Thom Hartmann on the News - Friday, October 28, 2011

[snappycatchy]

So that's how a game of Monopoly ends!

[DeJach]

It's been a long time since I heard of a crazed Monopoly story. Good memories.

[megagagnon1]

Morris the cat is owed.

[rwcbanzai]

Thx Thom...

Good medine is bitter...

Bad medicine is too sweet...

Things are always worse than they seem.

There are shelved solutions!

When Them realize that prescriptions rid the Mean!

Them act even crazyer!

[Beannaich]

Peta is fucking retarded and insane. Corporations ARE NOT people, animals ARE NOT people, zygotes ARE NOT people. You know who people are? Fucking people, that's who. If you're in my phone book, under the residential section, you're a person. If you're not, too fucking bad for you.

[sinistar99]

@Beannaich People are people... Shamu is in the phone book and she owes me money... While I'm kind of uncomfortable to live in a time where if you can't hire a lawyer and sue somebody then you have no rights, as a rule you're phone book test is as good as any I've heard.

[62netty]

If zygotes and corporation are persons, so is Shamu.

[420gma]

Respond to this video... It's sad that some people abuse and mistreat animals.However most peoples pets esp dogs are like family.Even if peta wins this case for them to think that they could take our pets would be the end of peta.My dogs are spoiled beyond belief.

[trajan74]

Lou: "Looks like another case of Monopoly related violence, Chief."

Chief: "How do the Parker Brothers sleep at night?"

[oolong2]

With the Peta/Shamu/SeaWorld case I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone mention the obvious implications.

If Shamu is ruled to be a slave. Then the same can be said for anyone who has a pet...

[420gma]

@oolong2 I don't think so. I think the difference is pets are domesticated .Exotic animals are taken from the wild.

[oolong2]

@420gma

I don't see how "domestication" changes the argument.

Some pets if set lose would return home, yet many would not. So by PETA's own definition pets are slaves.

The only reason why we don't think so is because they are our pets. Whearas the SeaWorld is just a faceless corporation. It's easy not to think about the trainers and care takers who have genuiine concern and care for these animals.

It's hypicritcal.

[1980albatros]

@420gma There you go, you hit the nail on the head. FREE SHAMU NOW!

[420gma]

@1980albatros I agree! i've only been to the sea world in my town twice in the almost forty yrs I've lived here.The first time shamu tried to kill the trainer.These animals belong in the wild.After the latest incident with the bengal tigers being shot private ownership should be outlawed! Their are only fourteen hundred left in the wild !

[1980albatros]

@420gma YEAH! I almost cried when i heard that }:(...BTW love your name. }:)

[420gma]

@1980albatros Thanks :)

[1980albatros]

@oolong2 You should think about this one. };)