As I was exploring what topics to talk about this week, there were plenty to choose from: Sandy Berger and his insulting misdemeanor conviction; Barack Hussein Obama, the present darling of the Democratic Party; the ever-present, laughable ACLU; the numerous environmental terrorist groups; and last but certainly not the least, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I chose PETA.

If any of you have supported or contributed to this group, shame on you. Do you really know what this organization is all about? There is both a laughable side and a serious side to this group.

Not to be outdone by the ACLU and atheist groups, PETA also now attacks public Nativity scenes that use live animals. It claims that "those animals are subject to all sorts of terrible fates in some cases."

"Animals have been stolen and slaughtered, they’ve been raped (???), they’ve escaped and have been struck by cars and killed. Just really unfathomable things have happened to them."

I had to check to make sure they weren’t talking about humans.

But this group takes it one step further. It sent a stern letter to a church in Alaska warning the minister to immediately stop using live animals or there would be consequences.

The pastor found this demand to be a little ludicrous since the only live creatures in the Nativity scene were humans. The animals were all plastic! Way to go, PETA _ spend those donations wisely.

A more-grisly side of the organization was exposed when two of its members were caught putting 18 dead dogs into plastic bags and dumping them into a trash bin.

More dead dogs were found in their van, along with vials of drugs that were used to kill them. These had been perfectly healthy animals.

These two PETA members, according to testimony, promised to find decent homes for the dogs but didn’t even take the animals back to PETA headquarters. They killed them while only a short distance from the shelter.[an error occurred while processing this directive]