I was told by a good friend that this was going to go down so I looked up the news report for the upcoming protest and being as I was in the area I couldn’t resist a look-see. In that article I was promised topless people dressed like fish. Who can pass up the opportunity to see half naked people dressed like fish? I sure can’t. I have seen them do this before at some of their other what I have dubbed “Tits for Tuna” protests. But alas while the two guys followed through and were topless the one female of the group put star shaped stickers over her nipples before painting herself to look like algae with flippers and while laying there she laid one arm over herself to further cover them up. I am thinking about suing PETA for false advertising. I was promised a crazy PETA peep show.

I must say that their protest was a little lack luster compared to some of their other “pornography for animal rights” stunts. Maybe the actual pornography web site they are going to launch to promote a Vegan lifestyle will be more revealing. But their protest was a success. They had, I would guesstimate around 50 people gawk at and mock them for the better part of the hour they were laying there. I would also like to mention that one of Spokane”s local newspaper columnists, Doug Clark from the Spokesman Review, was kind enough to bring lunch for us stating at the beginning of the protest “get a free Filet o’ fish. Because you can’t enjoy the protest on an empty stomach.” Thank you Mr. Clark. Another sign of their success was the news outlets and blogs that are mocking them today. I would say they successfully proved once again that PETA is nothing more than a bunch of enviro-wackos that do little more than put on a mediocre show on par with most other street performances.  I was surprised though that the local looney bin did not make a showing to drive them back home.

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But of course the race baiters at the LA chapter of the NAACP, as usual hear what they want to hear rather than what is actually being said. The President of the LA chapter Leon Jenkins who apparently was not getting enough attention claims that the card actually says “You black whores you’re so ominous“.  Now not having experience with black whores or any whores for that matter I could not attest to how ominous they can be but one thing is for sure this guy needs to get a hearing test. What is worse is that he has all kinds of black people who, I would assume, are otherwise intelligent people believing that the dastardly denizens of hate “HALLMARK” are intentionally putting a slight against the black race in their otherwise fun graduation cards.

I can just see that meeting at Hallmark, cant you? All of those evil Hallmark execs sitting around in white sheets scheming on ways to insult black people through their series of playful and well known greeting cards and let us not forget they have to come up with a fake script to release to the press. Anyone who actually buys into this is a sheep and will do and believe anything they are told. Unfortunately stores have bowed to this race card playing buffoon and are pulling the card from their shelves because someone got their feelings hurt by a non-existent insult.

I have listened to this card over and over trying my hardest to hear either the word Whore or Ho as some have said but for the life of me all I can hear is black hole. I guess I am just either to racist or to blind to the eminent threat that Hallmark poses to the black culture to hear it.

The point is crap like this has gone too far. For crap sake quit trying to read an insult into everything you come across. It makes you (and I am looking at you LA chapter of the NAACP) look foolish. I know that the only way you make money is to make people think that they are much bigger victims than they actually are but this is just ridiculous.

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Currently, you can only buy the tickets for this particular lottery online. However, soon enough you’ll be able to buy them at News stands, convenience stores, or anywhere else that lottery tickets are sold. You may be thinking – what if the procedure fails does it void your prize? Nope, this is a full featured prize. If the standard invitro fertilization fails the fertility clinic will offer the winner reproductive surgery, donor eggs, sperm or surrogate birth. The winner will only get to choose one of the alternative treatments, you do not win as many chances as it takes for you to figure out which ones gonna work. Bare in mind, if it fails you only get one more shot. Ms. Camille Strachan who is the founder and Chair of the charity who has had fertility treatment of her own was quoted as saying she wanted to create the “ultimate wish list” for individuals and families who are having trouble or can’t conceive.

But of course, as usual, there are medical and ethical groups that are strongly condemning the Gambling Commission for this wonderful idea of licensing this fertility charity to raise some funds through lab stimulated life. Britain’s fertility regulator, The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said, “using in vitro fertilization as a prize was wrong and entirely inappropriate.” These same critics are trying to convince people that it trivializes what is for many people a central part of their lives.

Josephine Quintavalle, from the campaign group “Comment on Reproductive Ethics”, said “creation of human life should not be reduced to a public lottery … this demeans the whole nature of human reproduction.” This is absolutely ridiculous – at what point is having a lottery that can bring in necessary revenue an ethically bad idea when it comes to helping families that normally would not be able to afford the 25,000 pounds it would cost to have these procedures done?

I don’t see an ethical issue here in any way shape or form. In vitro fertilization has been an accepted medical treatment for well over a decade now. And in a country where one and seven couples suffers from one fertility problem or another, I don’t see a downside. They’re balking at this lottery when figures show that 40,000 patients in the UK were treated with in vitro fertilization in 2008 which led to 15,000 babies being born for couples who wouldn’t probably be able to conceive otherwise. I mean hell we have lotteries for everything else why not lab-grown turkey baster babies…

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