Whatever happened to the little stink about Obama not signing this bill against horse slaughter? This was before he was elected. How did it turn out. Did he sign it or not? And what did that bill actually provide for?
I want to know, because my daughter's schoolmates are still on about it. unfortunately, the school she attends is largely attended by the children of supporters of the previous president who are also religious nuts.
She keeps being hit with this:
"But Obama kills horses! And he cages wild horses, sells them to people who don't take care of them, and uses the money to take pictures of wild buffalo on Africa!"
Of course it's silly. It's a version of the "telephone game" where something is uttered into the ear of a person, who repeats it into the ear of another, and so on, until after many people, the last blurts it out, to the laughter of all, because the end version is always radically different than the original.
My daughter's classmates are spouting their parents' words, which were probably first uttered by their patron Rush Limbaugh, or heard on Fox.
Now that we have a decent president and I've decided to stay in this country, it is worth fighting to keep as much junk as possible out of the collective public consciousness.
I could not find out what happened with the bill. And what is this crazy stuff about selling caged horses! I wonder where that came from?
I would like to get some facts, and then I will utter those into my very attentive and particular daughter's ear. She will keep them straight because truth is important in my family. She will be a lone voice in the wilderness but at least one voice will be saying something that is true.
Anyone know about all this?