So it's been talked over through and through especially lately with the horsemeat scandal in Europe, whether or not to ban American horses from being sent and sold for human consumption abroad.
Animal rights groups already got what they wanted when the last slaughterhouse that actively killed horses for meat in Illinois was closed down seven years ago. Currently American horses that are going for meat are trucked to either Canada or Mexico for slaughtering in foreign plants before being shipped around the world and sold for humans to eat at up to $40 a pound. These include horses from all walks of life. Racehorses, school horses, lesson horses, draft horses, ponies. All of them are seen making their way on the final days long journey in the back of a double decker cattle truck after being sold at auction. The final stop is a foreign slaughter plan and someone's dinner plate. In the U.S. horses are no longer killed in slaughterhouses for meat, but that doesn't mean they don't wind up there.
As it stands with a few states trying to get legislation passed to open a new slaughterhouse that will process horses there are many groups who are trying to get American horse meat banned once and for all. This means from export as well as making it highly illegal to cross the U.S. border with a truck full of horses bound for meat. It would also make it illegal for foreign slaughterhouses to accept horses of American origin. If this ban passes the activist groups will be head over heels with joy.
I do not like seeing our horses wind up on the butcher block, but there are two points that I see in this very flawed thought process. Let's explore them, shall we?
A. Surplus. What to do with all the horses that would be taken out of the populous by means of auction and slaughter. Think about all of the breeders that pump out tens of thousands of foals annually across the U.S. So what becomes of all the surplus horses? The rescues are already overflowing and underbudgeted. The price of feed has skyrocketed to the point it's difficult to afford. There are still no restrictions on the mass-breeding that goes on, especially with crazy show breeders or race-horse stud farms who sometimes produce over two hundred foals a year in the quest for two or three good ones. Low-cost gelding clinics are few and far between so many 'oops' foals happen as well. Euthanasia is expensive and the carcass removal even higher priced.
B. Horses, as much as everyone in the U.S. denies it, are livestock. They eat grass, they walk on hooves, the live in a field and graze pasture. There is little difference, in reality, from a cow and a horse. Both are mammals, both have helped humans in settling, being fed, and providing work animals. In many places people eat horses just like they do cows. What makes it so much worse to eat a horse over a cow? Both live, feel, think, see, breathe. Both live in family groups and raise their babies. I don't get why it is such a damn taboo to thinking about eating horses but it's perfectly acceptable and normal to go home at night and eat a cow. Hypocrisy all around.
So what do we do? Most people find the thought of eating horses appalling (but then they eat cows, damn hypocrites) and the thought of sending them to slaughter sickening, but what do we do? Do we ban all forms of horsemeat in this country? If so, then what do we do when the instances of neglect, home-killing, starvation, abandonment, etc rise by 200-300%? Where will we send tens of thousands of unwanted horses if there is no place for them and no place to dispose of them? Will a black market for horseflesh like the one in Florida rise up again and give rise even more to backyard horse butchers?
The simplest answer is, as of now, that a ban on horsemeat and horse exportation for slaughter will not work. If anything, it will only make the number of unwanted horses rise exponentially and then therein still lies the problem. This proposed 'solution' isn't going to solve anything. If anything it will make the problem facing the overpopulation, neglect, abandonment, starvation, etc much, much worse. I hate seeing any animal be killed for food, but if you think about it, that's far better than being neglected in a tiny waste-encrusted pen with severely overgrown hooves covered in skin lesions while slowly and agonizingly starving to death over months.
The problem needs to be addressed at the source: The breeders.
Breeders producing hundreds of foals a year at a single farm in the quest for a couple of the fastest for the race track or a couple of well-built ones for the halter show ring. Breeders breeding anything with spots to anything that has four hooves. Breeders breeding anything that will produce 'color'. Or the fad breeders who jump on whatever breed fad is going around and breed them like crazy, like current the obsession with Gypsy Vanners. If breeding was regulated and this kind of over-breeding was slapped with a fine, it wouldn't happen and we wouldn't have an exploding horse population with no homes for them. If horses were required to show their worth before being allowed to breed, this kind of thing wouldn't be happening. If stupid owners would geld their worthless conformational trainwrecks of stallion instead of letting them sire foals with half their herd, this kind of thing wouldn't happen. Etcetera. If the problem, which lies with the breeders, was addressed there wouldn't be a staggering horse overpopulation problem.
Right now there is no middle ground. The activists want all horse meat and export banned, and the people who regularly send unwanted horses through the meat system want American slaughter plants opened.
Neither is any closer to finding a true solution because they are missing the problem entirely... Start with the breeders and the overbreeding and then you'll have a basis for a working long-term solution.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Cruelty by Kindness.
People talk about it all the time, the obesity
epidemic. That's gnawing a bone that's been gnawed for years. I'm here to talk
bitch about how people's greed/gluttony are passed on to their animal
companions resulting in the animal obesity epidemic we're seeing so much these
days.
I see it day in and day while doing my job (professional animal groomer). Animals coming in that weigh much more than they should, sometimes double or triple what they should. What I don't understand is where it got lost in translation and got turned around that this is okay. Apparently 90% of people are completely blind to the fact that their animals are extremely overweight, while some are in complete denial about the whole thing, and still others just don't care. It takes all sorts, too. You see really tall thin people that have extremely overweight cats and heavy people that have slender dogs, etc. It's not just caused by heavy people who feed their animals much like they do themselves and ignore the need for exercise. These overweight animals are owned by people from all walks of life.
It's not uncommon for someone to bring in their dog (or cat) for grooming and want to leave some kind of disgusting food or treats for it and expect me to feed it to them. I usually agree to it because I don't want to be rude and cause a dispute but as soon as they walk out the door whatever it is usually ends up in the trash first thing. I've seen some utterly disgusting things over the years. I had a two heavy-set ladies bring in a small severely overweight shih tzu mix and they were feeding it chewed-up fast-food chicken from a cardboard tray. I was appalled. It was absolutely disgusting. I've had others bring in canned vienna sausages, spam, wet dog/cat food, baby food, and other manner of horrifying vile-scented things.
Be it denial, stupidity, or just plain lack of caring people really need to step back, look at their severely overweight animals, and realize that they are not actually being kind to them, but in reality, killing them. It’s all cruelty by kindness. People think they are doing nice things for their beloved pets by feeding them all sorts of things, such as table scraps, but it’s really the opposite. A lifetime of being fed all wrong leads to a staggering amount of health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, high-blood pressure, and other things. Most of the same illnesses humans get by being overweight affect animals too when they are too heavy to be properly healthy. Just five pounds of extra weight on a dog or cat can shorten their life by more than a year and that shortened mortality rate increases with the more excess weight your pet is carrying.
