There is one thing about which I agree wholeheartedly with The Won: Flies need to die.
PETA, on the other hand, doesn’t see it that way. On the other hand, recently PETA has become a mockery of itself, prostituting itself for attention, commenting wildly on every story it can in a desparate bid for relevance.
WASHINGTON — The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”
Go fuck yourself, you fucking pansy. Unless you just like filthy, disease-bearing flies, in which case, keep them for yourself. Meantime I intend to keep squashin’ ’em like the bugs they are.
And remember, children: There’s plenty of room for all God’s creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes. But for God’s sake, keep the flies away, m’kay?
The fly serves a vital role in nature, scavenging muck and dead animals.
Away from their intended role they are a nuisance. And I want to watch PETA releasing flies – do it on my property or on public property, and I will be swearing out complaints of creating a nuisance and malicious mischief.
When I lived in Arizona I had flood irrigation every couple of weeks to water the pasture. Gophers were a constant menace to the berms that controlled the water, and prevented washing out – tearing up – the neighbor’s property. One day I mentioned I had trapped 5 gophers in the previous week, and a lady at work asked what I did with them. She wanted to live-trap, and release them “in the desert”. Gophers are vermin, we had people riding horses in the area that are susceptible to breaking legs if they step in a gopher dugout. If someone released gophers on *my* place I would be irate after I put the gun up.
In my case, my traps were real effective. The neighbor’s cats irritated me, though. Instead of hunting for their own gophers, they started waiting at my holes for my traps to trigger. Then I had to track the cat to find my trap. The danged cats wouldn’t even leave the trap for me, just dragged the whole rig off, gopher and all.
I don’t mind knowing there are spiders in my house, I am not about to go on an anti-spider rampage. Any that show up in plain view, though, get smashed – I don’t need that many. I am glad to know there are snakes about the farm. But let one slip into the chicken house, and the tolerance is just gone.
I guess PETA has decided to stop being the craziest “animal-rights” group and openly join the human extinction movement. All insects like flies do is spread disease, and I personally think that is a bad thing.
What’s next, advocating for the ban of Penicillin because it kills poor defenseless bacteria?