House Votes To Ban Horse Slaughter

KXAS-TV ^ | Sept 7, 2006

[tuffydoodle]

ping

[coon2000]

Thank God! Our elected officials are finally taking on some really important issues!

[boomop1]

The French are having shit fits.

[The South Texan]

Meanwhile our borders remain open and the terrorists around the world are laughing at them.

[Gordongekko909]

omg HORSE BRUTALITY!

[dfwgator]

Idiocy!

[Dead Corpse]

Ok... when did the Amendment giving Congress the power to regulate horses go into effect?

[teenyelliott]

Well, they DID have hearings on steroid use in baseball. That was really, really, really important.

[weegee]

Added Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.: "The way a society treats its animals, particularly horses, speaks to the core values and morals of its citizens."

This meat is raised and slaughtered in America for foreign consumption. Particularly by the French, those moral critics of our policies in the War on Terror.

[mnehring]

I'm sure they were able to get a lot of baseball autographs for their kids and their offices.. all on our dime..

[villagerjoel]

I didn't know this was an issue.

[Gordongekko909]

Meanwhile our borders remain open and the terrorists around the world are laughing at them.

Osama says: "lol ur broderz r teh suck rofl"

[B Knotts]

You can always count on our brave Republicans to fight excessive government regulation.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Ping.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Meanwhile our borders remain open and the terrorists around the world are laughing at them." That's because the illegals need them to ride across the border in the rough country.

[rottndog]

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Chicken = pig = cow = fish = horse = food! Once the compassion police are successful in banning the slaughter of one kind of animal for nothing more than emotionalism, anything else can be banned.

But of course, they don't have enough time to work on an immigration bill (only the #1 issue in the U.S.).

[scory]

"They're as close to human as any animal you can get," said Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C.

Added Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.: "The way a society treats its animals, particularly horses, speaks to the core values and morals of its citizens."


I would respectfully submit that the way societies treat the most helpless and vulnerable ACTUAL humans within it is a far more telling indication of how it speaks to the core values and morals of its citizens. Just ask 30+ million unborn children. Or Terry Schiavo.

[teenyelliott]

Every useless thing they do is on our dime. Jerks.

[HarleyLady27]

I have a problem in my township I think they should bring up.....if they can bring up "horse chit" then they can bring up my problem here:

They won't pave our roads, they say because of the increase in their salaries prevents them from having enough money to buy tar for the roads.

Now I think that is a mighty important issue (sacr. on) for pete's sake don't talk about securing our boarders, or doing something intelligent for once.