What is the single most important issue to Mexicans illegally crossing the U.S. border? Not finding food and water, an under the table job, or paying off their trafficker, but eating a hamburger that might've been made from the inhumane slaughter of a cow!
PETA, the animal rights group about as delirious as the Parents Television Council, is hoping to plaster the Mexico-U.S. border fence with ads that alert jumpers that "If the Border Patrol Doesn't Get You, the Chicken and Burgers Will — Go Vegan."
Why the ridiculous marketing message? Says PETA: "We think that Mexicans and other immigrants should be warned if they cross into the U.S. they are putting their health at risk by leaving behind a healthier, staple diet of corn tortillas, beans, rice, fruits and vegetables."
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The British-via-Sri Lanka rapper M.I.A., born Mathangi Arulpragasam, will marry Benjamin Brewer, of the New York rock band Exit and, more notably, the son of Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. Her work visa, which allows her to travel in the U.S., expires in June. [Ed Sun]
• Even Brad Pitt is bored with film openings. He told MTV, “I didn’t learn shit” at the premier of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
• Mexicans learn that Canada isn’t a colder America with a better immigration policy.
• What’s Chris Klein up to? Probably just hanging around and eating tuna fish and beans.
• Gay people are charming. Too charming.
• J. Lo’s hotel demands prove that her new stomach comes from her eating habits, not from a fetus.
• Mariah Carey is like a hot Grimace.
Bill O'Reilly, chimes Stereohyped, is worried! Worried that one day – even one day soon! – white Christian men might no longer be in power. And John McCain might be to blame. CONTINUED »
• New York is making a comeback, which makes for exciting statistical graphics. [NYT]
• Ensuring that only the well off will be patrons of the arts, the Met follows MoMA with a $20-plus ticket. [NYSun]
• And everyone loves a comeback. [Metro NY]
• There was no way these five disabled folks were making it out of the van alive. [NYDN]
• Just what Michael Bloomberg needs: A reason for immigration reform advocates to get on their high horse. [NYP]
• Bad Santa is now a shit smearer. [NYP]
Speaking to a Senate committee yesterday at a hearing on illegal immigration, Mayor Michael Bloomberg relayed some unfortunate news: were officials to cack down on undocumented workers, the world would end.
"Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders … our city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported," he said. "The same holds true for the nation."
Seriously, c'mon. We don't see you citizens mopping up the slop at Chinatown Brasserie or lining the streets with waste on garbage day.
NYC mayor says U.S. depends on immigrants [Kimberly Hefling, AP]
