So I hate PETA (but we already knew that).

PETA claims a massive and unprecedented victory following "months of closed-door negotiations between PETA and KFC Canada."  The victory?  An animal welfare plan that won't do shit to decrease the numbers of chickens killed for consumption in Canadian KFC restaurants.  But PETA's ending their boycott, anywho.  The plan includes:

• Phase in purchases of 100 percent of its chickens from suppliers that use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK)—the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed. KFC Canada is the first major restaurant chain to commit to phasing in the exclusive purchasing of chicken meat from CAK slaughterhouses.
• Add a vegan faux-chicken item to the menu of all 461 Priszm-owned KFC restaurants (more than half of all the KFCs in Canada).
• Improve its animal welfare audit criteria to reduce the number of broken bones and other injuries suffered by birds.
• Urge its suppliers to adopt better practices, including improved lighting, lower stocking density and ammonia levels, and a phaseout of growth-promoting drugs and breeding practices that painfully cripple chickens.
• Form an animal welfare advisory panel to monitor the changes and recommend further advancements.

You know what's really the least cruel form of killing?  Not fucking killing the poor things!  But that's just me.  Maybe we shouldn't be eating them... you know, if we're really in favor of ethical treatment.  But that's just me.

Also, I hate Tony Blankley (who looks like a pig, and not in the cute way) and Stephen Hayes.

But I loves me Rachel, who does her best defending Obama against their lies about his lack of a bipartisan record.  Tony and Stephen shoot down Rachel's examples while fluffing John McSame's illustrious career of bipartisanship (all before he began campaigning for president this season and flip-flopped so far that he won't even support his own illustriously bipartisan bills), and then they pull out the ace: the ranking of Obama as 2007's most liberal senator by the National Journal, which also ranked John Kerry as 2003's most liberal.  That right there ought to tell you that the rating is meaningless, and it's already been debunked, but Tony and Stephen don't care!  They've got talking points!  So they don't have to do any critical thinking!  Hooray for right-wing parrots!

David Gregory is also a whore, because very rarely do I witness him (on the admittedly spotty occasions I tune in to Race for the White House) cut in when someone's lying, as Tony and Stephen were here.  And I would think a journalist would want to do that sort of thing-- at least say, "Well, you dickheads, that rating was not done by an independent outfit, and its accuracy has been challenged by numerous folks who actually know what the fuck they're talking about, so can you offer us something else from your rather corpulent asses?"  Something like that.  (Note: I've heard Gregory suggested as a potential replacement for Tim Russert on Meet the Press, and while Tim certainly didn't do all that great a job, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq, David would probably be worse.  As would Joe Scarborough.  Take that into consideration, NBC.)

Jesus, I can't wait to rule the world.

So triple cheers to Rachel, for standing up for truth, justice, and the American way.  And Tony and Stephen, when the revolution comes, I'm going to hang you from your heels in the town square.

Edit:  The St. Petersburg Times in sunny Florida also questions the "most liberal" bullshit.  It's also worth noting that, in the same "study" that ranked Obama most liberal, McSame could not be rated at all because... wait for it... he missed too many g-ddamned votes to be accurately assessed.  Of the 99 votes the National Journal used in its tally, Obama missed 33 because of his campaigning.  McSame missed more than that.  Only three other senators weren't ranked: Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who had a brain hemorrhage; Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY), who died in June of 2007; and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), who replaced Sen. Thomas.  Something to think about.