BZHAnne's Blog

Here I am, a rock-solid Republican. Voted for democrats only twice in my life: once for a college friend's father and once for Anne Richards.

I'm a Bush supporter. I stand....er stood four-square behind him. But I gotta warn him, you don't want me behind ya anymore Georgie Boy. I'm not normally a violent person, but this issue could change me in a heartbeat.

And what issue is that, you ask?

Let me put it this way. If the BLEEP**g Feds, under GW's aegis, decide to kill off our mustangs and burros, there's gonna be a range war like you never heard of. I'm gonna be out there in Big Sky country with rifles, bullets and whatever else it takes and the first fed frakie who shows up to knock off a mustang is gonna need a coffin for himself!!!!

GW, GW, say it ain't so! You're supposed to be a Texan, fer Pete's sake! HOW COULD YOU COUNTENANCE THIS DESECRATION!!!?

Unwrap the American flag old chum. Wrap youself in the black flag of death with the orange stripes of hypocrisy!!

SHAME ON YOU!!!

1. The Supreme Court has overturned the punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon-Valdez incident. Dropping them from 2 and 1/2 BILLION dollars to 500 million dollars. Half a billion is bad, but five times that is unconscionable. And you and I both know who the H E double hockeysticks is gonna be paying that judgement!!! As if gasoline prices weren't high enough. THANK YOU Supreme Court justices. I hereby take back 15% of the nasty things I ever said of you.

2. The Dallas City Council is proposing a new pet limitation ordinance - 1, count 'em, ONE pet per household. Note to those anti-companion s.o.b.s. Last time I looked even the ASPCA said that the majority of pet owners are responsible citizens about their precious babies. AND, last time I looked this WAS a democracy. You know what that is, don't you? It's a form of government whereby the MAJORITY rules. You do NOT punish the majority for the infringements by the minority! Kick your brains into gear, twits! The way you've written that ordinance means that if a person has two GUPPIES, fer heaven's sake, they'd be in non-compliance with your silly law and liable to fines, penalties, maybe even jail time. Find another way to deal with the poor babies that no one wants. How? Hmmmm...you ever hear of a little invention called - the computer? And its lovely data-bases? Why not set up a secured data base that every vet in the area can access. Whenever said vet performs a spay or neuter, he/she can enter the salient data into that data-base for perusal by any animal control officer. Ditto for annual vaccinations. Anyone harboring pets without entries in said database then must prove that their baby is indeed protected against rabies, etc. as well as being unable to procreate, unless a show or breeding animal. Let the owners of same pay a small fee for that privilege. And if you really give a rat's bare patootie, set up a fund that assists the less fiscally fortunate to get their animals neutralized and protected. GIVE, NOT SELL, certificates that show that the precious companion is duly legalized by the city. And then set up a place where people can take their pets to be permanently marked (tattoo or micro-chipped) for a nominal fee (NOT an arm and a leg!). Much better than making outlaws of more than half the city's pet-owning population, doncha think?

HEY! Jerkasauruses! Those who are pet people WILL remember this come next election!! Oh, not me, personally. I left the city of Dallas 20 years ago. I do not live there. I do not work there. I do not shop there. I buy not one thin dime' s worth of anything from any merchant there. And if this idiocy becomes the law of the city, I never will! How many of you people are little tinpot dictator wannabes with god complexes? Never mind. I don't expect an answer to that question.

Hmmmmph!!

I heard a Viewer voice the following question: How come the Feds say it's unconstitutional and illegal for landlords to ascertain the legality of their tenants but its obligatory for employers to do the same?

HEY! FEDS! Wake up and smell your hypocrisy! Oh you idiot judges!

If an employer can be penalized with a stiff fine and even jail time for NOT ascertaining the residency/citizenship status of an employee, then why is a landlord to be equally fined and/or sent to stir for requiring the EXACT SAME THING from a potential tenant?

It's been well and truly said that lawyers and judges must take courses in the art of straining at gnats and swallowing camels before they can be admitted to the practice of the law. I always thought that was a bit of an exaggeration. Brother! Was I ever wrong!

Do at least try to get your acts together....for the novelty of it if nothing else.

