While still on the road feeding the Bulldogs, I took some time from trial work to watch some news coverage of Michael Vick’s initial appearance in Federal court today.
Vick has never been a likeable player. I avoid him like air born AIDS on fantasy draft day ‘cause I cannot imagine ever cheering for him. Today, listening to the absolute gibberish that purports to be Vick’s defense, my belief that he is the epitome of the arrogant thug has been replaced and dwarfed by a belief that Vick is a monster.
Even my vocabulary is insufficient to accurately describe a human that so brutally violates the trust that dogs give their humans. Since Vick purports to be the ultimate competitor it seems only fair that he gets to compete in a man vs. nature event. Instead of killing the American Bulldogs (a/k/a pit bulls) I say we let Michael Vick join them in the ring.
My old granny used to describe reprobates by saying, “he’s gone to the dogs” so perhaps its time for the cliché to find life. Vick has even provided the venue, the rings are right there on his property just awaiting further use. For whatever reason I don’t think that Mike will find that nearly as much fun as watching the dogs from the outside of the combat ring.
Vick has never been a likeable player. I avoid him like air born AIDS on fantasy draft day ‘cause I cannot imagine ever cheering for him. Today, listening to the absolute gibberish that purports to be Vick’s defense, my belief that he is the epitome of the arrogant thug has been replaced and dwarfed by a belief that Vick is a monster.
Even my vocabulary is insufficient to accurately describe a human that so brutally violates the trust that dogs give their humans. Since Vick purports to be the ultimate competitor it seems only fair that he gets to compete in a man vs. nature event. Instead of killing the American Bulldogs (a/k/a pit bulls) I say we let Michael Vick join them in the ring.
My old granny used to describe reprobates by saying, “he’s gone to the dogs” so perhaps its time for the cliché to find life. Vick has even provided the venue, the rings are right there on his property just awaiting further use. For whatever reason I don’t think that Mike will find that nearly as much fun as watching the dogs from the outside of the combat ring.
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I haven't been following this story closely, but people who torture and/or kill animals are usually sociopaths. Probably something went very wrong in his early childhood, and he never developed the capacity for empathy. It is abnormal to abuse dogs the way he has.
Just another reason to advocate for attachment parenting (www.attachmentparenting.org), which promotes secure attachments between children and parents.
desmoinesdem
desmoinesdem - you're probably right...if Vick would have just "co-spept" with his parents until he was 13, he'd just be a real sweetheart today...
Let's just make sure Vick smells like a cat or juicy steak or something before we let the dogs loose on him...
Ron Mexico is done for at least a year. Pro sports has become a haven for thugs, hoodlums and deviants of all forms. The people are sick of it and Goodell is not going to tolerate it.
There is a reason that DOG is spelled like GOD backwards. Dog's are God's angels on earth. Their only purposee is to love unabashedly and defend their human caretakers at all costs.
It's a trust relationship and requires only that we love them back and take good care of them for their service.
This is the most vile of all crimes other than those involving children.
desmoinesdem...I hope you guys are taking your cause into the "ghetto" because that is where you are most needed.
As we've seen with Vick and other professional thugs that have dominated all sports of late, "ghetto" is a state of mind that values thugs and not attachment parenting.
Being in the ghetto is not a function of your bank account.
Vick is just a ghetto thug with money.
you can take the thug out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug.
I understand that about 10,000 people showed up to boo Vick. I wish I could have been one of them.
Even Cindy Sheehan and I might agree on this protest.
Palm Beach County, Fla. -- home of the infamous "hanging chad” of the disputed 2000 presidential election -- is again the scene of election controversy.
The Republican Party of Palm Beach County has uncovered at least 60 cases of voters it believes voted twice –- once in New York and once in Florida -- in the Nov. 7, 2006, general election.
The GOP investigators believe vote fraud is far worse. Their analysis found as many as nearly 12,000 Florida voters who were registered to vote in the state of New York.
The Republican Party has turned over its reports to the Florida State Attorney and other authorities in the state to investigate criminal wrongdoing.
William J. Skinner, Voter Fraud Committee chairman for the Republican Party of Palm Beach, alleges in each count, "I obtained the voter registration and voter history files from the states of Florida and New York and compared the files for first name, middle name, last name and date of birth.
This comparison disclosed the above person voted in Florida and New York for the November 7, 2006 state and Federal election.”
The Republicans have requested the Division of Elections and the other agencies to open an investigation to determine whether these 60 individuals have violated Florida statutes and whether they may be prosecuted for voting in two states in the same election.
