What is it with teh right and hating America?

It’s bad enough that they’re so unAustralian as to attack our Prime Minister in a time of (financial) war – I mean, you expect teh right to be unpatriotic, but don’t they know that America is the last, best hope for humanity? Have they no shame at all?

By the way, because of this, none of you are getting Christmas cards this year. Too expensive.

Not so – I floss twice a day with pages from Das Kapital.

And don’t throw me in the pool room or I’ll harm someone.

And for a moment I was thinking you were commenting on chest pain from too many burgers.

There isn’t even a ray of hope for you, is there Scott?

Has Steve been dead long enough for the right to let us in on its joke?

What a back stab.

I suppose that makes me a bad leftist.

John Ray has been boycotting McDonald’s for months, ever since one of their executives had the hide to join the board of a gay and lesbian business group.

Re-reading this post, the thing that surprises me most is Andrew Bolt seems to genuinely have no idea that pandas and elephants are threatened. He’s since updated his blog saying they’re not endangered, so there. Apparently threatened animals are a leftist conspiracy. Or are we supposed to wait until they are endangered before raising awareness?

Typical knee-jerk Bolt, I suppose. Worthy conservation = leftist plot to brainwash kids into voting for the Socialist Alliance.

http://blog.andyblume.com/?p=1627

It’s not just the animals that are endangered! :(

Just so one day I might be able to enjoy a McYellowfootedrockwallaby Burger(tm) with cheese without feeling guilty.

Also, this is in partnership with “Australia Zoo”. The Irwin mob, right?

They’ve infiltrated Disney, now McDonalds!!!

And when they go into bat for endangered species they get no credit.

All in all McDonald’s has put together a list of ten animals it has labelled as ‘Endangered Animals’ and less than half of them qualify as such.

Fuck, you people are hard to please sometimes.
They’re not Greenpeace, you know. They don’t have to do this.
(cue response about how it’s all just an advertising stunt anyway so they should be grateful for even the faintest of faint praise)

Yay

I’m off a shootin with Sarah

While ‘near threatened’ sounds like it’s one step away from extinction, the only ranking better for a species is ‘least concern’. A ‘near threatened’ animal is two steps away (from being endangered.

There well may be only 10,000 African Elephants in the wild (I didn’t check this) but check the IUCN and you’ll find that the population is increasing and that the species was taken off the endangered list back in 2004. (See: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12392)

The species of cockatoo that is included isn’t close to being endangered. The IUCN lists it as a species of ‘least concern’.

All in all McDonald’s has put together a list of ten animals it has labelled as ‘Endangered Animals’ and less than half of them qualify as such. That’s right up there with ‘Our Hot Apple Pies are delicious’ in terms of deceptive advertising.