Pets must be fed/treated properly to be healthy. This means saying no to overfeeding, excessive table scraps, feeding the right kinds of food, not overtreating, and proper exercise. It’s not doing your pets a kindness when you feed them everything under the sun. Pet food is made for a reason. Next time you want to feed your dog or cat something fatty or just plain disgusting, think of someone you know with a muffin top jelly roll belly hanging over their pants or someone that has severe diabetes or heart disease and rethink your decision. It might, in the end, save your pet from a lifetime of health problems and actually extend their healthy happy years.
I see it day in and day while doing my job (professional animal groomer). Animals coming in that weigh much more than they should, sometimes double or triple what they should. What I don't understand is where it got lost in translation and got turned around that this is okay. Apparently 90% of people are completely blind to the fact that their animals are extremely overweight, while some are in complete denial about the whole thing, and still others just don't care. It takes all sorts, too. You see really tall thin people that have extremely overweight cats and heavy people that have slender dogs, etc. It's not just caused by heavy people who feed their animals much like they do themselves and ignore the need for exercise. These overweight animals are owned by people from all walks of life.
It's not uncommon for someone to bring in their dog (or cat) for grooming and want to leave some kind of disgusting food or treats for it and expect me to feed it to them. I usually agree to it because I don't want to be rude and cause a dispute but as soon as they walk out the door whatever it is usually ends up in the trash first thing. I've seen some utterly disgusting things over the years. I had a two heavy-set ladies bring in a small severely overweight shih tzu mix and they were feeding it chewed-up fast-food chicken from a cardboard tray. I was appalled. It was absolutely disgusting. I've had others bring in canned vienna sausages, spam, wet dog/cat food, baby food, and other manner of horrifying vile-scented things.
Be it denial, stupidity, or just plain lack of caring people really need to step back, look at their severely overweight animals, and realize that they are not actually being kind to them, but in reality, killing them. It’s all cruelty by kindness. People think they are doing nice things for their beloved pets by feeding them all sorts of things, such as table scraps, but it’s really the opposite. A lifetime of being fed all wrong leads to a staggering amount of health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, high-blood pressure, and other things. Most of the same illnesses humans get by being overweight affect animals too when they are too heavy to be properly healthy. Just five pounds of extra weight on a dog or cat can shorten their life by more than a year and that shortened mortality rate increases with the more excess weight your pet is carrying.
Pets must be fed/treated properly to be healthy. This means saying no to overfeeding, excessive table scraps, feeding the right kinds of food, not overtreating, and proper exercise. It’s not doing your pets a kindness when you feed them everything under the sun. Pet food is made for a reason. Next time you want to feed your dog or cat something fatty or just plain disgusting, think of someone you know with a muffin top jelly roll belly hanging over their pants or someone that has severe diabetes or heart disease and rethink your decision. It might, in the end, save your pet from a lifetime of health problems and actually extend their healthy happy years.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Breeding Babies
Foaling and breeding season is beginning for horses and a lot of people are very anxiously awaiting their new foals as well as being able to breed. Today's blog is about something that has always royally pissed me off: Breeding 2 year old fillies.
Fillies (young female horses) are not considered mares (adult female horses) until they reach the age of five. This is when their knees, hocks, ankles, and spinal joints are closed/fused and they are completely done growing and maturing. This is when they are considered fully mature in body as well as in mind. This is the optimum age to breed and start serious training at. Yet few breeders want to wait five years while their filly (or colt) is 'out to pasture' growing up. A lot of breeders think there is nothing wrong with breeding a two year old, filly or colt. I commonly hear people saying "Well, lots of breeders do it so it must be okay."
Tell me what the fuck makes it okay or healthy for a two year old filly to be bred? She's just a fucking baby herself!
I don't give a shit what idiot breeders think. I don't want to hear the "Oh she's structurally sound!", "She's good-sized for her age!", "She's a large breed!" and other excuses. They are just that. Excuses. She's still a fucking baby regardless of size or breed. Horses all mature at the same rate, regardless of breed. She's not mature mentally, structurally, or internally, and won't be for another three years. She is still a child by horse standards. Fillies and colts will nurse off of their mothers naturally until they are yearlings. So she's now two and learning to be independent. Just because she is not nursing off of her mother still does not mean it is okay for her to have a foal herself.
Structurally, at two years old, her bones are not sound for breeding. Her knee joints are not yet closed, her bones are not fully hardened, her bone fusions are not complete. Mentally she is still just a baby. All she needs to be learning is the things her mother would have taught her. Where to feed, when to sleep, how to behave, how to be a horse. Internally her pelvis isn't fused and her uterus isn't conditioned fully yet.
Big name horse breeders will often breed their two year old fillies. The first thing that comes to mind for me is 'puppy-mill', or in this case 'foal-mill'. Breeders don't want to wait for their filly to grow up and mature before breeding her. That costs "too much time and money". 'Who cares if she is a baby, if we're not gonna break her at two at least we can get a baby out of her, or two or three, before she is five years old then at least we can make some kind of income off of her.' That is the mentality that fuels the breeding of two year olds. It's not uncommon two see a mare that just turned five years old and already has two or three foals.
If you can't afford to let your baby horse grow up out in the pasture learning to be a horse you have no fucking business being a breeder or horse owner! Breeding a two year old filly is equivalent to a thirteen year old human girl getting pregnant. Parents and society would scream abuse, disgust, and horror over this. But hey, a thirteen year old girl has started her menstrual cycle and thus that means she is capable of getting pregnant and carrying a baby. Does that make it okay for her to get pregnant? Fuck no! It's the exact same thing with two year old fillies. They are just babies. Just because they are capable of getting pregnant and carrying a foal does not mean they should. Two year olds should absolutely not be purposefully bred. Ever.
On top of her not being physically ready to carry a foal think about her background. Has she even done anything at two years old to even merit being bred? There are already tons of fugly foals being produced from worthless conformational train-wrecks. Wait a while, get her some show experience, wait until she is broke to ride or drive at four years of age. Make breeding her worth-while. Foals from sires/dams with no record of doing anything other than breeding are pretty much worthless, especially in this economy.
Thoroughbred breeders often breed their fillies as 'long yearlings', not yet two, because all registered TBs birthdays are considered January 1st. So these are yearlings getting pregnant and having foals at late two. They don't even have time to be babies. They are born damn near right into motherhood. All of which is sick and very unethical.
The fact is this: horses, regardless of breed, take time to mature. Five years to be completely structurally sound for breeding/serious training (I'm not against gently starting/backing a horse at three years old, even though I prefer four years old) (As well I am not against breeding mares at late three, early four if you cannot wait til five). If you cannot wait at the very least three years to breed your filly then you have no right to own her. If you are one of the shitty breeders that just cannot wait and think it's okay to breed your two year old fillies shame on you. Go talk to a thirteen or fourteen year old teenage girl that got pregnant. Maybe it will make your money-hungry selfish ass think twice about breeding your two year old next time.
