PETA regularly kills animals needlessly

There are lots of related links in the article. Please go check them out.

PETA, I hate you more than I think I hate anything else in this world, and that's saying a lot.

I can't even think about this anymore right now. I can't fathom why PETA still exists, unless its entire purpose is to drive me out of my mind completely.

I am pretty sure I've mentioned this before.

Read this short little article from Chevy and Jayni Chase about how our lack of interest and attention in the bodies of water that cover over 70% of the planet are killing it and all the life it contains.

Since people are paying attention for five minutes right now because of the catastrophe BP created in the Gulf of Mexico, maybe we can start doing something about it. You know, before everyone loses interest again.

Don't eat fish unless it was caught sustainably.

Don't eat blue fin tuna or shark fin anything at all ever.

Write your representative.

Pay attention.

Now if you already are a pinko commie like me who believes in things like conservation and protecting the environment and being tolerant of differences and that freedom is more important than security etc., etc., etc., then you are already mad.

If you are the opposite of me and would prefer to live in a military state where police regularly ask you for your "papers" on any given street corner, you can be arrested for looking like you might be from another country, and you believe that you should be able to tell people which (if any) religion is the "right" one, and that one is of course, naturally, Christianity, then let me put it in terms you can understand:

Job 12:7-10. But ask the animals, and they will teach you; or birds of the air and they will tell you; or speak to the earth and it will teach you; or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Lev. 25:23-24. The land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Ezekiel 34:17-18. As for you, my flock... Is it not enough for you to feed on good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

Jer. 2:7. I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and you made my inheritance detestable.

You're welcome. I hope this helps you understand, if nothing else will, that we should not be fishing the seas until they are empty or destroying entire species of wildlife.

In case you still don't get it, and are currently thinking something along the lines of, "Oh, who cares about some bird on a lake? We don't need that bird," then I have one more example to give you. This is a famous quote about the Holocaust. (Note: if you are a completely insane person who believes the Holocaust never happened, immediately leave this site and never ever come back. In fact, go jump off the nearest tallest building you can find.)

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller

How is this related? Well, if you think we don't need a random bird or a particular fish or a certain type of tree, I'm just trying to point out to you that something was eating that bird and that bird was eating something. And everything is related, genius, and we're going to be in a sorry state when we have successfully killed every living thing on the planet except human beings. I guess then it's time for Soylent Green, right?

Boston is one of the cities where you can get the free Metro paper. If you haven't seen it before, their motto is something like "all the news you need in 15 minutes". The idea is that you can read this very short paper with very abbreviated stories and get an overview of lots of things in a short period of time.

Anyway, yesterday a letter from a reader caught my eye because the synopsis that the paper chose to highlight was something like "Hitler Had National Healthcare Too".

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TSA to swab airline passengers' hands

Fabulous. Here's a problem:

Because some legal substances -- such as fertilizers and heart medicines -- can result in "false positives," Stanley said the ACLU also wants to ensure that people who test positive be treated respectfully.

Thanks, ACLU, for looking out for us while The Man tries to find another way to make us miserable.

Oh, hi, 80 year old grandmother, you have swabbed positive! Break out the handcuffs! What's that? You are taking heart medicine? Suck it Grandma, you're going down.

Welcome to 2010. Enjoy your post body-cavity-search and naked x-ray machine and hand-swabbing flight!

However, the absolute most upsetting thing to me at all is this, the final couple of sentences, where some moron who believes this killing was justified, is referring to pro-choice people as "pro-deathers":

"I am grateful for this evidence that the judge's heart is not fully closed," said David Leach, an Iowa-based anti-abortion activist and friend of Roeder's, who wrote his pro se briefs on the necessity defense. "I think pro-deathers are right to worry that death may lose."

Hey ass-face - do you understand that the fact that your pal Roeder killed someone, and you support it, makes you pro-death?

What the fuck, for real. It's not even worth having any kind of conversation with people who are this crazy.

Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears

Again, I refer you to Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson:

The man who trades liberty for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

Benjamin Franklin

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Thank you. The end.

Thanks for that.

Check out what Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson have to say about security. For those who are always interested in what the "founding fathers" would say.

My office phone rings.
Me: Hello, this is Jennifer.
Stranger on the other end: Hi Jennifer, who do I speak to about your Sprint phones there?
Me: (instantly suspicious) What about them?
Stranger: About the sprint phones you have there. (Note: most of our company cell phones are with Sprint/Nextel.)
Me: What about the phones?
Stranger: I spoke to one of the guys down there. About your phones. Who would that have been?
Me: (Now getting extremely pissed. I am in fact the person you would speak to about our cell phone plan/phones in general but this asshole is obviously trying to get around me to whoever he thinks he can con into something.) Who did you talk to?
Stranger: Yeah, can you just transfer me to him?
Me: (What the fuck???) Who is this calling? (Now not hiding my annoyance.)
Stranger: I guess I got the wrong number then. Sorry.
Me: FUCK YOU (before I fully hung up)

What the hell?

1. If that was an attempt at a scammy sales call, you should be fired, it's the worst one I've ever received.
2. Why were you calling me in the first place if you thought the person to talk to was "a guy"? Because I'm not sitting at reception, you actually dialed my extension, fucker. And my name is JENNIFER so if you wanted a guy, you could have chosen from the extensive list of them at this company.
3. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on and all your descendants for the rest of the history of time.