PETA staffer Chris Garnett has changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com to protest the fact that Kentucky Fried Chickend kills and fries chicken. Well, duh. At least we get to eat the batter dipped corpses from KFC. When PETA kills the animals under their care, they just kill ‘em and dump ‘em.

You know, there are two PETA employees facing animal cruelty charges in North Carolina. I’m thinking we should all petition Court TV to cover the trial. If they do, I’ll see about NRAnews.com sponsoring a watch party, complete with free KFC. What do you think?

I have been a bad blogger this week, and for that I hang my head in shame. I didn’t blog about the NYTimes defending PETA, I didn’t write about the hit piece MTV did on guns in America, I didn’t comment on Farris Hassan’s Day Off. And for that, I apologize.

I will tell you that I’ll be on WBAL in Baltimore tomorrow morning (7:45 a.m. Eastern time) talking about PETA with Bruce Elliott. If you’re up that early, feel free to tune in. Regular blogging resumes on Monday. Until then, consider this an open thread. I’ll even give you a question: what, if any, are your New Year’s Resolutions this year?

Sick babies have curtailed all of the blogging I was hoping to do this week, but I couldn’t pass up this Ted Kennedy story. Consider it my Christmas present to Kevin.

From “Pyrobob”, in response to the latest Townhall column:

eing as quick and as careless as I possibly can be… You are a sick f*ck and if i could legally take a rifle, hunt you down, and shoot you in the crotch I would not hesitate to do so. These so-called “terrorists” have more compassion for life than you can possibly imagine. Merry Christmas.

I’m not sure, but I think he was being sarcastic when he wished me a Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope Santa treated you well. It’s been an exciting 24 hours here. The house almost burned down last night. My oldest daughter (the child who’s the responsible one) decided she wanted to fry some tortillas to make chips. I walked into the kitchen just in time to see the oil in the cast iron pot burst into flames.

Of course, this is why God invented fire extinguishers. No harm, no foul, although I don’t think she’ll have cooking privileges anytime soon.

So… what did everyone get for Christmas? Elaine bought me an iPod (woohoo), I got a University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks hat, a ton of books, etc. We’re heading to the in-laws shortly, so blogging will resume tomorrow.

and their generosity towards our military folks?

A Marine who’s planning to marry a Texan got an early Christmas present: A fellow shopper picked up the tab for a $3,000 diamond engagement ring after the two struck up a conversation in a jewelry store.

The 54-year-old Dallas woman who paid for the 1-carat, princess cut diamond ring wants to remain anonymous, Helzberg Diamonds spokeswoman Stacey McBride told The Associated Press on Friday.

One day I will have enough money to perform random acts of kindness such as this. But for now, all I can do is wish the Marine, and his diamond angel, a very Merry Christmas.

I heard this on Paul Harvey yesterday, but this is the first news story I’ve seen about the rock and country band that will be touring Iraq this Christmas Season. They’re called the Second Amendments, and the group consists of five Congressmen. They are, by the way, all “A” rated candidates according to NRA-PVF (for the 2004 election cycle).

Rock on, gentlemen.

Man, Roderick Evans is a hero to me in more ways than one. First off, to join the army at age 36. That’s awesome. But to lose 230 pounds in order to join the army?

Roderick, I take my hat off to you. And if Roderick can go from 416 to 165 pounds, then there’s no reason I can’t drop the 30 I need to lose.

The latest Townhall.com column is up and available here. I’ll share any moonbat email I might get from this with you as it comes in.

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Every time you think the “War on Christmas” is a bunch of overblown hooey, you end up reading something like this.

Some parents are scratching their heads after school administrators insisted students call a Christmas tree a “magical tree,” the color red was removed from green and red elf hats, and songs from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” were pulled from a winter concert.

“I can see a religious holiday being offensive to those who don’t celebrate it,” said Dale Fingar, whose sixth-grade son brought home 10 red and green elf hats Monday and requested she replace the red fabric with white. “But red and green hats? Come on.”

Handfuls of parents said they were upset with the administration’s handling of “a couple” of complaints from parents who were offended by Christian religious themes in the middle school’s holiday programming.

Sixth-graders were scheduled to perform portions of several songs from the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar,” in the holiday concert today. Last week, Middle School Principal Joanne Senier-LaBarre wrote parents a letter explaining those songs had been cut from the performance.

“The philosophy of the middle school is one of acceptance for cultural and religious diversity. The study of Jesus Christ, Superstar was approached from a strictly musical perspective,” Senier-LaBarre wrote. “However, in retrospect, we understand that some members of our school family are uncomfortable with what they feel is a musical work that has religious ties.

“After much discussion, we have decided not to include the rock opera in our performance,” the letter continued.

The “magical tree”? If a Christmas tree promotes Christianity, wouldn’t a magical tree promote Wicca?

Jim Johnson has taken Thank A Soldier Week to a whole new level. He and his son drove 130 miles from Dallas to Killeen, Texas to personally thank the families of our servicemen and women. He said thank you with $20 bills.