Either it is legally REQUIRED to hire and house ONLY legal residents of these United States OR it is against the law to do either. Take your pick, one or the other, but enough of this BS about trying to have it both ways. You merely confirm the public's already low opinion of your intelligence, your decency, your willingness to do the job for which we overpay you. Give it up, judges. We're on to you. You're just as in the dark as the rest of us. And since you are NOT the ones who make the laws, why not join with us and get our elected representatives off their fat cat butts and make them pass some legislation that will clarify this thorny issue for us all, citizens, legal and illegal immigrants included?

1. As you know there are laws regarding fire safety all over the place. One of them concerns sprinkler systems. If you got a commerical building, a retail building, a factory, a laboratory, even a hotel or a motel, a restaurant or a bar, you GOTTA have a sprinkler system. If it's a government building, if it's a library, a hospital, free clinic even, it's GOTTA have a sprinkler system. You cannot build any of the above places unless you install a sprinkler system during the building process. What I wanna know is why the heck is there no law that makes it illegal to build any kind of residence without same. Apartments, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, single-family, mansions even. Are the various city councils (YES, Dallas, I'm talking about YOU) asleep at the switch? And how about giving the owners of existing living spaces a property tax relief to retrofit their residential buildings? HUH? Why not? Only reason I can see why not is that it would cut into your bottom line a bit. But hold on there, pardners. What about the cost to the city of emergency personnel and equipment? What about medical care for the burned or injured, including emergency personnel? You don't think that's expensive? Get off the stick, councilpersons. PASS THOSE LAWS!

2. For the military: Any of you guys old enough or well read enough to remember D-Day? The charge up the sands of Omaha and Utah beaches? Any of you remember the flail tanks? How about you outfit some of today's tanks with flails and send 'em out ahead of a convoy in Iraq? Let those heavy chains explode the IED's instead of hummers full of GI Joes and Janes.

1) Chinese Earthquake

While I am at total odds with the government of the People's Republic of China, I am certainly NOT at those odds with the vast majority of the people of China. My heart and now a substantial portion of my funds goes out to all those in Sichuan province who have suffered this terrible blow. May God bless them, hold them close and see them through these terrible times. I am heartened beyond measure that, unlike certain governmental awfulicials to their south, that said government of China is not so averse to accepting help for their citizens in such dire straits. I give a gold star to the people's leadership for their decency and their humility in admitting that they could use help and in accepting same from wherever it is forthcoming. I hereby take back 10% of the nasty things I have thought, written and said about you Commies.

2) Myanmar

I understand that there are now confirmed reports that cholera has made its lethal appearance in the Irrawaddy Delta area. I say it here, loud, proud and unashamed! May you be D****D, you military B******S! May you die alone, in agony, unloved, unmourned and unburied! May you rot BEFORE you die! May maggots dine on your still quivering flesh! There are no words in any tongue that can adequately express your foulness, your barbarity, your inhumane attitude! I pledge you this, military dictators, oppressors and MURDERERS of a kind and wonderful people. I WILL NOT LET THIS DIE! I will remind and keep reminding the leaders of this world that you are NOT to be trusted, you are NOT to be dealt with, you are NOT to be acceptable at the tables of the civilized peoples of earth! I curse you all!!!!

3) The internet hoax that killed a 13 year old girl.

A grand jury has indicted the supposedly adult female responsible for this act of horrid cruelty. GOOD! Personally, if it were up to me, I would deprive her of ALL the perks that one normally allows a responsible adult citizen of this nation. Since she seems determined not only to behave as a bratty kid, but to deny behaving like one (which is bratty in and of itself. as an adult takes responsibility for the consequences of his/her actions), then take away her driver's license, take away her voting privileges, take away her right to own property in her own name, take away her right to purchase adult products, goods and services, take away her right to be treated as an adult. Treat her as the spoiled, rotten brat she is. Send her to boot camp!

4) School's almost out

And we all know what this means. Teenagers on the road at all hours. No longer will we have six to eight hours five days a week to drive in some degree of safety. The licensed but still immature members of our society will out there in full force, people. Texting, checking makeup and hair, repairing same, talking to passengers, ignoring everything else in their self-centered concerns. TAKE CARE, my fellow adult drivers! The teenagers are about to be loosed!

