This article cracks me up. Or at least the quote from the PETA person does.
"We were shocked to discover that the dissection kit contains the carcass of a real frog," said spokesman Michael McGraw.
Well really, what'd they expect in a frog dissection kit. You know, PETA really gets under my skin. On one hand they try to make themselves look like their just being kind and say things like "Be kind, adopt a pet!" Which is all well and good. And then you had the spokeman who said "Sure, 5 million jews were killed in the holcaust, but over 100 million chickens die every year!" I mean, what sort of people are these?
I think we've had to much of Disney-esque personification of animals...people are actually beginning to give them equal footing with humans. I mean, I'm all for being nice and responsible, taking care of pets, etc. But let's draw a line somewhere, okay?
I'm just rambling though, so I'll be quiet.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
My take
Living in a foreign country often gives someone some opportunities to dispel myths that people have about my country. In this paticular case I'm talking about the recent election. Or at least, if I'm not dispelling a myth, I'm taking a different approach than what's normally understood.
My take on it all is this: It's not really surprsing at all. From what I can tell, this is being treated as some grand revolution that's shocked the world, much like the republican win during Clinton's last mid-term election. Well, I hate to contradict people, but to me, this seems the same, business as usual cycle. I mean, has the president's party EVER kept control during the mid-term of his second term? I don't think so. So why is everyone acting like this is a major thing?
Okay, you have some what of an argument for it saying 'the president has lost the people's confidence' but even that's not much to me. I mean, people are so wishy washy on everything (even me) that it means beans about 'peoples confidence' as a real indicator of anything.
After all, in the early 90s people swore that 7-up was the greatest "uncola" and after a year long advertising blitz, sprite dominates.
But hey, that's just my opinion
My take on it all is this: It's not really surprsing at all. From what I can tell, this is being treated as some grand revolution that's shocked the world, much like the republican win during Clinton's last mid-term election. Well, I hate to contradict people, but to me, this seems the same, business as usual cycle. I mean, has the president's party EVER kept control during the mid-term of his second term? I don't think so. So why is everyone acting like this is a major thing?
Okay, you have some what of an argument for it saying 'the president has lost the people's confidence' but even that's not much to me. I mean, people are so wishy washy on everything (even me) that it means beans about 'peoples confidence' as a real indicator of anything.
After all, in the early 90s people swore that 7-up was the greatest "uncola" and after a year long advertising blitz, sprite dominates.
But hey, that's just my opinion
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