Over on AOL News they have a list of PETA's top 10 stunts of 2010. My favorite is #7:

In August, PETA got the word out that women are nothing more than pieces of meat. Nah -- actually, the Vancouver, Canada, protest, involving young women in pasties and G-strings, and inked with butcher markings, was intended to decry the meat industry. To most males, though, meat suddenly looked really, really appealing.

I couldn't agree more.

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NOTE: The following is my opinion, but is more right than most of what you will read online

I recently got into 2 interesting conversations online, one with a hard-core Libertarian and one with a eurotwit.

The position we on this blog take, In My Humble Opinion, with of course personal difference is basically small government Conservatism, tending toward small “L” libertarianism. I would do a quick and dirty summation as this: Government is a Necessary Evil. It should be as small as possible and NO smaller.

The first conversation I had was in response to a post that claimed that the Republican party has always been a fascist party. I responded with “wha? Freeing the slaves was fascism?” He diverted the conversation into the idea that Lincoln was a fascist and that Republican policy has always been the policy of less freedom for the individual and support of BIG Business. I could “hear” the BIG in his tone.

This is the point of departure for me from Libertarians. Scratch a Libertarian, and you will find an Anarchist. The big L Libertarians really have no use for government, and cannot distinguish between between the exigencies of war and the Overarching Conspiracy. Given the choice of defending Democracy, which they claim to love and allowing the government to temporarily expand to fight a real and present danger, they will walk away and let freedom fail.

The second conversation I got into, and got bailed out of by some excellent help was in response to a rather silly comment about taxes by a fellow that proclaimed himself a non-American, and demonstrated it. My thought on it ran this way: Tyranny begins when “Yes we can” become “Now you must.” I also opined that when people insisted that the force of law should be used to advance a social agenda that they were imposing their morality on us. He immediately labeled me an Anarchist and asked me if I was a NeoCon (!) All together a rather ill-informed arrogant fellow, i.e., a classic European.

As I understand NeoConservativism, it actually has much to praise, as well as rather over-reaching ideas. It believes in American Exceptionalism, that the American Ideal is the best of all presented options and should prevail and be spread everywhere. This can, unfortunately, devolve into Imperialism and Manifest Destiny. Also NeoCons, while great allies in time of war, love bigger and bigger government. At their worst they make the fears of my Libertarian friends seem too plausible.

As I see our future, we must avoid both Scylla and Charybdis. Avoid the excesses of the Anarcho-Libertarians, and the Imperialism of the Big Government Statists.

I ran across a series of videos from various people who attended the Stewart Inanity Rally, and found that, well, the Left truly is bonkers.

Ya gotta watch all three of these to get a good feel of what is going on. I love how in MKH's video the participants claim to be nice people and then call those on the right all kinds of obscenities and don't even know who the candidates they are supporting are, except that they are Democrats.

Yeesh!

The second video focuses on the reaction of people attending the rally to a sign that someone one was waving that "Obama=Keynesian?". Watch the video. It is a hoot, including the zombie dressed up like Hitler. Okay, I had to look up Keynesian, but I new it had nothing to do with Obama's birth place (which was Hawaii). The interview who asked people about what they thought of the sign seemed to think it had to do with Kenya. Hmmm. Okay, there was one person he talked to who understood that it was a reference to Obama's economic policies and not his birth place. Kenya does not equal Keynesian, and the people of Kenya are generally referred to (at least in America) as Kenyans. What is fun is watching the one woman get hot under the collar over the sign.

Steven Crowder's video shows a few other interesting sides to the people that attended this rally, including getting assaulted by one of the participants, and watching someone else steal someone's Red Bull. Ya don't see these kinds of things at Tea Party rallies. At least I haven't.

Personally, I like the second video best. Although MKH's is a close second.