5) Fuel prices

Three weeks ago I found a gas station being operated by (LEGAL) Asian immigrants that was selling regular for $3.21 9/10 per gallon when all around were charging $3.29 9/10. I blessed them both with prayer and with my custom. This morning I saw their sign. It read $3.71 9/10! While all around showed signs of $3.69 9/10. Hmmm...guess they caught on to our way of doing things at last. "Charge all the traffic will bear for as long as you can get away with it." Congratulations. You are now fully-fledged American businesspeople!

6) Diet

For years we have been told repeatedly that fats are BAD, BAD BAD. Then we were told that some fats weren't quite so BAD, BAD, BAD. Now we get the glorious news, no fat is ALL BAD. Whattaya know, dietary science has caught up with our great grandparents' uninformed, unofficial pronouncements. Viz and to whit:  fat is GOOD for you. Just not so very  much of it. Ain't modren science great?!

7) CBS has dumped "Moonlight". Despite a large and growing fan base, despite the popularity (and outright hunkiness-index) of the hero, despite the glowing praise from all corners, critics, media, etc. CBS has dumped "Moonlight". HEY! CBS! The last time a network was THAT stupid you know what happened? NBC dumped "Star Trek". They spent the next 15 years at the bottom of the broadcast ratings. And that was BEFORE folks had the choice of cable networks. Enjoy your stay in the basement. THIS fan will do all in HER power to make it both lengthy and dismal!

8) On a positive note (always leave your audience, however small, in a positive frame of mind). I am now the proud, albeit slightly harassed, Mommy of three abandoned kittens, age 2 weeks. Their Mother, a sometime guest for dinner, has each night for the last 3 brought me one of her litter. I guess her trust is hard earned. Still, I am grateful for it. And they ARE adorable. Also feisty for such young ones. Their little pink mouths eagerly suck the formula. Their tiny (and sharp) claws clutch fiercely at my hand while they greedily drain their bottle. Their purrs, minute, almost silent, still are strong enough to shake their miniscule frames. For a cat person, which I certainly am the quintessential example of, this is little short of heaven on earth! Thank you, St. Francis!

9) May your lives be blessed with just enough negative to make you fully cognizant of and joyful for all the positives with which I hope you are equally blessed.

I wonder how long it's gonna take for those idiot military dictators to wake up and realize that ruling with an iron fist over a country composed mostly of diseased corpses is NOT a particularly sound choice.

For the sake of their citizenry I hope they wake up before there's no citizenry left.

May God be with the people of Myanmar.

Well, well, well, whattaya know? The Chinese Communists just trotted the Olympic torch up an even bigger mountain than Olympus. They slogged their way to the top of Mt. Everest and tooted loudly upon their PR horns, "SEE what WE did!"

My response: Big, fat, hairy deal.

Is there anyone else out there who realizes just how big this insult is to the people of the USA? In essence, what Beijing is saying with this stunt is:

Lookee here! Aren't we just swell dandy fine and terrific?

And in an aside: This'll make those capitalist dogs forget all about our pet poisonings, our lead painted children's toys, our turning Tibet into a gigantic prison camp, our adulteration of chemical compounds that are meant to save life and turning them into poisons that TAKE life. The stupid clunches will think we are super neat because we brought a fake torch up a mountainside.

Guess what, Beijing? AIN'T GONNA WORK. We're on to you here in the States and no matter what our short-sighted business leaders and elected officials think, we DO NOT TRUST YOU, we DO NOT LIKE YOU.

And this American will NOT put a penny in your pocket!

Join me, my dears, won't you?

1. DFW Courting China

HEY! Leffert and the rest of you twits! Whattaya mean making more trade deals with the Commies?! Forgotten already have you? These are the same people who poisoned our pets with toxic chemicals, who suffused our little children's toys with lead paint, who dumped enough tainted heparin into our hospitals to kill nearly a hundred of your fellow citizens and render hundreds more deathly ill. And you want to increase trade with them?!  I, for one, will remember this next election, I can promise you. As well, I'm gonna find out which of you business honchos are so utterly uncaring about your customers so I can avoid your products like the plague they'll probably presently be containing!

2. Jeremiah Wright vs. Barack Obama

Nice to see that Obama has finally gotten the word that whatever "Rev." Wright is preaching, it sure as shootin' AIN'T Christianity! Hatemongering is NOT Jesus' way. As for that piece of utter stupidity about HIV/AIDS, I guess that shows that the "Rev." failed whatever science classes he took. Otherwise he'd know that it used to be a chimp virus that mutated and made the jump to a related species. Unfortunately, the related species happened to be us.

