Kinda funny that Showtime reran the "Penn & Teller: Bullsh!t" about PETA the other day. Isn't today "Eat a critter for PETA day?" I'll be having veal tonight.

Damn, I got two "firsts" in a row. This should probably give me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Instead, I shall grab a beer (It IS NOT too early, mom) and get back to studying. Ta for now.

Years ago I took my wife to a fancy restaurant (yeah, I should have taken her since, but we've been busy with kids and stuff). The special was rabbit, and since I'd never had any, I ordered it. My wife is no vegetarian, but she does have a mantra "Cow, chicken, pig" which she maintains encompasses all meats fit to eat. Anything else is weird! So she looks at me and grimaces about the bunny, and I tell her that I promise not to tease the rabbit.



What?



Yeah, when they wheel out the cage and let you pick the bunny you want to east. Just like they do with lobster. Didn't you know that?



WHAT?!



Best pre-dinner conversation ever! I was laughing so hard, I almost plotzed! As it turned out, they had run out of rabbit, so I ended up with pork medallions.



Now my wife carefully checks my menu selection, and she tells the waiter what we'll be having, just to avoid this in the future.



Oh well. I thought the story was cute, and sort of relevant. If you found it boring as hell, please delete it. Cheers.

PETA was also planning on protesting that whole "drinking Gentile babies' blood" thing, until they found out a "Gentile" isn't an animal

Today is indeed Eat an Animal for PETA day. (via New Vintage) Before i could smile and the misfortunate a**holes, trying to make their lives meaningful by co-opting a cause. Now. those bastards are really starting to bug me. So I'll be ordering my beef burrito with an extra satisfaction today. (see i'm commenting here!) ; )

Speaking of bunny ... a friend had a Easter dinner party. Easter this year fell on April 1. She informed her guests she was serving veal. After dinner she informed her guest that they had bunny for dinner. I thought it was funny ... others were not amused.

Sigh. PETA gives us vegetarians a bad name. For an example of a sane animal welfare activist, check out Matthew Scully, a former Bush speech-writer.

They'll have to pry my corned beef on rye out of my cold, dead, Jewish hand, and I'll take more than a few of those pasty-faced tofu munching wimpy vegans with me.

I had veal last night, it'll be regular beef tonight.

This one time when I was a little kid my italian grandfather bought a few bunnies from a roadside vendor.
The vendor smiled at me and my sister in the backseat of mom's Ford Fairlane 500.

His face fell like a ton of bricks when my grandfather paid up, then twisted the bunnies' necks one by one and threw them in the trunk of the car.

We never did see that guy selling rabbits there again...
But I know my grandmother's recipe for Rabbit Stemperata by heart, and every once in a while I make it for my mother as a treat.

As long as there is a thriving immigrant population in the US, PETA will get absolutely nowhere.

I could be a vegetarians if steak wasn't so darn good, and tofu so ... NOT. I was force-fed it as a child. shudder.

PETA haiku contest?

PETA protests zoo
No meat! Save the animals!
Lions eat them alive

As soon as blogger decides to post my most recent entry, I'm hosting a "PETA Sucks" Haiku contest over at my blog. ... .... Swing on by and throw your $.02 in!

Since PETA protests
meals cooked kosher, I guess that
Cedar is their President.

PETA, lovely cranks
Starving the jews quietly
Hitler was vegan

PS -Jack, last line=6 --> loose shit, Jack

On a personal note ... my signficant other has had dealings with PETA people. (BTW why do they always smell bad?) As a college biology professor there is a small but vocal group on campus always demanding the end of disections. Recently they have even published our private contact info on the internet and encouraged protesting at our home. This is really minor when compared to bombings that some of these animal rights groups have carried out.
It is very easy to laugh at them and assume they are silly smelly cranks but these loons can be very dangereous.

Leni,

No joke. Set up perimeter security (motion sensors, alarm systems, etc) and put in extra smoke detectors/fire extinguishers near the windows.

And buy a gun or 3.

These cranks move quickly from inconvenience to dangerous.

Yeah...the last line was supposed to be "Pres." instead of "President", but somewhere my wires got crossed while I was typing.

OK, post it up - Haiku contest over at my place.

OK, post is up - Haiku contest over at my place.

Haiku ? Hell Yes! I love Japanese cartoon porn!

BobG: There is not now, and never has been , an animal known as regular beef. You will be eating Bossy or Elsie and I, for one, salute you.

Bullwinkle: Stock up on that corned beef, the faux Irish are coming out in droves this year. You might want to corner the cabbage market as well.

I guess that means PETA can forget about the ACLU being it's ally and pushing lawsuits for animal civil liberties and Constitutional protections.

Now Cedar...that could have been a haiku with just a little effort!

Something like:

"Peta can forget
Their ACLU allies
when they go to court."

C'mon man...try to get into the spirit of things around here!

After all..if you are gonna be an anti-semitic troll, you might as well be an artistic one.

Funny, Jack M. I was serious. But a Haiku for you.

Tossing slabs of bacon Jack M's way
Offended? Eat it when Mommy's not looking?
Or will he try to sell it?

That's the spirit, Cedar! Glad to see you getting into the swing of things.

But, you see, a Haiku is a pretty formal poem. It consists of a line of 5 syllables, followed by a line with 7, followed by another line with 5.

An example would be:

"I want to see the
look on Cedar's face when he
learns the Nazi's lost."

See? 5-7-5.

"Even though the Iowa plant has discontinued a bleeding-facilitating arterial cut that PETA deemed a "dismemberment" of live animals, the animal rights group is now demanding ..." Proving once again that there is no dealing with Liberals. Just like Hitler, as soon you compomise with them, they interpert it as fear or weakness and are only emboldened by it. The best way to deal with them is too call them what they are: unhappy, deluded, freaks who are looking for ways to drown out their misery by taking up silly "causes," and then ignore them completely. With enough forebearance, they will tire of getting nowhere and go away.

Lauraw - A Ford Farilane 500! Wow does that bring me back! Was the 2 door or 4 door, color and features, what model years was it and what year was it?

Well I was born in 1970 and the car predated me by a few years, so mid- late 60's? Not sure exactly what year, sorry.
Deep dark Ford Blue baby.
Four door...vinyl bench seats that would burn your little ass on a hot sunny day.
I don't really remember much about it, it was traded away when I was about 12.

I remember that nobody ever used seatbelts. My mom's idea of auto safety was to tell us to stay away from the door when she turned hard around a corner. LOL
And when she had to stop fast, she'd throw her arm across and catch us before we slid into the dash.
If we were in the backseat we'd hit the back of the front seat. LOL
How much has changed in such a short time.