As part of a campaign to stop people eating fish, PETA is asking American schools with fish names to change their names to Sea Kitten High School. How about "Roof Rabbit High School?"
The sea kittens campaign, launched in October last year, argues that calling fish sea kittens will make people think twice about eating fish, because fish have feelings as well.
Schools asked by PETA to change their names so far are Whitefish High School in Missoula, Montana and Spearfish High School in Spearfish, South Dakota. Should we now refer to game birds as "sky bunnies?"
PETA said in a statement that "If [the schools] became Sea Kitten High and everyone in town starts calling fish 'sea kittens,' fewer of these gentle animals would be violently killed for food, painfully hooked for 'sport,' or cruelly confined to aquariums. Schools strive for achievements in academics and sports, so why not add compassion to the list?"
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One might be tempted to think that PETA is a shoestring operation, run by 2 or 3 former mental patients operating out of an old trailer house in a remote corner of the Mojave desert. This is not the case. PETA is a multi-million dollar business with a shiny new 3 story headquarters in Norfolk Va and more than 100 full-time employees. In today's increasingly surreal world, barking mad is also highly profitable.
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I think PETA should change it's name to Whackjobs That The Media Pays Too Much Attention To.
However, I don't care if they are violently killed for food, painfully hooked for sport, or cruelly confined to aquariums.
Sounds like the Dapper Don had some Muslim in him...
NEW YORK It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son and then vanished?
According to papers filed this week in Brooklyn federal court, John Favara was shot to death on orders of the outraged Gambino crime family chief and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid. Authorities said a cooperating witness identified Charles Carneglia, a 62-year-old former mobster, as the perpetrator in the 1980 incident. The court documents said Carneglia told another informant that acid was "the best method to use to avoid detection."
Those details, in a 44-page evidence motion by federal prosecutors for a racketeering trial, offered a new twist on the fate of Favara, a 51-year-old furniture warehouse worker who lived near the Gottis in the Howard Beach section of Queens.
Favara was arriving home from work on March 18, 1980, when Gotti's son Frank, riding a minibike, darted in front of his car. The driver told police he was momentarily blinded by the sun and did not see the boy. The crash was ruled an accident by police, but Favara was subjected to death threats and harassment for months. His car was stolen and later smeared with the word "murderer," and he was threatened by Gotti's bat-wielding wife when he tried to apologize. Fun family. Supposedly, Gotti was terrified of her.
However, he ignored suggestions that he should move away. Youze should move away. Way, way away...
Five months later, on July 28, 1980, Favara disappeared after leaving work on Long Island and no trace of him was ever found. Witnesses saw him being beaten and heard tires squealing. The Gottis gave police hotel receipts showing they were in Florida on that date, and no arrests were ever made. Yeah, we wuz in Florida...
Jerry Capeci, an author and expert on the Mafia who has written extensively on Gotti, said rumors circulated that "Favara's body had been put into a cement-filled oil drum and dropped in the ocean."
John Gotti Sr. at that time was a captain in the Gambino family, already scheming and murdering his way to becoming boss. After two courtroom acquittals that earned him the sobriquet "Teflon Don," the swaggering hoodlum was finally convicted in 1992 of murder, racketeering and a smorgasbord of other crimes. He died in federal prison in 2002.
Carneglia, according to the court documents, was part of a seven-member hit squad that committed murders on order and disposed of the victims. He faces trial for racketeering and five murders. The prosecutors' motion, signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Burlingame, includes Favara's case among several "uncharged crimes." Carneglia has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.
The new revelation raises yet another question for experts who have been studying gangland activities. Asks Capeci: "What kind of acid could be used in a metal drum without leaking?" Will have to run that one by Mythbusters...
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Flouric acid may be no good.
Fluoric acid, that would probably do the trick.
But line the metal drum with a tuff polyethylene bag or asphalt and you can use sulphuric acid too, you just need a cold place to store the drum while in use so the temp does not rise too high.
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Hydroflouric would not dissolve the bones. It is also VERY dangerous to work with and gives me the willies. Who said it was a metal drum? Sulfuric or nitric would be a better bet and easier to work with.
