Eye of Newt

Dear Mr. Gingrich,


It seems you are worried for the welfare of poor children. I have heard many times on the news today that you feel these poor children through no fault of their own are lacking in the ability to work 8 hours legally.  Their parents are sadly engaged only in illegal activities, which we all know take place during bankers hours.  As a result these poor children will be thrown into a world expecting them to work all day and they will have no examples to follow, God only knows congressman never venture into these areas to set an example, but we digress.  You would like these children to work at their schools, cleaning bathrooms and floors.  While your concern for these children is contemptible, I mean, no that's what I mean.  You ought to pay attention to another area of society that is just as lacking in skills.  As these are not poor children it is difficult at best to have anyone pay attention to them. Goodness knows the liberal media just ignores them.

The children of the rich, and by rich I mean mostly congressman and wall street types.  These poor children think the only way to earn a buck is to skimp on your taxes, or get elected to congress.  They have no idea what it is to do the job you were elected, I mean hired to do.  So for them Newt I suggest you offer similar job openings I'm sure there are many bathrooms in the halls of Congress, and God only knows there is more crap there then elsewhere, maybe they could clean it up.

That's horse meat!

Facebook is alive this morning with people repulsed with the idea that horses could be slaughtered for food.  First let's be clear I was born vegetarian. Until I hit my teens it's not even really something I thought about.  Having said that it is something that I have given considerable thought to since then.  Meat is to me not just repulsive, so much as it seems to be the meanest thing you could do to another living being.  It's mean to cage an animal or raise it for the sole purpose of  killing an animal, and then to add insult to all kinds of injury to eat the animal.  No part of this process seems the least bit acceptable to me.  To understand the revulsion from my point of view simply insert "child" in place of animal in the previous sentence. 

The comments flying around Facebook and below the articles on Yahoo etc.  confuse me.  Why are horses special? They have all the same "parts" as cows, pigs or even turkeys.  Turkey's for example are joyously hacked away every Thanksgiving, and seemingly turkeyless Thanksgiving is so abhorrent that there are fake one's made out of tofu that look like the real thing.  So let's be clear it isn't that the horse will taste bad, it's that we view the horse differently.  George Washington, after all didn't ride into battle against the Brits on a masterful pig.  Statues of fallen warriors do not see them standing nobly by their pet turkeys. Looking at chickens one is not inspired to art or poetry.  It's not that there is a moral repugnance to horse flesh, it's merely that we have decided that horses are worthy.  They are useful to us in more ways then lunch.  Where as the other animals are useful merely as lunch.