Fillies (young female horses) are not considered mares (adult female horses) until they reach the age of five. This is when their knees, hocks, ankles, and spinal joints are closed/fused and they are completely done growing and maturing. This is when they are considered fully mature in body as well as in mind. This is the optimum age to breed and start serious training at. Yet few breeders want to wait five years while their filly (or colt) is 'out to pasture' growing up. A lot of breeders think there is nothing wrong with breeding a two year old, filly or colt. I commonly hear people saying "Well, lots of breeders do it so it must be okay."
Tell me what the fuck makes it okay or healthy for a two year old filly to be bred? She's just a fucking baby herself!
I don't give a shit what idiot breeders think. I don't want to hear the "Oh she's structurally sound!", "She's good-sized for her age!", "She's a large breed!" and other excuses. They are just that. Excuses. She's still a fucking baby regardless of size or breed. Horses all mature at the same rate, regardless of breed. She's not mature mentally, structurally, or internally, and won't be for another three years. She is still a child by horse standards. Fillies and colts will nurse off of their mothers naturally until they are yearlings. So she's now two and learning to be independent. Just because she is not nursing off of her mother still does not mean it is okay for her to have a foal herself.
Structurally, at two years old, her bones are not sound for breeding. Her knee joints are not yet closed, her bones are not fully hardened, her bone fusions are not complete. Mentally she is still just a baby. All she needs to be learning is the things her mother would have taught her. Where to feed, when to sleep, how to behave, how to be a horse. Internally her pelvis isn't fused and her uterus isn't conditioned fully yet.
Big name horse breeders will often breed their two year old fillies. The first thing that comes to mind for me is 'puppy-mill', or in this case 'foal-mill'. Breeders don't want to wait for their filly to grow up and mature before breeding her. That costs "too much time and money". 'Who cares if she is a baby, if we're not gonna break her at two at least we can get a baby out of her, or two or three, before she is five years old then at least we can make some kind of income off of her.' That is the mentality that fuels the breeding of two year olds. It's not uncommon two see a mare that just turned five years old and already has two or three foals.
If you can't afford to let your baby horse grow up out in the pasture learning to be a horse you have no fucking business being a breeder or horse owner! Breeding a two year old filly is equivalent to a thirteen year old human girl getting pregnant. Parents and society would scream abuse, disgust, and horror over this. But hey, a thirteen year old girl has started her menstrual cycle and thus that means she is capable of getting pregnant and carrying a baby. Does that make it okay for her to get pregnant? Fuck no! It's the exact same thing with two year old fillies. They are just babies. Just because they are capable of getting pregnant and carrying a foal does not mean they should. Two year olds should absolutely not be purposefully bred. Ever.
On top of her not being physically ready to carry a foal think about her background. Has she even done anything at two years old to even merit being bred? There are already tons of fugly foals being produced from worthless conformational train-wrecks. Wait a while, get her some show experience, wait until she is broke to ride or drive at four years of age. Make breeding her worth-while. Foals from sires/dams with no record of doing anything other than breeding are pretty much worthless, especially in this economy.
Thoroughbred breeders often breed their fillies as 'long yearlings', not yet two, because all registered TBs birthdays are considered January 1st. So these are yearlings getting pregnant and having foals at late two. They don't even have time to be babies. They are born damn near right into motherhood. All of which is sick and very unethical.
The fact is this: horses, regardless of breed, take time to mature. Five years to be completely structurally sound for breeding/serious training (I'm not against gently starting/backing a horse at three years old, even though I prefer four years old) (As well I am not against breeding mares at late three, early four if you cannot wait til five). If you cannot wait at the very least three years to breed your filly then you have no right to own her. If you are one of the shitty breeders that just cannot wait and think it's okay to breed your two year old fillies shame on you. Go talk to a thirteen or fourteen year old teenage girl that got pregnant. Maybe it will make your money-hungry selfish ass think twice about breeding your two year old next time.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
HYPPocrites
The HYPP debate has always been something that rattles my cage. Today's blog is about the idiocy/stupidity of horse breeders and uneducated horse buyers that are both connected to and responsible for HYPP.
Before we get into it here are some facts on HYPP:
HYPP or HYperkalemic Periodic Paralysis is an inherited equine muscular genetic disorder all stemming from a single American Quarter Horse stallion named Impressive. Impressive, a chestnut Appendix Quarter Horse (QH x TB), was born on April 15th, 1968. No one knew that he would set out to become one of the most notorious and famous Quarter Horses in history, not because of his amazing breeding or because he won this and that, but because of the genetic disorder that he spread over much of the American Quarter Horse breed. At just 6 years old he already had 48 halter points and became the first World Champion Open Aged Halter stallion. Due to his show-ring wins and his thickly muscled physique he was all the rage in a sire that everyone wanted. He produced nearly 30 world halter champions and overall sired around 2,250 live foals. His foals and their descendants make up of over 100,000 AQHA registered horses. He died in 1995 at the ripe old age of 27 (a very old horse by today's sickening short-lived halter horses). It seemed that he and his progeny would go down into history as the best of the best in the equine halter showing world... that is, until it was brought to light that he was the horse solely responsible for the genetic disorder we call HYPP.
Under detail HYPP is a genetic disorder that causes muscle tremors, 'tying up', stiffness, weakness, collapse, paralysis, and death. It is a dominant disorder which means it only needs one copy of the defective gene to be physically present and to pass on. Yet another symptom of HYPP positive horses is the one thing that keeps breeders producing HYPP positive foals for the show ring: overactive constantly spasming muscles lead to very thick sometimes overmuscled horses that do phenomenally in the halter show ring. Due to the fact that the muscles in affected horses are nearly always contracting even if not seen by the naked eye the horse puts on double the muscle that a normal horse his age would and thus makes it look to have a 'bodybuilder' physique, which the judges in the halter ring reward with many ribbons and trophies.
So why keep breeding horses that have such a potentially deadly disorder? Because in the showring it's what is winning.
Yes... Breeders, small and large, are breeding horses with a serious deadly genetic disorder simply because it wins in the show ring. They're not only showing but breeding, training, and selling these genetically defective horses. What's worse, is the uneducated people that are buying these horses for themselves or for their children. There are quite a few documented cases of HYPP horses being bought for young riders that have an episode while under saddle. Catastrophic. There's nothing more terrifying than the horse underneath you seizing up and going down while at a canter or a full gallop. It's happened more than once, and it can happen at any time on an effected horse with absolutely no warning. Still these horses are being bred, shown, and sold. As of 2005 39% of the registered AQHA horses are either N/H or H/H... That means almost 40% of the registered population of Quarter Horses carries and reproduces this fatal disorder. More than one-third of all registered Quarter Horses. Even worse, it's being bred into other previously unaffected stock breeds such as paints and appaloosas.
