PETA Wants to Choke Chicken

I'm for the fair treatment of animals, so don't get me wrong, but sometimes there seems to be certain people who go overboard about things.

Take PETA, for example.

This group of animal rights activists believes that the State of Kentucky does not have the right to deem chicken as the official picnic food of the State. Well, we all have an opinion, and perhaps they would enjoy a nice dish of stinky tofu but they go even further by stating that we shouldn't even have the right to enjoy a nice delicious succulent barbequed chicken on the Fourth of July - or any other day, for that matter.

These are the same fine upstanding citizens who believe that we shouldn't own pets or that seeing eye dogs should be prohibited!

PETA they want to choke,
The right of other folk,
To decide on their own,
To chew on a bone,
Or have a chicken to stroke.

Well, its just about time to go warm up the barbeque - perhaps some lamb with rosemary this evening ...

The Raids Have Begun!

"They visited us last night" ...

"They gave us warnings ... "

So stated persons who wished not to be identified after Saudi government agents visited them under cover of darkness.

The campaign has started.

Against terrorists, you ask?

Al-Qaeda cells being raided?

Bringing untold horrors to a halt before they occur?

Horrors indeed!

The horror of receiving a beautiful bouquet of the ancient symbols of love and beauty - roses - on Valentine's Day from a loved one, that is.

The agents of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (no, I didn't make that up) have commenced their annual visit to florists and gift shops instructing them to remove all red items lest the vice of presenting one's sweetheart with a red gift is promoted.

No more red roses to convey one's deepest love and respect.

No more red wrapping paper in which to enclose a gift.

No more red teddy bears!

On the Day of Love you'll fail,
To find red roses on sale;
At least in Riyadh;
It's really quite sad,
To have one could land you in jail.

Its nice to see how the Saudi princes are promoting democracy and understanding in their land.