In an effort to bring some clarity to the situation, PETA released a statement saying:

“As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act. We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s book, Making Kind Choices, about how to rid your home of “uninvited guests.” ‘

“We support compassion for all animals, even the most curious, smallest, and least sympathetic animals. We hope that everyone will take inspiration from Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who included insects in his realm of compassion and would stop to move a worm from hot pavement to cool earth.”

http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2009/06/bacardi-says-hot-accessory-this-summer.html

You are JOKING about the fly swatting are you not?

I could believe they’d be against little boys removing fly wings for their sport, but a fly swat is specifically designed not only to kill the insect humanely, but to crush very tellingly the little half-maggots that tend to emerge from the deceased parental blow-fly. None shall call this infanticide. Fair suck of the Mortein can.

Turn off the sound, dammit. If I want to hear your ad/music/whatever, I’ll press the play button myself.

I condemn them loudly.

Senator Brown accused Senator Abetz of being the Madame Defarge of Australian politics.

“He wants to sit at the guillotine knitting with other people’s hair,” he told ABC Radio.

“He’s got nothing constructive to do whatsoever.”

Unfortunately, this trend is now been applied to an issue of enormous importance: climate change. Because it’s been seen through the filter of ideology, there are substantial numbers on both sides of the debate, with both sides reacting to each new pronouncement with the objectivity of a football crowd. I suspect that if rainfall permanently ceased, countries were inundated and the Earth turned into a dustbowl, RWDBs would still see climate change as a left-wing conspiracy. And vice versa. It seems inevitable that with opinion evenly divided, drastic measures will never be taken. I only hope the scientific community have got it wrong.

He was pretty sick for a long while, and had porterhouse for his last meal, and was surrounded by people and dogs who loved him, so not such a bad deal in the scheme of things.