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Birthday today. I get to go to Red Lobster for dinner.

I has a new Starbucks travel mug.

Also, Riders won the Grey Cup, woo-hoo, etc.


Now, for those who may or may not know, `lithiumpicnic is involved in a legal battle with SuicideGirls.com; it's the archetypal Big Buisiness vs. Independent Artist scenario. From what I've so far gathered, SuicideGirls is trying to fuck LP and Apnea out of thousands of dollars in legal fees by drawing this bullshit out as long as possible. SG also appears to be on a personal vendetta against LP, because all of their claims seem to conflict with their own "Who models can model for, and what photographers can photograph for other sites, blah blah blah" policy, and yet they keep going at it.

This really pisses me off; `lithiumpicnic is a very very talented photographer, and it irks me to see Big Business trying to push out the Little Guy, who they see as a "threat" to their massive empire of $$$$.

Even if you're like me and are too destitute to order merch from Apnea's website or donate or anything, anything short of a massive viral-marketing campaign would probably help. Actually, that's not a bad idea either...

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1. PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as "total animal liberation." This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.

2. Despite its constant moralizing about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.

3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified "domestic terrorist" group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" is "a great way to bring about animal liberation."

4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: "Your Mommy Kills Animals!" PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: "Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be."

5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.

6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs "died for their sins." PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.

7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that "even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it."

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Even though good old Ingrid herself, Pamela Anderson, and other high profile PETA activists have each recieved medical treatment and procedures tested on animals, such as:

- Pain medication and IV drips
- Hepatitis C treatments
- Chemotherapy
- Breast cancer treatment
- Breast implants/plastic surgery
- Insulin for diabetes
- Organ transplants

But of course, taking away seeing eye dogs from blind people is much more important!

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Your mommy kills animals! (.PDF) Your daddy kills animals!
PETAKillsAnimals.com
As if you haven't already watched it.

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