If the Bushites, along with their corporate and banking buddies, haven't done enough damage to our country, we now have idiots from the left trying to do their part. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wants us to stop calling fish “fish” and start calling them “sea kittens.” The animal rights group is interested in saving the lives of fish that people eat and hopes the name change will encourage more people to view fish as cute and lovable, rather than dinner. I would like to label this essay a joke, but unfortunately, it is the truth.
AP - 1/15/2009 - While real kittens — which PETA calls “land” kittens — are furry and playful, PETA is promoting the “sea kittens” as scaly, yes, but also bright, affectionate beings capable of learning and feeling pain.
The group is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop promoting “the hunting of sea kittens (otherwise known as ‘fishing’).” The sea kittens campaign includes short online stories, a create-your-own-sea-kitten interactive web site, and free avatars and desktop banners.
One would have to assume that the people involved in this nonsense do not have to work for a living. Trust Fund Babbies? They are so out of touch with reality, that one would also have to question their sanity. Sea kittens? Will cities now have pass leash ordinances for sea kittens and ban the cruel imprisonment of fish . . . er-r-r-r sea kittens, in aquariums? Can fishermen expect wild eyed banshees to appear out of nowhere to break their fishing poles and throw their tackle boxes into the lake?
PETA started out with some valid causes, namely the torturing of stolen puppies in drug company labs and the mass execution of greyhounds that did not finish first in races. However, they have increasingly gone off the deep end as they got more and more attention in the media, and attorneys to do their bidding. Much of their energy in recent years has been targeted against dairy farmers and cattle ranches. Personally, I think that soy milk and cheese suck. No wait a minute . . . I think a spin-off organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants, now claims that plants also have high intelligence and deep feelings, too. That leaves us dirt to eat.
Maybe we need to pass a leash ordinance for PETA members? 
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kywonder
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Jan 15 @ 8:14AM
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Richard that is just crazy. Sea kittens. Where did they come up with such a name? I can't keep a straight face for laughing at the insanity of this.
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maggiemae684
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Jan 15 @ 8:17AM
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I am curious....are they going to insist on mandatory spay/neuter programs for thier sea-kittens.... 
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KnittinKitten
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Jan 15 @ 8:38AM
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Richard, now I think I have heard everything. The idiocy of some of these movements really gets to me.
Now I'm going to start to wonder what they are gonna decide they want to do with a
KNITTIN KITTEN????
  
Meeeeoooooowwwwwwwww
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ttomtarr
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Jan 15 @ 9:13AM
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The Lord must love crazy people, because he made an awful lot of them.
I had a fried sea kitten dinner last night, and will go sea-kittening next weekend.
It does have a certain nice ring to it. 
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hereshannon
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Jan 15 @ 9:24AM
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I think this sea kittens thing is a wonderful idea. And to promote the program I think as many PETA members as possible should swim in the waters off South Africa among the Great White Sea Kittens! There should be no problem as the sea kittens are "affectionate beings".
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summerbreeze916
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Jan 15 @ 9:33AM
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Sea Kittens? And Lake Kittens.......and Stream Kittens........and River Kittens.....and......and..........
Now I'm going to start to wonder what they are gonna decide they want to do with a
KNITTIN KITTEN????
Have you been spayed yet? RUN!!!
When one or more gets sick..........who's going to catch them and bring them to the Vet? And PAY for it? Oh, boy.......more tax dollars...........
Geez...........my kitties love fish. They eat it! Does this make them.......uh.......er..........sorta like................. Cannibalistic??? 
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HighlandsLass
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Jan 15 @ 9:51AM
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but . . . but . . . wait . . . dirt has feelings too! 
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Etowah
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Jan 15 @ 9:54AM
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That's clay that has feelings my good friend, not common dirt! You are just prejudiced because you are a brilliant sculptor!
Great White Sea Kittens?
Canabalistic Land Kittens eating Sea Kittens?
The Match Doctor gang has got me rolling in the floor this morning. How am I supposed to concentrate on work?
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Loinlee_Sole
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Jan 15 @ 10:08AM
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there are some feral sea kittens getting in my garbage again.........what a mess........I am getting the BB gun 
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poeticcougar
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Jan 15 @ 10:31AM
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it'll give a whole new ring to the saying "smells like sea kittens, tastes like chicken"
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Josuha
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Jan 15 @ 11:00AM
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The only good sea kitten is a fryed sea kitten!
(Pass the ketchup.)
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sybnann
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Jan 15 @ 1:05PM
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This is both crazy and hilarious!! I love all the comments left too! Ok well my thought is, how big does the "sea kitten" need to get before it no longer qualifies as the "sea kitten?" I mean wouldn't it then be a sea TIGER? or something? Not to mention some of them bite much harder than a house kitten, and you can't even SLEEP with them!!! That is unless you don't mind "scales." and dead "sea kitten smells.!!" 
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starwatcher784
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Jan 18 @ 2:16AM
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Well lets see ...we already have tiger sharks,cat fish,lion fish etc so I guess why not sea kittens lol.....don't see how that will slow anyone down from wanting them fried up though lol.....
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