This is from todays LA Daily News. I shall quote the relevant portion, as the link will not last long.
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Your prayers are with him, and you hope he’s doing well??? And you start an ad campaign that basically says 'he got what he had coming??? Well, isn’t that dandy!
Allow me to play the idiot reactionary and send out a hearty FUCK YOU to you and yours at this special time. Could you have least waited until it looked like the kid was gonna recover?? How do you think his mother is feel when she sees that?
Or were you secretly hoping the kid was gonna buy the farm? Wouldn’t that be outrageous!
Anyone ever read Rainbow Six? The main plot of the story (WARNING: SPOILER!!) involves a group of nutty planet-loving scientists who plan to eliminate almost all of humanity through a supervirus (isolating and vaccinating themselves from the virus, of course, so they could restart humanity and “do it right”). At the end, following the final battle and after thwarting the plot of these scientists, the counter-terrorist team makes them all strip naked and run to live wild in the woods, since that’s what they seemed to want.
I propose we do the same thing to PETA. Not because they plan on killing all of humanity, of course (not yet, anyway), but because they’re annoying, Ignorant little fucks.
I heard about this on local radio a couple of days ago. I figured the DJs were making a particularly tasteless joke.
Way to go, PETA. Most people stop sinking so low after they hit bedrock; it’s amazing (and saddening) to see an organization that says, “No, by God, let’s start drilling. I’m sure we can go lower.”
I used to enjoy Bill Maher, particularly on Politically Incorrect. He often seemed a pretty common sense - pro individual responsibility kind of guy, in addition to being pretty funny most of the time.
Then I saw him on Leno a few months ago after he had to follow an animal act, and he got all wiggy about being a member (board member IIRC) of PETA and how using animals in show business was senseless exploitation and any educational benefit people might receive was secondary to the violation of the animal’s rights by putting it in captivity and parading it around, etc.
I was dumbstruck. I haven’t been able to reconcile my two perceptions of the guy, but by listening more closely to what he says since the Leno thing, I’m thinking pretty much anything he says that sounds like common sense is suspect and probably supplied to him by his writers.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
Is PETA stupid enough to think that if we stop eating sharks, they’ll stop trying to eat us?
Man, I am so tired of these guys jumping in everybody’s face all the time, trying to make people feel like assholes if they don’t agree that animals have rights. Why the hell should animals have rights? If PETA’s argument is that securing rights for animals would prevent cruelty and suffering, they’re completely full of shit. We have laws in the U.S. that are designed to combat animal cruelty, but they don’t do it by ensuring that cute little kittens and baby seals have rights. They do it by punishing cruel human behavior. In other words, we punish the drooling idiot down the street for shoving the lit firecracker up the cat’s ass not because he violated the cat’s rights, but because he’s engaging in some seriously deviant behavior.
My view? If another shark can enjoy a shark steak, so can I. So what if we use gill nets to nail the sharks? Their natural predators rip them into tiny pieces with their jaws. Which is worse? And why does it matter?
Maher is a lot of things, but politically incorrect he ain’t. Maybe that refers to some of his guests. He’s pretty boring, actually, since his responses are so predictable. Oh well.
I don’t like animal cruelty- in fact, those people who torture small animals should be killed, basically. Hunting and raising livestock isn’t even comparable. And I love eating steak, venison, etc., and I’d try shark, but the midwestern grocery stores just don’t carry it, dang it. Is it good?
I will not attempt to plunge the depths of PETA’s stupidity.
However, just for fun:
1990 Florida shark catch: 7.4 million pounds
1999 Florida shark catch: 1 million pounds
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1993 Florida shark attacks: 8, none fatal
2000 Florida shark attacks: 34, 1 fatal
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Source: National Review Sept 3 - MC
The bosses and spin doctors at PETA have long since shown that they are:[ul]
[li]as stupid and/or ignorant as they act;[/li][li]well-meaning but clueless people who, under the rubric of “all publicity is good publicity” have decided to get their organization’s name (or at least its acronym) in the news as often as possible, no matter how outrageous they have to behave to do so, or;[/li][li]most likely hypocritical, self-centered bastards principally interested in garnering the spotlight whilst pulling down a cushy wage for doing so, but are as bad at acting as zuma would have us believe that everyone is.[/li][/ul]
In any case, they have long since made themselves as marginal to the “animal rights” debate as the WCTU is the problems of alcohol abuse. Ignore them and, like any bunch of children acting up get attention from mature human beings, they’ll go home.
Akatsukami is right; PETA is just as embarassing to animal rights activists as gun nuts who advise you to shoot federal agents in the head are to anti-gun control activists. For the record, I’m both to some degree.
SPOOFE’s Law: As a thread in reference to PETA grows longer, the greater the odds that someone will post this - or similar - play-on-words with PETA’s name.
