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As you may have heard, the latest radical liberal threat to our freedom, jobs, and very way of life is the “Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act.”

Here’s Joe the Fake Plumber to tell you why:

We’ve Been Sacked

by Joe ‘The Plumber’ Wurzelbacher

While Americans across the country have entered the political game to save our country, moving that proverbial ball of freedom towards the end zone, we’ve been sacked. Blindsided. We’ve been so focused on legislative elections (and rightly so) that most Americans don’t even know they’ve been hit – and hit hard.

What Joe means is that Tea Partiers have been so busy protesting anchor babies and health care reform, they don’t even realize that they have received traumatic brain injuries from repetitively hitting their heads against walls.

But not by some big, burly monster like voter fraud or corruption. No, we’ve been knocked flat by the ignorance of the conservative electorate and cute little puppies licking our stunned, what-the-heck-just-happened faces.

If you have ever watched Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl,” you know that puppies are virtual sacking machines. And if you’ve ever seen typical Tea Partiers, you’ve seen “stunned, what-the-heck-just happened” faces a-plenty.

Well, I’ll tell you what just happened.

Thanks, Joe! When I want someone to explain the world to me, I always go an unlicensed, lying plumber.

It’s called the Humane Society of the United States cowardly hiding behind animal cruelty, lying to our citizens and taking our constitutional rights away – one state at a time.

Your constitutional rights to be cruel to animals are in jeopardy! Do something, quick!

This radical animal rights organization (HSUS), who spends less than 0.5% of its $100M + budget on actually helping animals,

They tell you up front that they are an advocacy group — so, whether you agree with what they do or not, you can’t claim that Joe just uncovered some shocking fiscal scandal. And the HSUS isn’t the only group sponsoring this proposal — others include the Humane Society of Missouri, the Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Best Friends Animal Society. You want to carp about how they don’t “actually help animals”, Joe?

And why are national groups getting involved in trying to pass this legislation in MO? Well, MO is Puppy Mill Central — approximately 40% of all pet store puppies nationwide are bred in Missouri, where almost 200,000 breeding dogs produce up to a million puppies a year. Go here for more info.

is using the referendum process to slowly, systematically eliminate food production in the United States.

Because the HSUS is OPPOSED TO FOOD!

This November, HSUS is after the dog breeding industry in Missouri calling the bill the “Puppy Cruelty Prevention Act”. Great name. I mean who wouldn’t want to keep someone from being cruel to a puppy?

Apparently, Joe. (And Phyllis Schlafly. As well as MO’s Senator Blaine Luetkemeyer. And Missouri State Senators Chuck Purgason, Frank Barnitz, Wes Shoemyer, Bill Stouffer, Dan Clemens, Gary Nodler. And Missouri State Representatives Kenny Jones, Mike Parson, Mike Dethrow, Jim Viebrock, Rodney Schad, Jason Smith, Brian Munzlinger, Tom Loehner, Therese Sander, David Day, and Dan Brown.)

The problem is Missouri already HAS laws protecting animals – all animals.

If you for one minute think that the existing laws are preventing thousands of dogs and puppies from being cruelly exploited for profit in Missouri, go here: .

Missouri’s Proposition B makes it a “crime of cruelty” for a piece of dog food to be in a water bowl

No, Joe, it doesn’t. It calls for providing potable water at all times — nowhere does it state that having one piece of kibble in a bowl is a crime. But hey, if you think the dogs already have it so good in Missouri’s 3,000 puppy mills, I dare you to go drink out of the dishes in any of the mills.

or for a dog breeder to treat their own pet if they become ill (even with something as simple as a cold).

Well, it does stipulate that necessary euthanasia must be performed by a vet, so yeah, the practice of breeders “treating” their “pets” by clubbing them to death when they are too ill to be profitable would no longer be legal.

This would almost be comical if it weren’t for the OTHER, more insidious parts of this bill that hit at the very core of our liberties.

The framers of the constitution would be rolling in their graves if they heard that your right to own more than 50 breeder dogs (and their attendant puppies, which could number in the 100-200 range at any given time) is in peril. Because the freedom to cruelly exploit puppies for profit is what our country was founded on!

