While in the shower this AM I was drifting back in time and started thinking about one of my favorite breakfast treats as a boy, fried squirrel and biscuits, all smothered with rich, creamy sawmill-squirrel gravy. To paraphrase Randy Quaid in “Christmas Vacation”, “Now that’s gooooooooooooooood!” Which led to my next free-association. Boy, PETA would really get upset about my past eating of squirrel. Hmmm, wonder if they are at all upset at what is happening to Terri Schiavo? Let’s go see.

PETA Homepage:

PETA Announces the Sexiest Vegetarians Alive!
Hundreds of stunning vegetarians and vegans sent us their photos. We narrowed it down to 10 women and 10 men and asked visitors of GoVeg.com to select the hottest of the hot.
(…)
The Lowdown on J. Lo
Most celebrities try to hide the skeletons in their closets, but Jennifer Lopez flaunts hers every time she wears or designs with fur. J. Lo has a nasty habit of shamelessly flaunting furs, from her mink eyelashes down to her rabbit-fur footwear.
(…)
About PETA
PETA believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their best interests taken into consideration, regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. [em mine]

Nothing about Terri on their home page, wait a minute, here’s something promising on PETA TV:

Save Her Life Now!

Yeah — Uh Oh! It’s a video about a cow. OK, then let’s do a search . . . Here’s the results:

Your search – schiavo – did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing “schiavo”.

So I plugged in “euthanasia” for the search and up came 115 main entries for the PETA site. I guess that as long as you’re not a human being, PETA people have your back!

That was interesting, but not unexpected, so let’s go dumpster diving in the fever swamp and see what other noted Leftist sites are saying today as Terri hovers near death by starvation and dehydration, the new “preferred way to go” for moonbats everywhere.

From Michael Moore’s Must Read section:

Conservatives use Terri Schiavo for fundraising:

“Videotape of Terri Schiavo blinking at her parents has inspired donations from people around the country to the foundation set up to help pay for the family’s legal battle. But many other groups are soliciting donations in her name as well, some for a much broader agenda.”
(…)
Others just take the ‘Culture of Life’ and try to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions.
(…)
Tom DeLay’s fight for governmental involvement in Schiavo case was either a media ploy to stop an avalanche of bad press (which didn’t work) or he was making amends for not getting the government involved 16 years ago when he and his family let his father die.

Not one sympathetic word for Terri. Maybe Moore thinks that Terri is just on a very interesting crash diet that he might like to check out some day. Maybe he just doesn’t think at all, just “feels” his way through life. Let’s go elsewhere, yeah, Air America. We get to watch the insanity of its beginning on HBO later this week, so we’ll check ‘em out.

Air America Top Stories:

Husband Arranges for Autopsy of Terri Schiavo

An effort to silence critics, confirm brain damage. Meanwhile, the protests outside the hospice takes its toll on other families.

Schiavo Case Highlights Difficulties of Gay Partners

Gays face barriers on health care decisions they make with their life partners.

It’s Not About Terri Schiavo

Laura Flanders tells us what this circus is really about: The life of our GOP-ruled Congress; Political posturing for Christian voters; “Performing compassion” when the administration is “only-and-all about profits”; Tom Delay attempting to cover up his corruption; Diverting attention from Iraq; Sending Americans out to war to kill and be killed while making a spectacle of a brain-dead woman to promote the GOP “culture of life” facade. “Plastic pathos, sure, and for-profit compassion – there’s plenty — but, actual honest-to-your-god empathy? You tell me.”

Whew! Not much compassion there either. Whatever happened to all that “compassion” that the Democrats talked about ad nausium during the last election cycle? Speaking of the Dems, let’s go there next, and to the RNC site, too. — Nothing at either place. OK, not what I expected, but can’t fault one for what the other also isn’t doing.

Slate Magazine:

There’s No Resurrecting Terri Schiavo, by Christopher Hitchens

The immediate crisis has apparently passed. But all through Easter Sunday, one had to be alert to the possibility that, at any moment, the late and long-dead Terri Schiavo would receive the stigmata on both palms and both feet and be wafted across the Florida strait, borne up by wonder-working dolphins, to be united in eternal bliss with the man-child Elián González.

But wait, as they say, there’s more! Imagine Terri Were a Toaster …, or how about this touching story about a decision none of us would want to make, How Tom Delay Pulled the Plug on His Dad. [Michelle Malkin has comments on the dehumanizing of Terri here.]

Enough already! Just like in real dumpster diving, I feel like I’m covered with filth and need another shower . . . (db)

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