PETA doesn’t know fish
Jun 23, 2009 iRant
PETA reared its ugly head again. Seattle’s Pike Place is a must see for any visitor and a wonderful place to market for the locals. The fish market at Pike place carries some of the freshest fish you can find. Once a customer has chosen their fish, the employees who work the counter get the fish to the employees who wrap it by tossing the fish. Tossing is the most efficient way to get the fish from point A to point B. Recently PETA protested a proposed demonstration of “fish tossing”, saying the practice is one in “which animals are treated…disrespectfully.” PETA obviously failed to consult the fish.
Tags: funny, headlines, PETA, politically correct, politically incorrect
What would Benjamin have done?
Jun 16, 2009 iThoughts
The Second amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” To understand the amendment legal scholars look to the intent of the framers. Some people who advocate gun control say that the framers could not have imagined the evolution of guns. If they knew that automatic guns and “Saturday night specials” would eventually be readily obtainable, the framers would have qualified the right to bear arms to not include these guns that are often used in violent crimes.
So I decided to imagine what the amendment would read if indeed an AK-47 was available to our founding fathers. Would such weapons be excluded from the “right” to bear arms?
Our nation was born after a long and bloody fight with a well armed and well trained English army. Legal scholars agree that part of the intent behind the Second Amendment was to have an armed citizenry in case the federal army needed re-enforcements. Politically correct or not, we are a country of cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, Starship Troopers and giant space bugs. I think that this NOT-AFRAID-AND-WON’T-BACK-DOWN attitude has served us well on the world stage.
I believe that our founding fathers would have embraced the Uzi. An America armed with automatic guns would have ended the Revolutionary War much sooner with fewer casualties (assuming the English were oblivious to the existence of the Uzi). However the subsequent Civil War would have been more problematic.
Tags: deborah rheuban, funny, gun control, politically incorrect, the constitution, the second amendment