What makes it fucking ridiculous is that HYPP could be wiped clean out in a single generation if people would just stop breeding horses that are N/H and H/H and only breed clean horses (N/N) without the defective gene. Yet so long as these overmuscled freakish horses are winning in the show ring asshat breeders who only care about money and ribbons and not about the horses will keep churning out foals with the potentially fatal disorder. It's all about the money and not about the horses. What does it matter if they are churning out thousands of genetically defective foals year after year if they are winning and taking the show ring by storm? This is the mindset of people who breed and show HYPP positive horses. Breeders, STOP BREEDING THEM. It's unethical to breed or sell HYPP horses, especially when you are selling them and the danger they pose to unsuspecting buyers. And buyers, DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE you buy a Quarter Horse! Judges, STOP PLACING THEM well in the show ring! Registries, STOP REGISTERING THEM! Business. It's all about the business of what's wining and selling and not about the horses, it never has been, it's all about the money. HYPP could so easily be eradicated if stupid people would pull their heads out of their pompous asses and make it about the horse and not about the money/show wins.
Yes, you can get horses genetically linked to Impressive, even line, double, or triple linebred back to him that are not HYPP positive and cannot pass it on to their foals. Those are the only offspring, great offspring, great great offspring, etc that should be bred with his bloodlines. Those that are HYPP N/H (Positive, 50% of foals will also have HYPP) or H/H (Positive, 100% of foals will have HYPP) should never ever be bred. Avoiding Impressive bloodlines altogether is foolish though. He was a great long-lived horse, but I would make sure that any and all horses linked to him that someone might want to buy, sell, or breed are tested right off the get-go. HYPP can easily be avoided and eradicated. Do not breed HYPP positive horses and do not buy a stock horse without seeing current proof of a HYPP negative test. Encourage the AQHA to halt the registration of all HYPP positive horses and their offspring. This would stop them from winning in the show ring and their prices would drop considerably. If horse people can't make money off of HYPP positive horses they would quit breeding them. That along with educating people about HYPP would eventually curb the problem and eliminate the majority of the disorder. I say majority because looking at the facts there will always be people too ignorant/cheap to test their horses, and for those that don't care, they will continue to breed/sell them. Still, the show-rings would be clean of the disorder and that would make a world of difference to the American Quarter Horse and all stock breeds.
Before we get into it here are some facts on HYPP:
HYPP or HYperkalemic Periodic Paralysis is an inherited equine muscular genetic disorder all stemming from a single American Quarter Horse stallion named Impressive. Impressive, a chestnut Appendix Quarter Horse (QH x TB), was born on April 15th, 1968. No one knew that he would set out to become one of the most notorious and famous Quarter Horses in history, not because of his amazing breeding or because he won this and that, but because of the genetic disorder that he spread over much of the American Quarter Horse breed. At just 6 years old he already had 48 halter points and became the first World Champion Open Aged Halter stallion. Due to his show-ring wins and his thickly muscled physique he was all the rage in a sire that everyone wanted. He produced nearly 30 world halter champions and overall sired around 2,250 live foals. His foals and their descendants make up of over 100,000 AQHA registered horses. He died in 1995 at the ripe old age of 27 (a very old horse by today's sickening short-lived halter horses). It seemed that he and his progeny would go down into history as the best of the best in the equine halter showing world... that is, until it was brought to light that he was the horse solely responsible for the genetic disorder we call HYPP.
Under detail HYPP is a genetic disorder that causes muscle tremors, 'tying up', stiffness, weakness, collapse, paralysis, and death. It is a dominant disorder which means it only needs one copy of the defective gene to be physically present and to pass on. Yet another symptom of HYPP positive horses is the one thing that keeps breeders producing HYPP positive foals for the show ring: overactive constantly spasming muscles lead to very thick sometimes overmuscled horses that do phenomenally in the halter show ring. Due to the fact that the muscles in affected horses are nearly always contracting even if not seen by the naked eye the horse puts on double the muscle that a normal horse his age would and thus makes it look to have a 'bodybuilder' physique, which the judges in the halter ring reward with many ribbons and trophies.
So why keep breeding horses that have such a potentially deadly disorder? Because in the showring it's what is winning.
Yes... Breeders, small and large, are breeding horses with a serious deadly genetic disorder simply because it wins in the show ring. They're not only showing but breeding, training, and selling these genetically defective horses. What's worse, is the uneducated people that are buying these horses for themselves or for their children. There are quite a few documented cases of HYPP horses being bought for young riders that have an episode while under saddle. Catastrophic. There's nothing more terrifying than the horse underneath you seizing up and going down while at a canter or a full gallop. It's happened more than once, and it can happen at any time on an effected horse with absolutely no warning. Still these horses are being bred, shown, and sold. As of 2005 39% of the registered AQHA horses are either N/H or H/H... That means almost 40% of the registered population of Quarter Horses carries and reproduces this fatal disorder. More than one-third of all registered Quarter Horses. Even worse, it's being bred into other previously unaffected stock breeds such as paints and appaloosas.
What makes it fucking ridiculous is that HYPP could be wiped clean out in a single generation if people would just stop breeding horses that are N/H and H/H and only breed clean horses (N/N) without the defective gene. Yet so long as these overmuscled freakish horses are winning in the show ring asshat breeders who only care about money and ribbons and not about the horses will keep churning out foals with the potentially fatal disorder. It's all about the money and not about the horses. What does it matter if they are churning out thousands of genetically defective foals year after year if they are winning and taking the show ring by storm? This is the mindset of people who breed and show HYPP positive horses. Breeders, STOP BREEDING THEM. It's unethical to breed or sell HYPP horses, especially when you are selling them and the danger they pose to unsuspecting buyers. And buyers, DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE you buy a Quarter Horse! Judges, STOP PLACING THEM well in the show ring! Registries, STOP REGISTERING THEM! Business. It's all about the business of what's wining and selling and not about the horses, it never has been, it's all about the money. HYPP could so easily be eradicated if stupid people would pull their heads out of their pompous asses and make it about the horse and not about the money/show wins.
