Category — PETA

Obviously this PETA guy doesn’t have any children. And never will…

Deer season (rifle) opens today in Vermont.

For the next two weeks, only the “girlymen” will be at work, slaving away in a stuffy, overheated office.

Vermont outdoorsmen are sensitive of the “green trends.” No spandex swathed, pedal-pushing flatlander would be this committed to his sport.

Unlike Volvo drivers, we are stewards of the great outdoors; then too we are PETA. (Personally Eating These Animals)

 More media bias from the MSM and their flunkies.

Agence France Presse writer Jihad Siqlawi gives us the terrorist viewpoint, in a respectful eulogy to a murderous Hizballah “fighter.”

EL-TIRI, Lebanon (AFP) - Thousands of Hezbollah supporters massed on Wednesday for the funeral of a Lebanese guerrilla whose body was handed over in a rare swap between Israel and the Shiite Muslim militia. [snip]

Black-clad men carried the coffin at the head of a cortege that filled the village streets, chanting “Our party is Hezbollah and our leader is Nasrallah,” and “Death to America”, “Death to Israel.”

From windows and balconies overlooking the procession, women sprinkled the “martyr” with rice and rose petals, ululating with joy, while others handed out sweets in the village.

Israel should have packed the body with Semtex. That would have been a super send off for everybody!

I love animals.  I’d have more if I thought my wife wouldn’t decapitate me; however, the Michael Vick case is baffling to me.  Yes, why a man with so much to lose would get involved with something so seedy and dangerous is beyond me.  I don’t pretend to understand what motivates or makes him tick.  He’s an adult and should face the consequences of his actions.  And no, I don’t believe the prosecution is racially motivated.  Even camera hogs Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton haven’t jumped in to defend him.

What has me baffled is the disproportionate nature of his punishment.  The man is facing 5 years in jail and the loss of millions of dollars.  But when you look at other, far more serious cases, you really have to wonder if the punishment fits the crime.  

NFL defensive end Leonard Little only got 90 days for killing a woman while he was driving under the influence.  Ray Lewis was involved in a homicide, but didn’t get much of a sentence.  Mary Winkler, who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of her husband, spent about 60 days in custody with the vast majority of those in a mental-health facility.  The judge and jury bought her post traumatic stress disorder argument, but if it was so serious she killed her husband because of it, is 60 days long enough to cure it?

Does this really seem like justice?  If you aren’t a PETA member, doesn’t it bother you just a bit that these people were involved in far more serious crimes but got what amounted to a slap on the wrist?  Personally, I’m pulling for Vick to get the minimum.  What he did was wrong, but there’s a real problem when he’s going to do much more time than killers.

Curious creature caught off Keahole Point

 

The animal, dubbed an “octosquid,” is found off the Big Isle

It’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s … a mystery from the deep.

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists. [snip]

Global warming and Bush caused this poor animal to mutate. Driven out of it’s community by RBSH zealots, sucked up by a deep cold water intake pipe, the critter is now an undocumented migrant with no legal status.

PETA started an emergency fund, since the “Squipus” asked for political asylum and is pregnant.

Global warming must be true, since everybody accepts the hypothesis. Consensus says man is responsible. Research via this inductive method has a glorious past and an incandescent future. Proponents of this discourse are the illuminati populating all important branches of study. They must be right; after all, they are not called illuminati for no reason.

A short trip through the history of science will authenticate the correctness of joining consensual science and political power to expose truth.

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) propelled the USSR to exalted heights in his exploration of evolution through physical modification. Collegiate consensus of his genetic ideas became state sponsored due to the unswerving approbation of the Politburo. Even then, politicians recognized absolute truth. This confluence of hard science and politicos thrust the USSR to preeminence in evolutionary theory.

A battle of consensus, fought in the last century is rampant today. One John Thomas Scopes (1900-1970) fought a legal battle, fortunately lost. Had he won, science by consensus would have suffered a serious contusion. Removal of embryonic stem cell investigations and global warming from the congress, courts and media terminates consensus. One has a difficult time with the august members of the aforementioned losing their position in the hierarchy. All knowledge ceases at that time. Be thankful Darrow’s legal prowess was wanting.

The Vatican Academy of Sciences fledged our knowledge of planetary excursions centering all scholarship right here on Earth. Through consensus, the orbits of the moon and sun in relation to the Earth were established. After synchronizing all sundials, the orbital speed of the sun established that the moon’s orbit was inside that of the Sun. Scientific acumen grew at “astronomical” rates through consensus.

Contravention to correct consensual inquiries was pooh-poohed and heretical views proscribed. One gadfly, a perennial unbeliever, condignly incarcerated, was a sui-generis astronomer, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Starry-eyed, this individual never was a team player and took to calling the illuminati, moonbats. His antisocial decorum earned him an eleven-year stint in the local gaol.

Interest in the sciences truly advanced during the Victorian Period, especially in England. The public flocked to nightly scrutiny of all matters scientific.

One evening, noted mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) held forth on the planets and their positions. A lofty thesis on centripetal and centrifugal forces substantiated accepted wisdom.

One habitué of these intellectual pursuits, a woman of some years, opined that a large turtle supported the earth in the heavens.

Russell smiled and queried, ”Upon what does this turtle stand?”

“Another turtle” came the rejoinder.

Russell again asked, ”Upon what does that turtle stand?”

