How long will we be in Iraq?

Just a little poll here:

0 - 2 Years
2 - 5 Years
5 - 10 Years
Longer....

Spackler gives Nym $$$$$$ soon!

Nym's homeboy gaining strength in the base.....Hillary beware!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_12_05_PH.html

Kentucky Fried Connerie

I was recently introduced to a website called Kentucky Fried Cruelty. In my curiosity I surfed the site thinking it might be some hippy bashing contest out of the midwest, but quickly realized it was something much worse: an attack on one of America's favorite eateries. This Peta-sponsored propaganda is a disgrace to our nation and to the human race. In addition, it criticizes one of God’s greatest creations - the Fried Chicken. This family favorite has been part of the American tradition from its earliest beginnings:

In 1622, Colonel Sanders, one of the first Pilgrims to land on Plymouth Rock, accidentally discovered the fried chicken when his pet Clucky fell into a vat of scorching oil which he was preparing to toss onto the neighboring Indians. Thanks to Col. Sanders and Clucky, there came to be enough calorie-filled food for all the colonists and natives to survive. The occurrence preceded what we now know as Thanksgiving.

The problem I have with Peta is not their anti-capitalistic messages or their animal husbanding ways. It’s that their organization protects the rights of animals while neglecting the rights of man. Case in point, Peta's Mission Statement states the following:

“…PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.”

What exactly are the rights of animals? Do they have the right to vote? Do they have the right to bear arms? Do they even have arms? As a member of the human species, I have the fortune to know and understand my rights. I know I am within my rights to raise and kill livestock to feed my family.

The practice of killing chickens for food has been around for several millennia, the most common method being an axe to the head, which seems to be the most efficient way to kill individual chickens. There have been other attempts to improve on this method, but they’ve met little success. With the advent of mass production came a process of mass slaughtering, where 850 million chickens a year are killed. In the process, some of these chickens haphazardly die in cruel and unusual manners: by being ripped apart as they go through the conveyor, by getting trampled by fatter chickens fighting for their lives, or by being sodomized by a frustrated worker at the slaughterhouse. Unfortunately there’s not much that we can do about it… we’re talking 850 million chickens a year here, one of them is bound to take it in the butt.

Peta wants us to believe, much like feminists, that we are all alike and as such have all the same feelings, thoughts, and rights. The problem is that we are not alike. Humans have evolved from something that originally may have very well looked like a chicken, but after billions of years of evolution, is definitely not a chicken. We find in our Darwinian bodies that we have improved on things that chickens tend not to have, the most important of these being our brains. If we stop using this most precious of organs, as many Peta members tend to do, then we might as well take an axe to the head. How many people do you know that can still function without theirs? After all, if it walks like a chicken and talks like a chicken, maybe it’s a chicken!? In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, even Napoleon admits that “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

If Peta has a problem with KFC’s treatment of animals, then I suggest they get all the chickens out to vote. Cluck the Vote! If this seems impossible because of their apathy of the issues, try gathering an army of fowl to revolt on the capital against human domination. It seems these Orwellians, much like the evangelicals, have taken the book too literally.

In life, it seems to me, that everything balances out. For every chicken will have its day eventually. If they don’t stab us in the eyes with their pointy beaks, then it will be in our arteries with their tender fat-filled breasts. Where else can you get such a great meal at such a heart stopping price? In the meantime, please let me enjoy my 6 piece nuggets.

Mmmmm…Finger lickin’ good.

Making sure there are future software buyers

In an effort to ensure there are a sufficient number of people to buy MS software in the future, Bill Gates....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10415553/site/newsweek/