1/18/2014::Yesterday's leftover News

Hunter: “I want to be intimately involved with a black rhino”
A bit of and update to a previous story concerning African Black Rhinos.

Knowlton, whose Facebook page is festooned with photos of him smiling beside large animals, is a hunter. A very experienced hunter. He works for The Hunting Consortium, a “hunting and angling opportunities” company. Such companies abound for those rich enough to afford their services — two years ago, a different hunting travel company helped Donald Trump’s sons kill some weak “old & mature male animals” including a leopard. Knowlton’s killed a wild boar, a bear, and last summer he bagged a record-breaking shark. Say what you will about the guy, but he’s not just some rich clown with a gun. He claims that animal he’s going over to Africa to hunt is an “an aggressive older male” who “is terrorizing the rest of the herd.” He further says the money he spent is going toward The Conservation Trust Fund for Namibia’s Black Rhino, and that the money from the auction will go to help protect other rhinos from poachers.

Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States, says, “The whole world is really fighting to protect the rhinos from the poachers and now you have some of these Dallas elite really wanting to kill a rhino just for a trophy.” And the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Animal Legal Defense Fund called the auction a “sad joke,” and stating, “Although the group [Dallas Safari Club] claims its primary intent is conservation of the critically endangered black rhino, fundraising proceeds from the Convention consistently go towards hunting and political advocacy of hunting interests.” But speaking to a CBS news affiliate this week, Knowlton said his critics “don’t know what I’m about. They don’t even understand the process. This actually is the very best thing by scientific biologists experts.”

Corey Knowlton, who won auction to kill endangered black rhino, now fears for his life
Seem that Mr. Knowlton is feeling a bit of heat, altho no one should be threatening another person life,,,

The winning bidder in a $350,000 auction for the right to kill an endangered black rhinoceros now says that death threats from the public have left him in fear for his life.

Here’s Some Prison Food That Actually Isn’t Also Being Used To Punish Inmates

The Insight Garden Program (IGP) rehabilitates prisoners through the process of organic gardening. By working in nature, participants learn vocational and life skills so they can practice constructive relationships between themselves, their communities and the natural environment and become productive members of society.

UKIP Councillor David Silvester In Bizarre Homophobic Rant Blaming Gay Marriage For Bad Weather

The UKIP Councillor for Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire has written an odd, homophobic letter to a local newspaper.

David Silvester, who resigned from the Conservative Party over David Cameron’s same-sex marriage policy, has said gay marriage is to blame for Britain's recent spell of bad weather in a letter to The Henley Standard.

Atheist Activist Group Demanding Florida City to Remove Bible From City Hall Chambers

A nationally-recognized atheist activist group is demanding that officials with a Florida city remove a 40-year-old Bible from city hall chambers.

The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently sent a letter to officials in Pinellas Park, Florida on behalf of local businessman Randy Heine, who states that the Bible makes him feel uncomfortable when he attends city meetings.

“The Bible must go. It doesn’t belong in a government meeting,” he told Fox13 Tampa Bay. “Every time I speak, it makes me feel awkward.”

According to reports, the Bible was presented to the city in 1975 by the local Kiwanis club and has rested on a desk in the chambers for nearly 40 years.

Kansas governor equates abortion, slavery

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback compared past “Summer of Mercy” anti-abortion protests in Wichita to the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery in a major speech Wednesday night.

The Republican governor, who opposes abortion, included the reference to the 1991 and 2001 protests outside the clinic of Dr. George Tiller — the late-term abortion provider who was gunned down in 2009 — in his State of the State address.

Brownback said that in the past, Kansas has been called “to blaze the trail for America out of the wilderness” on moral issues. He also said Kansas “marked the bloody trail out of slavery” when the nation was undecided on the issue.

“The chains of bondage of our brothers rubbed our skin and our hearts raw until we could stand it no more and erupted into `Bleeding Kansas,’” Brownback said. “The Summer of Mercy sprung forth in Kansas as we could no longer tolerate the death of innocent children.”

Dead broke, not deadbeat: Baltimore rethinks welfare policy

But Maryland is about to try something new.

Whereas state welfare policy wasn't fashioned to serve Charlotte and Darnell as a family, a nonprofit in West Baltimore, the Center for Urban Families (CFUF), treated them as one. In 2010, after years of struggling to maintain their marriage, they enrolled in the center's Couples Advancing Together (CAT) program.

In Baltimore, where fathers are already in short supply, in part due to high incarceration rates, CFUF seeks to help couples stay together or at least effectively raise their children together. The organization offers a mix of programs that focus on job training, relationship-skills building, parenting and financial counseling. The group also works with men who owe child support to craft with DHR a viable payment plan, including forgiving or alleviating arrears. Last year, the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation to expand CAT’s program that, starting this month, could put the state at the forefront of potentially innovative policy.

"It holds tremendous promise," says Thomasina Hiers, deputy secretary of programs at the Maryland Department of Human Resources. "If it works, it will redefine policy."

Teen Mom Who ‘Leaked’ Her Sex Tape Announces She’s Writing a ‘Christian Parenting Book’

“Well, I guess I’m, like, a TV personality, so I do all different shows,” says Abraham. “I also am an author. Luckily my first book was a New York Times bestseller. Now I’m working on two other different books. My next trilogy — so three books — is an erotic sex novel. And then a Christian parenting book.”