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Unnecessary Censorship “Come and Play Edition” Jimmy Kimmel

Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 16:30 by John Sinteur in category: Funny!


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  1. Jim on September 15th, 2009 at 18:19:

    I feel so ashamed of myself that I found that so funny…

Kids send Marcus the lamb to slaughter

Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 10:51 by John Sinteur in category: News

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A group of schoolchildren who reared a lamb from birth and named it Marcus has overridden objections by parents and rights activists and voted to send the animal to slaughter.

Marcus the six-month-old lamb has now been culled, the head teacher of the primary school in Kent confirmed on Monday, after the school’s council — a 14-member group of children aged 6 to 11 — voted 13-1 to have him killed.

The decision has provoked fury among animal-loving celebrities, animal and human rights campaigners and the parents of some of the children, and led to threats against Lydd primary school and its teachers, according to a member of staff.

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The school defended the children’s decision, calling it educational.

“When we started the farm in spring 2009, the aim was to educate the children in all aspects of farming life and everything that implies,” the school said in a statement.

“The children have had a range of opportunities to discuss this issue, both in terms of the food cycle and the ethical aspect… It is important for everyone to move on from this issue, so the children can focus on their education.”

I’m with the school on this one. These kids now really know, in a deep way, where their food comes from. Not enough people know the animal behind the product they buy at the supermarket. Perhaps now more of them now end up as vegetarians than otherwise would have been the case.


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  1. sandra on September 15th, 2009 at 14:39:

    …seems related to the story about the woman’s son who tried to kill her with the help of his younger friend.

  2. matt w. on September 15th, 2009 at 16:36:

    Could you post a link to that story Sandra? I am not familiar with it. I find that eating an animal that has been raised for that purpose not so similar to scheming to kill your own mother.

  3. Pedro Duarte on September 16th, 2009 at 10:50:

    i would agree with you… this issue does need some education and insight. To know where one’s food comes from…Important issue. But I would also like to know if they actively took part in the killing of the animal. Because as bad as misinformation regarding where one’s food comes from is also the misinformation about “how easy” it really is to kill an animal to eat. If they did take part in it, then I have nothing to say. But if not, (if the animal was killed in a “controled environment”, far from the eyes and far thus far from the heart), then it was just as easy as going to the supermarket and life has no value at all, and I guess the children learnt nothing at all except that animals are meant to kill if one desires.

Fishfingers

Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 5:53 by John Sinteur in category: Security

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Panic at the London Evening Standard yesterday where the theatre critic Henry Hitchings filed his review of Lolita at the National Theatre, only to learn that no one at HQ could locate his copy. The panic starts early there – 5am – with production staff looking at the clock and imploring him to file again. Why couldn’t he communicate with them. No one could understand it. Enter a hero computer boffin. The firewall, he explained, was rejecting the word Lolita. So Hitchings had to re-file substituting Lolita throughout with the less troublesome “Fishfingers”. Relieved production staff re-inserted all the Lolitas at the other end.


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