Posted on 12/27/2011 5:06:48 AM PST by Kaslin
PETA has asked the Department of Transportation in Illinois to commemorate the spot where 16 cows lost their life on May 22 in a traffic accident says a report in the Chicago Tribune.
The cows plunged from the back of a tractor trailer when it jackknifed on a bridge on an I-80 highway overpass.
I’m wondering if we could just have a memorial BBQ. I’ll bring the grill.
Now, before you start laughing remember: This is Illinois.
Yes, that state.
You know how people warn you about avoiding stupid mistakes by saying, “You don’t want to be that guy.”
Well, ladies and gentleman I present you your Daley-Obama-Rahm Emmanuel-led State of Illinois. That state.
It’s a state where graft makes everything “work,” and where 3 out 4 governors go to prison, because someone has to take the rap for all that graft. You have to keep up appearances that you are interested in good government. And there is nothing like sending both Republican and Democrat governors to jail to make the message clear.
You don’t want to be that guy? Then, don’t become governor of Illinois.
In other states the position of governor is one of honor. In Illinois governors are elected patsies so the graft machine can keep going.
The PETA proposal memorializing the Cow-Victims-of-5/22 asks Illinois to glorify the animals that died while performing their function “in the meat trade.”
The “meat trade” is what you and I call groceries.
"These proposed signs would also remind tractor-trailer drivers of their responsibility to the thousands of animals they haul to their deaths every day," said Tracy Patton, 26, a campaigner for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals according to UPI. "It's a big enough tragedy that these animals end up in slaughterhouses, where they are kicked, shocked with electric prods and finally dragged off the trucks to their deaths. Sparing them from being tossed from a speeding truck and deprived of care afterward, sometimes for several hours, seems the least that we can do."
So they want drivers to act more responsibly while driving animals to their deaths? Maybe keeping truck drivers’ eyes on the road and not on some signs would be a good start.
Because, that’s all we need: truck drivers squinting at memorials to cows while speeding across bridges in downtown Chicago. What’s next? Cow-sensitivity training?
PETA submitted their application under a 2007 provision in Illinois law, where family members of those who die as victims of DUI accidents may request memorials to the victims. The law was passed, according to a DOT spokesman, in order to regulate unofficial roadside memorials says the Trib.
That’s been a terribly pressing problem for the US. If we could only get federal control of those roadside monuments, this economy would really boom. And certainly replacing spontaneous, personalized, ad-hoc memorials by friends and relatives who knew the victim with a sanitized government memorial will probably better aid the grieving process for those who are left behind.
Thank God for good government in Illinois.
The problem for PETA isn’t that their proposal is outrageous, stupid, ridiculous, insulting and loony; no the problem for PETA is the same problem that the rest of us have with government. The only reason why Illinois politicians aren’t rushing to support PETA in raising a memorial is because PETA doesn’t have the cash to get the graft machine to use the misguided law regulating personal acts of grief to help PETA with their outrageous, stupid, ridiculous, insulting and loony proposal.
Because earlier this year the Illinois legislature, in an outrageous, stupid, ridiculous, insulting and loony move, raised personal income taxes by 67 percent and corporate income taxes by 47 percent…and then started exempting the very biggest corporations from the tax.
And if you don’t think that those exemptions weren’t driven by cash and graft, then congratulations!
You qualify for either the Republican or the Democrat nominations for governor in Illinois.
They want a golden calf?
This won’t end well.
Golden Arches would work.
I was thinking the Burger King king.
I am not a vegetarian, but I eat animals that are.
“Moo…”
[BANG!]
“…Mooo.”
I eat nothing but vegetables. Sometimes I concentrate their goodness with the help of a steer, a lamb or some birds first.
This story is udderly rediculous. I’m sure they will milk it for all its worth.
How about a memorial to all the dogs and cats that PETA took from their owners with promises to find them good homes, that were killed and thrown into dumpsters as soon as they were out of the owners’ sight?
Mmmm, yum
if we ate more “chikin”. these cows may have been saved.
Leave em alone! I don't want PETA harassing any victims.
I actually heard Mickey Mantle tell this story to Bob Costas on the the radio. Take with a shaker full of salt:
Several years ago, Billy Martin managed the Texas Rangers. The team had a great season, and Billy was voted AL manager of the year. As a gift from his players, they knew of his love of hunting, so they gave him two shotguns.In Mickey's telling, some of the details differ. The doctor, for instance, is former Yankee second baseman and President of the American League (1984-1994), Bobbie Brown, who became a cardiologist after the end of his baseball career.During the offseason, Billy got a call from his good friend from his playing days that also resided in Texas during the offseason, Mickey Mantle. Mickey suggested that they take the new guns out and do some hunting. Mickey told Billy that he had a doctor friend that had several hundred acres to hunt on. Billy agreed.
When they got to the doctors property, Mickey told Billy that he was going up to the doctors house to let him know what they were doing. Mickey went to the door and told the doctor that they would be hunting. The doctor said "fine", but asked Mickey to do him a favor. He had a mule that was on it's last legs, and he asked Mickey if he would put it out of it's misery, because he didn't have the heart to do it himself.
So on the way back, Mickey decided to play a little joke on Billy. Once he got back to Billy, he had a real pissed off look on his face. Mickey told Billy that the doctor would not allow them to hunt on his property. Mickey said that he would fix his ass, and proceeded to walk up to the mule and plug him. He then turned around, but Billy was nowhere in sight. All of a sudden, Mickey heard shots fired from the other side of a hill. When Mickey reached the top of the hill, he saw Billy shooting the doctors cattle.
I will notify peta that I am more than willing to have a memorial to cows tonight. A new york strip with a salad and baked potato. I will be sure to memorialize the cow before eating it.
Bless this thoughtful cow Lord, this thy gift which I am about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord AMEN
While my family and I were on our way back home from Texas this summer, we were about 20 miles west of Fort Worth and were stuck in a traffic jam. We finally got to where the cause of the jam was. It was quite a sight.
Turns out that a cattle truck lost control, went over the guardrail, and flipped upside down. The tractor was toast, the top of the cattle trailer was ripped open, and about 15 or 20 dead cattle were lying in a pile several feet away.
Did I also mention it was about 110 degrees outside? We had the windows up and the AC on, but I’m sure the smell must’ve been something to behold.
I don’t think PETA would be stupid enough to ask anyone in Texas to erect a monument. But, then again....
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