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We use HydroFlouric Acid in some of our processes. We have to use schedule 80 Monel piping and C276 Hastelloy reactors and tanks. That stuff will eat through anything.
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A funeral home might be a place for eternal rest, but police say an Arkansas man saw an opportunity to build a methamphetamine lab undisturbed by the living.
There was just one problem--the funeral home was across the street from the sheriff's office.
Officers say Robert Lee Lewis left the light on in the basement of the Higginbotham Funeral Home in Walnut Ridge on Dec. 3. Officers noticed the light on after hours and walked into the funeral home through an open door. Inside, police say they found all the components necessary to build a meth lab. Officers arrested the former funeral home employee when he returned.
The 43-year-old faces several drug charges and is free on $2,500 bond pending a Jan. 21 court hearing. A telephone number for Lewis could not be found Thursday night.
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It's one of those WTF were the Soviets thinking moments. They placed thousands of pounds of extremely dangerous isotopes like Strontium-90 in each remote unguarded lighthouse just to light a lightbulb. A few pounds of this stuff is enough to contaminate any major city center and the Soviets left lying around, though remote, hundreds of thousands of pounds for the taking.
A British gardener's local council has ordered him to remove a 3-foot high barbed wire fence around his property in case thieves hurt themselves on it, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. My, Gosh! We wouldn't want ANYONE to be hurt, now would we!
Bill Malcolm, 61, installed the wire at his Worcester property after burglars robbed his tool shed and vegetable plots three times in four months, stealing more than $500 worth of hardware. I'd be stealing the veggies! Must not be PITA of Vegetarians Annonymos.
But Malcolm's local council told him the wire was a health and safety hazard and warned him they would remove it by force if he did not do it himself, the Mail reported.
"The council said they were unhappy about the precautions I had made but my response was to tell them that only someone climbing over on to my allotment could possibly hurt themselves," Malcolm told the Mail. "They shouldn't be trespassing in the first place but the council apologized and said they didn't want to be sued by a wounded thief." So a Wounded Theif can sue the Government? Can the Property Owner sue the Thief? Or the Government for not protecting his property? Or is keeping Law and Order no longer part of British Jurisprudence responsibilities?
The council said that a fence on the property must be a post or rail fence, not barbed wire. "With regard to the barbed wire, when this is identified on site, we are obliged to request its removal or remove it on health and safety grounds to the general public as this is a liability issue," a council spokeswoman told the Mail. Britian is lost.
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killer lasers on poles with no warning signs...
KING 5 news has learned that Seattle may soon become a one newspaper town.
Like many newspapers across America the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been struggling to survive.
Now, a source close to the deal tells KING 5 that the paper's owner, Hearst Corporation, will announce as soon as tomorrow that it's putting the P-I up for sale. Under the joint operating agreement between the P-I and The Seattle Times, the P-I must be offered for sale for at least 30 days before it can cease operation.
The joint operating agreement was formed in 1983 in an effort to keep both papers healthy. The P-I was granted a monopoly on morning publication. At that time The Seattle Times was one of the only profitable afternoon papers in the country.
But in 1999 the joint operating agreement was modified to allow the Times to begin publishing in the morning. Critics predicted that would eventually lead to the demise of the P-I.
We're told Hearst does not expect another buyer to step forward and that Seattle will likely become a one newspaper town within the next few months.
A call to the Seattle P-I publisher's office for comment has not yet been returned.
It would be the end of an era - the P-I put out its first edition in 1863 and was the city's first newspaper.
It's unclear how this will affect The Seattle Times or the Blethen family, which owns 51 percent of that paper. This would be a fine acquisition for a wealthy, conservative Republican. Say Rush Limbaugh.
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Bulldoze the building and salt the earth it stood on. Good riddance, Puget Pravda!
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NYT, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Baltimore Sun - the so-called "DINOSAUR MEDIA" BRONTOSAURUS is down on its fore legs, but still trying to stay up wid its rear legs and tail. NOT GONNA BE PRETTY, OR QUIET.
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For a real kickinthepantz; read all the tear jerking libtards' swooning in the 'sound off' column attached to the original story ( so many that you need 2 pages to hold them all)
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As part of a campaign to stop people eating fish, PETA is asking American schools with fish names to change their names to Sea Kitten High School.
