Animals in the News, Part One: Animal-Animals
The cynical comedian W.C. Fields famously said, “Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.” Whether Fields was serious or not is debatable since he often performed with both children and animals and he financially supported his two sons even when he didn’t have to.
The point is that children and animals aren’t all that bad even though both can be difficult at times and even if both can turn vicious. Kids aren’t the subject of this piece, though; animals of various stripes are.
In the nation’s capital, so-called Occupiers have become a problem as they have wherever they’ve moved in. Newt Gingrich advised them a while ago to get a job and take a bath but they’ve done neither. What they have done in D.C. and elsewhere is create a sanitation hazard by breeding rats.
There are various kinds of rats in Washington but here I refer to the 4-legged kind infesting Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square, not the human vermin.
In what must be a PETA-inspired decision, D.C. health officials plan to pack the rats off to neighboring Virginia rather than exterminating them which would make more sense, except to the officials. To show their concern for family values, the braindead Washingtonians are also insisting on the impossible, capturing and exporting the rodents with their little rat families.
At least that’s the interpretation of the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010 by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli who thinks the law is “crazier than fiction.” Gene Harrington, Director of the National Pest Management Association concurs saying, “Basically, federal and local government regulations have tied legal District rodent control practices in knots and made the management of such a problem much more complicated than it should be."
It’s all par for the course when governmental functionaries pretend they know what they’re doing.
There are other animal stories in the news, not ridiculous stories like that of the D.C. rats but, instead, gory and tragic. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12166.)
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
PETA: People Evolving Toward Assininity
PETA, People Evolving Toward Assininity, aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has long been known for its concern that we humans wise up and smell the reality that animals are people, too!
Okay, they don’t precisely say that. In truth, they feel that the many species of beasties that inhabit the planet are not really people. They’re much better. They don’t hate, they don’t murder, they don’t backbite, they don’t hold grudges, and they don’t vote.
See “President Obamabortion . . . ” (et al.)http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=213
PETA’s Mission Statement proclaims that its alleged 2 million strong membership is dedicated to relieving the suffering of animals, which is certainly admirable. It also focuses on protecting “beavers, birds, and other ‘pests’ and the abuse of backyard dogs.” http://www.peta.org/about/index.asp.
That, I guess, is admirable as well although its inattention to frontyard and sideyard dogs is somewhat disturbing.
Its mission statement also omits all reference to that animal designed to be the ruler of the animal pack, that animal intended by God to be at the top of the food chain, the only animal infused with an immortal soul, the human animal.
“PETA people” is not intentionally synonymous with “PITA people,” which acronym has to do with what some doctors were wont to scribble on patient charts to describe those who were Pains In The Arse. Still, that designation aptly applies to PETAs.
PETA is always thirsting for publicity, whether through over-the-top, and banned ads, such as those depicting “poultry morgues” in supermarkets or bulging, impotent pizza delivery guys or singing cows or copulating cats, http://www.spike.com/collection/15167.
More “mainstream” PETA advertisements and demonstrations, such as nude women covered in animal blood and attacking fur-wearing women, were deemed acceptable.
PETA was recently in the news in a story relating to the title of this piece. The super-sensitive organization objected to our super-sensitive president’s swatting a fly and suggested a more humane approach to dealing with such pests, namely trapping future flies and then releasing them in the great outdoors.
Criticized by Pro-Lifers for its focus on flies and ignoring people, a spokesman said employed the glib reductio ad absurdum argument that, “We don’t take a stance on that (abortion) any more than Operation Rescue would take a stance on going vegetarian:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51096
Well, not exactly, PETANS. Your organization’s very name indicates your interest is in ethically treating “animals,” which should reasonably incorporate the top of the food chain unless, of course, you feel humans are not atop that chain and that dogs, cats, snakes, chickens–and flies–supersede people.
PETA even offered its alternative to smushing flies, its handy-dandy “Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher,” available for eight bucks for fly/bug lovers.
Now, I’m sure PETA people are very intelligent folks. After all, aren’t all caring folk sensitive? However, they may not be aware of the nature of the fly.
Flies may be cute lil creatures to PETA . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Okay, they don’t precisely say that. In truth, they feel that the many species of beasties that inhabit the planet are not really people. They’re much better. They don’t hate, they don’t murder, they don’t backbite, they don’t hold grudges, and they don’t vote.
See “President Obamabortion . . . ” (et al.)http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=213
PETA’s Mission Statement proclaims that its alleged 2 million strong membership is dedicated to relieving the suffering of animals, which is certainly admirable. It also focuses on protecting “beavers, birds, and other ‘pests’ and the abuse of backyard dogs.” http://www.peta.org/about/index.asp.
That, I guess, is admirable as well although its inattention to frontyard and sideyard dogs is somewhat disturbing.
Its mission statement also omits all reference to that animal designed to be the ruler of the animal pack, that animal intended by God to be at the top of the food chain, the only animal infused with an immortal soul, the human animal.
“PETA people” is not intentionally synonymous with “PITA people,” which acronym has to do with what some doctors were wont to scribble on patient charts to describe those who were Pains In The Arse. Still, that designation aptly applies to PETAs.
PETA is always thirsting for publicity, whether through over-the-top, and banned ads, such as those depicting “poultry morgues” in supermarkets or bulging, impotent pizza delivery guys or singing cows or copulating cats, http://www.spike.com/collection/15167.
More “mainstream” PETA advertisements and demonstrations, such as nude women covered in animal blood and attacking fur-wearing women, were deemed acceptable.
PETA was recently in the news in a story relating to the title of this piece. The super-sensitive organization objected to our super-sensitive president’s swatting a fly and suggested a more humane approach to dealing with such pests, namely trapping future flies and then releasing them in the great outdoors.
Criticized by Pro-Lifers for its focus on flies and ignoring people, a spokesman said employed the glib reductio ad absurdum argument that, “We don’t take a stance on that (abortion) any more than Operation Rescue would take a stance on going vegetarian:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51096
Well, not exactly, PETANS. Your organization’s very name indicates your interest is in ethically treating “animals,” which should reasonably incorporate the top of the food chain unless, of course, you feel humans are not atop that chain and that dogs, cats, snakes, chickens–and flies–supersede people.
PETA even offered its alternative to smushing flies, its handy-dandy “Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher,” available for eight bucks for fly/bug lovers.
Now, I’m sure PETA people are very intelligent folks. After all, aren’t all caring folk sensitive? However, they may not be aware of the nature of the fly.
Flies may be cute lil creatures to PETA . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
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