rant: January 2002 Archives

Is there anybody who hasn't taught school in NYC for a few years?

I've really got to thank PETA for showing us all that stupidity is it's own reward.

In case you haven't met these people, they are basically the Keystone Cops of the animal rights movement, constantly finding the most ridiculous method of protesting animal cruelty.

Yes, I actually had a former employee of PETA tell me they were going to send a complaint to McDonalds because there was a tray of roasted chicken in one of their ads.

I can't remember exactly where this took place; I just heard the story on the radio this morning. But some town in the midwest, I believe, holds a fairly regular deer culling, to thin the heards before snowfall in hopes of preventing starvation.

Obviously PETA was hot over this. Since all the hunters involved are required to wear those orange field jackets that make them look like construction cones, PETA decided to capture and release about 400 deer, after attaching orange jackets to them. The idea being, that the hunters would think twice about shooting anything in orange.

However, despite what Deliverance might teach you, not all hunters are braindead hicks. And the hunters were armed with shotguns, which required them to hunt from close range. So they had no trouble discerning deer from man.

And with a local shop keeper offering rewards for the return of the jackets, especially with bullet holes in them...

well, lets just say there won't be any starving deer in one town in the MidWest this winter.

It's more than a little fucking sick that with almost every charity in North America suffering severe cutbacks, people are complaining about the money New York City families will recieve if they were involved in the world trade center.

It's sick.

Absolutly no money will make up for the actual loss of a person.

And yet in all likelyhood, most of the survivors annd families are going to be millionaires once they collect all their checks. And still people are complaining it isnt enough.

Well fuck you.

We aren't here to rebuild your lives for you. We aren't here to make you feel good again. All anyone could do is support those in trouble while they rebuild their own lives.

There are people out there every day losing family and friends to murder, starvation, illness, and accidents. None of it is fair.None of them will be driving away from the funeraal in a limo though.

Get over being a victim. If you aren't strong enough to rebuild your own life, how will you help those around you? As if you cared.

It's a miserable day in the neighborhood.

All the forecasted snowstorms are here. Unfortunatly, they mistook rain for snow. It's a dull gray day with sub-freezing rain covering the City.

I froze my cahones off just going for groceries. I can't be the only one who's sick of the weather. The subway escalators sounded like Humback whales today, groaning their way up a 150 feet.