3. Fuel prices, food prices and bio-fuels

To the "experts". Dummies! There's not enough arable land on this planet to grow enough FOOD for 6 1/2 BILLION people. And you idiots want to drag millions of hectares into growing car and truck fuel? And then you stand around muttering, "How'd that happen?" when gas  prices go through the roof,  grain prices are swiftly following suit and folks are now beginning to starve in record numbers. Gimme a break, goofballs!

4. Health care in America

Another means of triage. The opinion seems to be that if they were productive types they could GET health insurance. If they cannot, then let 'em croak. Cuts down the welfare rolls, doncha know. Lovely. Hummmph!

5. GI Benefits

Time was you put your life on the line for this nation and it gave you a real shot at an education in return, provided you survived that is. Nowadays, however, that appears to be something else the gov't is welshing on. Seems the G.I. bill doesn't cover even half the cost of each semester's learning even in state universities. Forget the private ones altogether. And you morons wonder why the military is having trouble filling its ranks? Cheese Whiz, guys. How dumb can you get before the medicos declare you all brain dead?!

6. Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton et al.

Uh, news media types....I dunno quite how to tell y'all this, but.... ENOUGH ALREADY! We got some BIG problems out here in Realityland. Focusing so much airtime on the problems of a bunch of skinny, angst-ridden youngster types is NOT helping anyone, least of all those poor kids!

7. The Pope's Visit

Conducted with decorum, on all sides, I was agreeably surprised that his detractors didn't make more of a stink. Thank you. That was Christian of you. And I'd begun to wonder if Mammon was your true god. My apologies.

8. The Olympic Torch in N. Korea.

Are the Fearless Leader's people gonna compete? How nice. And wasn't it nice of us to send so much food over there so they could get fed enough to BE competitive? Kim, old fart, you may say, in a polite tone, "Thank you" to the good people of the USofA for all that yummy stuff. And turn off the nuke program, buddy, or the next shipment might just blow up in your fat, little face!

9. Iran

OOOOOOOO! You zealots are about to get in sooooo much trouble. How long can YOU breathe strontium 90? Go get 'em, Nimitz!

10. And to our friends of the Hispanic persuasion: Feliz Cinco de Mayo!!!! And play the dance music loud, kids. I LOVE that stuff! Save a few corn tortillas for this old WASC (white-Anglo-Saxon CATHOLIC) broad, won't ya? Gracias!

A) China vs. Tibet

I wonder why the communist Chinese are surprised that their Tibetan prisoners are incensed and showing it through violence. What did the idiots expect? They marched into a nation so peaceful that they didn't even have tribal feuds and turned it into one large concentration camp. They oppressed, repressed, and suppressed the people. They derided and fobade their religion. They kept the people in fear of their lives for 50 years. They raised a whole generation of conquered people without their peaceful faith. And they wonder why these people are reverting to the age-old human answer to despair.....RAGE? Idiot Commies!! You have no face left to lose.

B) Democrat vs. Democrat

A new poll claims that if Hillary doesn't get the nod from the party at the convention that 28% of her followers will vote for Sen. McCain in Nov. And that if Barack doesn't get that nod, then 19% of HIS followers will do likewise. NOT because they like Sen. McCain. NOT because they agree with his political and philosophical views. NOT because they'd really like to see him at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next 4 years. NO! They'll do it because they hate, loathe, despise and abominate the OTHER Democratic candidate so much that they'd rather put a Republican back in the Oval Office. I say, if that many democrats are that dissatisfied with their candidates, then perhaps it's time that the party mucky-mucks came back down from their ivory towers and did some research on just where they have failed their constituents. I'll start 'em off:

1. Denying 2 whole states worth of voters their franchise was NOT the smartest move you could make.

2. Threatening other states with like penalties unless they knuckle under and bow to your dictates is also not brilliant.

3. Remembering every teensy-tiny transgression of every Republican candidate while aggressively covering or trying to cover up real doozies committed by Democrats doesn't work anymore, fellas. Give it up.

C) Global Warming. You folks remember the movie, "The Day After Tomorrow"? The one that starts with a trio of scientists on an Antarctic ice shelf taking cores from the ice? And the ice shelf they're on cracks, Hollywood style so no one will miss the implication, right down the middle of their camp and half the shelf heads merrily out to sea? THAT movie?

