Obama and the Fly

How on Earth is it that people are murdered every day, interesting things happen every day, and yet what made international news last week? Obama killing a fly, that's what. How incredibly ridiculous. Does the US have the rest of the world so whipped that now we all hang on every movement their president makes?

I'm done the rant now. This is the fun part; PETA! They say that now they'll be sending President Obama a humane bug catcher, so that in the future if he has any fly problems, he won't have to resort to killing it. That's People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who reportedly euthanises 97% of the animals that end up in the organisation's care (2 209 animals last year according to petakillsanimals.com). The irony is just too much for me.

To be fair, I have to point out that PETA has written about their euthanasia program, and why they do it. They basically say that it's all to stop animal suffering, and the animals they put down were in dire straights (That's from the PETA blog, but be careful: there are graphic pictures in there). That's all very noble, but last year the Drug Enforcement Administration was investigating PETA for their poor conduct with euthanised animals' corpses, and how they euthanise animals. Of course, the employees took the fall for the corpse-in-the-dumpster fiasco, but I can't help but question whether PETA as a group didn't condone this.

PETA has always been a bit of a sore point for me, because I don't know what to believe. The PETA blog is biased - oh, probably - and petakillsanimals.com is biased in the other direction - I'd say so. A lot of the other sources I looked at sited those two as their sources. Lovely.

But, one things is definitely nuts, and hilarious - the Obama fly thing.