This bill forces breeders to limit the number of dogs they can own – regardless of care. Think about this a minute . . . . Should the government have the right to limit the number of houses a realtor can sell?

If houses were living, breathing creatures that required adequate care, facilities, and attention to be happy and healthy, then yeah, maybe the government should have the right to limit the number of houses that a realtor could breed for sale.

These new regulations will put almost every breeder in Missouri out of business

Because even though Puppy Millers sell their poorly-bred, frequently unhealthy puppies for hundreds of dollars each, it seems that they can’t afford to treat their animals humanely and still make a tidy profit. Sad, isn’t it?

forcing the price of dogs to sky rocket and allowing pet ownership only for the very wealthy.

Yeah, because if there is one problem facing dogs these days, it’s the fact that they are just too scarce.

Hey, Joe, if for some reason my sarcasm isn’t getting through to you, go to one of the numerous municipal animal shelters in Missouri, or anywhere for that matter, and look into the faces of the dogs and puppies that are going to be euthanized that day because THERE AREN’T ENOUGH HOMES FOR ALL OF THE UNWANTED DOGS. Joe, you stupid, lying scumbag, I hope you get a real glow of pleasure knowing that you are a tool for some of the most greedy, heartless bastards on the planet, the puppy millers.

Anyway, I’d better stop now before I urge locking Joe in a wire crate that cuts into his feet, with no room to turn around, with urine and feces raining down on him from the occupant of the cage above him, stacked in an unheated, non-air-conditioned building.– and forcing him to stay there for his entire life.

So, yeah, Tea Partiers, you found a cause to be proud of.

36 Responses to “When Puppies Attack Tea Partiers!”

While Americans across the country have entered the political game to save our country, moving that proverbial ball of freedom towards the end zone, we’ve been sacked.

Cuz, goodness knows, we can’t imagine the American people would be distracted by some celebriwannabe who’s not even a plumber…

No, we’ve been knocked flat by the ignorance of the conservative electorate and cute little puppies licking our

That’s not your face, JoeSam. I mean, you may think so, and it’s on a head, but that head is pretty small, even by Republican standards…

It’s called the Humane Society of the United States cowardly hiding behind animal cruelty, lying to our citizens and taking our constitutional rights away – one state at a time.

Wait. He’s complaining about a private charitable organization now?

This radical animal rights organization (HSUS), who spends less than 0.5% of its $100M + budget on actually helping animals

Nevermind that 94.5% of the rest of its budget goes towards education and those idiotic infomercials that model themselves on Sarah Palin’s campaign…

is using the referendum process to slowly, systematically eliminate food production in the United States.

This November, HSUS is after the dog breeding industry in Missouri calling the bill the “Puppy Cruelty Prevention Act”.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I don’t like eating puppy.

Pussy, on the other lip…

These new regulations will put almost every breeder in Missouri out of business

Like anyone who wants a puppy couldn’t just find one, probably abandoned by a foreclosed family.

But hey! It’s not like THIS ISSUE ISN’T A FUCKING DISTRACTION, YOU CLOWN CAR FASCIST!

Y’know, thinking on this…HSUS is “radical”?

No. PeTA is radical. HSUS is about as mainstream an animal rights organization as you can find, the folks that ran down to New Orleans to rescue dogs and cats and find good homes for them. Fuck, even PeTA wouldn’t bother with that!

How much was this asshole paid to put his name of a propaganda spiel written by the Puppy Mill Owners?

“But hey, if you think the dogs already have it so good in Missouri’s 3,000 puppy mills, I dare you to go drink out of the bowels in any of the mills.”

That’s not actually a typo, is it…..

I guess Joe figures if drinking out of the toilet is good enough for him…

I’ve never seen ‘cowardly’ used as an adverb before. It’s apparently cromulent, but it reads terribly. The fake plumber is a fake writer, too.

