Sir Paul's gonna be on CNN's Larry King Tonight. Claims he has a serious anouncement to make. Will it be (was it) legit or fluff? Your thoughts.....

It's about sealing off our coast here in Eastern Canada. He was in Prince Edward Island Thursday (Fortunately he wasn't doing a concert). The Premier of Newfoundland will be debating him.

i'm watching now here in SF - a good cause for the Maccas

on now live in the UK too

Probably something to do with the seal hunt.
By the way, his wife tried to pet one and
nearly got bit. Cute eh?

davido Wrote:
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> Probably something to do with the seal hunt.
> By the way, his wife tried to pet one and
> nearly got bit.

smart wife. I say let's brutally slaughter the lot, then.

so what big news got announced?

Yeah, Macca is right. It´s just so stupid in the 21st century that they kill seal babies for ugly old women that just want to wear some fur around their wrinkled neck for some ill fashion reasons.

I think Paul made the goal when discussing with the premier Danny Butthead. Clear arguments against the usual politician stuff (saying yes and no at the same time to satisfy everybody - I don´t know how to explain this more).

Didn't paul dress in an obnoxious fur coat around 1969?



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Paul is right. There is no need to kill seals for vanity sake.

So what if he did wear a fur coat in 1969? That was nearly 40 years ago and he has seen he made a mistake.

Yeah so what if he wore fur 40 years ago. He know it was a mistake. That's like calling Mick a fag because he did Bowie 30 plus years ago. Rubbish.

Well what he say?

What he did say? He was no easy discussion partner for that Premier who insisted that killing seals needed to go on for economical reasons. Also some people benefited from slavery and whale killing, he said. His argument: Something like whale killing became whale watching in many places these days and raises more money this way. So why not try this in Canada with the seals?

Whatever: There is no reason for any intelligent human being to accept that animals are killed just for some piece of fur. By the way: John wore that fur coat - you can see it in the film Let it be and the videos taken from the rooftop concert.

Yes, this slaughtering is a crying shame for us Canadians. (you know these things turned black now! They used to be white, so that was something else of course...)! The seals are weaned all right, but still totally helpless without their mother to protect them.
I listened to the news, and it is mostly for exportation to China. The by-products are a ridiculous part of the "deal". This is pure useless barbary. Easy cash.
I listened to most of the McCartney interview last night. It was enlightening on his and his wife's part. McC was very cool and they were well-spoken and convincing I thought. He won points in my book. I heard Brigitte Bardot in French saying he had a damn pair of balls (yes, literally: "Il a une sacrée paire de couilles!").

Ah well, one animal killing the other isn't sad. It's normal. A lion killing a zebra is sad too.. it happens though.

No, it is not the same, and it's not normal because no one NEEDS this.
If one human kills another human out of gangsterism or slavery practices, is this normal too? Or he/she decides to wipe out a whole species out of the world biological heritage, just because he feels it's an easy and OK way to make cash, it this normal?
If Homo sapiens ever invented something worthwhile it is morals and humanitarian philosophy. That is what me and a whole scene believe in.

well said odd-beat, thank you.

McCartney should keep his mouth shut and mind his own business. A lot of people depend economically on the hunt and if the hunt would stop it would mean disaster for the ecosystem. There would be no fish left if the seals would reproduce uncontrolled. Just like other wildlife (deer, moose, bears, etc) here in Canada is being controlled by hunting.

Of course non of the McCartney fans here depend economically on the seal hunt. Would like to here them again when some freak celebrity is trying to take away their income and thus a decent living.

And McCartney of course doesn't give a shit about these people, as he obviously doesn't know what it means to work hard for your money.



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Glimmer Twin Wrote:
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> McCartney should keep his @#$%& mouth shut and
> mind his own business. A lot of people depend
> economically on the hunt and if the hunt would
> stop it would mean disaster for the ecosystem.
> There would be no fish left if the seals would
> reproduce uncontrolled. Just like other wildlife
> (deer, moose, bears, etc) here in Canada is being
> controlled by hunting.
>
> Of course non of the McCartney fans here depend
> economically on the seal hunt. Would like to here
> them again when some freak celebrity is trying to
> take away their income and thus a decent living.
>
> And McCartney of course doesn't give a shit about
> these people, as he obviously doesn't know what it
> means to work hard for your money.

seeing has he helped create the worlds biggest/greatest band, was part of that for 7 years and has been a solo act for the last 35, i think he knows something about hard work-just because he isnt out clubbing seals doesnt mean he is a slacker

rocksoffKR Wrote:


> seeing has he helped create the worlds
> biggest/greatest band, was part of that for 7
> years and has been a solo act for the last 35, i
> think he knows something about hard work-just
> because he isnt out clubbing seals doesnt mean he
> is a slacker


Calling the Beatles the worlds biggest/greatest band, is a matter of opinion, one I obviously don't share with you.

Working hard and making (too much) money by doing something you LOVE to do (hobby) is obviously not quite the same as working hard in a not so nice and not so well paying job because you have to feed your family every day.

Glimmer - hate to say it - but YOU don't know what you're talking about. I watched the whole King bit and if you bothered to pay attention, you'd realize their is NO economic crisis - there are plenty of proposed workarounds to the "plight" of the sealers.

Glimmer Twin Wrote:
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>> Calling the Beatles the worlds biggest/greatest
> band, is a matter of opinion, one I obviously
> don't share with you.
>

The label of the worlds greatest band is a matter of opinion for sure, but the "biggest" isnt even up for discussion

Glimmer, do you know that eating too much meat makes you agressive?

Gazza Wrote:
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> Glimmer Twin Wrote:
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> -----
> >> Calling the Beatles the worlds
> biggest/greatest
> > band, is a matter of opinion, one I
> obviously
> > don't share with you.
> >
>
> The label of the worlds greatest band is a matter
> of opinion for sure, but the "biggest" isnt even
> up for discussion


Setzer Orchestra? Think he had about 25 in the band at one point.

Now that's a band, Tod, a damn good one at that. (We're not including college marching bands are we?)

StonesTod Wrote:
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> there are
> plenty of proposed workarounds to the "plight" of
> the sealers.

Like what?

Glimmer Twin Wrote:
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> StonesTod Wrote:
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> > there are
> > plenty of proposed workarounds to the
> "plight" of
> > the sealers.
>
> Like what?


Shuffle up the bloody snow.

They missed you Potted Shrimp, de garnalenvissers??

Anyway...we're getting carried away here.

My only point is that the seal hunt is a Canadian affair. As far as I know McCartney is not a Canadian nor does he live in Canada and thus he should keep his nose out of Canadian business and mind his own.

Glimmer Twin Wrote:
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> They missed you Potted Shrimp, de
> garnalenvissers??

LOL! You got me there!

did you watch the show? sounds like you didn't.