Mantis Love Shows Why You Should Boycott American Airlines
We
had our first frost of the season Saturday night, freezing some of the
squash -- but alas, there's still plenty more, so I guess I'll have to
eat some of it. Seeing their plant comrades shrivel up and die seems to
have had a salutatory effect on the tomatoes, who have finally gotten
with the program and starting producing comestibles.
But
my main crop this year seems to be bugs. Mainly giant grasshoppers
(I’m thinking of remaking THE BEGINNING OF THE END, since I do have a
cast of thousands of ‘hoppers to draw upon). But also some
big, disgusting squash bugs (which do, as their name indicates, squash
quite satisfactorily), and some regular-sized, repulsive earwigs. Oh,
and a large population of praying mantises, who do their part for bug
solidarity by eating the other bugs, thus ensuring there’s just enough
squash the bugs don’t eat to encourage the humans to plant more next
year, which the bugs will eat, and so continue the cycle of life.
A
couple of days ago I was happy to spot a large female mantis in the
chrysanthemums-–I could tell she was a female by her protruding stomach,
which meant that she was ready to lay her eggs as soon as she found a
mate to fertilize them. Or, that she was depressed about the mantis
dating scene, and was drowning her sorry with pints of Ben & Jerry’s
Grasshopper ‘n Earwig ripple. In any case, I was hoping that she would
place a mantis personal ad or something, because I looked forward to
the pitter-patter of little mantis feet next spring, leading to large
mantis mouths swallowing grasshoppers next summer.
When
I saw her today, she had that special glow which meant that she had
found her soul mate. The fact that she was devouring the head of a male
mantis, whose twitching legs seemed to indicate a mild distaste for the
post-coital snuggling, only strengthened my conviction that it was
love, love LOVE! (I thought about taking a picture, to share the joy
with you, but then decided that the new couple deserved their privacy).
Anyway,
this beautiful re-enactment of nature’s old story of boy meets girl,
boy has sex with girl, and girl eats boy’s head, got me looking for
something in the news to celebrate heterosexuality. And NewsMax, World
Net Daily, Cybercast News Service, etc, didn’t let me down, providing
recent items showing how big corporations are seducing our youth into
becoming gay through their nefarious plan of treating homosexuals like
regular people.
(Okay,
these articles aren’t a celebration of heterosexuality as much as a
bashing of non-heterosexuality, but the only paean to straightness I
could find was this sentence in a piece (Abnormal Sex Violates Nature’s Laws)
by Newsmax’s Wilson C. Lucom: "It is a fact that cannot be denied: You
would not be alive today to read this message if your mother and father
were homosexuals who would not have children." While true enough, I
suppose, it's just not inspiring and ennobling enough to do justice to
sight of the female mantis eating the male’s head.)
So,
what I’m going to cover today is how American Airlines, by helping to
sponsor the North American Conference on Bisexuality which was held in
San Diego a couple of week ago, poked a finger in the eye the
Traditional Value of heterosexuality, and so we should never fly with
them again.
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In an article titled American Airlines Cuts Jobs But Sponsors Gay Events,
Paul M.Weyrich, Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation
(dedicated to freeing Congress and other dissident groups who have been
jailed for alleged acts of subversion) reports (for both NewsMax and
CNS) that:
American Airlines used to pride itself on being an airline that was "doing what we do best." Most people would think that means getting travelers to their intended destination quickly and efficiently, making the experience of flying as pleasant as possible. [Note: Nobody who had actually flown on AA would think that, but that’s a blog for another day.] But defenders of traditional values know that what the airline does "best" is to be a major corporate sponsor of leading youth down the wrong path, one that can lead to poor health habits, even an early death.
Yes,
studies have shown that the biggest threat to the health and well-being
of our young people is sinster, shifty-eyed airlines, who meet our
youth in seedy nightclubs or public restrooms, and then lead the naive
youngsters astray with seductive promises of Frequent Flyer Miles
("First 10,000 miles are free, kid").
Well, actually Paul is upset about AA helping to sponsor the conference on bisexuality I mentioned above. He continues:
Millions of believers in traditional values fly on this airline and it is an outrage that they are using our dollars to subsidize a conference like this.
Well,
technically, once you give your money to AA in exchange for goods or
services, it is THEIR money. But I guess the Traditional Values people
could treat the airlines like panhandlers and tell them, "I’m sorry,
American, but I’m not going to pay you for that ticket to Boise because I
know you’ll just blow the money on booze and Bisexual conferences."
