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[CountDeMoney]

Fecking Missourians.

Missouri Legislature Guts Prop B, Rolls Back Puppy Mill Protections

In an outrageous affront to the democratic process, on Wednesday, April 13, the Missouri House of Representatives voted 85-71 to reject the will of the state's voters and eliminate all of the newly established humane improvements outlined in the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act (PMCPA). The PMCPA, which is scheduled to go into effect in November, was passed five months ago by popular vote as "Proposition B" to more tightly regulate conditions at the state's thousands of commercial dog breeding facilities.

Missouri is the number-one puppy-producing state in the county, supplying pet stores from coast to coast with hundreds of thousands of dogs annually, and is notorious for its lax animal-care standards and proliferation of unlicensed breeders. Unless it is vetoed by Governor Jay Nixon, the bill the House just passed (SB 113) will not only supersede the PMCPA—which includes such humane provisions as increased cage size, prohibition on the use of wire flooring and restrictions on breeding frequency—it will make parts of the state's commercial breeding law even weaker than they are now.

"In spite of decades of urging by the animal welfare community, the Missouri General Assembly remained silent on the issue of puppy mills until after the voters spoke. The failure of the General Assembly to address the problem is why we finally took this straight to the people," says Cori Menkin, ASPCA Senior Director of Legislative Initiatives. "And as evidenced by the passage of Proposition B, Missourians care deeply about puppy mill reform. That state legislators are discarding Prop B and ignoring the will of the people they are supposed to represent is appalling, insulting and disrespectful."

[Razgovory]

I wonder if Jay will veto it.  I doubt it, the guys been a coward.

Just so you know, my Cousin who's a Senator voted against it.

[Razgovory]

I'm very curious as to why the local Colton's Steakhouse is flying the Polish flag.  They also fly the Texan flag which kind of makes sense (despite the fact that according to their website they don't have any locations in Texas).  But the Polish flag is a bit odd.  Maybe it was Texan flag but the blue bit fell off.

[Razgovory]

I found the Siegey theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1JZVHVELs

[Tamas]

Just wanted to drop by and say that its now well past 4AM here. I was awaken because I have been on on-call duty for my customer's Windows servers, and since a unix server lost connection with a unix DNS server, the helpdesk found it to be an excellent idea to alert the Windows team.

I kept trying to find a trace for our involvement for almost half an hour, because I couldnt not believe the helpdesk could actually be this dense.

[Josquius]

[CountDeMoney]

lol, took me a moment.

[Slargos]

lol, took me a moment.

Me, too. 

[CountDeMoney]

Me, too. 

You mean "also".

[Slargos]

Me, too. 

You mean "also".

[Tamas]

An old joke from the communist era:

A hungarian family  phones their relatives in Romania:
"-So, how are you?
-We can't complain"

[Eddie Teach]

Were Hungarians allowed to complain? 

[Tamas]

Were Hungarians allowed to complain? 

"goulashcommunism" "happiest barrack" and all that. We had it pretty mild compared to the psycho rule of the unspellabale Romanian commie leader.

[lustindarkness]

Tired of this desert.

[Razgovory]

Does Jaron still post here?  I haven't seen him in a while.