Livestock issues.....

[LakeArenal]

[HAB911]

1. OUCH!

[UpInArms]

2. So ... someone used a postcard from a dead potter?

It breaks our hearts to pass along the news that Timothy Langholz passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2008. Click here for the full obituary.

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Working in a century old schoolhouse, north of Decorah Iowa, in the village of Burr Oak, I create 1-of-kind, wheel thrown, decorative and functional, stoneware pottery. My forms are tight and strong, with decorations that are dynamic, clean, meticulous, highly geometric, and often with anthropomorphic elements.
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‘Cuz I was going to go and support him … sigh

[momta]

3. Well, that's unfortunate!

[Higherarky]

4. Not to worry ...

You can support me if you'd like.

[Higherarky]

5. P.S. ...

I'm alive.

👍

[NJCher]

6. maybe his widow? or other heir?

sometimes I use old stationery where it doesn't matter who sent it--like when it's a bill or something of that nature. I usually do this when there's a good stamp on it that I don't want to throw away.

[MLAA]

8. Artists (and their heirs), museums and galleries often sell prints and postcards of their work.

I can’t resist buying postcards of beautiful art when I visit museums. Sometimes I use them to send notes.

[Hekate]

7. Whoever wrote that postcard is absolutely right. Probably picked it out of their collection of cards

I know I’ve got a pile of beautiful art and landscape photos in the form of postcards.

“Livestock” isn’t the exact word I used over 50 years ago in a letter to the editor, but I did demand to know if women (and girls) were nothing but breeding animals to be inseminated by any passing male.

I was particularly incensed at the time I wrote that because I’d gone to the clinic lab to get a blood draw, and while there saw a little girl who had to have been 8 months pregnant walking by with her mother. She couldn’t have been more than 12 years old.

Roe vs Wade had not been passed. I wasn’t entirely sure where I stood on abortion. But I absolutely knew what a high-risk pregnancy was, that it meant the mother could die, and that extreme youth was a well-known risk.

The accusation from what later became the pro-life movement was that women seeking abortions had been fooling around and got caught and they were just selfish.

And that little girl walked by me — me, a college woman with the agency to be on the Pill — and my heart just broke.

Livestock.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Actually a lot of livestock are treated better than pregnant women

I would never in a million years allow a breeding ewe to die so that the baby lamb could live. A breeding ewe is worth hundreds of dollars more than a lamb not to mention all the love, care and resources put into the ewe so that she can have a successful birth.

I'm sure the ewes would agree with me.

Funny that some Americans, the Evangelical and Catholic Churches are so willing to kill off the mother for a fetus to come to birth. Allowing the baby to live at the expense of the mother is actually a way of guaranteeing the thinning of a flock.

Even for the 30 BC, and older, goat herders who wrote the Bible, allowing the doe to die for a kid is stupid and very poor animal husbandry. I doubt very much that the writers of their Bible would agree with forced birth Evangelicals and Catholics.