Ya rarely see a story on the newshour that makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy like this one!

Giving discarded furs to the homeless makes nothing but sense and the vid was at once, both heartwarming and hilarious!

Be Well.

PETA has put red spray paint on all the coats to make them hard to re-sell but it looks like most of the homeless folk luff their new furcoats and won't be giving them up.

It's enough to make you want to go out and slaughter a few animals and make them into coats just to give away to the homeless.

:-)

It's enough to make you want to go out and slaughter a few animals and make them into coats just to give away to the homeless.

~Bowa

It was practically surreal watching bag ladies and the like walk out of the shelter place dressed in their new furs.

Fellini woulda luffed it.

Couldn't find any vid to link to the story unfortunately.

Be Well.

Baby seal coats especially. They're the ones that scare me the most. Their little baby seal eyes just looking at you. Their little baby seal flippers, just waiting to lash out at you.

Regards,
etc.

Yeah for PETA. I hope they give 'em a big sirloin to go with it. People Eating Tasty Animals.

Phoenicians Exacting Terrible Asswhooping......
What that has to do with fur coats-I have no idea...

I thought that PETA people lived in Texas:

People Executing Thieving Assholes

I thought that PETA people lived in Texas:

People Executing Thieving Assholes

Posted by goatman at 2007-12-12 04:08 AM


FF for you, Goatman,
but then I've always liked dry (perverted?) humor *grin*

Perverts Enjoying Their Addiction?

Hey, sounds like the DR.

If God didn't intend us to eat animals, why'd he make them outta meat???

Okay, at the risk of being ridiculed (that never bothered me right?) I think what they are doing is fantastic. The animals that gave up their lives for these coats are already dead, nothing we can do about that. But now their lives are actually meaning something, by keeping the homeless warm, as opposed to some trophy wife with a bad implant job. What we need to do is to convince people that "FUR IS MURDER" and hopefully there will be no supply of fur coats in the future. I have no problem with leather, it is a byproduct of beef, the whole animal is used. I have a real problem with a leopard being slaughted so some bimbo with tits bigger than her brain can wear a "cool" coat.

There are homeless people lined up in the DEADPOTATO's backyard? How can that be....in his progressive much more than the United States socialist paradise? Bush's fault....America's fault.....correct SpudDud(tm)!

When PETA starts dropping depleted uranium and white phosporous bombs on innocent men,women and children like Bush and the US Military have done in Iraq,then I'll start to worry!

hmmm. leopard - how would it be cooked? grilled, fried, roasted? Medium rare? crap, now I'm hungry.

When I discuss this fur issue with people (and I have done that quite often), I've come up with a common profile of the anti-fur crowd: College educated female, no children, staunch pro-choice. It adds up to misplaced maternal instincts.

NJDevil - lets not go into the fact that your handle is about a mythical creature..... misplaced maternal insticts have nothing to do with it, humane instincts have everything to do with it. It is okay to kill an animal for food, all animals do it, it is not okay to kill an animal to "dress" oneself, OKAY?

wonder if you could make a business making handbags and hats out of 'passed' pets?

Litlebritdifrnt:
I don't agree with that statement, and it has MUCH to do with misplaced maternal instincts. We slaughter our own children for vanity and convenience (much of the time) and that's not okay in my eyes. I don't advocate killing animals just for the fur, but I don't feel that it compares to the importance of a child.

2FAST4U:
I bet that someone has already thought of that.

NJDevil-
Get dumped by a few educated women who don't want to suckle your spawn?

(Just a guess)

wonder if you could make a business making handbags and hats out of 'passed' pets?


JC Penny already sells coats made from dog fur.


It is okay to kill an animal for food, all animals do it, it is not okay to kill an animal to "dress" oneself, OKAY?


Unless you happen to be homeless. Then it's ok to dress oneself in a former animal.


There are homeless people lined up in the DEADPOTATO's backyard? How can that be....in his progressive much more than the United States socialist paradise? Bush's fault....America's fault.....correct SpudDud(tm)!


Damn, you beat me to a perfect opportunity to be sarcastic.

did anybody see the fur vest that Mayweather had during his interview before beating down the boy from england? That was some nice fur - I'll pay 1,000 to the first peta person to document themselves throwing red paint on Mayweather with his fur coat on - I get the video though - any takers - he's a little fella...

BETELG:
A bad guess on your part. But I'm not surprised that my comments generate hostility. The anti-fur crowd is quite an angry group. Why is this so? I just wonder why people place so much value and passion into a furry little rodent like a mink.

Congratulations to PETA for not wasting good fur by burning it, but they should have sold the fur and used the money to procure mental health treatment for those homeless people, who suffer from mental illness almost by definition.

It seems as though PETA regards homeless people almost as valuable as the animals they worship. Or is it that PETA considers homeless people to exist at about the same level as animals? Would that PETA valued all human life as much as their beloved animals.

NJDevil-
I was just curious as to how you injected educated women and abortion into a debate about fur without even trying.

Congratulations to PETA for not wasting good fur by burning it, but they should have sold the fur and used the money to procure mental health treatment for those homeless people, who suffer from mental illness almost by definition.

