My Current Mile

Peta recently yanked this billboard ad after the flood of emails claiming that the message is ‘hate speech’ to fat people. However, Peta says that the response is positive, saying that people who see the ad are moving to a vegiterian diet.

Yeah, right. Why pull the ad if it is work?

I’m not much of a vegetable eater, never have been and probably never will be. I stay away from most kinds of vegetables by choice. I do, however, like green beans, any kind of bean except lima beans, carrots, and onions and green peppers on SubWay cold-cut combos, and pop-corn. But I don’t like ‘regular’ corn – ever seen a pig eat an ear of corn?

But give me a break. The ad claims that switching to a total vegeterian diet will guarantee that you will lose weight. I guess Peta forgot that weight loss is a simple function of calories in minus calories spent. Whether I eat 5,000 calories of spinach or steak three times a day, I’ll probably get fat.

Duh.

But score points for the ‘shock’ value. At least Peta created a buzz that found it’s way to CNN and other media outlets.

While I won’t discount that a ‘healthy’ meal plan is a cornerstone of a ‘balanced’ diet, I don’t believe that a diet of 100% vegetables is any thing but sick.

I wonder if Peta’s next ad will say “Considing Gastic Bypass? Eat Vegetables And Save the Pain”. If that ad appears on the billboard next door, I’ll take my name off the bariatric surgery waiting list at St. Vincent’s.

My heart goes out to the families of the women gunned down and killed at the Pittsburgh LA Fitness on August 4, 2009. What an absolute tragedy.

Apparently, the gunman, George Sodini, kept an online blog, where he documented his alienation and resentment toward society at large, women in general and his plans to ‘get even’.  The article reports that his last entry included this statement:

“Maybe soon, I will see God and Jesus. At least that is what I was told. Eternal life does NOT depend on works. If it did, we will all be in hell. Christ paid for EVERY sin, so how can I or you be judged BY GOD for a sin when the penalty was ALREADY paid. People judge but that does not matter. I was reading the Bible and The Integrity of God beginning yesterday, because soon I will see them.” (source: www.articlesbase.com)

George Sodini was obviously delusional and messed up. From this quote, seems like the man believed in the OSAS (Once Saved Always Saved) doctrine. I wonder how Dan Conner from Evangelical Outreach will response. Dan takes a hard line against OSAS and has created an entire web site explaining his belief and promoting his book.

Although I haven’t come to any conclusions as to the reality of OSAS, it does seem a bit of a long stretch to plead God’s mercy and forgiveness, expecting to enjoy the abundance of paradise for all eternity, before planning and committing such a heinous crime.