Paul continues:
This is no aberration. American has made it a point to cater to the homosexual/bisexual market, placing money above the defense of our traditional morality. On Sept. 12-14, in Washington, for instance, the airline is listed as a sponsor of Capital Classic XI, a gay and lesbian tennis tournament.
Personally,
I think we should boycott ALL businesses that place money before the
defense of traditional values. You know, like how Halliburton is
putting money above the traditional value of charity and good
Samaritanism, and demanding to get PAID for reconstructing Iraq. So, I
say we all refuse to buy any of Halliburton's . . .whatevers. And we
should also boycott all companies which sponsor tennis, on the principle
that I don't really care for it, and then pressure them to spend
their money ("OUR money") on stuff I do like, like Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Paul
goes on to say that while the boycott of Disney for its shameful "gay
days" didn’t actually do any good, American Airlines, being a lot
smaller, less diverse, and in worse financial shape than the Mouse
Kingdom, should be easier to bring to its knees (as it were).
He
then states that AA "is not the only corporation that has sent
traditional values crashing," and mentions that William J. Murray of the
Religious Freedom Coalition ("Fighting for Your Freedom To Not Be Free
of Religion"), "is on the warpath about Orbitz, the online travel
company that has been airing TV advertisements featuring a homosexual
marionette making moves on a man at a swimming pool." Because when our
puppets turn gay, you know that our society is doomed, DOOMED!
Oh,
and per Murray, it doesn’t even make good business sense for Orbitz to
court the homosexual traveler, since "less than 1 percent of men are
actually practicing homosexuals" and therefore "each homosexual would
have to spend $137,000.00 per year on travel to match that spend by
normal heterosexual men." And if that normal heterosexual man is scared
that gay puppets will hit on him at the hotel swimming pool, he might
just take his $137,000 and stay home this year. I wonder if Orbitz has
thought about THAT!
For their part, CyberCast News.com (Financially Ailing Airline Blasted for Sponsoring Bisexuality Event)
gets a sound-bite from Robert Knight, director of the Culture and
Family Institute (which presumably makes families watch PBS and visit
art museums), who says:
"Perhaps when parents see their sons and daughters lured into homosexual experimentation, they will look at American Airlines, Subaru and the other corporate promoters of homosexuality as the cynical, uncompassionate entities that they really are."
You
know, I can buy the fact that AA and Subaru are luring my sons and
daughters into homosexual experimentation (could those Paul Hogan
Outback commercials have been a MORE blatant pitch for the gay
life-style?) But the idea that corporate entities are really cynical
and uncompassionate??? No, that I will never accept.
But,
just as I was ready to vow that AA would never get a dime from me
again (well, I had already vowed that, based on a plane trip from hell
that left me stranded at the Dallas airport overnight -- but this time
the boycott was going to be MORAL), I read this article (Bisexuality Conference Misrepresented American Airlines' Role)
from TownHall news, pointing out that AA didn’t actually sponsor the
Bisexual Conference, they just provided a group travel discount to
attendees, like they do for "hundreds of other meetings of all kinds."
Um, never mind.
But, per
TownHall, we shouldn’t blame CNS and the rest for misreporting the
situation; no, its bisexuals’ fault, for thanking AA for the discounts
and thus misleading the eager perversion-spotters. And besides, AA is
still going to hell:
The misrepresentation of American Airlines' role in the bisexuality conference may have been spawned by semantics or formalities [or poor reading comprehension skills], but the company's affinity among homosexual advocacy groups is readily evident.The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an advocacy organization for homosexuality and bisexuality, gave AA a perfect score in its most recent Corporate Equality Index, which rates the policies of U.S. companies as they relate to homosexual employees and consumers.
And
if AA treats homosexual employees and consumers just like regular
people, then they are spitting in the face of traditional values, and
deserve to be boycotted. Well, not boycotted so much as reprogrammed.
You get the electrodes and I'll get the gay-airplane porn.
Next time: Washington Times quotes
"Allyson Smith of Concerned Women for America," who actually attended
the conference (she was that concerned!), just so she could report to
you the shocking goings-on, to include "workshops involving full male
and female nudity, 'sex toy' demonstrations, XXX pornographic video
screenings, and advice on throwing sex parties." Well, maybe we won't
cover that, since it might convert you away from heterosexuality. And
then I'd get boycotted.