~Anthem

Sold the coats?

Do give yer head a shake.

These coats were all donated by women who were turned off of the fur industry by the expose's that PETA had done on 'em.

Spud thinks this campaign actually does a couple of good things.

First it gives warm coats to the people whi inarguably need them the most and secondly it turns the tres chic factor on it's head.

Spud means there you are strolling down the road in yer hyper expensive fur coat showing off to all and sundry and then a couple of bag women show up wearing the same thing.

Spud is chuckle at the mental image, there.

PETA are friggin' geniuses.

It adds up to misplaced maternal instincts.

Spud is anti-fur guy. Does Spud haff "mis-placed maternal instincts"?

Hmm... news to Spud!

Tonight on the Vancouver Island Newshour they also had a story about how a 13 million dollar shelter fer the homeless had just opened up.

The looks on the faces of the grateful folk who got a chance to sleep in a real bed fer the first time in God knows how long, as Winter sets in, was especially gratifying to Spud.

Spud's tax dollars well spent!

Be Well.

PS: All that above stuff sed Spud still laffs at teh old Mae West joke.

First Lady: Hey you there in the fur coat! Do you know how many animals had to die inorder to make that fur coat?!"

Mae in Fur: "Do you know how many animals I had to sleep with in order to buy it?"

Spud luffs Mae West. ^_^

What I am saying, Dethspud, is that giving homeless people coats is not progress. Do you not agree that PETA should be trying to help homeless people get off the streets, instead of trying to make some insipid political statement about whether fur is an appropriate garment?

Goodness, if PETA really cared about homeless people, who as human beings are infinitely more valuable that furbearing animals, PETA would be trying to get them off the streets, not enabling them to continue to wander around marginalized. PETA obviously does not value homeless people, but is merely using them to promote a misguided agenda.

Giving fur coats to the homeless was not the original plan.

PETA first wanted to feed the homeless to wild animals brought to the brink of starvation due to the effects of anthropogenic global warming.

No matter how PETA tried to word the campaign it just sounded cruel.

Maybe next years when the penguins are really hungry.

Do you not agree that PETA should be trying to help homeless people get off the streets, instead of trying to make some insipid political statement about whether fur is an appropriate garment?

No Spud doesn't agree.

PETA's primary raison d'etre is not to help out homeless folk that is just a fortunate sideline fer them.

PETS's reason to be is more along the lines of providing a voice for the voiceless. To speak out for a more ethical society.

People who are active in the fields of human or animal rights are good people and are noted as such in Spud Big Book of Good Folk.

People who belittle or decry their efforts usually go in the other book.

Deth's book.

Be Well.

PS: Yes, there are animal rights and enviromental activists who cross the line in their attempts to see justice done who end up giving their movements a bad name but in the main these people are few and far between and not the stereo-types perpetuated by some in the corporate media.

People are homeless because of mental illness. In writing mental illness I include addiction. Addiction is a mental illness that requires treatment. Lack of affordable housing is often cited as a cause of homelessness, however, the truth is that affordable housing is available for those who have income. Mentally ill or drug-addicted people cannot earn money because they are not able to maintain employment, and also cannot or will not do what is necessary to obtain government assistance or assistance from private charities.

Now, there are plenty of jobless people who are not homeless. These people are not mentally ill and are able to apply for and receive government support. No one is homeless because of lack of government services. I am not asserting that the sort of housing one might get on government support is posh. There is a tiny minority of people who chose, supposedly with their mental faculties intact, to live as nomads. They, of course, do not deserve our sympathy since they could choose another option and have the mental capacity to do so.

I say, Dethspud, that caring for human beings who are suffering is infinitely more important that trying to save animals. Once we address all the suffering in human society, we can talk about what "rights" animals have.

I guess I will be listed in the "other book" because I decry PETA's disinterest in human suffering.

Just say it, PETA is exploiting the homeless to make a political statement.

It's shameless. It probably gives some rich guy a donation to write off on their taxes.

But don't call it charity. Charity is when you do something good and you don't tell anyone.

Like putting $10 in a Salvation Army pot. How many people donate to the Salvation Army and then send out a press statement?

Only a self promoting bunch of assholes would use the homeless in a marketing campaign.

Just say it, PETA is exploiting the homeless to make a political statement

Spud saw tears of gratitude streaming down the faces of some of the street people who recieved these badly needed coats.

Not one of 'em complained they were being exploited.

Give yer head a shake, Zulu.

If yer ever up in Vancouver do stop into Zulu Records on Broadway. Is a great independent music place. Spud likes to buy music there and pick up tickets fer concerts and the like.

Every time Spud sees a post of yers Spud is always reminded of the place.

Be Well.

PS:

Drove Downtown in the rain
9:30 on a Tuesday night
Just to check out the late night record shop
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive Call it insane.
But when I'm surrounded I just can't stop

It's a matter of instinct
It's a matter of conditioning
As a matter of fact

You can call me Pavlov's dog
Just ring a bell and I'll salivate
How'd ta like that?
Dr Landy, tell me, you're not just a pedagogue

And if you want to find me I'll be out in the sandbox,
just wondering where the hell all the love has gone.
Playing my guitar and building castles in the sun,
and singing "Fun, Fun, Fun."