A real-estate developer carrying a sign that read “grateful citizen” passed out $5,000 in $20 bills Wednesday to members of the military and their families.

“I just want to say thank you for your service,” Jim Johnson, of Dallas, told the recipients as he shook their hands in a Wal-Mart store in Killeen. “We’re safe and secure because of you.”

If you’re like me and don’t have a spare $5,000, hit the link above and send a personal thank you to our men and women in uniform.

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A late addition to my Christmas list.

It’s perfect, no?

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Then head to Lafayette, LA and volunteer to flush over 200 toilets in the Cajundome.

. So to test the plumbing before holding an event in January, a minimum of 70 volunteers are needed to spend 15 to 20 minutes flushing toilet paper down 220 or so toilets and testing urinals

Oh, and the pun was totally intended.

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There was a time where I would have thought this romantic.

But now I just think it’s sad the guy had to get her under oath to propose.

The Brady Center came out (shockingly, I know) in opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito yesterday. And in typical fashion, the anti-gun group manages to combine skillful hyperbole with a refusal to acknowledge the facts. Here’s what they wrote in their press release.

Dennis Henigan, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project, remarked, “Judge Alito’s conclusion that the federal machine gun ban is unconstitutional is right-wing judicial activism at its worst. He demonstrated no respect for the judgment of Congress in seeking to protect the public from the grave dangers of fully automatic weapons.”

And there in a nutshell is the Left’s definition of judicial activism. They believe when a judge strikes down a law, it’s judicial activism. That’s not activism, that’s being a judge. I don’t want Samuel Alito or any other judge to show more respect for the “judgment of Congress” than the Constitution.

Compare what Samuel Alito did in this case (determining that Congress was using the Commerce Clause to prohibit “possession” of an item) versus what Judge Colleen Kotar-Kelley did with McCain/Feingold campaign finance “reform”. The original law was passed without any mention of regulating political speech on the internet, yet Kotar-Kelley ordered the FEC to regulate political speech on the internet regardless of what the original legislation said. That’s not interpreting a law… that’s rewriting it. And that’s judicial activism.

Oh, as to the substance of Judge Alito’s ruling: The Brady folks got that wrong as well.

Seriously. Johnny Damon is dead to me. He doesn’t exist. He is a non-person. And a Yankee to boot.

You don’t go from Red Sox star to Yankees star. You just don’t. Even when Clemens left Boston, he knew better than to go straight to the Yankees.

My heart is a cold dark place today.

It’s a dirty job, but someone has to call Barbra Streisand out on her delusions. From her latest screed.

Iraq maintained that they had destroyed their stockpiles of illicit weapons. During UN investigations, Iraq handed over to inspectors 12,000 pages and several compact discs that describe the country’s arms programs and its elimination before and after 1990. The US claimed that they had translation problems because of the length of the material. It is hard to believe that a county as developed as the United States can not find an accurate translator. In order to avert going to war with the United States, Saddam permitted US troops and experts to do a thorough search of Iraq. However, it was the Bush Administration that was determined to wage a war with Iraq regardless of the lack of evidence presented to them.

Saddam Hussein kicked out U.N. inspectors in 1998, and only agreed to let them come back in 2002 because he was afraid we’d kick his sandy little butt off the map. The inspectors came in but could not verify that Hussein had destroyed his stockpiles of WMD as he was ordered to do after the first Gulf War.

More from Babs:

Iraq and Saddam were not responsible for 9/11. Al Qaeda, headquartered in Afghanistan and led by Osama bin Laden, masterminded and carried out the biggest terrorist attack in US history. Thirteen of the fifteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Since the United States invaded Iraq under false pretenses over 2 years ago, the Administration has created a terrorist breeding ground that will have serious implications on our national security in the future.

There were 19 hijackers, Babs.

As the United States continues to have its attention and resources concentrated on winning the war in Iraq, North Korea and Iran have developed their nuclear and biological weapons programs. Many scholars feel that North Korea poses the greatest potential and actual threat to the United States. Some experts believe that Iran’s nuclear weapons program has now become operational as well.

The Administration has failed in its non-proliferation efforts around the world. And by not preventing North Korea and Iran from strengthening their nuclear positions, they have undermined America’s national security.

Is Babs advocating military action against Iran and North Korea? Cool!

There’s more, but I’m on the air right now. Babs is a babbling moron, as always.

In the words of listener Wai, has Germany completely lost its ever lovin’ mind?

German authorities have paroled convicted terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi after he served 19 years of a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the killing of a U.S. Navy diver, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Hamadi has been released from prison and has left Germany, said Doris Moeller-Scheu, a spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office. She said she did not know his destination.

Hmm… I’m guessing you might want to start with the flights to Tehran.

A lump of coal for the Wake Up Wal-Mart folks.