Well, you gotta figure, if Joe is your spokesperson, your argument probably isn’t going to be Aristotelian in nature.

cf: http://ironicusmaximus.blogspot.com/2010/10/hey-we-treat-em-like-crap-but-at-least.html

s.z., there are two other “bowel” references that (I think) should be “bowl”, though I certainly can understand having “bowel” in your brain when dealing with a piece of shit like not-Joe the not-Plumber.

But, more seriously — these morons are now actually campaiging FOR the right to be cruel to puppies? “Sick fucks” doesn’t even come close to describing these psychopaths.

No doubt they’re just tickled pink that the house that burned down in TN while the FD watched contained three dogs and a cat, who died in the fire.

Thanks for the corrections, lacp and David. When I get annoyed about a topic, my bowels are often affected.

…I can’t seem to recall the proverb that mentions the ball of freedom. Perhaps Joe is misremembering:

53. He who eats akasu eko does not know that a famine prevails.
(Akasu is a large ball of corn porridge, and hence emblematic of plenty.)

Well, if Joe needs help advancing down the field, I would be more than happy to kick his Freedom Ball.

Missouri’s other “cottage industry” are meth labs.

What is it about the idiots from 2008? Can’t they just climb back under their rocks? Even the Swift Boat Liars didn’t keep demanding attention after 2004 (I suppose it’s because they won, but still).

The law doesn’t say how many dogs you can own. It provides enhanced regulations if you SELL more than 50 dogs in ONE YEAR. Being a dog breeder I have been assailed by similar bits of rabid (pardon the pun) hysteria from other breeders, but it seems to me if you’re selling that many dogs you should be held to a certain standard. Yep, this commentator is being used, just the way Wall Street pigs are secretly funding tea partiers who will rail against wall street regulatory schemes as an attack on the flea –er, FREE market.

We’re cutting back on breeding, because people still like dogs but nobody wants to buy a dog when they’re facing foreclosure or losing their jobs.

Anyway, I’d better stop now before I urge locking Joe in a wire crate that cuts into his feet, with no room to turn around, with urine and feces raining down on him from the occupant of the cage above him, stacked in an unheated, non-air-conditioned building.– and forcing him to stay there for his entire life.

How about if I urge it. Hell, I’d pay to see it.

Fair enough, trashfire. My partner’s got the weekend off now. And, um, until there’s a new job, actually. The whole industry is going under (gaming, but not gambling) and the latest in a string of jobs has just declared bankruptcy. There might be another start up to start with in a week or so, who knows. But without a free-spending Christmas season, that one’s not likely to last long, either.

We’d been talking about rescuing another cat since Tora, but that’s on hold too now.

Meanwhile, idiots are shoveling money at notJoe the notPlumber and Sarah Palin and any number of other utterly useless specimens of humanity. Drinking seems like a good idea, except that it’s not as cheap as TV makes it look. Unfortunately, I’m an even more expensive habit than the cats, but my partner has advised me that I don’t get to decide when it’s time to panic, because I suck at that sort of decision. I’m holding out for a blaze-of-glory thing, I’m no Jigsaw, but presumably I can find a cage just small enough to cruelly stuff a fucking moron into.

Someone needs to put Joe in a puppy mill. And keep him there. Forever.

Excellent post, SZ!

Remember to support No Kill Shelters and to always encourage people to adopt from a shelter. Dogs and Cats aren’t products to be purchased. They’re part of your family. Adopt!

Why no-kill vs county run, can I ask? We did the no-kill shelter thing because we figured we’d have a fighting chance of rejecting an unsuitable pair if they weren’t going to be killed if we said no. We took the first couple they handed us anyway, and after they got over the ringworm, couldn’t have been happier. The girl is recovering well from the hip surgery, if I haven’t said. She’s a good kid.

But kill or no kill, the animals all need homes, right? There’s a limit on how many a no-kill can accept if no one adopts, but there’s also a limit on how many can be placed in a county shelter, too. So why is the no-kill better, from the perspective of an adopter?

