[Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

The first one was simply a vote on whether or not to ban tobacco (I said yes
in that other less harmful addictive substances are banned). I stand by that
one (if it were on a ballot, I'd vote to ban it). The second part was
whether or not people should spend money on their pets instead of sending it
overseas to feed people. Last time I looked, a lot more of my (tax) money
than I spend on my pets is being sent by the US overseas in the form of
foreign aid. My observation today was that Sam seems to be pissed off at
non-smokers, Volvo owners, and people who take care of their pets, or maybe
just the pets themselves. That's fine with me. Let him smoke, not buy a
Volvo, and not have pets (or have them but not take care of them...that's
really responsible too). He might be spending a bit too much energy in
hating things. Life's too short to spend being pissed off at everything that
doesn't fall within one's own personal tastes. 

JLS

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:17 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven

Well, Jeffery can certainly speak for himself, but one could see a
slight inconsistency between expressing outrage at that anyone would
possibly interfere with the 'private choices' of smokers - even though
those 'private choices' have an enormous impact on public policy, at the
same time one rails against the private choices of people who want to
devote their resources to caring for their pets, rather than devoting
those resources to making up for governmental failures to care for the
poor and needy. 

Or maybe I'm missing one or more points. :-)

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Sam
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:09 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven


I have no idea how the hell you equate the two.

Sam S



Jeffery Smith wrote:

>Good grief, are you the same Sam who was preaching that non-smokers 
>should stay in their homes to avoid the stench of smokers? You have got

>to be a troll. Nobody is this off-base by accident.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sam
>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:51 AM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Slides the cat has gone to kitty heaven
>
>To some, the death of a pet is akin to the death of a child, and to
>others the emotional resources and money spent on animals is a
scandal. 
>If the time and energy spent taking care of pets was expended on 
>visiting the abandoned sick and aged, or the money spent on having a
pet 
>operated on was paid into the medical account of an uninsured sick and 
>needy human being, so much suffering could be alleviated. It baffles me

>when someone fains concern (many times via documentary photography)
for, 
>example, a bloated, fly covered, starving African child, and then
rushes 
>in the Volvo to the Vets to have the dog operated on for cancer at a 
>cost of $5,000. Vanity pets have no place in a world of suffering human

>beings.
>
>Sam S
>
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