Horseracing Wrongs And the New York Racing Association killing-machine hums along, unabated. This morning at Belmont, says the Gaming Commission, Hemlock “sustained a displaced condylar & comminuted P1 fractures while breezing – euthanized on track.” Hemlock was three years old and had been raced four times, though, as the Commission points out, his last race…
In 1864 the Republicans held the presidency and the US Senate. A vacancy occurred on the Supreme Court that year. Rather than fill the seat during an election year, President Abraham Lincoln announced that he would defer nominating a replacement and allow the winner of the 1864 election to make the selection. Today’s Republicans bear…
Horseracing Wrongs I originally posted this a year ago. It must not be forgotten… An explosive slaughter expose, the most powerful I have ever seen, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and our friends at The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses in Australia. Two points before you watch: Yes, it is graphic, but please don’t…
California v Texas, the Supreme Court case to be argued one week after the presidential election, could result in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) being struck down by the court as unconstitutional, the position being argued by the Trump administration. Trump has previously stated that he would only nominate justices to the high court who…
Originally posted on Armory of the Revolution:
Every day I wake with a heavy heart. Fifty million animals were murdered while I slept. Another two million were born into slavery while I showered. A million while I dressed, two million during breakfast. As I type these words, 500,000 are terrified, waiting in lines to die.…
Horseracing Wrongs For the second consecutive day, Finger Lakes has recorded a kill. Eddie’s Gift, six, “sustained a fracture to the right shoulder” while training this morning and, says the Gaming Commission, “was euthanized.” He had been raced 36 times, most recently at that same track in August. New York now stands at 68 dead…
Originally posted on There's an Elephant in the Room blog:
A post that I shared earlier described how a young deer named Pala, cared for on a sanctuary, had been shot and killed by a neighbour who was hunting. In the same way that I am not empowered to excuse exploitation and killing on…
The economics of Das Kapital, the worldview of John Lennon. Before the Armory came into being, I was publishing Notes on my Facebook profile which I called political grenades, weapons to be wielded in the war for animal rights. Those modest apothegms, aphorisms, and observations have grown to over thirty five hundred grenades and articles.…
Horseracing Wrongs Three years ago, hallowed Saratoga Race Course garnered unwanted national media attention with a then-record 21 kills. At the time, I was busy reminding journalists and the public alike that this track averages 14 dead a summer, so 21 is really not that out of whack. Today, after the industry’s Santa Anita PR…
Horseracing Wrongs In the 3rd at Golden Gate yesterday, Cool Hunter was a “went wrong, vanned off.” “Went wrong,” as my regular readers well know, is almost always code for dead. And indeed he is, as confirmed today by the CHRB. He was seven years old; ’twas his 40th time under the whip. This is…
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