For those leftist cities on bodies of water:

I’m surprised Minnesota didn’t require the arsonists and looters from out of state to quarantine for 14 days before they burned down buildings and stole TVs.

I though Joe's wife was a Vet.  He is as well?

My Dad was a Dentist.  Right up there with suicide rates.  Who likes to go to the Dentist?  (I do, but I am weird).  Why are Vet rates high?  Sadness having to put down Rover and Fluffy all the time???

Vet rates are high, I believe, because they deal with a lot of death, including euthanasia.  They are by their nature unbelievably compassionate and caring people who aren’t in it for the money, and when they fail, or if their clients can’t pay for services, the animals suffer or die or are put down. 

My daughter does small animal surgery one day a week, but otherwise she’s a large animal (mostly dairy) vet.  Some farmers can’t afford surgery to save the animal, so my daughter has to tell them to sell the cow, or if there is no medicines in its system, then kill it and butcher it. If they don’t want to shoot it, she has a tool called a captive bolt, which is basically a gun with a .22 blank round that shoots a rod about 4-6” out the front. She has to put it up to the skull of a bovine in a certain spot and it puts a hole in their skull which stuns it. Then she takes a long screw driver and scrambled to brain to humanly kill it. That is better than using what she calls “blue juice,” which is a euthanasia drug that she would inject straight into the heart. If they have to do that, then the farmer Is legally required to bury the cow a minimum of 6’ deep, because any animal like a coyote that digs it up and eats it will die.

95+% of her dairy clients are good and compassionate dairymen, who treat their cows well and take losses personally. The other minority who are not humane keep her up at night with worry when she leaves their farm after an emergency call.

Not all calvings go well. Sometimes the calf is dead inside the mother before she gets there. If it is not moving and for some reason she can’t do a C section (maybe the farmer doesn’t want to pay for a C section for a dead calf), she has a tool that she can insert so she can saw the calf apart inside the cow so she can get it out in pieces.

There are so many highs and lows for them. So when they have a high, like this successful C section, we celebrate with her. She has a good head on her shoulders, but we always worry.



Here’s that same heifer on her one year birthday. The lovely farm family was so appreciative that they named her after my daughter.


 

I'm not going to make any apologies, but I was going through a pretty bad situation at the time and my sense of humor was probably taking a leave of absence.  But it does go to show how words can hurt.  And a lot of people on this board have no problem using words to hurt anyone they don't agree with.  You don't have to be a liberal snowflake to think that people should be nice to each other.
Actually, I don't believe that is accurate.  I have honestly come to the conclusion that my life really doesn't matter, and I will probably be relieved when it is over.  I just wish human doctors could perform euthanasia like veterinarians do.

As I’m sure you know, suicide among veterinarians is 3.5 times higher than the general population. It’s a huge issue, but sadly is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Definitely my opinion, but not strictly mine.  Many people have voiced the same opinion.  If I didn't agree with 90% of what the echo chamber here believes, I would leave too.  But on the few times I do disagree, I feel the same kind of heat a black person feels from the left when they leave the plantation.

I do remember when you were quite upset when I once said that Rush and Becky could stay, but the rest of you could fuck off. Everyone took it for the humor that it was except you.

Here, maybe this will help:

“Joe’s life matters”

Yes, well be afraid, because we (the dissenters who say Never Again) are the ones they're going to herd onto freight trains and into the showers.

This may very well become a business school case study on "how to kill a brand".  I'm betting Log Cabin is jumping for joy because they still have the name recognition.

Not likely.

Log Cabin syrup was invented in 1887 by someone who’s childhood hero was Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one room log cabin in Kentucky.

Kentucky was a confederate state.

Ergo, Log Cabin syrup is racist.

You’d better get more woke, er get better woke, er well just wake the hell up and check your white privilege sir! 

(I think I’m getting the hang of this new awakeness thing.)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/vice-president-mike-pence-op-ed-isnt-coronavirus-second-wave/

The handling of this C-19 has been a success for Trump by any measure.