While we all love poker, Texas Hold'em, poker tournaments, and anything that has to do with the industry. Being "poker players" is not all we are about. Most poker players have interests that go beyond what happens during a hand of Texas Hold'em or Omaha. That is why we have the Poker lifestyle section...
The next time you are making a list of poker party supplies for an event, you may have to factor in how much “Stove Top Stuffing” it will take to thoroughly stuff a wiener dog, or a medium sized Dalmatian. As it turns out, the biggest victim of the imaginary “green” movement may be the family dog. In a new book called “Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living”, the author decries the ownership of animals, and the title suggests that the family pooch should be served with mashed potatoes and a nice red wine. From the perspective of a poker party supplies list, I have no idea how serving a Shih Tzu jives with the poker rules Hoyle wrote down.
The truth of the matter is that the same people who seem to ignore what that big burning ball of gas in the sky has to do with climate change (along with millions of years of volatile weather fluctuations) are going to lecture us about our K-9’s carbon footprint. Of course they are not really advocating eating dogs (unless the book is reprinted in China), but rather they are trying to blame some of the natural climate changes on those who enjoy the company of pets that won’t eventually be served with applesauce. Here is what the author has to say about pets.
"The title of the book is a little bit of a shock tactic, I think, but though we are not advocating eating anyone's pet cat or dog there is certainly some truth in the fact that if we have edible pets like chickens for their eggs and meat, and rabbits and pigs, we will be compensating for the impact of other things on our environment."
Of course while suggesting that we should cuddle a chicken and play fetch with a pig up to the moment when we stuff an apple in its mouth and pre-heat the oven to three hundred and fifty degrees, he seems to be ignoring the thousands of scientists that have data that challenges the “consensus” as well as the thousands of emails from the climate research facility at the University of East Anglia that prove global warming to be a hoax on par with the flat earth and the time Orson Wells scared the pants off radio fans when he convinced them all Martians were here to turn us all into stir fry.
Poker players love their dogs and cats, just like anybody else who doesn’t have a future as a serial killer. Years of Texas Hold’em and Omaha poker has also made us very aware of when somebody is trying to manipulate us with a bluff. Thinking people realize the sun has something to do with the weather, while the lemmings in the climate change community are content to bask under a ball of gas named Al Gone. Maybe the poker rules Hoyle wrote down (or at least written in his name) should include not listening to agenda driven twits or boiling the family dog and serving it at a home game.
