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Blackburn is against equal pay for women, against raising the minimum wage, against the ACA, against relief for Sandy victims, against sensible gun control, against Planned Parenthood, against public education, against feeding hungry children, against veteran benefits. In fact, she's so against anything and everything that might help her fellow Americans that the only things she's not against are those things that are guaranteed to hurt all but her corporate sugar daddies.
Now, it is revealed that The Wicked Witch of the South is also against protecting horses from being sored, a cruel practice which I described in graphic detail in a piece I wrote about the Big Lick Tennessee Walking Horse three years ago.
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It only follows that if Blackburn is against protecting these beautiful animals from abuse, she must support cruelty to animals because to get the Big Lick to perform according to industry standards . . .
the trainers and owners have to do this . . .
The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words doesn't even begin to tell the story of the abuse that is a daily routine for the Big Lick Tennessee Walking Horse. Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell and other Congressperps are paid well to vote against any restrictions on the practice of soring. The last I read, Marsha received a whopping $70,000 from the industry in appreciation for her lying down for them.
Read more about soring, the proposed law and Marsha Blackburn in this excellent article.
More on animal abuse here.
More on animal abuse here.
Nothing these people do surprises me anymore. Not even when they imply that the First Lady is a "Ho."
ReplyDeleteOh Shaw, wait until you see what I post later today. We are by no means experiencing the first wave of the "hate-filled uglies".
DeleteGuns. We need more guns. That seems to be their answer to everything.
ReplyDeleteEven though most of them would end up shooting themselves. You know, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing come to think about it.
DeleteDon't know much about Tennessee, but I know what is cruel to horses. Strange state, putting up with soring and moonshiners, yet possessing modern metropolitan areas.
ReplyDeleteI'd go for the moonshiners any ole day. Did you know Nashville has more churches per square inch than any other city in the country?
DeleteHorrible. If there is any justice in the world, the people who do things like this to other animals will someday be held accountable for it like the people who commit atrocities against innocent humans.
ReplyDeleteShe will most likely be re-elected, but I'm convinced that in the end she is going to get her due rewards. I hope I'm there to witness it.
DeleteThanks to each of you for stopping by. This has been a crazy couple of weeks and I really haven't meant to give you the snub.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the plug.
ReplyDeleteThe key is to get the message to the general public.
There's 317 million people in America. 2 million own horses and are aware of the issues to different degrees.
The 315 remaining people have to be reached. Being 99% love most animals, if they knew the truth of this industry - they would go ballistic and demand change.
This is one place where social media is really a benefit. I used to be very actively involved in the anti-soring movement when I had my horses. We were unable to reach as many folks and as graphically as we do now - whether working independently (as I do now) or working on behalf of an organization.
DeleteThank you Leslie for shining a light on this cruel abuse to these beautiful animals. Until the local news media goes after Blackburn and her cohorts nothing will be done.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Advertisers, advertisers, advertisers. Plus, most journalists know nothing at all about horses, especially gaited horses. They miss so much, not out of laziness as in most cases today, but out of sheer ignorance.
DeleteJournalists HAVE gone after Blackburn and it is hurting her but Marsha is one dot on the political map.
DeleteI don’t understand where this media bashing is coming from. (I’m not saying you’re doing this and I understand the context of your response but maybe you can shed some light on this because those people are looking really suspicious and they’re turning journalists away).
Just in the last few days I’ve been relentlessly attacked by 6 people who claim to support the new laws. You expect to be attacked by those who oppose it but…… ??WFT??
You don’t have to be a veterinarian, an expert on horses or even a horse owner to write about this issue… the same way you don’t have to be a politician to write about politics.
The message to the public is: horses are being abused and there’s a bill to stop it.
The reason it has to get to the public is because the politicians know that if their voter base gets wind of this they are not going to vote for someone who supports animal abuse therefore they’re more likely to support it and keep their political seat.
HSUS can reach most animal lovers in the country with one press release. Most Americans own cats or dogs or simply love animals and it puts this issue in a much bigger voting base).
I realize they have gone beyond the call of duty but they need to update the public on all the political issues and help get the pet-lovers onboard.
There's 2 million horse owners in this country. There's 317 million people in this country. Even if all the horse-owners agreed on this issue and voted.... it's not enough political pressure.
John, my issues with the media would take a series of at least five blog posts to explain and it's not all about WH abuse. However, just to focus on that one aspect, I was very active in a couple of organizations in the 80s that were staunchly against soring. The media was absolutely of no help in getting the word out - not here, not in KY, OH, or even states like CO and WY. While I haven't had horses in over a decade, I'm still interested in and closely follow the growth of the movement to bring attention to this abhorrent practice. Even on social media the amount of attention this movement has generated has only really gained strength over the last couple of years with the exception of a few isolated pockets. Oh sure, the Tennessean runs a few articles around the time of the Celebration every year, but there's no in depth coverage with any substantial followup. You certainly aren't too likely to see photographs like those in this and other blog articles and on Facebook in newspaper articles or on TV. They are just really waking up to it even though it hasn't exactly been a trade secret since about the early 50s.
DeleteTennessee GOP in the news again: former political aide
ReplyDeleteto Marsha Blackburn and Lamar Alexander's current Chief Of Staff
arrested. Oh my.
For child porn no less - but it wouldn't be fair to blame either of these buzzards. However, it is kind of funny that the party which talks the most about the sanctity of marriage and family values seems to be caught in compromising positions twice as often.
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