note: I do not follow any political party, nor can I vote.

Huckerbee (sp ?) seemed to be the most articulate of the Republican front runners last night on the youtube CNN debate. I thought it was very entertaining. I was interested in learning more about these candidates and their views, and Huckerbee was the only one I could believe in (McCain perhaps too, but he just seems to be past his prime). anyway, just rambling.

Managing a community with a cause... http://alexbrownracing.com

I have spent considerable time trying to manage an online community with a singular purpose, to end horse slaughter. A noble cause for sure. We need to not only end domestic slaughter, but also shipping to slaughter of our horses to Mexico and Canada. Anyway, despite having a community with a noble cause, the community cannot always get along as it gets embroiled in "sub issues" such as:

a. rescuing horses from feedlots / kill buyers versus directly at auction: issue, buying from kill buyers and feedlots is buying from the "slaughter system" and thus in part helping finance the system ... course it is also the last point a horse might be saved from slaughter ...

b. rescuing horses from slaughter at all (versus abuse rescue): slaughter demand is driven by the demand for horse meat, for each horse rescued another takes its place, we have an abundance of horses that can be sold to the slaughter system.

c. horse racing is evil: issue, it is a horse racing site dedicated to ending horse slaughter.

Anyway, often times a heated discussion breaks out over one of these issues that ends up in me needing to ban ppl ... which ultimately weakens our community in our fight to help end horse slaughter.

I guess I just wish we could all learn about our differences, understand them, respect them, and focus on our ultimate goal ... the HORSE.

(Note, this post was going to be about abusive e-mail I receive from time-to-time from anti horse slaughter people ... but ...)