Silflay Hraka

PETA is always good for a laugh. Their current target is Jennifer Lopez. Instead of protesting her latest film, “Monster in Law”, for the obvious reason that, dear God, Jennifer Lopez should stop making movies – the PETA folks use the opportunity to roll panties in wad over Jennie’s use of fur in her clothing line.

The protesters, who included some people dressed in animal suits, complained that they have asked several times that Lopez eliminate fur from her clothing line, but have been ignored.

Ignored, huh? Imagine that.

For me, here’s the clause that pays:

who included some people dressed in animal suits

First of all, if you are wearing a suit of fake rabbit for any reason outside of an Easter party or a sick sexual game, you are a loser with a capital ‘L’. Should someone invent a font where the capital letters are 60 to 70 times larger than the lower case, your capital ‘L’ belongs in that font.

While I was not a member of the debate club, I feel I can state with reasonable certainty that donning squirrel garb does not bolster your point or increase your credibility.

Well, this post is about perverted soft drinks, not Demon Liquor, but I am drinking a Sierra Nevada IPA, and will switch to Old Grandad within the hour… So the category is Demon Liquor for 500, Alex.

I tried a new soft drink today – Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. It wasn’t as much of a crime against nature as I expected it would be. In fact, it was good, in an innocuous, tastes-like-too-many-things-to-taste-distinct sort of way, kind of like if you get a forkfull of stuff from the mixed-up middle of your plate at a Chinese buffet. No telling what’s in it, but it wasn’t bad. I happen to like Dr. Pepper, even the atrocious Diet Dr. Pepper, and the unnatural knockoff, Mr. Pibb, so I didn’t mind it.

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Lt. Smash has a good entry on runaway illegal immigration in his home state of California, along with coverage of the most offensive billboard I’ve ever seen, claiming Los Angeles as spoils in a Mexican reconquista. Click on the link, click on the photo for a larger version, and check out the crossed out “CA”.

Oooh, that’s a wee bit brazen, don’t you think?

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I’ve heard of having flies in one’s eyes, but this is ridiculous.

Al Asad is the second largest airbase in Iraq. It was hit by a sandstorm Sunday. The image above is the first one in a Powerpoint file on the storm sent in by LTC Bob, who also sent along a picture of what it looks like inside of one.

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster.

This amused me.

Not so extinct, after all.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct, has reportedly been sighted in eastern Arkansas, a Cornell University researcher says in a paper released Thursday.

”The bird captured on video is clearly an ivory-billed woodpecker. Amazingly, America may have another chance to protect the future of this spectacular bird and the awesome forests in which it lives,”

Update: The video of the Ivory-billed can be seen here, and tapes of its call may be heard here.

I’ve been following the ongoing uproar involving Bush’s nominee for the UN Ambassadorship, John Bolton, with a bit of interest.

Some years back, I did a stint with the UN in a war zone, and I never saw an organization with more potential to do good, but less ability to execute. In short, the components that comprised this particular mission made a hash out of it, thanks to a hellbroth of a spoils system for key jobs, contractors that siphoned off money like a wino sucking down Mad Dog, and individual component nations staffing the peacekeeping corps with military units that were rotten with corruption.

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