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Thursday, June 18, 2009
PETA: Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills inhumane
Karate chop a giant fly and face the wrath of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA thinks President Obama missed an opportunity to be compassionate when he slaughtered a gross housefly during a White House interview Tuesday, June 16, with CNBC’s John Harwood.
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The animal protection organization is shipping the fly swatter in chief a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher. The device allows users to trap a housefly and then release it outside, according to the Associated Press.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the fly was sort of a jerk.
Despite being warned by the president to “get out of here,” the doomed fly buzzed on.
Harwood called the pest the most “persistent fly” he’d ever seen.
A murderous slap was soon seen and heard.
“Nice,” Harwood and at least one other man said of Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills.
“That was pretty impressive,” Obama said. “I got the sucka.”
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Company offers hunks, foxes to move your junk
Who would you rather move the junk stored in your trunk, some fat guy in jean shorts or some young, strapping piece of man yum?
That of course is a decision you’ll have to make on your own.
College Hunks Hauling Junk has clean-cut collegian types declutter homes and offices, according to a press release.
The beefcakes (If they are in fact beefcakes. Hotness is not a prerequisite to employment.) move junk from trunks, closets, basements, storage rooms, etc.
The business, launched three years ago by high school buddies, has 20 franchises, including a location at 1110 E Main St., Lebanon.
College Hunks plans to have 100 franchises by 2011, the press release says.
The cleverly-named business has been featured in SmartCEO Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest and on Oprah.com.
Incidentally, it recently launched a sister firm called College Foxes Packing Boxes.
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