The problem with PETA is that they hold everyone to a higher standard than they do themselves. One of the top people at PETA is diabetic. She has been confronted about her use of insulin, which is obtained from dogs. She stated that her life in dedication to PETA's goals was more important than the dogs'. Complete hypocrisy, especially when they have members saying that children should have been left to die rather than obtaining heart valves from animals.
And, as mentioned by other posters, almost all the animals turned over to PETA end up euthanized. They simply do not devote the money or effort to the care of animals that they expect of others.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Black squirrels are much more common where I work, while gray squirrels predominate where I live. I don't think I've ever seen a red squirrel. I figured the black squirrels moved here for the art scene.
Kev, Butcher Boy sounds like a live action Moral Orel. I think the only reason I can watch Moral Orel, even in small doses, is because it's animated.
I've seen Jacob's Ladder, very creepy, and somewhat disturbing, but if you understand the story it makes a sad, weird sense.
I missed the first few minutes of Hard Candy on cable, but stayed with it to the end. Definitely disturbing, but I wouldn't include it on this list.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was disturbing, but there was another version of the Henry Lee Lucas story that was much creepier. I can't find it on IMDB.
Requiem for a Dream is a better anti-drug film than anything they ever showed me in high school.
I've never watched Happiness because I'm utterly sick of the whole suburbs are horrible and pits of despair. American Beauty sucked.
@Skidworth, no one is safe when torture is allowed and promoted by the government.
Believe what you will, but a lot of innocent people have gone to jail for decades for crimes they did not commit, put to death for crimes they did not commit, and now tortured for crimes they had no part in. And that is truth.
If you're a white, male Christian, then your odds of suffering illegal treatment from the U.S government is much lower, but it is never ZERO.
As I noted in comments on WaPo, George Will looks and dresses exactly the same as when his mother first got him ready for his first day of kindergarten.
This is a supposedly adult man who wears a bowl haircut and bow tie.
I hate all of them. Most modern homes stand out from the surroundings (there was one exception on that list), and a lot of them just seem to be ugly versions of Wright's Falling Water. They all seem cold and unlived in.
My parents had friends who built a very modern house in the 70s, which looked a lot like the houses on this list, especially the first one, and it was horrible. I used to babysit there and it was absolutely frikkin' dangerous with the kids due to the open staircases and open floor plan.
They also had the floor-to-ceiling windows which were uncovered, so it was scary as hell to be babysitting in the middle of nowhere, because I knew that anybody driving by could see me, a teenage girl, in the lights from the house. I would turn down all the lights at night and just have the TV on.
I guess that anyone who wants a home like that would have to have exhibitionist tendencies.
2. Children do not have proper control of their rectal openings until they are about two years old.
3. In China, they use human excrement as manure. So a child in a farming community can simply take a dump anywhere in the fields while his parents are working.
4. Excrement is a biohazard. You can't legally have your child defecate into a garbage can. You also can't just leave it on the ground.
5. Here in California, we have a water shortage. It is currently environmentally better to put disposable diapers in a landfill than it is to wash diapers or flush the toilet extra times from every time you set the baby on it.
6. Babies poop more often than adults. A new baby can go through one to two dozen diapers a day. If you feed a baby six times a day, the baby will have at least six poopy diapers a day.
7. Even when I was home full-time, keeping up with my son's feedings, baths, play, etc., not counting diapers, used up a large chunk of my day. Having to keep an eye on him all the time to notice his "signs" would have made it impossible for me to do anything else.
8. People who come up with these ideas have way too much time on their hands.
And, as mentioned by other posters, almost all the animals turned over to PETA end up euthanized. They simply do not devote the money or effort to the care of animals that they expect of others.
I've seen Jacob's Ladder, very creepy, and somewhat disturbing, but if you understand the story it makes a sad, weird sense.
I missed the first few minutes of Hard Candy on cable, but stayed with it to the end. Definitely disturbing, but I wouldn't include it on this list.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was disturbing, but there was another version of the Henry Lee Lucas story that was much creepier. I can't find it on IMDB.
Requiem for a Dream is a better anti-drug film than anything they ever showed me in high school.
I've never watched Happiness because I'm utterly sick of the whole suburbs are horrible and pits of despair. American Beauty sucked.
Believe what you will, but a lot of innocent people have gone to jail for decades for crimes they did not commit, put to death for crimes they did not commit, and now tortured for crimes they had no part in. And that is truth.
If you're a white, male Christian, then your odds of suffering illegal treatment from the U.S government is much lower, but it is never ZERO.
This is a supposedly adult man who wears a bowl haircut and bow tie.
My parents had friends who built a very modern house in the 70s, which looked a lot like the houses on this list, especially the first one, and it was horrible. I used to babysit there and it was absolutely frikkin' dangerous with the kids due to the open staircases and open floor plan.
They also had the floor-to-ceiling windows which were uncovered, so it was scary as hell to be babysitting in the middle of nowhere, because I knew that anybody driving by could see me, a teenage girl, in the lights from the house. I would turn down all the lights at night and just have the TV on.
I guess that anyone who wants a home like that would have to have exhibitionist tendencies.
2. Children do not have proper control of their rectal openings until they are about two years old.
3. In China, they use human excrement as manure. So a child in a farming community can simply take a dump anywhere in the fields while his parents are working.
4. Excrement is a biohazard. You can't legally have your child defecate into a garbage can. You also can't just leave it on the ground.
5. Here in California, we have a water shortage. It is currently environmentally better to put disposable diapers in a landfill than it is to wash diapers or flush the toilet extra times from every time you set the baby on it.
6. Babies poop more often than adults. A new baby can go through one to two dozen diapers a day. If you feed a baby six times a day, the baby will have at least six poopy diapers a day.
7. Even when I was home full-time, keeping up with my son's feedings, baths, play, etc., not counting diapers, used up a large chunk of my day. Having to keep an eye on him all the time to notice his "signs" would have made it impossible for me to do anything else.
8. People who come up with these ideas have way too much time on their hands.
People are stupid. People are sheep. D**n, that's my theme today.