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Well put. I'm pro-death-penalty, pro-Iraq war, pro Gulf War, pro removal of Saddam by military force, pro removal of Chirac by military force, pro Afghanistan war, pro-lethal-self-defense when need be. I'm also anti-UN. I'm also pro hunting and pro meat.

I'm also pro-animal testing for medications and medical treatments simply because I don't think that other than human testing there is an alternative, and I value humans above animals. However, I am against purely cosmetic products in general so I don't think there's a need for these to be tested (or manufactured) in the first place.

hunting for sport is in my good ol' Maryland roots. Even though I'm the first of my family born in Maryland. Lol, I'm alright, just EAT WHAT YOU KILL DARNIT! I could never do it. But I can understand it if you eat it.


Toxic, that's a brilliant idea....hmm. I think I'll take that one up with this morality teacher in school who says abortion is a woman's right and she has more say. He's a guy. biggrin

I dunno, two feet are enough for me......jk.

I think Andy just meant he didn't like hunting for sport, but food is okay....or maybe not?. I'm a bit different on that. Nokill sport hunting is fun. Must scare the heck outta animals, but they live. Coons, foxes. Fun's in the chase. Besides, animals chase me, and it's good to instill a nice fear of humans in them so they stay out of our trashcans, off the roads, etc. Course that's done with dogs and not guns, so it works out well, this little terrier's got a nose for them. Think I'm gonna build a terrier tunnel for her. Maybe she'll stop killing birds....

The hunt is the whole fun though. I mean, once you've got it cornered, what's the fun of shooting it? You've got it. No point killing what you don't have a use for. That's why I enjoy rat, squirrel, coon, and fox hunting (though I havne't done the last two; don't have hounds, and don't have a horse. or someone to wave and say, tally ho! Then again, I can tally my own hoes....sorry, I'll shut up, lol.). All in the chase. Especially if it's given a good run. Let it live in hopes of chasing it again, or its offspring.

Before someone calls PETA on me (darn bunch of lunatics who wouldn't know a cat from a baby...they have equal rights afterall, and of course, we shouldn't keep pets because hamsters, cats, dogs, horses, cows, etc. would be much better off out in the world to get eaten by predators or hit by cars instead of being fed, housed, and loved all their lives. Don't get me wrong, animal abuse sickens me, but giving animals human rights does too. WHatever happened to good old common sense?), don't worry. I don't let the dog do any more than frighten a little, then I lay out old bread crumbs and other unuseable foods for them before leaving. I do have some of a heart......

rats and squirrels don't provide much tasty food. Deer and rabbit are different stories....but still, I'm just not a killer unless in self defense. Meaning, if I'll die or be hurt very badly without it. this includes hunting for food, but I won't die if I don't have that meat because....I can buy meat where the dirty work's been done, all for less than ten bucks at my local giants.

... animals are lesser beings. And they belong in my tummy. And I will NEVER ASSOCIATE BEING PRO-LIFE AS TO MEAN I AM ASO FOR ANIMALS.

-There's nothing better than eating small animals. -My BIOLOGY teacher.

The thing that gets me is how many women are threatened or pressured into abortion. It's just another way available for dominating men to manipulate women who are emotionally weak. Those are the ones it really hurts most...don't take that wrong, I know the fetus hurts and dies, but the woman has given into the pressure or been forced to have her baby's life taken inside of her. Most women who are forced are weak, emotionally, submissive, and don't stand up for themselves and don't really know how to. By the time they're knocked up, guys've got them estranged from friends and families. Heavy depression, physical trauma, and endless guilt haunt them throughout their lives. Some just...kill themselves. I don't agree with suicide, but in a case like that, I sure understand feeling the need to. Those are the women that prochoice side doesn't like to mention. But there are a lot of them. It's so....sad. I know people like that, girls like that. heck, I used to be just like that. It's why whenever one of them is starting to become distant, I always jump in and pull back. But I can't do that for everyone. ALl the girls out there who think they're worthless. All the girls out there who are TOLD they're worthless, who think everything wrong is because of them, they don't deserve the people they have even though the people are making them deeper into this abysmal fog, I can't help them all. Most I can do is hold on to the ones I know. Dammit, though, I want to help them all. Maybe that's why I'm so opposed to abortion. I look at some of these women's faces and think, that could be my friend. That could be my cousin, sister, me. Why are they allowed to be hurt like that? Why is it so easy for them to be treated as things and not women? Why is it easy for men to hurt them and know they can always force an abortion if an unwanted baby comes along? Why is this so easy? On the flipside, why is it so easy for women to completely disregard their husbands' or boyfriends' health emotionally and mentally, why can a man's child be taken from him, right in front of him, legally? Killed. And he has no say, no right. He has to watch the woman he thought had loved him kill his baby. Men ought to be pro-life, because all pro-choice gets them is easier sex. Which really I guess ain't so bad for them, but I dunno, if everyone on my side of an issue was in it for sex, I think I'd kinda have to wonder how it made me more of a person...in fact, I'd have to feel it'd make me less of a person.