Comments for BorderWars

Comment on Parroting PeTA by Edward Diggs

Edward Diggs — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:02:57 +0000

I think your critique of of the zero sum theory (as it applies to dogs) is rather interesting. You might have used to many examples but your writing on it is still is worthwhile since your arguments could be applied to so many discussions.

Comment on A Breed Apart II by Edward Diggs

Edward Diggs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:10:58 +0000

I appreciate this article about the genetic diversity of border collies. It is the first article like this that I have found. It makes me appreciate the American working lines more. It is too bad that more sampling was not done of border collies in other countries. I also wonder what five border collies of Australia origin were sampled.

Comment on Multiple Orcasms by Ms. X

Ms. X — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:32:37 +0000

Christopher, you left out one of the classics…from the Onion In Order to Save the Whales, We Must Breed with Them”. It’s the first one I thought of when I heard the Tillikum story…
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Comment on Only Five Percent by Edward Diggs

Edward Diggs — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:04:03 +0000

I would argue that liberals are simply not consistent in their belief that government should be involved in people’s lives and neither are conservatives. Libertarians can argue that they are but of course they are almost more of a purest ideological group rather than a political party. I would argue that the vast majority of people are neither purely government involvement in people’s lives nor purely against government involvement in people’s lives. We are all for a complicated, checker patterned set of principles that picks and chooses from both ends of the political spectrum.

Comment on Only Five Percent by Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:58:41 +0000

Modern liberals aren’t very Liberal at all. Redistribution of wealth isn’t about freedoms at all. Neither is big government, as to be governed is the opposite of freedom. Liberal used to mean a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.

Libertarians are really the only political faction who are upholding the ideal of traditional Liberalism. “Liberals” and Progressives, et al. are not. When you’re pushing social entitlements, you’re not pushing civil liberties.

Self-identifying liberals in this country are the ones who want to push a social agenda of regulation and political correctness, so even though their name is a contradiction, it’s the label of choice.

Comment on Only Five Percent by Edward Diggs

Edward Diggs — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:44:47 +0000

I think people should generally have the right to buy the dog they want to buy. Generally liberals believe in people making their individual choices on morality. Therefore it is a contradiction for groups to be called liberal when they want to prevent people from buying a dog from a breeder.

Comment on PeTA’s Deadliest Year by Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:15:39 +0000

It'd be wonderful if the numbers were wrong, but they're not. They are the actual numbers reported by PeTA themselves as required documentation for all shelters. The State of Virginia published them according to law. I linked to the official site in the post, but here it is again: PeTA's 2006 Death Toll.

Comment on PeTA’s Deadliest Year by Edward Diggs

Edward Diggs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:27:58 +0000

If I didn’t consider you a trustworthy blogger I would have rejected your facts as fringe conspiracy theories. I really do not understand an organization like peta if they have a policy of executing perfectly good dogs.

Comment on Killing for a Myth by Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:09:44 +0000

The only reason you should have been denied contact is if you had not washed your hands to prevent the transfer of Parvo before the puppies had their shots. Parvo can wipe out an entire litter.

My father gave me the opposite advice. Don’t pick the puppy, pick the best parents. If the Dam was nervous or flighty or mean, don’t get her puppies. Pretty much any puppy can melt your heart, but when you’re buying based upon if you’d take the parents home or not, we’ve never gotten a bad dog.

Comment on Only Five Percent by Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:07:09 +0000

Biden bought a German Shepherd (famous for their horrible rear ends, hips and spines and hocks).

Obama rehomed a Portuguese Water Dog (famous for being rare with a small breeding pool).

In general the animal rights people were highly displeased with both choices. They said Biden could have rescued, similarly Obama could have gone to a shelter instead of getting a rehome from a breeder.

I say that the President and VP should not be making these decisions based on poling.