PETA, Cerebrally Challenged

OK, can we just have the PETA lunatics certified and institutionalized?
The third definition of kill in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary is channel or stream. These people have to be insane because if they were this ignorant and stupid they couldn't walk erect. If there's any promotion of violence it's on PETA's part. When normal people are confronted with this manner of moronic babbling, there is an overwhelming desire to beat sense into the culprits. How can these cretins revel in their ignorance of english vocabulary and American history? They are below the fish on the food chain!

Just when you think it's safe to look at a map, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals strikes. The group's latest concern is directed, as it was a decade ago, at Fishkill.

To them, it's a mean moniker that promotes violence against animals. Yet this town named from the Dutch derivative — Vis for fish and Kill, meaning a stream or creek — has no intention of harming the creatures of the water.

Not good enough for PETA members. To them, the name shouldn't be anywhere, even on a map. "When they think of Fishkill, they think of abusing fish and that's not the right message," a spokeswoman for the group's fish empathy project said of those who might see the name on a map.

Maybe that's what PETA members think.

But when others think of Fishkill, they think of the brick buildings that line the Broad Street National Historic District and the 37,000 books in the Blodgett Library. The Senior Center Drop-in program at town hall also comes to mind. As does the annual Easter egg hunt, Halloween parade and the public reading of the Declaration of Independence every July 4.

Some may think of the Van Wyck Homestead, a spot on New York's Independence Trail. Of course, the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Fishkill, built in 1716, is testimony to the town's staying power.

PETA has even offered Fishkill an incentive to eradicate its history: if the town changes its title, the group will give $15,000 worth of soy-based fish products to local schools. We suspect the schools would pan that.

Fishkill is rich in history and home to some of Dutchess County's finest residents, who would never harm animals. It doesn't need a name change.

From the Poughkeepsie Journal.