Yes, you can get horses genetically linked to Impressive, even line, double, or triple linebred back to him that are not HYPP positive and cannot pass it on to their foals. Those are the only offspring, great offspring, great great offspring, etc that should be bred with his bloodlines. Those that are HYPP N/H (Positive, 50% of foals will also have HYPP) or H/H (Positive, 100% of foals will have HYPP) should never ever be bred. Avoiding Impressive bloodlines altogether is foolish though. He was a great long-lived horse, but I would make sure that any and all horses linked to him that someone might want to buy, sell, or breed are tested right off the get-go. HYPP can easily be avoided and eradicated. Do not breed HYPP positive horses and do not buy a stock horse without seeing current proof of a HYPP negative test. Encourage the AQHA to halt the registration of all HYPP positive horses and their offspring. This would stop them from winning in the show ring and their prices would drop considerably. If horse people can't make money off of HYPP positive horses they would quit breeding them. That along with educating people about HYPP would eventually curb the problem and eliminate the majority of the disorder. I say majority because looking at the facts there will always be people too ignorant/cheap to test their horses, and for those that don't care, they will continue to breed/sell them. Still, the show-rings would be clean of the disorder and that would make a world of difference to the American Quarter Horse and all stock breeds.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Parade of Freaks: Labrador Retrievers
I have to ask the show ring-crazed breeders...
Labrador or Flabrador?
Known as simply 'labs' to most people the Labrador Retriever is the most popular breed of dog in the world. Number one on all of the breed registries/stud dockets. The popularity of the breed is most likely due to their wonderful goofy family-friendly personalities and ease of acquiring them for very little. Being that they are the most popular breed worldwide also means they are the most overbred (and probably inbred) breed as well. That's not what I am here to rant about today, though. Today's blog, continuing on with my 'Parade of Freaks' series is about how the show ring has ruined the Labrador as a working breed and turned them into something entirely disgusting.
These are pictures of two very well-bred 'field' Labradors. They are in good weight, fit, trim, have good eyes/noses/joints, have sleek glossy low-maintenance coats, and are capable of working in the field as hunting dogs (their intended purpose) all day long. To show an unbiased un-sexist account there is a picture of both a male and a female. Both of these dogs are working hunting dogs. They can and do work birds in the field, do not have joint issues, and are both beautiful. Field bred labs, considered 'mongrel mutts' or 'lab whippets' by show lab breeders tend to live well into fourteen or sixteen years.
...and this is what the show ring has reduced Labradors to. I call them Flabradors. Field lab breeders called them 'rottadors' or 'mastadors' due to their bulk. Both of these dogs are massive, totally obese, and completely useless as hunting dogs. What's more, both are multi-counry national conformation show ring champions. The insanity of show ring breeders has reduced 'bench' or 'show' type Labradors to brain-fogged lumbering 'pigs on posts' as I call them. Severely overweight, large-headed, shorter muzzled, short tailed, insanely high-shedding porkers that are good for nothing but laying around, even before the hip dysplasia and cancer sets in. The weight alone, on top of the overly large bone structure is enough to make me gag. Why in the hell any judge would title a dog like these 'champion' is beyond me. Obesity/massiveness aside cancer/hip dysplasia is so rampant in show-bred labs that few live past eight to ten years of age.
It's just further proof that all working use has been removed from breeds bred for the show ring. These dogs are no-longer 'sporting' dogs as their show group implies. They couldn't hunt a bird if it flew up and smacked them in the face. Fat, lazy, useless, and riddled with join problems and cancer, 'bench' or 'show' Labradors (or Flabradors) are now highly inbred couch-puffs. The judges keep awarding these dogs and I can only see it getting worse over the years. I never thought that obesity would be rewarded by breed/kennel clubs that claim to 'promote health and well-being of purebred dogs'. There is nothing healthy or well-bred about these 'champion' show dogs.
...and don't even get me started on 'silver' Labradors. That's a blog for a different day.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
It's All in the Advertising Pt. II
Getting back to my advertising rant, there is another thing that really bothers me about people who are selling animals, and that is lack of grammar and piss poor spelling. It's like... most people trying to sell something didn't even make it though basic elementary school. Few of them use any kind of capitalization, punctuation, and the spelling is something that would be compared to a four year old. What people don't realize is that people like me, when we're searching through the classified ads, will specifically avoid ads that are cluttered, ill-written, and have spelling that is enough to make your eyes scream for brain bleach. The last thing I want to have to do when looking to buy something is try and decipher elementary hieroglyphics. Here are some of the common spelling issues I see when looking through animal ads...
Horse Ads:
'Theral Bred' - Thoroughbred. Your horse is bred from a sire named Theral? ...or it's from Philadelphia.
'Through Bred' - Thoroughbred. Um, bred though what? Male horse to female horse? I would hope so.
'Peer Bred' - Purebred. It was bred by those you look up to?
'Pure Bread' - Purebred. Umm... White, wheat, rye?
'Tricolour' - I don't think so. Bay/buckskin paint.
'Palameano' - Palomino. You have a white mane/tailed golden horses that's mean?
'Philly' - Filly. Unless your baby female horse is from Philadelphia.
'Guilding' - Gelding. Your castrated male horse has well-built golden genitalia?
Dog Ads:
'Pure Breeded" - Purebred. Or bred purely for elementary teaching?
'Boarder Collie' - Border collie. Half dog, half log. I wonder what the board half is... mahogany, ebony... teak?
'Tearry' - Terrier. Apparently one with very runny eyes.
'Pappy Yawn' - Papillon. Or your tired grandpa.
'Malt Ease' - Maltese. Or a chocolate shake laced with Ex-Lax.
'Shit Zoo' - Shih tzu. Or a run down facility full of neglected animals.
'Snoozer' - Schnauzer. Or someone who is sleeping.
'Peeking Ease' - Pekinese. Or a small hole that is easy to look through.
'Nuttered' - Neutered. Or someone who lost their mind.
'Spaded' - Spayed. Or ground that has been turned over with a shovel.
'Doxie' - Dachshund. Or a small mythical little fairy... thing.
'Datsun' - Dachshund. Or a specific make and model of vehicle.
Chiwawa - Chihuahua.
'Blue Healer' - Blue Heeler. Or a smurf that's a doctor.
'Miniature Puddle' - Miniature Poodle. Or a small patch of water.
...and it goes on an on and on. I mean really... if you can't even spell the name of the breed you're trying to sell, you need to stop breeding/selling animals, get online, and learn how to operate Google.
Horse Ads:
'Theral Bred' - Thoroughbred. Your horse is bred from a sire named Theral? ...or it's from Philadelphia.
'Through Bred' - Thoroughbred. Um, bred though what? Male horse to female horse? I would hope so.
'Peer Bred' - Purebred. It was bred by those you look up to?
'Pure Bread' - Purebred. Umm... White, wheat, rye?
'Tricolour' - I don't think so. Bay/buckskin paint.