There are homeless people lined up in the DEADPOTATO's backyard? How can that be....in his progressive much more than the United States socialist paradise? Bush's fault....America's fault.....correct SpudDud(tm)!

Posted by ride_on at 2007-12-12 08:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

It was the righties hero, Ronnie Raygun, that said America "had no homeless problem".

I guess all those tents outside his window across the street from the WH were just tourists who decided to camp.




FACTS suck, don't they?

'Not one of 'em complained they were being exploited.'

Wow, maybe PETA will get a Nobel Peace Prize for exploiting the homeless?

As long as the exploited don't complain anything goes, that's quite the perpective.

why does PETA hate Global Warming(tm)?

Wow, maybe PETA will get a Nobel Peace Prize for exploiting the homeless?

Posted by zulu at 2007-12-12 11:32 PM | Reply

It worked for Jimmy Carter!

In 2005, a PETA campaign likened animal rights to slavery, drawing the ire of U.S. civil rights organizations. In 2004, it introduced the "Holocaust on your plate," campaign, which compared farm animal slaughter to the Holocaust.

OK, here is the problem I have with PETA. Lets say that I buy into their argument that man is just another animal and should be considered equal with other animals. Why then does PETA always want to change man? Man has been eating meat and wearing fur from the start. If we have always done this, then that is our natural instinct, it is our nature. I think PETA would agree that it would be a crime to try and change predators (like a lion) nature. Imagine PETA in the Serengeti with picket signs that read "A Lions Food is Murder". If PETA is so concerned about the feelings of animals, shouldn't they tackle Mother Nature first. I have seen animals squeezed to death by big snakes, eaten alive by tiny fish with sharp teeth, injected with a paralizing venom that also starts the digesting process from the inside, and other increadible horrors on Animal Planet. If these predators can freely act on their basic instincts without guilt, why can't man? Come on PETA do an OJ and go after the real killers. They are the many and varied critters of the animal kingdom.

"I was just curious as to how you injected educated women and abortion into a debate about fur without even trying."

Making natural connections is easier for some folks.

"Not one of 'em complained they were being exploited."

Neither does the 16 yr old boy who gets to nail his female social studies teacher.

"Do you not agree that PETA should be trying to help homeless people get off the streets, instead of trying to make some insipid political statement about whether fur is an appropriate garment?"

How about free needles and condoms?

Oops. Already been there...

On the first day of christmas
My true love gave to me,
a half eaten subway sand - a - and -wich.

On the second day of christmas
My true love gave to me,
Two cardboard boxes

On the third day of christmas
My true love gave to me,
three used crack pipes

On the fourth day of christmas
My true love gave to me,
4 jugs of thunderbird

On the fifth day of christmas
My true love gave to me,
Five fur coats

......................





I agree it turns the res chic thing on it's head, but only halfway. We need to give out old shit stained cardboard boxes, crack pipes, half a bottle of thunderbird, a subway sandwich to the affluent, then the cycle will be complete.

"People who are active in the fields of human or animal rights are good people and are noted as such in Spud Big Book of Good Folk."

Ummm, except pro-life folks. Them folks are just plain 'ol, backwards assholes.

"People who belittle or decry their efforts usually go in the other book."

Ummm, except pro-abortion folks. Them there folks are just enlightened.

It's all about perspective.

So thanks to the Pud for giving us all a glimpse of what really brings a tear to the face of an 8-inch stamen.

Enjoy!

Many moons ago the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile was parked in a parking lot and some PETA folks were picketing. Two things I noticed - 1. It appeared that one of the PETA protesters arrived via stretch limo, and 2. Without any prompting, my 11 year-old daughter and her friend started chanting "Eat More Meat - Eat More Meat" Ah, good times.

Yeah for PETA. I hope they give 'em a big sirloin to go with it. People Eating Tasty Animals.

Posted by goatman at 2007

this was funny although I am sure the consensus will be that it wasnt near as funny as the following...


fur coats to the homeless huh?

UH OH>...........watch for fur coats to start appearing in the back rooms of every pawn shop in canada..........and look at the positive news with that...........stock in mad dog 20 20 and camel unfiltered cigs are going to go through the roof.......

hmmm. leopard - how would it be cooked? grilled, fried, roasted? Medium rare? crap, now I'm hungry.

Posted by 2fast4u

Don't know about lepord but mountain lion is good cooked just about any whay you cook any other meat.

Homeless people walking around in expensive fur coats is bound to gain some media attention and that is what PETA cares about. If the cameras weren't guaranteed to show up, PETA wouldn't be doing anything for the homeless. Like most of PETA's actions, this is a publicity stunt.

In this case, a biproduct of PETA's actions is that homeless people get warm coats and that is a great thing. A stopped clock is right twice a day and occasionally PETA blunders into usefulness.

"If God didn't intend us to eat animals, why'd he make them outta meat???"
--AESCAL

Is there a tee-shirt with that on it?

Salads? That is what food eats.