Once again life imitates art. A chunk of the Wilson ice shelf in western Antarctica has bid a fond adieu to the shores of the continent and decided to take a vacation from being a barrier to ice moving off the continent and go south for the winter, or summer, or whatever they're having down there. Point is, that this chunk is 6 TIMES the size of Manhattan Island! And with Greenland losing its icy shoreline at the rate of several YARDS per year, not inches people, not feet, YARDS, METERS for you non-Americans. Hmmmmm, in the movie this was followed by the desalinization of the Northern Atlantic, which in turn destabilized the Ph balance of the water which then messed up the North American Current. That's the one that keeps North America AND North Europe from looking like North Pole. Wonder how long it's gonna take THIS part to happen. Have we passed the point of no return? Something to have nightmares about, yes?

D) On a happier note. Bought the DVD of "The Last Legion". Bought it because it starred Colin Firth. Saw him in "Pride and Prejudice" as Darby and fell in lust, so I'm getting his movies. Anyway, if you haven't seen this film and you're an Arthurian legend buff like me, GO GET IT!!!! Your collection will NOT be complete without it, trust me. 'Nough said. Anything more would be a spolier.

Hope y'all had a Happy Easter, a Good Seder, and/or whatever else you celebrated this past week.

Guess what? We just lost the last 700 years!

Over in Saudi Arabia they're gonna kill a poor, illiterate female for the crime of...are you ready for this? WITCHCRAFT.

C'mon, people. I knew those "people" were backward, but I mean really!

I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna go get me a nice, shiny new car...one that uses bio-fuels. Let's see how  those high and mighty, sadistic, superstitious twits manage WITHOUT our oil money!

Now, I bow to no woman in my contempt for Alpha jerkasaurus males, but these toads, these illegitimate offspring of porcines and canines, they really take the cake. I bet there's not 18 working brain cells in the male population of that whole country!

Dear candidates for the Presidency, please take note. One of you is gonna sit behind the world's most famous desk in less than a year. I suggest you ALL get started thinking about a new policy in re the stupid Saudis. Especially you, Senator Clinton! We'd better get over the need for their oil before you take office. They will most definitely NOT be giving YOU any respect, not when their only use for females is as broodmares!

How 'bout we give Osama a break and go break a few Saudi judges' heads instead?

And that idiot Anglican archbishop actually thinks Shariya law has something positive to offer a civilized culture?! Hmmmm, maybe the Brits can send him over to Riyadh so he can watch the execution.

Just got this from the radio BBC.

It appears that a suicide bomber successfully blew himself to smithereenies close enough to the ex-prime minister to send her to the Muslim paradise.

No details yet, but I'll add MY two cents.

One wonders which of her enemies did this. The current prime minister who's a military dictator who doesn't want to chance losing his power? The other ex-prime minister with a leftist bent who wants his power back again? The AlQueda death cultists who don't want anyone ALIVE, much less in power, except themselves? The suspect list is long. And I suspect that the investigation will be very short and sweet, viz and to whit: Benazir Bhutto was blown up by person unknown via a suicide bombing. Pity.

Ya know....I hate to sound like a Grinch, especially during this season of love and forgiveness, but I'm beginning to think that next time there's a big earthquake in Pakistan maybe we oughta just stay home and mind our own p's and q's.

According to the news a Siberian tiger named Tatiana somehow got out of her enclosure at the San Francisco Zoological Park and on Christmas Day near closing time she attacked and killed one zoo goer and mauled two others. And the authorities are scratching their heads trying to figure out how she managed a 20 foot lateral leap and a 25 foot vertical jump all at once to get free of her specially designed-to-be-escapeproof enclosure.

Now the cops nailed poor Tatiana and she paid for the sin of being a tiger with her life. And the cops have designated her enclosure a crime scene because they figure she couldn't get outta there without human assistance. After all, she's only a dumb animal, right?

HELLO! Official types! Didn't you or your guide dogs notice the trees growing from her enclosure right up the side to nearly the top of the wall? Didn't any of your miniscule minds contain the information that tigers can climb? Hmmmmm, maybe what that zoo needs is fewer human keepers and more animal ones. Any prey animal could tell you that CATS CAN CLIMB! And would never have planted TREES, fer goshsakes, in a cat enclosure and then let them grow that high.