Honestly, I want a Bengal or some spotted boycat, but I’m *absolutely* not buying a cat from a breeder–reputable or otherwise, with so many strays in need of home–and they seem to be recent enough on the scene that few are being given up. Plus, again, I will probably take anything they hand me. I’d hope to let them know specific personality type and age and indoor/outdoor info before they hand me one, but I’m an utter sucker for any set of whiskers and ears.

This probably isn’t info I need anytime soon, so feel free to argue it out.

D: Very sorry to hear about your partner being idled; I hope something suitable turns up soon.

I think Mary was just urging folks to contribute to no-kill shelters, if possible; we both get the shivers when we remember that Moondoggie was 24 hours away from being snuffed at the L.A. pound. Which, of course, is a good reason to adopt from county shelters.

Has anyone else noticed that when a conservative discovers a solution to a problem, the solution is inhumane, disrepects the innocent, cynical, self-serving, (subtle or not,) indifferent to dignity, arrogant, and the source of another problem?

…and usually overlooks the obvious more fair solution? Like Stossel’s post-Katrina “Price Gouging Is A Perfectly Rational Way To Determine Who Gets Water And Who Dies Of Thirst” column? Because, see, it’s much more reasonable to assume that by making water twenty bucks a bottle, no one who hasn’t evacuated will be able to buy it all, as opposed to, you know, just limiting people to one or two bottles per person per day for three bucks.

Yeah, we’ve noticed. I assume it’s because they’re not actually looking to solve a problem, but to justify something cruel or stupid they want to do anyway.

Scott: Okay, that makes total sense, sorry about my reading comprehension issues. And, yeah, we do that. We haven’t told them about Tora, because we don’t want to bum them out, and they really are nice people who can use the help. Plus we promised them we’d return the cats to them if we were unable to keep them, so it’s kind of a decent idea to make sure they’re still around if, you know, we both get eaten by a disgruntled cat and someone has to figure out what to do with them.

Wow, I’m glad you guys rescued Moondoggie. He’s a neat cat.

We still haven’t decided where we’re going to look, but I want an older cat whose personality is pretty well set.

forcing the price of dogs to sky rocket

when you subsist on a diet of puppies boiled in kitten blood this becomes a real concern, unless you’re as rich as Chenron…..ah, nevermind

further evidence than “asshole” is the default setting for rightwingers…

Chuck Purgason. What is this, a porn name for a bulimia porn start? (Has anyone actually ever made any bulimia porn? I’m not up on all the fetishes.

Joe, you stupid, lying scumbag… Gosh, s.z., you’re beautiful when you’re angry!

Let’s just hope that fucktard has been neutered.

It’s all about property rights for people like him. Dogs are property. Property is sacred. Life is sacred too, but dogs have no souls, you see, so there’s no need to worry about them. It’s a thing. Christianists and Dominionists are real clear on how being the crown of creation and stewards of all creatures great and small allows us to be ruthless, plus anyway, this existence doesn’t count, it’s heaven that matters.

Insofar as acquiring an animal companion, I am always all about adoption or re-homing (although I cannot afford to have a pet pf my own), but I like responsible breeders because I love and appreciate the variety of breeds.

I am taking care of two pure-bred pugs right now. One was a rescue (found by the side of the road, not yet a year old, with one survivor of her litter) and the other was a re-homing due to a bad situation. Breed-specific dog associations and groups are instrumental in helping take care of their dogs, and every bit of help counts.

What keeps JoeSam going? I get thoroughly embarrassed if I’m clumsy about merging onto the freeway, you know? I cringe and want to go home. How can someone like that Vitter guy still walk around in public after that diaper thing? What makes them so impervious? And who’s in charge of smiting these days, anyway?

Grumble grumble.

Larkspur: I’ve seen no evidence that notJoe gives a fuck about the lives that have souls, either. He strikes me as the sort who thinks kids are property too.

I was looking at breed rescue, but without too much luck. I can always just put spot decals on a solid color cat, I guess. :-)

And as to your last paragraph, uh, so, you wanna get married? I have to clear it with my partner, but…

O D.Sidhe, my beloved, if I recollect correctly, we got engaged last year. Double-check with the partner, who sounds extraordinary, btw, and I assure you I will say yes all over again.

