There goes the whole neighborhood

this pisses me off. I'm not a vegetarian, and i'm not some left-wing bleeding heart, but who the hell ties up animals and charges people money to shoot them with arrows. Now, turkeys aren't exactly like puppies, but doesn't picturing this event kind of make you sick? I agree with the inspector who said that it was a gutless act of cruelty and the people there were there to have fun by torturing animals.
Good hard news reporting, and it was good they went to try to get information from the clubowner and the sportsmen's clubs. those would be two different perspectives worth having in the stories, and the fact that they would not or could not comment does more for the emotional impact of the story.
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/963251.html

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so i read the story the strib did titled "This Marine's death came after he served in Iraq," a follow-up to a piece from earlier in the week. To look at the content, i liked it. i thought it was good that they gave it so much space, because it's a pretty troubling story. It was written well; they got views from friends and from VA administrations. it makes the piece more well-rounded.
It's pretty disturbing when the country doctor they interviewed says that they'll be seeing a lot more cases like this as troops continue to come home and go back to civilian life. I can't imagine what that's like, to be in one part of the world where you have to change completely as a person, to become this machine that's always thinking about the next thing ahead to save his own ass and his companion soldiers.

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Well i've created my blog for 3101, and all i can say is: GO BEARS!
As a Chicago expatriate, I couldn't be happier about the Bears going to the super bowl, or the fact that my parents saved our VHS copy of the '85 Bears' "Superbowl Shuffle," as I'm sure it'll come in handy in a couple weeks.

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