'Palameano' - Palomino. You have a white mane/tailed golden horses that's mean?
'Philly' - Filly. Unless your baby female horse is from Philadelphia.
'Guilding' - Gelding. Your castrated male horse has well-built golden genitalia?
Dog Ads:
'Pure Breeded" - Purebred. Or bred purely for elementary teaching?
'Boarder Collie' - Border collie. Half dog, half log. I wonder what the board half is... mahogany, ebony... teak?
'Tearry' - Terrier. Apparently one with very runny eyes.
'Pappy Yawn' - Papillon. Or your tired grandpa.
'Malt Ease' - Maltese. Or a chocolate shake laced with Ex-Lax.
'Shit Zoo' - Shih tzu. Or a run down facility full of neglected animals.
'Snoozer' - Schnauzer. Or someone who is sleeping.
'Peeking Ease' - Pekinese. Or a small hole that is easy to look through.
'Nuttered' - Neutered. Or someone who lost their mind.
'Spaded' - Spayed. Or ground that has been turned over with a shovel.
'Doxie' - Dachshund. Or a small mythical little fairy... thing.
'Datsun' - Dachshund. Or a specific make and model of vehicle.
Chiwawa - Chihuahua.
'Blue Healer' - Blue Heeler. Or a smurf that's a doctor.
'Miniature Puddle' - Miniature Poodle. Or a small patch of water.
...and it goes on an on and on. I mean really... if you can't even spell the name of the breed you're trying to sell, you need to stop breeding/selling animals, get online, and learn how to operate Google.
Monday, January 21, 2013
My Take on 9/11
"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act." - Albert Einstein
The whole 9/11 'Terrorist Attacks' never ever sat right with me. They never will. I've never been 'at ease' with the stories that the government and the mainstream media concocted and spoon-fed everyone. I've been researching, watching, listening, and doing my own type of investigation since they happened. I've come to my own conclusions after all this time, after what I've seen, read, heard. I'm finally going to explain why I think this way. Oh I'm sure it will piss a lot of people off, and I'll get a lot of flack for it. Doesn't matter. My blog. My writing. My rules. Such is life. People don't like what they don't understand because it scares them. Put on your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
The story... '19 foreign terrorists hijacked 4 planes with boxcutters and flew them into the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 (destroying them and WTC building 7) and the Pentagon, the last crashed in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania field.' ...and it all happened within 2 hours (except building 7)...
I'm not buying it... I call it like I see it. I'm calling bullshit. Call it as you will: A conspiracy theory, absurdity, etc. I'm calling it as it is. Lies. Deceit. A cover up.
The facts/research speaks for itself in my opinion:
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North Tower (NT) World Trade Center
--Made of 100,000 tons of steel, 75,000 cubic yards of concrete, 21,800 windows, 60,000 tons of cooling equipment. The girders used in the internal structure were 36 x 16 inches thick.
--On Feb. 14th, 1975 a 6 floor fire raged in the North tower. It burned for 2+ hours. The building had no sprinklers. It made it through that without collapsing.
--Supposedly American Airlines flight 11 flew across the whole of Manhattan in just 90 seconds at just 900 feet going 550 miles per hour. (Fact: A 757 can not fly that fast at sea-level.)
--Seconds before the 'plane' hit the NT people survivors described hearing "boom boom boom" "like explosions" all over, like bombs under their feet in the middle and the bottom of the tower.
--9 seconds after the 'plane' hits, there are multiple sound recordings of a second explosion.
--Hit at 8:45 EST.
--'Plane' described as solid gray with a blue frontal logo and no windows. Not an American Airlines plane.
--Firefighters, the first in the building after it was hit, describe multiple explosions/booming sounds from in and around the ground floors.
--Collapsed second.
--Burned for 103 minutes after impact until 'pancake' collapse falling at nearly freefall speed.
South Tower (ST) World Trade Center
--Made of 100,000 tons of steel, 75,000 cubic yards of concrete, 21,800 windows, 60,000 tons of cooling equipment. The gerders used in the internal structure were 36 x 16 inches thick.
--Hit at 9:03 EST by by supposed plane United Airlines flight 175.
--The hole, analyzed appears to be about 65 feet in diameter where the 'plane' hit... A Boeing 757 wingspan is 144 feet. (The hole in the Pentagon where a supposed 757 also hit, after roof collapse was also about 65 feet, coincidence? I think not.)
--'Plane' described as solid gray with a blue frontal logo and no windows. Not an American Airlines plane.
--What the hell was affixed to the bottom/belly of the 'plane' that was long, dark gray, cylindrical and NOT standard on normal passenger jets?
--What cause the fiery flash before the 'plane' hit, and why does it look like the wing has disintegrated/vaporized before impact?
--Collapsed first.
--Burned for 53 minutes after impact until 'pancake' collapse.
--Took 10.8 seconds to fall. Nearly freefall speed.
--The WTC buildings' steel would only have become molten/soft enough to collapse at 3,000 degrees. The hottest temperature at ground floor was 1500 degrees.
--Molten metal at 3200 degrees was found for up at 5 weeks after 9/11 in the 6th and 7th basements of both towers and in building seven that compared almost uncannily with a controlled demolition.
--There is NO WAY in hell that fires at the TOP of the towers brought that much heat to the basement enough to cause the collapse on not one but both WTC towers and building seven. There is also no way the the fire 'traveled down the elevator shafts'. They were air-tight.
--If you watch any of the captured videos of the collapses you can see explosions that took out windows 20-30 feet below each point all down the buildings as they collapsed as like controlled demolitions.
--Clearly noted by building experts and demolition experts that WTC South/North towers and Building 7 were all very carefully planned/executed controlled demolitions.
WTC Building 7
--It was being used to store 3,000-5,000 files of Wall-Street investigations.
--The decision was made by Larry Silverstein (Building 7's lease-holder) over an hour before it collapsed, even before the Trade Center towers fell, to "pull it"... "Pull it" is a term used by demolition experts meaning bring a building down.
--Fell straight down in a 'pancake' collapse in just 6 seconds, into a neat little pile.
--Excuse... 'Falling debris from the twin towers created an internal fire' that brought it down... Bullshit.
--In 1959 a B-52 Bomber jet lost in fog crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. It's still standing to this day.
Pentagon:
--No wreckage. No tail section. No fuselage. No luggage, seats, plane nose... nothing.
--No bodies.
--A 16 foot hole (65 feet after roof collapse)... No way could a Boeing 757 leave that small of a hole in the pentagon if it slammed right into it.
--A Boeing 757 is 155 feet long, 44 feet high, and has 124 foot wingspan, and weighs 98 tons (196,000 lbs)...
--Each turbine engine weighs 6 tons and is 9 feet wide and 12 feet long.
