Posted on 03/19/2006 5:51:41 AM PST by SJackson
That is all true. I have said nothing about the coersive force of law. You assumed that. I didn't say or even imply it.
What was the message from this bizarre stunt?
Sounds like a great restaurant. I'd put it on my short list for sure.
A little boy (in the book it's a little girl) lives alone with his parents, homesteaders in the palmetto scrub wilderness of Florida.The meaning of the story is that all of us must erect defenses against the cruelties of life, which will sting every one of us sooner or later, in one way or another.They can hardly scratch out enough to survive.
The mother has had something like 12 children. All died. She is so hardened against life's cruelties that she will have nothing to do with the boy.
His father is kind, but the boy is terribly lonely.
The nearest family--and the nearest child--live a day's journey away.
One day, the father kills a doe. He finds that she has a fawn. They take it home. It becomes the boy's only friend. and he loves it deeply.
When the fawn becomes a yearling, however, it begins to raid the family's corn crop. They do everything they can to stop it, including erecting high fences, but it jumps the fences, and there's nothing they can do. If they don't stop it, they will starve.
Finally, the mother--inured to the cruelty of life--shoots the deer with a shotgun.
She severly wounds it. It's not killed.
The little boy takes the gun from his mother and kills his deer with it.
Then, after a period of grieving, he too becomes inured to the hardships of life. He helps his father and is more understanding about his mother.
In short, he becomes a man.
It was the little boy, as much as the deer, who was the yearling.
Denial is one of the best defenses, and its power can never be overestimated. But it is a double-edge sword, and it is very, very dangerous.
It is also important that we not let the cruelties of life brutalize and make cowards and sadists of us, as we accept life and our needs to survive and to care for ourselves and our families, and as we defend and provide for ourselves as we inevitably must.
The father in the story was strong, powerful, courageous, and kind. So was the boy, and he became more so when he became a man.
Strength, courage, and kindness are manly virtues.
There is nothing manly about cruelty, cowardice, or brutality. In fact, they are the opposite of manly.
Grah & Hohenfels were visited 'often'; you know what I mean. I was in Btn headquarters and we always reserved 3 mess halls; 1 for H'qtrs Co., 1 for the line Co's, & 1 as a beer/rec. hall. It was the Btn. mail man's job to go out and secure the stuff for the beer hall each day (which included the beer, of course). We all worked hard at getting on his short list for help.
Didn't spend much time in Furth. The one place I recalled in Nurnberg was a ratskeller just off the plaza that had great lunches.
Then there were the weekly tours that would highlight the castles and such. We'd go, but when the group would head for the castle we'd head for the best looking gasthaus for a meal. The good ones outnumbered the bad.
Veal is a type of beef from a young calf. A cow is a female. The beef most people eat is from steers that are younger castrated male cattle.
I remember arising early to feed the cattle beefcake when it had been snowing out and discovered one cow that had recently calved was missing its calf. We hunted a good part of the a couple of days to discover it had gotten stuck in a mire and nearly died from exhaustion. We got into the muck and fetched him out, took him back, nursed him with warm milk and kept him in the barn for a few days so he wouldn;t die from exhaustion.
He later was butchered and sold as veal and the few pieces we had were tasty.
That particular calf was treated better than the rest of the herd, and suffered mainly because he didn't stay with his Momma the way he should have.
Perhaps you are confusing veal with Kobe beef.
Mental gymnastics? How do you arive at "all animals" when I listed only those commonly eaten by humans....and of course there natural preditors?
I do expect animal flesh to be properly prepared and cooked...with the exception of caviar..of course.
That the laws concerning pets nned to be changed from 'ownership' to something like 'guardian.'
According to this peta girl, and MANY others, pets shouldn't be 'owned,' they should have a legal status more like children.
Some places have those very laws.
No, I am not. Take a look at post #85. Veal farms are particularly cruel. I like meat, chicken and fish, but avoid veal because of the cruelty at all costs. Most people are unaware of the cruelty involved. The animal producing veal is by no means a pampered animal.
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I've heard the ownership/guardianship debate. I don't see how that relates to a fur-coated woman leaning over a toilet bowl.
I'm on your side, Emma. Stick to your guns, girl. And I'm gonna stick to mine. ~S
And what is it with calves and mud? I swear, it's like house trailers and tornado's. Other than that never ending chore of cleaning the barn it seems like I spent half my childhood pulling calves out of mud.
Oh, I'm sorry.
She is supposed to be a dog, left alone at home, and forced to drink out of the toilet.
Typical response from those who can't engage in rational discussion - play dumb and sarcastically imply the other guy is stupid.
Unfortunately, the Republican Party is just as liberal as the Dems.
Ohhhhhhhhh. Well, that certainly makes it into the theatre-of-the-absurd. Thank you for the clarification.
grouse is the best - but only 4 bites
Far more liberal, XXX. There is nothing liberal about the Democrat Party. It is the Party of the Left, which is the antithesis of freedom loving, open minded, and free thinking.
The Republican Party is the Party of Middle America--the last great bastion of Western Civilization, of freedom, freedom of thought and opinion, freedom of speech, et al.--in other words, the last great bastion of liberalism in the world.
The Left--including the Democrat Party--stands for tyrrany and is anything but liberal.
Remember how the Leftists shout down speakers they don't like? Remember speech codes? Restrictive and oppressive laws? Groupthink? Oppression? Tyranny?
This is tyranny. This is the Left. This is the Democrat Party. It is anything but liberal.
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