SHEEESH! In that whole report I couldn't find enough working brain cells to fill a walnut shell.

Lemme see if I got this straight.

Englishwoman comes to the Sudan to teach their children. One of the kids has a Teddy bear and wants to name it. The kid's name is Muhammed so naturally he wants to name his bear after himself. Don't all males want their loved ones named after them?

So teacher says ok and the bear becomes Muhammed. Sweet.

Then a wild-eyed fanatic masquerading as a Muslim hears about it and says, "AHA!!!" And has the perfect excuse to go off the deep end. Which, when you're from the shallow end of the gene pool, probably looks like a good place to go.

He goes shrieking off to the authorities about this horrible insult to the prophet.

Now enter the authorities; who have a problem. A) They would dearly love to loosen every possible hold the Brits have over their people. B) They would dearly love to find a way to keep the civilized world OUT of their business, viz and to whit, the systematic genocide of the people of Darfur.

Lo and behold. Here comes "concerned citizen". And voila! Their dream can come true. Both birds killed with the same English teacher stone.

Aren't they lucky? Do you think they're on their faces, facing Mecca and thanking Allah for this golden opportunity?

I hope they're still there when they realize that they've just sunk themselves without a prayer as far as the rest of the world (except of course Osama and his murderous pals) is concerned.

Oh to be a fly on the wall when their next need comes down the pike. And they realize that the west, those hated infidels, are the only thing standing between them and total desolation and we decide to sit back and watch them go down the toilet. Which will, no doubt, be their finest hour!

In my e-mail this AM.

Tells Muslims to Leave Country Hooray for Michigan State University Professor

Well, what do we have here?

Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it. Let's start at the top.

The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.

 Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.

The group had complained the cartoons were "hate speech."

 Enter Professor Wichman.

 In his e-mail, he said the following:

Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.

 I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women
(called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland , and the rioting and looting in Paris France. This is what offends me.

 I counsel your dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."

 If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option.

Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

 Cordially,

 I. S. Wichman Professor of Mechanical Engineering

 As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman.

 Now the chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.

 For its part, the university is standing its ground, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change. Wichman says he never intended for his e-mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong language if he'd known it was going to get out.

 How's the left going to handle this one? If you're in favor of the freedom of speech, as in the case of Ward Churchill, will the same protections be demanded for Indrek Wichman? I doubt it.

 Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a war!!

 This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.

Let me say up front and aboveboard I am not an Ellen DeGeneres fan. And I DO think that many rescue operations are fine and caring organizatins whose first priority is a loving and permanent home for their rescuees.

That being said, however (watch it. The soapbox is armed and ready!)....

Ellen did the right thing and I applaud her caring efforts. She deserves our wholehearted support! Way to go, Ms. DeGeneres!

That "rescue" operator, Batkis, is a flippin' fraggin' fool! A control freak. A little tinpot dictator with delusions of godhood! She should be shut down permanently! Her total lack of commitment to anything but her own wishes is selfish, egocentric and just plain nasty!  BAH HUMBUG to her!

Harrrumph!

Many of MY precious babies are dumpees (a trailer park looks like a good spot to those who haven't got quite the meaness to dump them in the outback or on the freeway). With me they luck out, as one of my mottos is: "I'm in charge of quarters, rations and weather. My cats are in charge of everything else."  Another: "To my cats, I'm just warm-blooded furniture and I like it like that."  And another: "It's my cats' world. I'm just here to open cans."  And finally: "Slave to my cats...and d**n proud of it!"

For many yars I operated a clandestine rescue service. I NEVER charged a dime. I did do some checking into the potential new homes. I did get a legal agreement signed that said they would bring back the precious baby if for any reason they and the baby didn't work out and I DID do scheduled home visitations for the first 6 months. In some 25 years I only had 2 returned to me. One because the lady unexpectedly up and died and her heirs didn't want the cat. And the other because he was being transferred to a branch of his company in another country and couldn't, under that country's laws, bring his cat.

BUT, I did have 4 who passed the cat on to a new home. When I found out I simply went to those people, explained the situation, asked my questions, let them know that if it didn't work out the cat could come back to me without questions or reasons. I had no problems with these families. And I most assuredly did NOT snatch the kitty to my heaving bosom and storm out, leaving a trail of tearful children. BAAAAAAD Batkis!!!!!