(Also, there is a dog I walk who lives with three cats, all of whom are beautiful. One is a lovely black cat; the other two are patterned cats of a type that I cannot name. Tortie? Calico? Psychodecalico? Just exquisite. Somehow I will have to get photographic images of them to show you.)

Jeez, I wish Obama had asked me a question randomly during the presidential race that I could have become tenuously quasi-famous and leveraged that into speaking gigs and writing for wingnut websites. Must be pretty lucrative. Though, because I now live in Brooklyn, my comments would have been dismissed out of hand as the ravings of an East Coast intellectual, elitist, arrogant, socialist-fascist-anarchist, even though I grew up less than 50 miles from where Joe the Plumber lives and I’m not nearly smart enough to be an intellectual.

Given how callously these assholes regard human beings (those who happen to be poor, or immigrants, or working class, or opposed to their ideology), it should come as no surprise that they would publicly schill for puppy torture.

I hope the rest of the Tea Party picks up this issue, this football (of freedom) if you will, and runs it into the endzone (of liberty) attempting to avoid being tackled by the linebackers (of socialism) and defense backs (of east coast intellectualism), hoping that the referee (of government interference in the free market) doesn’t throw a yellow flag (i.e., playing the “racism” card) for holding, resulting in a 10 yard penalty (I’m not sure what this represents) and a replay of the down (is this tired metaphor tortured enough yet?).

(is this tired metaphor tortured enough yet?).

It’s not metaphor torture, it’s merely “enhanced figuration.”

ANK, you seem plenty smart enough to me. Great rant!

As for not-Joe the not-plumber: Fuck him sideways with a rusty weed-whacker. What an asshole. ((spits))

Superb rant, s.z. – I don’t know that I’ve ever read you being so mad before. Your natural kindliness usually gets in the way of your fire-breathing abilities.

What puzzles me about this is that UnJoe thinks he can actually put this one over on any significant number of people. When it comes right down to it, the idea of viciously exploiting dogs for profit is immediately, viscerally repugnant to the majority of citizens (Michael Vick, football star tho he was, didn’t get a whole lotta support, IIRC). By comparison, a call to defend free market liberties just doesn’t have much emotional punch.

I’m the president of an animal rescue group in rural Missouri. Believe me, the farmers take this proposed legislation very seriously, because they’ve been terrified by the Missouri Farm Bureau and other interest groups into thinking that the next step will be legislation that affects food production and their livelihoods. One crusty old farmer type was almost in tears over it when he was talking to one of our volunteers at an event we were attending.

As bad as it is for dogs in rural Missouri, in some ways it’s even worse for cats. Because, you know, “it’s just a cat.” They’re as disposable as Kleenex. Finding a good home for a rescue is really difficult–almost impossible for any cat older than a kitten. I’ve got a one-year-old foster cat at home right now that I’d give away to a good home. But chances are I won’t find one.

It involves businesses that hate standards, want profits without responsibility while maintaining cruelty, right up today’s conservative alley.

Ol’ Joe the plumber must still be wanting to ride to grifting train, to get on board with this issue. Must all he could get.

It’s not metaphor torture, it’s merely “enhanced figuration.”

I fucking hate you.

Sherry, are you and your volunteers finding that any of the farmers respond positively to your discussions with them?

I have to check out the Missouri Farm Bureau. The name makes it sound like a government agency, but it’s probably a spawn of the Chamber of Commerce.

About the cats – as Temple Grandin said – in the context of livestock animals, but still – people tend to think the death is the worst thing that can happen to an animal. Of course she was referring to the years of suffering, and the often horrific last days and hours of their lives when their care and maintenance isn’t mitigated by proper and humane care.

Unfortunately, cats – more than dogs – are vulnerable to the worst, most vicious impulses in some people. Halloween is an especially scary time. Best of luck with your organization.

I wonder – what’s your feral cat spay & release scene like? Apparently feral cat colonies are manageable. But they have to be caught, neutered, and then released.

Sorry guys. I am being depressing. But it’s an old thread. Maybe I won’t bum out that many people.

Something to say?