These links are for all the vegans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8058000/8058365.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wGVMPUt9VU

Translation:

Let me distract you from how horrible Palin is!! Obama is a socialist! His wife hates whitey! Ad nauseam. Here, let me save you the typing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8h2j7u1Tk

Don't compare Palin to Wolf. It's insulting to the Wolf.

However, it is illegal to own a pure Wolf in California as a pet. I'm not sure about hybrids. If someone wants to own a beautiful, wild looking dog, they should go with a Carolina dog. They are a Native American breed that has primitive genetic lineage tracing back to the Australian Dingo. It wouldn't surprise me if they had some Wolf, Fox or Coyote mixed in since the last ice age. The good thing is, they make for healthy, kind, intelligent pets. Canines that haven't embraced humanity probably aren't going to anytime soon.

http://www.johnnyrandom.com/jr_blog/niko090908

Oh! I almost forgot: You totally have to throw in some more macho stuff too. Tell other people they are wimps, spineless, etc. Use the word "liberal" like an insult like you've seen on FOX. If all else fails, start using physical threats and LOTS OF CAPS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!

"guess my post got under your skin"

Awesome! Self congratulations are always in order for those who are extremely insecure. Pat yourself on the back, buddy. You've done a great job exposing everyone on this thread to the ugliest side of humanity. Really, you didn't get "under my skin at all." Your comments are pure comedy. I'd say it's "dark" comedy, but anything that isn't white probably offends you quite a bit. Anyway, keep up the good work. Self congratulate yourself often and don't forget to attack someone for something you do often. You need to work on the hypocrisy a little more if you're going to come across as a genuine Republican troll. 31 days! Get to work!!

I see you took my advice. Wow, that didn't take long. You went straight from regurgitated fictional talking points to a fever-pitched, Clinton hating, racist diatribe. Nice work!! I hope the McCain campaign pays you well for this stuff. You gotta pace yourself though... There are still 31 days till Obama is elected President of the United States. You don't want to unload all of your hate on just one thread!

I'd say "Let me count the reasons" for you, but you don't have any. Why? Because you're living in a alternate reality where Fox "News" propaganda is the truth, no matter how outrageous the lie is. It warms my heart to know that your vote of stupidity does not matter. So go ahead and memorize your hate filled talking points from Rush Limbaugh, your vitriol from every right wing website you read. Go ahead and be a troll on websites like Salon. Forward those ridiculous, debunked, anti-Obama chain emails to your dim-witted, gullible friends and family.

It won't matter.

The votes that are really going to matter are the undecided voters, who are smarter than you and are all starting to lean towards Obama. Of course you'll get more and more desperate as the election comes closer, but the morons you appeal to are not swing voters: The type of person you appeal to are already as dumb and misinformed as you are. Thankfully, you are all becoming a minority in the political process of America.

"you do indeed usually get enough from insect parts etc. to keep you going"

Let's squash this bug, once and for all. If that was true, then tell us why so many vegans who stick to a strict vegan diet become B12 deficient? Btw, the RDA is bullshit too. Everyone has unique dietary needs. You are on the money about calories though.

Well, next time you eat a ripe durian, clean off the seeds and put them (nub down) in a clear glass of moist dirt so you can track the sprouting. Place them in 25% light and a month later you should have roots developing. Mine are about 2.5 ft. tall now and plenty of leaves branching out. I have no idea if they will survive, but it's an experiment. That same method has also worked for the goji berry bushes, golden berry bushes, macadamia nut tree, 2 redwood trees and avocado trees growing in the living room.

I agree that hunting is more humane than those horrible conditions that most animals live in near slaughter houses. I think a real hunter has a sense of humility, not arrogance in respecting nature. I only eat wild caught meat with the exception of free range, natural fed chicken. Even so, I'd say my diet is mostly veggies, fruits, nuts, berries...and a wide variety of fats from coconut, durian, flax seeds, avocados. No dairy, no grains except quinoa once in a blue moon.

"I truly and honestly cannot understand how decent people can continue to eat meat."

It's simple. You don't HAVE to eat mass produced meat. You can eat live caught animals that weren't tortured, abused and made to live in a box full of shit. Meat eaters are not indecent people, they are people who listen to their body's needs and don't deny them.

Advocating that we deny our natural diet because you don't like hunting is pretty absurd. You DO live in a world where the rule of the jungle is in effect. Look at our governments, abusive police, wars, racism, greed. You're in the jungle and trying to deny it. Don't forget that just because you wear clothing doesn't mean you aren't a monkey.

Btw, love durians. I'm growing 4 of them in my living room.

Wow, you're amazingly good at parroting other people's failed analogies. I've got one that basically renders all of yours null and void:

MONKEYS: Omnivores for hundreds of thousands of years.

HUMANS: Omnivores for hundreds of thousands of years.

Genetics are a bitch, huh?