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The Silent Scream of the Asparagus: Get ready for 'plant rights.'
Weekly Standard ^ | 05/12/2008 | Wesley J. Smith

Posted on 05/03/2008 4:50:51 AM PDT by rhema

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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

With....an....old...rusty.....SPOON.

Grrrrrrrr!

[don’t EVEN ask what I do to helpless, innocent artichokes]

Sal “Brussel Sprout Brutality” Amander

;]


141 posted on 05/03/2008 8:25:08 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Monster!


142 posted on 05/03/2008 8:27:05 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: dighton

Ratatouille is mass murder!


143 posted on 05/03/2008 8:28:36 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: swatbuznik

“The Burning Time”?....:)


144 posted on 05/03/2008 8:29:46 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: Richard Kimball

I love asparagus. Broccoli is tolerable with a good dip. I’m with you on cauliflower.


145 posted on 05/03/2008 9:49:41 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: Berosus; Gabz

:’) The local chain had a 2 for $4 sale on Fresh Express Caesar Salad kits. I’m eating the second one right now. :’) Thanks Berosus.


146 posted on 05/03/2008 9:52:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
Hitler Was A Vegetarian

147 posted on 05/03/2008 10:01:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: martin_fierro

That reminds me of an old girlfriend. Whoops, I’ll never get away with that one.

Euell Gibbons made a fortune stalking stalks of ass per rage us. ;’)


148 posted on 05/03/2008 10:10:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: Gabz
I pinged you all but forgot to ping you all
Wow, I guess you really *are* in need of a cuppa joe.
149 posted on 05/03/2008 10:11:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv; Salamander; DaveLoneRanger

“I think those activists are planning a coop d’etat.”

RIMSHOT!


“The local chain had a 2 for $4 sale on Fresh Express Caesar Salad kits. I’m eating the second one right now”

I enjoy your humor but listen, Fungi, I hope you’ve got plenty of chlorophyll credits, or I will sic the Keystone Kop Plant Police on you.


150 posted on 05/03/2008 10:11:37 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I’ll be garden the house against ingress.


151 posted on 05/03/2008 10:32:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: rhema

There’s a lady I know
If I didn’t know her
She’d be the lady I didn’t know.

And my lady, she went downtown
She bought some broccoli
She brought it home.

She’s chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli
Chopping broccoli

She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chopping broccoli
She’s chop.. ooh!
She’s chopping broccola-ah-ie!


152 posted on 05/03/2008 10:37:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: SunkenCiv; carlo3b

Let your guard down and garlic your cargo of escargot.


153 posted on 05/03/2008 10:56:19 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Gabz

Thank you for the ping.

There is no end to insanity.

Did I miss the garden thread this week?


154 posted on 05/04/2008 3:24:16 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
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To: TexasCajun

the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong.

What are these lunatics going to eat tomorrow? Plankton?

Oh wait! That is what sea creatures eat.

These people have to got to be public school graduates!


155 posted on 05/04/2008 4:35:38 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No black racist Muslims in the WH either)
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To: chainsaw

In Heaven:

The cooks are French,
The policemen are English,
The mechanics are German,
The lovers are Italian,
The bankers are Swiss.

In Hell:

The cooks are English,
The policemen are German,
The mechanics are French,
The lovers are Swiss,
The bankers are Italian.


156 posted on 05/04/2008 6:37:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Gabz; HungarianGypsy

What a bunch of silly old fusspots these Swiss are.

Don’t you need NERVE ENDINGS to feel pain? I’d like to think that a human life is worth much more than a stalk of asparagus...but I guess “some vegetables are more equal than others.”

It’s coming. Everything Orwell predicted is coming true.


157 posted on 05/04/2008 6:43:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: rhema; wideawake
And you know what's really infuriating? Most of the people who push these ideologies will tell you that the universe and everything in it is the product of random, meaningless forces. Yet the end results are plants with rights and a planet that is to be worshiped as a "gxdess."

Why should the human population be reduced to "save the planet" if that planet is itself a meaningless ball of magma with absolutely no meaning whatsoever? Why should (as some have suggested) the human race voluntarily go extinct so "nature" can go on "experimenting with life" when nature and life are ultimately meaningless?

And why is it that people who believe in randomness and spontaneity as the cause of everything insist on centralized planning to solve all these "problems" they see everywhere? Maybe the same random, spontaneous processes that created the universe are quite competent to solve any "problems" that arise?

158 posted on 05/04/2008 6:48:44 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Usefartem lakhem mimochorat hashabbat, miyom havi'akhem 'et-`omer hatenufah . . .)
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To: Zionist Conspirator; Alouette

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

159 posted on 05/04/2008 6:58:31 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (McCain calls it "radical islamic terrorism," the dems don't refer to it at all)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Precisely.

If you want to get a progressive red-hot with rage, try to trace all his moral pronouncements back to first principles when conversing with him.

As he senses the increasing incoherence of his worldview he will either insult yours as much as he can - blasphemy, etc. - or he will angrily question your intellect/education.

The most amusing thing about the modern progressive is that his worldview is far more unexamined and more instinctual than that of the orthodox Christians he most despises: he has never really been challenged and thus he has never really inquired into his faith - all the more so because he does not even realize that his faith is a faith, a philosophical disadvantage that few Christians share.

160 posted on 05/04/2008 8:21:37 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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