Inside a South Florida Wal-Mart last Thursday, union-sponsored protesters handed out empty, gift-wrapped boxes to children and made them cry, according to multiple witnesses — and it appears that the arrests of two of the protesters may have been part of a grand strategy designed by Big Labor-backed WakeUpWalMart.com.
Yetdespiteinternal WakeUpWalMart.com communication — obtained exclusively by this columnist — indicating that the union-funded front instructed its protesters to test police patience, the organization is now playing the race card since the two protesters arrested (out of 15 total) are both black.

Check this out:

Late in the afternoon last Thursday, two people dressed as elves, and, in the words of an employee, someone who “kind of looked like Santa,” walked into the North Lauderdale Wal-Mart armed with empty, gift-wrapped boxes and WakeUpWalMart.com fliers. According to several Wal-Mart employees and the sheriff’s office, the presents were given to a number of children, and at least one, a 4-year-old boy, opened the gift inside the store.
Discovering that the box was empty, the little boy started crying.
WakeUpWalMart.com, for its part, stands by the claims of its protesters that no boxes were given to children, but no one denies that empty, gift-wrapped boxes were brought inside the store. The symbolism, it seems, is fairly obvious: Wal-Mart’s promises on health care are, well, empty. Except to a kid. To a small child, such a stunt is just mean.

That’s just cold.

100 women marching through the streets of Sydney, Australia in their underwear. Sounds pretty nifty, and it’s all for a good cause.

They were promoting the launch of a 2006 calendar to feature in madison magazine, which seeks to celebrate women of all shapes and sizes and make a point to counter the fashion industry using stick thin models to push everything from soap to frocks.

I’m all for this, actually. I don’t believe a woman has to be a size 2 in order to be attractive, and I don’t want my daughters (or my wife, for that matter) thinking they have to be stick skinny in order to be attractive.

But ladies… c’mon. White tank tops and shorts are NOT underwear. Get thee to a Victoria’s Secret before you march again.

Some asshat in Ohio is suing a police dog.

“They’ve got a mean ol’ dog, you know what I’m saying? I take that pretty serious,” Green said, adding, “I’m a dog lover, but that’s the limit.”

Uh, yeah. It’s a POLICE DOG. They’re not supposed to be snuggly and cuddly and play frisbee in the park. They’re supposed to kick ass.

What happens if this asshat wins? Will the court garnish the pooch’s wages and repay this idiot in Milk-Bones?

The Washington Post is poo-pooing the FBI’s investigation of PETA’s possible ties to terrorism in today’s paper.

The papers offer no proof of PETA’s involvement in illegal activity. But more than 100 pages of heavily censored FBI files show the agency used secret informants and tracked the group’s events for years, including an animal rights conference in Washington in July 2000, a community meeting at an Indiana college in spring 2003 and a planned August 2004 protest of a celebrity fur endorser.

And the ACLU is upset as well.

“The FBI should use its resources to investigate credible threats to national security instead of spending time tracking innocent Americans who criticize government policy, or monitoring groups that have not broken the law,” ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson said. Previously released papers showed that the FBI kept files that mentioned the organizations, she said, “But we didn’t know that they actually launched counterterrorism investigations into these groups.”

But you don’t have to be an FBI agent with top secret clearance to be suspicious of PETA. In 2001, the group gave $1500 to the Earth Liberation Front, a group designated as a domestic terrorist group by the FBI. PETA’s contributed tens of thousands of dollars to the defense fund for Rodney Coranado, a self-proclaimed member of the Animal Liberation Front who was convicted of an arson attack at Michigan State University. PETA’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that counts Dr. Jerry Vlasak as one of their spokesmen. Vlasak is also a spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, and has called for the deaths of hunters and medical researchers.

You can find all kinds of links to the information in this great post by Brian O’Connor. And the ACLU might want to be careful in who it chooses to defend.

It’s really no secret that I have zero sympathy for people who make bad decisions in their lives. Especially people who make the bad decision then proceed to bitch about the results. I’ve been known to cut people off mid-whine and say “Well what did you expect dumbass?”. Not very tolerant of me, I know. But sometimes only brutal honesty will do.

So it won’t be a surprise that I want to re-write the headline to this article.

In a nutshell, it’s a sympathetic article about people who made bad financial decisions and that I should feel bad for them because they can’t make their bills now that the housing market is slowing. Popycock. You refinanced your home into an 15 year mortgage with a 5 year ARM and can’t make payments now that interest rates are rising? Oh well, shoulda thought about that before you signed the paperwork. Get ready for foreclosure city.

Here’s what I think the headline should really say: Equity Party’s Over - Many Should Investigate New Bankruptcy Law

What do you think it should say?

While the left (and much of the MSM) is busy whining about wiretaps on terrorists, the real world threatens to make them look like babbling idiots.

The AP-designated “extremist group” - Islamic Army of Iraq, claims it has executed another American hostage and has posted the video for all to see. The video shows the hostage being shot in the back of the head, at point blank range.

But hot damn, gotta make sure Bushie can’t wiretap known terrorists residing in this country. Terrorists have civil liberties too!