Nemo's "Hellish Prison"

That'd be a fishbowl according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a Los Angeles Times story with a very high idiot factor. Top spot, of course, goes to the dopey parents who are powerless to say, "No, you may not have a clownfish" or even stop their charges from flushing the damn things down the crapper.

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[Michael Savage]

PETA=
People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

[Marilyn V.]

"I'm guessing that [O'Reily] or one of his parents went alkie."

Sean, good guess! (It was his Dad.)

We will always exaggerate, or try to passionately ameliorate, that which went wrong in our own life.

In that light, you suppose PETA-people were once very, very mean to animals and are now on one humongous guilt trip?

[twistedmerkin]

I love animals. I mean, I love to fuck 'em.

[twistedmerkin]

Nemo sleeps with the fishes...

[The Lonewacko Blog]

In addition to the Arafat letter, they also had a travelling exhibit called the "Chicken Holocaust," comparing the Holocaust to chicken farming.

However, while fishbowls might not be hellish prisons, "captive fish are free from predators" is not natural.

And, I wonder how many of these people who call into this one plumber in Valencia are Disney employees, if you catch my conspiratorial drift.

[Plutarck]

Yet another clear sign that caring, compassionate people who want to prevent and end unneccessarily suffering in sentient creatures REALLY should join an organization that is NOT PETA.

Jesus, these people are an absolute embarrasment to all sentient creatures waaayyy too damn often.

...but the naked women anti-fur ads were pretty damn good. I don't think they did a single damn thing to, say, oh, you know, stop animals from being horribly tortured and slaughtered because people think their carcasses look good strung across a woman's body...but, well, I guess nobody's perfect.

*sigh* I hate it when people I agree with on _anything_ make total idiots of themselves, forcing me to attempt to distance myself from them as soon as possible.

[Kay Niner]

I own a dog.

(Specially trained to bite any PETA member he sees in the butt.)

[Russ]

I too like animals... medium rare.

[Mike]

I hate to be picky, but...okay, that's not true. I love to be picky. So I feel compelled to point out that Nemo didn't go down the toilet. He went down a *dental spit sink*. That would work, wouldn't it? Huh? Wouldn't it?

[Anonymous]

Either way ... yecchh!

[Linda]

By the way, what are you doing watching movies in the Kid's Section anyway? Shouldn't you be commenting on Matrix, or The Hulk, or X-Women (excuse me, X-Men)?

[Sean]

Doesn't matter, toilet or sink, Muffin Monster chews 'em up.

[The Lonewacko Blog]

Here's every chubby chaser's favorite PETA ad.

[radioman]

Hmm, I've never watched "American Idol." (Don't watch TV much.) But maybe I should. They've got naked girls on there now? Wow!

I guess Europe is beginning to have an influence over here.

[radioman]

(Referring to Wacko's chubby-chaser link, of course.)

[Sean]

The parents just need to tell the kids about the Muffin Monster, it could become the modern day bathroom bogeyman. Of course, this could set potty training back a few years.

On another note, is it possible for PETA to ever make themselves look like anything but idiots? You'd think the PR dept would occasionally have them save puppies from the pound, clean them up and give them to a blind kids home or something. Then again, I'm sure there'd be something objectionable about even that.

[jacob]

man, you would think libertarians would dig PETA if for nothing else than proving free market social change is possible. with no legislation/regulators (can you IMAGINE a politician supporting PETA? he'd get LYNCHED.) they have made companies l;ike M

[joe]

The naked women anti-fur ads were pretty good.

Anyway, their PR is sub-LP.

[Michael Savage]

Perhaps someone should free the humans of peta into their natural environment by flushing them.

[Frenk]

It's hard imagining any sensible person paying attention to a group of serious weenies like PETA.

(For me, the last straw was the letter to Yassar Arafat asking him to not send any more bombs on donkeys, as if blowing up people is fine. Which is no doubt what they think.)

There is something to be said for stewardship, but PETA ain't got it.

[Kevin Carson]

Sean,

Their "got beer?" ads were pretty creative. Of course, back then it was the humorless Bill O'Reilly who took umbrage at their promotion of teen alcoholism.

What it all boils down to is, anyone whose behavior is influenced by PSA's is an easily manipulated, herd-thinking shithead.

I like Steven King's character in *Road Rage* who (in the process of a complete mental breakdown) developed a contempt for what he called the "trained dog ethic." After being bombarded by a bunch of "be a good citizen--conserve energy!" propaganda, he started deliberately driving his car up and down the freeway just to waste gas. When informed that a blender was an especially bad user of energy, he turned his on until it burned out.

And then, there's National Lampoon's "Get Off My Damn Back" Magazine, which included stories of people who deliberately rammed cars with "Baby on Board" signs, and bought Old Nick cigarettes with "all the tar and twice the nicotine."

Maybe somebody needs to run amok every now and then, just to remind the social engineers that we're not all just compliant human raw material.

[Sean]

Kevin & Joe,

You got me, beer and naked women, it's hard to screw those two things up. I'll give 'em points for those. What is it with O'Reilly and alcohol? I'm guessing that he, his wife, or one of his parents went alkie (maybe all of them). I keep expecting him to show up with a "one day at a time" button on.

[Brad S]

Kevin - I couldn't agree more. "Social(ist) engineers" can all go to hell.

[Ig]

I live in VA near the PETA HQ. We refer to them as People Embarrasing the Tidewater Area!!!

[Billy Oblivion]

Hey LG, PETA is all in favor of direct action as a means of first amendment expression.

Get creative on them.

[penguin]

Jacob, any politician supporting PETA would have to be either a donkey or an elephant. And they're sorta hard to lynch.