The Onion is a farcical news site. I do not agree with the fictitious person being interviewed. I think his perspectives highlight the hypocrisy of those that echo his viewpoints but insist they are not bigots.
Category: America
“American Muslims should be absolutely free to build a mosque two blocks from ground zero; but the ones who should do it probably wouldn’t want to.”
Sam Harris’ conclusion in his article at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-13/ground-zero-mosque/full/
He says it very well as usual.
The US gives a lot of money but it is not even 1% of our GNI.
Development aid rose in 2009 and most donors will meet 2010 aid targets.
So I saw this article on CNN (Go to it here)
about a market in China where Cats and Dogs are sold for meat. This made me ask the question; what makes it appropriate to eat an animal? What differentiates cattle and hogs from cats and dogs. I have heard it said that pigs are clever and many people keep pigs as pets. Certainly many a 4H participant has cried themselves to sleep as thier prize steer was taken to slaughter. Is thier a signifigant difference in intelligence from cattle and hogs to dogs and cats? I do not know. What type of intelligence would you measure to make this determination? Again no idea but I am sure someone wrote a dissertation on it somewhere. It seems to me that it is purely a social construct. People in the United States keep dogs and cats as pets and attribute human characteristics to them. Therefore people in the US find it unsettling to think of dogs and cats as food.