chinese company was awarded the contract to build a highway nearby two years ago. Amboseli has lost at least four of its “big tuskers” since then.

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Readers: What passion is personal to you that pulls you to do the things you do?  If it is Elephants, do something – don’t let the extinction of the Elephant be “the Elephant in the room”.

Blog me.

Zen Lill: I finally got around to watching that TED video on SOPA/PIPA – thank you.  As you can see from my new banner, I am all for stopping SOPA and ceasing censorship.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

Fear for the Women of Afghanistan

As the United States begins to tidy up its affairs in Afghanistan, I have a bad feeling about the women we’ll leave behind.

We’re already confronted with reports — and horrific images — of attacks on women and girls: noses and ears sliced off, acid-ravaged faces, beatings, whippings, honor killings. Just this month comes the story of 15-year-old Sahar Gul, tortured in a basement for months by her new husband and in-laws, apparently because she refused to become a prostitute.

Injuries and mutilations that shocked even the battle-hardened military surgeons are punishments for any number of affronts to patriarchal sensibilities — from fleeing an abusive husband to refusing a forced marriage to pursuing an education.

If these outrages continue to happen while we’re there, what happens when we’re not?

The brutalities that rivet world attention for a news cycle or two are extreme examples of a wide and ongoing problem. The rights organization Oxfam International reports that 87 percent of Afghan women have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence, as well as forced marriage, which Amnesty International says account for 80 percent of all marriages. According to the UK-based charity, Womankind, more than half of all girls married are not yet 16.

The threat-level for females is elevated by a government that is pursuing a policy of reconciliation by courting of the same Taliban that waged a campaign of gender apartheid. President Hamid Karzai now calls them “our upset brothers.”

There are early indications that the government — even without the Taliban under roof — is uprooting the tendrils of progress of the past ten years.

The new constitution may guarantee the rights of women. But it also says nothing can contradict the principles of Islamic law — which is undefined and open to interpretation by whoever happens to be in power.

Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, leader of the ideologically conservative Hizb-i-Islami faction, believes that women and men should not attend the same universities, and that women should not leave the home unless in the company of a male relative. A Time Magazine article quotes his feelings: “What we want in Afghanistan is Islamic rights, not Western rights.” He also happens to be the Minister of the Economy.

Recently passed by a Parliament we hoped would enforce constitutional protections is a law that allows husbands to withhold money and food from wives who refuse sex, limits female inheritance, curtails female custody in divorce, and denies women freedom of movement unless sanctioned by their families. The mandated 25 percent of Parliament seats held by women could do nothing to stop it — in part because many of the 68 women vote with the men who put them in power.

There are those who say that none of this means the days of wanton Taliban brutality and repression will return. The world is now watching.

As we toss the keys to a government duct taped together out of parts of convenience and already limiting female freedoms — suppose the all-out cultural attack on women resumes. What exactly could the world do other than watch? Perhaps a strongly worded statement.

Women could be beaten in the streets on live TV, and their suffering would never give cause to a return to the $300 million America spends every day in Afghanistan not to mention the prospect of losing more American lives.

Recent history is a lesson in the relativity of women’s rights. Russia’s occupation was ugly. But life for women under the Communist government was a modern high point. Reforms provided real political roles, economic opportunity and social freedoms greater than women have today.

All of that was swept away by the Taliban in the five short years between 1996 and 2001. Then it was restored piecemeal by Western occupation and investment over the past ten.

The clear lesson is that the safety and dignity of the country’s women are hostage to the beliefs of the men who carry the guns. We saw in Vietnam and, possibly in Iraq, the convenient futility of propping up a government and its military just long enough to get out of town. As we pack up our guns and go, who and what will pick up the ones we leave behind?

It’s possible that guarantees for women in the Afghan constitution will withstand the power vacuum in the wake of our departure. It’s possible that the Taliban as part of the government will think differently than the one that brutally repressed human rights, and was perfectly happy to sacrifice health, economy and modernity in the name of purity. It’s possible that the new government will be strong enough — and the army loyal enough — to allow the Taliban to join the government without consuming it.

For the sake of the long-suffering Afghan woman, let’s hope that all comes to pass — because there is little we can do but watch in horror if it doesn’t.

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Readers: We can’t forget about these women and girls. I am certainly not going to. And if I can support and help effect change, I certainly will do my best. I HOPE you will too.

Howie: Nicely stated.

Uma & Anonymous: I read this recently in a magazine: “When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.”