“Forget it! It’s turtles all the way down” she retorted.

With global warming, it’s still turtles all the way down.

Remember the words to that tune…

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Violence by skinhead gangs in the United States is on the rise because of splits in the extreme right movement, a U.S. watchdog group said on Friday.

The Hammerskin Nation gang has long dominated the skinhead scene, but in the last two years other gangs like the Outlaw Hammerskins and the Vinlander Social Club have rebelled against them, said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.

When these small groups are trying to prove themselves you see an upsurge in extreme violence,” said Potok who estimated that tens of thousands of people belonged to U.S. skinhead gangs.
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Remarkable that the watchdog groups never mention ELF, ALF, Earth First, PETA etc. These keepers of the public weal have an asynoptic view. Rioters at the WTO meetings receive no approbation for disrupting commerce, assaulting authority figures, uniformed or not and destroying public and private property. A small group gathering produces immediate SMS (Sudden Marxist Syndrome) where they “liberate” any annoyances like private property.

Skinheads became active in the United States in the early 1980s. Their violence reached a peak between 1988 and 1992 before falling off because of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
[snip]

Never mind that the Weathermen and SDS formed up in the late ‘60’s, ran amok in Chicago, bombed buildings in NY and engendered a general disregard for rule of law. To this day, their spawn ruins the sane environmental movement. Their very visible larvae are the moonbat segment of the Democratic Party, or what’s left of it.

The growth and future growth of this behavior is certified by the government’s own lack of obeisance to law. From the legislatures, state and federal, through the courts in both demesnes, powers view laws as mere impediments to “advancement.” Everybody has a right to be free from the word “no.” Border security isn’t enforced; corporations flout hiring laws, no one is accountable for deeds. Congress avoids legislating, leaving that to the courts. The courts fail to enforce enacted laws because the executive branches all, fail to insist on compliance.

So go ahead and wonder where the civility went. Why are rudeness, violence, petty thievery, caustic speech, lying and cheating so commonplace?

So much for the “it’s my right” liberal lifestyle, I find it degrading.

This is ironic (HT: Captain’s Quarters):

Greenpeace is to be fined after its flagship Rainbow Warrior II damaged a coral reef in the central Philippines during a climate change awareness campaign, marine park rangers said.

The ship and its crew were assessed a 640,000-peso (11,600-dollar) fine after the 55-meter (180-foot) motor-assisted schooner ran aground at the Tubbataha Reef Marine Park on Monday, park manager Angelique Songco told AFP.

The ship’s bow sliced through a reef formation measuring 160 square meters (1,722 square feet), she added.

I wonder how much exhaust thier boat blew into the atmosphere during this stunt.

Speaking of irony, kind of reminds me of this story.

I haven’t had much time for blogging but I couldn’t let this one go by unnoticed:

Two PETA employees arrested in N.C. animal-cruelty case

AHOSKIE, N.C. — Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were charged with animal cruelty for allegedly picking up dogs and cats from shelters and dumping their dead bodies in the garbage.

Police said they found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to the activist group, all from shelters in the state’s northeastern corner.

Investigators arrested the two workers after staking out a garbage bin where animals had previously been dumped, police said yesterday.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said the workers were picking up animals to be brought to PETA headquarters for euthanization. Veterinarians and animal-control officers said the PETA workers had promised to find homes for the animals rather than euthanize them, according to police.

Neither police nor PETA offered any theory on why the animals might have been dumped.

PETA spokeswoman Colleen O’Brien said the organization euthanizes animals by lethal injection, which it considers more humane than gassing animals in groups, as some counties do.

Police charged Andrew Benjamin Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, Va., each with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty and eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals. They were released on bond.

A message left for Cook at PETA headquarters was not returned. A PETA spokesman said he did not know how to reach Hinkle.

Remember this the next time PETA starts preaching about how cruel it is to eat meat.

Dick Morris likes the Bush campaign’s “Wolves” TV ad.

Bush’s media man Mark McKinnon raises the level of concern about terror to realistic proportions in an advertisement that features wolves closing in on an unsuspecting and distracted America. As the wolves close in, McKinnon’s narrator lists the cuts in intelligence funding, weapons systems and defense spending that Kerry has backed during his Senate career.

It’s the best negative ad since media genius Tony Schwartz showed a mushroom cloud as a little girl picked petals off a daisy to derail Barry Goldwater’s 1964 crusade.

The wolf ad has sparked an amazing surge in Bush’s support to the point where every poll but one shows him well ahead of his Democratic rival. It perfectly captures the odd juxtaposition of seeming peace and tranquility at home and the looming danger from abroad.

9/11 began as a beautiful day, too. We woke up to crisp fall air in a sky without humidity or clouds. But the terror planes were taking off from our airports and flying over our city, circling our buildings, closing in with stealth and cunning.

Just as the wolves in the Bush ad do.

Kerry & Co. denounce Bush for running a campaign of fear. But we could have used a bit more fear when Bill Clinton failed to prepare us for the threat of terror. If only he had been more afraid of terror, he might have given the go-ahead to the 1998 CIA plan to kidnap Osama bin Laden or not tipped off the Pakistanis - and through them bin Laden - to our cruise missile attack in 1998 or given the green light to fire missiles at Osama in 1999 when the CIA said we had the best chance ever to get him.

A little fear back then would have helped a great deal.