Save the animals....eat an activist!

So I'm watching CNN today and I see that there are animal rights activists protesting the Gummy Road-kill candy. What sort of mental illness do you have to suffer to take yourself this seriously. To these people I say hey, if you don't like them, don't eat them. Bite me instead.

References:

Cybercast News Service

CNN Money

Sweeping treason under the rug...[updated]

As much as both the liberals and the conservatives claim the media is biased, I'm of the the opinion that the are just sensationalist cowards too lazy to put together any real stories.

As an example, why isn't the media screaming for the head of whatever traitorous snake outted Valeire Plame as a CIA operative after her husband dared to point out the Whitehouse lied about the Iraqi/Nigerian WMD connection.

(See Plame leak timeline if you don't know about this story)

You can in no possible way rationalize this action as anything but the treason it is.


Here we have a country that tried to impeach Clinton for doing what made Kennedy everyone's hero. Yet this administration get's away with treason in violating national security, and risking the life and career of an operative to get back at her husband because he pointed out they were lying. Now I can't say that Dubya was responsible for this personally (actually it sounds like something Rove would do)because I have no evidence of that, but someone in the administration did it. This behaviour is unacceptable. Shame on the media and the public for not being outraged. People like Valerie Plame risk life and limb to protect their country. Curse those who don't honour and protect that sacrifice.

What's next, giving away the positions of troops to the enemy if their families disagree with the administration or it's policies?


(05-07-2005) UPDATE:
Well, this story is finally breaking, however as expected, the press is downplaying the heinous nature of this crime. A crime that is no less than treason.
I'm sure they'll also ignore or spin the white house connection. Turns out Rove leaked it (Gee, wish I'd thought of that), he's a traitor,and should be punished to the full extent of the law.
I can guess who else was in on it, hopefully someone will find proof.

Hmmm...to think, they tried to impeach Clinton for dipping his wick.

Setting the tone with a few quotes

Here's a few quotes I like...

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
- Theodore Roosevelt - May 7, 1918, KC Star.


"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw


"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." - Thomas Jefferson

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain

Dropping my first bomb

The way any proper war is started is to first make your enemy comfortable and while he's relaxed drop the bomb on him. Poland and the U.S. both learned this lesson in WWII.

So here's the relaxing part.

I am of no particular political affiliation, though in the past I most identified with the Republican party in the U.S. and the now deceased Reform party in Canada (replaced by the less inviting CARP party). I was a big fan of Reagan, but I think the Bush's are a travesty of epic proportions. I have an opinion on just about everything. I'm pretty well read and am information agnostic. I want to know anything I don't already know. An info sponge. I hate ignorance. A person can't help being stupid, but ignorance is a choice. So many people completely ignore anything outside the scope of their few simple daily interestes. It's sickening.

If you know me, then you are prepared to debate and defend any position or opinion you let out of your mouth. Serious, intellectual debate is a lost art and I think it's costing us all. The world is going to hell in a handbasket made of ignorance.

Well, ok, I lied about the relaxing you part. I'm not here to make you comfortable. I'm here to make you uncomfortable.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

I'm here to be the unreasonable man in the hopes of progress.