Ken: Thanks for the heads up on this. I use their service as well. But thankfully I am not a Zappos user. For those that are, I HOPE they heed the advice and protect their identities.

Guys: With respect to Obama’s singing…c’mon guys…loved hearing from the girls but where was your lovin’? Obama’s serenade of “Lets Stay Together” was to his supporters…all of his supporters, not just the girls. Speaking of…

…Social Butterfly: I apologize that I didn’t see your comment until after I posted yesterday. If I had I would’ve either given you a nod, or thanked you for the inspiration to the blog topic if I hadn’t found the topic myself.

Blog Biz: Please note that when I get up in the morning, from around 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM, I try to read all of the comments that I see posted (if I’m lucky), and I begin to blog by responding to comments that I want to address in my daily blog write. After that period I am either busy researching my topic for the day or writing it. I try to post around 9:00 AM which I have to admit I have not been doing as of late.

Therefore, if you post a comment from around 8:30 AM till when I actually post, It is highly likely that I did not read your comment. In fact if I am a day or so behind in reading the comments, I may not even read the comments from the most current day. And I rarely switch back and forth between writing/research and reading to keep up with any comments that come in after 8:30 AM.  I may see that a slew of them have come in, and make a comment like “Hey, I see lots more comments came in this morning”, but I don’t always read them. So please do not take it personally if I don’t see you comment to give you a nod and acknowledge you. It is not something I did intentionally.

Holly: It is mind boggling but people still will. When you have no problem lying to your wife who you supposedly love, just what will you lie about to people who you really don’t care about?

Erica: Their actions are sickening. Would love to send Maddie their way, but it would be too easy, would resolve nothing. If the people don’t see that they are Lying Sacks of Shit and do something, to prevent the election of the great white hope, then they deserve to get what they want. Because if Obama isn’t elected in 2012, it will not be a pretty picture for anyone.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Just in case you haven’t had enough of the Giant Hogweed….I just wanted to point out how some people really care, and how some people could care less.

Readers: How can something so dangerous to people be “awesome”? This is an example of the type of person who cares only for themselves and would bring this type of danger to the rest of mankind. Barbara nailed it. Barbara: I am not sure what guy you are speaking of, but the video of this man above is a fine example of “an incredibly selfish asshole”.

Zen Lill: You had me laughing too. I could be a little more “mischievous” in my life so I’ll take that as a compliment.

Irene: I never play faves when it comes to my blog.

Happy Saturday Everyone! Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

After reading what Health Info posted yesterday, I thought it was important to post something on the Giant Hogweed so that my readers could familiarize themselves with how the plant looks, and how to handle removal of this toxic and dangerous exotic.

Readers: As General Info suggests, as well as the video above, I too suggest if you find this plant in your yard that you don’t remove it yourself. Get a professional. It is not worth the risk to yourself by doing it yourself.  And certainly don’t just leave it alone – whether it is in your own yard or someone else’s – tell someone.

Rebecca: I wish I had the answer to your question. But I too HOPE that Obama gets reelected. In my mind he is our only HOPE too. I try to expose as much as I can about corporations so that people will wake up and do what is right for everyone. Like Robert and Sarah, keep the posts coming that enlighten my readers of just how much president Obama is doing for us. We’ve got many conservatives reading here now. Perhaps we can flip a few.

ZL: Sometimes I think my sense of humor needs a lift. I took the girl seriously.

Maggie: O’Donnell is a joke and unfortunately there are those that will take her seriously. I am glad that you are not one of them. I too want more women in politic but I am not going to vote for just any skirt. The republicans are HOPEing that there are enough stupid women who will – and unfortunately there are. Women need to think smart and don’t let men convince them or tell them what to do or how to think. I think you need to have a little chat with your brother’s wife. Or turn her onto my blog – theres some bitches here that talk a good talk and walk the walk. (Alycedale is a recent girl that comes to mind :) Many women have flipped from reading what has been said here. Your brother’s wife could be the next. Good luck.

Sarah: Thanks for posting another issue that the past 43 haven’t addressed that Obama has. I want to keep this going, so keep ‘em coming! People need to know just how hard our president is working for us everyday and just how much gets accomplished.

Glenda: It is criminal, and we now know how bad smoking is for us, and how difficult it is to quit for many.  Now we need to address all of the other issues, many hidden issues that we aren’t even aware of that are bad for our health because corporations simply don’t care.

Anonymous: Would love to read more.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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