--A Boeing 757 travels at 535 miles per hour.
--No way in hell could a plane that size with a 144 foot wingspan leave a mere 16 foot hole, no wreckage, and no evidence of a plane...
--Everything around the 16 foot hole (before roof collapse) was completely intact and unsinged/unburnt.
--The hole goes all the way through 3 rings, through 9 feet of steel reinforced concrete, to the other side, an is visible at the C-ring. 16 feet wide. Everything around it completely intact, and again, no plane wreckage.
--The only thing capable of doing exactly that kind of damage is an Air Force cruise 'Bunker Buster' missile.
--Witnesses say they saw a black helicopter as well as a black military jet circle the building minutes before the 'plane' hit.
--Witnesses also describe a 'shockwave' both in an around the Pentagon (as far as 1.6 miles away in a hotel) as if explosives had been detonated.
--A number of people said they smelled cordite, an ingredient used in explosives. Cordite produces little smoke, no flash, but produces a very strong 'detonation wave'.
--The surveillance tapes from 3 separate places were confiscated by the FBI within minutes of the explosion.
--Hit in the only place that had recently been renovated to 'withstand' that kind of attack.
Plane flight trajectory:
--At 9:38 am in Arlington, Virginia, apparently Flight 77 (the Boeing 757 that hit the Pentagon) executed a 333 degree 'hairpin' turn while going 535 miles per hour descending 7,000 feet in 2.5 minutes to line up the aircraft to crash into the Pentagon. That is physically impossible for a jetliner to do. It would have caused a high-speed stall for the plane and it would have fallen out of the sky in a spiral.
--As it supposedly crossed over the highway ever lower toward the Pentagon it clipped many of the light poles. Although when another Boeing plane a few years earlier hit just one light pole with the edge of the wing it crashed immediately and the pole was in two. The ones on the lawn of the Pentagon appear to have been ripped right out of the ground and scattered about. Not bent or broken. If a plane hit them they would have been in pieces and the plane would have crashed much earlier than supposedly hitting the Pentagon as the wings would have been in tatters from hitting so many.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania Flight 93
--No wreckage. No bodies. No plane parts. No luggage. No seats. No blood. No human parts or pieces. Nothing.
--Flight 93 didn't even crash. Reports from a Cleveland, Ohio airport received two Boeing jets after a 'bomb threat'. One was identified by United Airlines as US Flight 93.
--All 200 passengers were evacuated in 31 minutes and taken to a NASA Research Facility. They have not been seen or heard from since and were declared dead from the 'crash'.
--What about all the 'cell phone' calls? None of them happened. The probability of any cell phone connecting at 4,000 feet 0.4%, 12,000 feet 0.04%, 20,000 feet 0.016%, 26,000 feet 0.010%, 32,000 (cruising altitude) feet 0.008%. Cell phone towers/receivers were not installed into jets until 2003-2004...
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Think about it this way... You're gonna tell me that 19 people hijacked 4 planes with boxcutters (Bypassing a 40 billion dollar security system) and all of the people on those planes couldn't have easily taken them down? BOXCUTTERS are not guns, they are 3 inch razorblades. I guarantee that the people aboard those 'planes' would have easily overtaken them with minimal injury... It just did NOT happen the way they said it did. It's all complete bullshit.
The idea that planes, comprised of very thin aluminum alloy bodies crashed, whole, through multiple 16 x 36 inch solid steel columns and vanished into the buildings is as absurd as it is scientifically impossible... IF a plane had hit it would have been as if hitting a wall, it would have smashed backward, broken into pieces, and exploded long before it vanished inside the tower, due to the steel columns that it would have contacted.
Only 1 out of 4 'indestructible' black boxes were found, and the one they found had 'nothing of use' on it? Bullshit.
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So as it stands. Yes I believe it was a cover up by our corrupt, money hungry government as an excuse to start some shit with Afghanistan/Iraq in order to get at their oil and start a war (which creates profit for them). Nothing anyone says or does will ever convince me otherwise.
I had a ton of pictures I had collected over the years and studied but I think this blog is quite long enough. If you want them, feel free to email me.
...let the hatemail commence. I look forward to it.
The whole 9/11 'Terrorist Attacks' never ever sat right with me. They never will. I've never been 'at ease' with the stories that the government and the mainstream media concocted and spoon-fed everyone. I've been researching, watching, listening, and doing my own type of investigation since they happened. I've come to my own conclusions after all this time, after what I've seen, read, heard. I'm finally going to explain why I think this way. Oh I'm sure it will piss a lot of people off, and I'll get a lot of flack for it. Doesn't matter. My blog. My writing. My rules. Such is life. People don't like what they don't understand because it scares them. Put on your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
The story... '19 foreign terrorists hijacked 4 planes with boxcutters and flew them into the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 (destroying them and WTC building 7) and the Pentagon, the last crashed in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania field.' ...and it all happened within 2 hours (except building 7)...
I'm not buying it... I call it like I see it. I'm calling bullshit. Call it as you will: A conspiracy theory, absurdity, etc. I'm calling it as it is. Lies. Deceit. A cover up.
The facts/research speaks for itself in my opinion:
---
North Tower (NT) World Trade Center
--Made of 100,000 tons of steel, 75,000 cubic yards of concrete, 21,800 windows, 60,000 tons of cooling equipment. The girders used in the internal structure were 36 x 16 inches thick.
--On Feb. 14th, 1975 a 6 floor fire raged in the North tower. It burned for 2+ hours. The building had no sprinklers. It made it through that without collapsing.
--Supposedly American Airlines flight 11 flew across the whole of Manhattan in just 90 seconds at just 900 feet going 550 miles per hour. (Fact: A 757 can not fly that fast at sea-level.)
--Seconds before the 'plane' hit the NT people survivors described hearing "boom boom boom" "like explosions" all over, like bombs under their feet in the middle and the bottom of the tower.
--9 seconds after the 'plane' hits, there are multiple sound recordings of a second explosion.
--Hit at 8:45 EST.
--'Plane' described as solid gray with a blue frontal logo and no windows. Not an American Airlines plane.
--Firefighters, the first in the building after it was hit, describe multiple explosions/booming sounds from in and around the ground floors.
--Collapsed second.
--Burned for 103 minutes after impact until 'pancake' collapse falling at nearly freefall speed.
South Tower (ST) World Trade Center
--Made of 100,000 tons of steel, 75,000 cubic yards of concrete, 21,800 windows, 60,000 tons of cooling equipment. The gerders used in the internal structure were 36 x 16 inches thick.
--Hit at 9:03 EST by by supposed plane United Airlines flight 175.
