So you say. I live in Nebraska, where whites vastly outnumber blacks, and Obama won here. What about Iowa? He's also polling ahead in Oregon. What about there?

Ya I didn't say white people don't like the guy. It is curious that when blacks vote 90+% for a black candidate, it doesn't mean anything. When 60% of whites vote for a white candidate over a black candidate, the headline reads that whites are racist.

An Obamalot of black votes seem to vote for a candidate on race alone...

You Assholes an people like you are the reason that the World stood by an allowed 6,000,000 Jews to be slaughtered

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds would agree with you.

But the REAL embarrassment would be to review John McCain's behavior as a prisoner of war.

Most liberals I speak with actually respect the man for his refusal of special treatment (IE leaving early) when staying at the Hanoi Hilton. What would you have done? Dude can't even put on his own sport coat because his arms/shoulders were broken so much being tortured. You cannot be serious about him being a "squealer".

If you aren't cheating you aren't trying. I hate the Patriots though so screw them!

I am a Conservative and completely content in my life because I don't worry about things I have no control of; global warming, the economy (everybody else can have a recession, but not me), poverty, so on and so forth. Yeah call it having your head in the sand. I'd rather not try to depress myself which is what some people do. We live in a great society with a robust economy, so great that people have to manufacture things to worry about. We have the leisure to worry about things out of our control.

I am in college and some classmates get so damned depressed about shit like Tibet and the environment, while I just enjoy going to off track betting and living my life.

Its not ignorance, its knowing what the hell you need to worry about.

We are terrible, terrible people. My god, my life is so miserable because I pay so much attention to stories like this telling me how evil my neighbors and I are. I live a sad, miserable existence filled with self hatred and despair because the world is melting around me, and I just wanna be liked by the rest of the world.

Hey Pheonix, I wasn't aware of Chelokee's plight, my bad. And is bed rest something that any horse owners have tried that has worked? It would be hard to get laminitis without standing on the legs.

Just a quick question

When they fall and get hurt in a race they do a lot of internal damage and have internal bleeding. Plus, when a leg is broken the horse will be in terrible pain during the recovery process. Most owners decide the put the horse down because of this, unless their sire can pay off big time.

Horse breeders have bred these race horses that have smaller ankles with heavier bodies, Eight Belles had smaller ankles than Seattle Slew, and newer horses are more prone to injury. I DON'T blame the surface, however.

cheaper drugs=good
people having a job provided by walmart=good
walmart driving down prices wherever one exists=good

it isn't a left/right thing. i really dont understand objections people can come up with against walmart.

Regarding barbaro:

The injury ruined any chance of a Triple Crown in 2006 and ended his racing career. The next day, he underwent surgery at the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania for his injuries. In July he developed laminitis in his left rear leg. He had an additional five surgeries, and his prognosis varied as he remained for an extraordinarily long period of time in the equine Intensive Care Unit. While his right leg eventually healed, a final risky surgery on it proved futile because the colt soon developed further laminitis in both front legs.

Yeah I think Colts get treated differently.

Like Barbaro?

They tried everything they could to avoid putting Barbaro down, I think I remember them putting him down a few months after his body was shattered. Obviously, they tried to keep Barbaro alive as opposed to putting down eight belles on the spot.

UPDATE geldings are castrated, I meant to say if the horse was a COLT it would be left alive to stud out.

I have the most fun going to the OTB to bet on horse races. It's even more fun than going to greyhound races. Some horses have to get put to sleep, but its a rate of 1 out of 1,000 horses run.

If this horse was a gelding theyd at least keep it alive to stud it out. Sucks being a girl I guess.