--The hole, analyzed appears to be about 65 feet in diameter where the 'plane' hit... A Boeing 757 wingspan is 144 feet. (The hole in the Pentagon where a supposed 757 also hit, after roof collapse was also about 65 feet, coincidence? I think not.)
--'Plane' described as solid gray with a blue frontal logo and no windows. Not an American Airlines plane.
--What the hell was affixed to the bottom/belly of the 'plane' that was long, dark gray, cylindrical and NOT standard on normal passenger jets?
--What cause the fiery flash before the 'plane' hit, and why does it look like the wing has disintegrated/vaporized before impact?
--Collapsed first.
--Burned for 53 minutes after impact until 'pancake' collapse.
--Took 10.8 seconds to fall. Nearly freefall speed.
--The WTC buildings' steel would only have become molten/soft enough to collapse at 3,000 degrees. The hottest temperature at ground floor was 1500 degrees.
--Molten metal at 3200 degrees was found for up at 5 weeks after 9/11 in the 6th and 7th basements of both towers and in building seven that compared almost uncannily with a controlled demolition.
--There is NO WAY in hell that fires at the TOP of the towers brought that much heat to the basement enough to cause the collapse on not one but both WTC towers and building seven. There is also no way the the fire 'traveled down the elevator shafts'. They were air-tight.
--If you watch any of the captured videos of the collapses you can see explosions that took out windows 20-30 feet below each point all down the buildings as they collapsed as like controlled demolitions.
--Clearly noted by building experts and demolition experts that WTC South/North towers and Building 7 were all very carefully planned/executed controlled demolitions.
WTC Building 7
--It was being used to store 3,000-5,000 files of Wall-Street investigations.
--The decision was made by Larry Silverstein (Building 7's lease-holder) over an hour before it collapsed, even before the Trade Center towers fell, to "pull it"... "Pull it" is a term used by demolition experts meaning bring a building down.
--Fell straight down in a 'pancake' collapse in just 6 seconds, into a neat little pile.
--Excuse... 'Falling debris from the twin towers created an internal fire' that brought it down... Bullshit.
--In 1959 a B-52 Bomber jet lost in fog crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. It's still standing to this day.
Pentagon:
--No wreckage. No tail section. No fuselage. No luggage, seats, plane nose... nothing.
--No bodies.
--A 16 foot hole (65 feet after roof collapse)... No way could a Boeing 757 leave that small of a hole in the pentagon if it slammed right into it.
--A Boeing 757 is 155 feet long, 44 feet high, and has 124 foot wingspan, and weighs 98 tons (196,000 lbs)...
--Each turbine engine weighs 6 tons and is 9 feet wide and 12 feet long.
--A Boeing 757 travels at 535 miles per hour.
--No way in hell could a plane that size with a 144 foot wingspan leave a mere 16 foot hole, no wreckage, and no evidence of a plane...
--Everything around the 16 foot hole (before roof collapse) was completely intact and unsinged/unburnt.
--The hole goes all the way through 3 rings, through 9 feet of steel reinforced concrete, to the other side, an is visible at the C-ring. 16 feet wide. Everything around it completely intact, and again, no plane wreckage.
--The only thing capable of doing exactly that kind of damage is an Air Force cruise 'Bunker Buster' missile.
--Witnesses say they saw a black helicopter as well as a black military jet circle the building minutes before the 'plane' hit.
--Witnesses also describe a 'shockwave' both in an around the Pentagon (as far as 1.6 miles away in a hotel) as if explosives had been detonated.
--A number of people said they smelled cordite, an ingredient used in explosives. Cordite produces little smoke, no flash, but produces a very strong 'detonation wave'.
--The surveillance tapes from 3 separate places were confiscated by the FBI within minutes of the explosion.
--Hit in the only place that had recently been renovated to 'withstand' that kind of attack.
Plane flight trajectory:
--At 9:38 am in Arlington, Virginia, apparently Flight 77 (the Boeing 757 that hit the Pentagon) executed a 333 degree 'hairpin' turn while going 535 miles per hour descending 7,000 feet in 2.5 minutes to line up the aircraft to crash into the Pentagon. That is physically impossible for a jetliner to do. It would have caused a high-speed stall for the plane and it would have fallen out of the sky in a spiral.
--As it supposedly crossed over the highway ever lower toward the Pentagon it clipped many of the light poles. Although when another Boeing plane a few years earlier hit just one light pole with the edge of the wing it crashed immediately and the pole was in two. The ones on the lawn of the Pentagon appear to have been ripped right out of the ground and scattered about. Not bent or broken. If a plane hit them they would have been in pieces and the plane would have crashed much earlier than supposedly hitting the Pentagon as the wings would have been in tatters from hitting so many.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania Flight 93
--No wreckage. No bodies. No plane parts. No luggage. No seats. No blood. No human parts or pieces. Nothing.
--Flight 93 didn't even crash. Reports from a Cleveland, Ohio airport received two Boeing jets after a 'bomb threat'. One was identified by United Airlines as US Flight 93.
--All 200 passengers were evacuated in 31 minutes and taken to a NASA Research Facility. They have not been seen or heard from since and were declared dead from the 'crash'.
--What about all the 'cell phone' calls? None of them happened. The probability of any cell phone connecting at 4,000 feet 0.4%, 12,000 feet 0.04%, 20,000 feet 0.016%, 26,000 feet 0.010%, 32,000 (cruising altitude) feet 0.008%. Cell phone towers/receivers were not installed into jets until 2003-2004...
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Think about it this way... You're gonna tell me that 19 people hijacked 4 planes with boxcutters (Bypassing a 40 billion dollar security system) and all of the people on those planes couldn't have easily taken them down? BOXCUTTERS are not guns, they are 3 inch razorblades. I guarantee that the people aboard those 'planes' would have easily overtaken them with minimal injury... It just did NOT happen the way they said it did. It's all complete bullshit.
The idea that planes, comprised of very thin aluminum alloy bodies crashed, whole, through multiple 16 x 36 inch solid steel columns and vanished into the buildings is as absurd as it is scientifically impossible... IF a plane had hit it would have been as if hitting a wall, it would have smashed backward, broken into pieces, and exploded long before it vanished inside the tower, due to the steel columns that it would have contacted.
Only 1 out of 4 'indestructible' black boxes were found, and the one they found had 'nothing of use' on it? Bullshit.
---
So as it stands. Yes I believe it was a cover up by our corrupt, money hungry government as an excuse to start some shit with Afghanistan/Iraq in order to get at their oil and start a war (which creates profit for them). Nothing anyone says or does will ever convince me otherwise.
I had a ton of pictures I had collected over the years and studied but I think this blog is quite long enough. If you want them, feel free to email me.
...let the hatemail commence. I look forward to it.