"These 60 individuals represent the tip of the iceberg of persons possibly voting twice when you consider voters who are registered under slightly different spellings or name modifications in each state.
In that investigation, the Daily News broke down those with double registrations as 68 percent Democrats, 12 percent Republicans and 16 percent without a listed party affiliation.
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani called Democrats "the party of losers" for demanding a scheduled pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq.
"Democrats have already declared we've lost," the former New York mayor said during a campaign stop in Texas.
"It's really strange. The Democrats want to give our enemies a timetable. Never in history of war has a retreating army been asked to give a timetable.
"I'm for victory," Giuliani said. Democrats, he added, are "living in a world where they refuse to admit the existence of Islamic terrorism."
As president, Giuliani said, he would take the offensive on terrorism, balance the federal budget and deal with illegal immigration. "I don't think that's any more complicated than reducing crime in New York," he said.
you can take the weak boy who gives up his sandwich to the bully on the playground off of the playground, but you can't take the weakness out of the boy who appeases bullies by offering them his sandwich.
Those weak boys becomes democrats.
Isn't Harry Reid the most wishy washy whiney pansy ass handwringer you ever saw? Every fiber of his being exudes fear.
Posted by TOM BEVAN of realclearpolitics
I'm beginning to think Bill Richardson possesses some sort of Jedi-mind trick capability, which would explain not only why he's been able to convince vicious dictators to do his bidding but also why he continues to rise in the polls despite some sub par debate performances and an incoherent appearance on Meet the Press that might have derailed other candidates.
Richardson's latest knee-slapper was his assertion yesterday that Iowa is one of the Top 10 states in the country at risk of a terrorist attack.
People are used to the standard ethanol pander in Iowa during election years. These days, with the focus on breaking our dependence on foreign oil, playing the ethanol card is not only commonplace, it's actually become fashionable.
That might be the reason Richardson felt compelled to come up with a new pander to set himself apart from the crowd in Iowa, but the one he used yesterday is so ridiculous it calls his judgment and credibility into question.
But at a gathering with Des Moines-area police and firefighters, Richardson said he was presented a "compelling" argument that Iowa isn't receiving its fair share.
"So I'd put (Iowa) in the top 10, and I'd treat it like that."
Asked what Iowa has that states such as Nebraska, Indiana and others do not have, Richardson said: "It's not just because of the primary, if that's what you're hinting at."
Research 2000 is out with a new poll in Iowa.
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have lost ground since the last Research 2000 poll while John Edwards has not:
Democrats
Edwards 27 (+1 vs last poll May 14-16)
Clinton 22 (-6)
Obama 16 (-6)
Richardson 11 (+4)
Undecided 16 (+6)
On the Republican side, Mitt Romney surges into a strong lead while Thompson continues to rise and Giuliani and McCain slide:
Republicans
Romney 25 (+9 vs last poll May 14-16)
F. Thompson 14 (+5)
Giuliani 13 (-4)
McCain 10 (-8)
Gingrich 6 (nc)
Undecided 22 (nc)
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Americans approve of the way that President George W. Bush his performing his job.
Sixteen percent (16%) say Congress is doing a good or an excellent job and just 13% say the legislators have done anything to make life better in America over the past year.
For anyone not paying attention, the 2008 pre-season is over.
If anyone had any doubt about whether the presidential campaign was ramped up, the still-spurting volcano of rhetoric between Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton over who is better equipped to handle foreign policy should clear that right up.
It's the first extended back and forth between the two frontrunners, and neither seems ready to back down just yet. Why? Because they each think they can "win" on the issue.
For Obama, the fight represents a chance to paint Clinton as a creature of the past -- a past defined by her vote in favor of the 2002 use of force resolution against Iraq.
Obama's argument is also centered on the idea that experience and judgement are two entirely different things.
Clinton's political experience, Obama argues subtly, didn't help her make the right vote in 2002, while his political inexperience didn't hamper his ability to argue against it.
For Clinton, the controversy shows why Obama is a risky vote for Democratic primary voters. Yes, he has charisma, but is he ready for the job he is auditioning for? Clinton's campaign believes her experience dealing at the highest levels of government as both first lady and as senator is the strongest counter to the energy surrounding Obama.
Your heart might be with Obama, the argument goes, but your head is with Clinton.
Make it fair for everybody, so that everybody gets a chance," Edwards said in Des Moines on Thursday. "We need to reform our tax system to reward work instead of just rewarding investment."
not only does John wish to not reward investing, he actually wants to punish it.
Don't you dare save. Saving gives you power and we can't be having that!
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.
MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network.
Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.
The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.
At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
Will moveon.org sanction tapping phones so they can find republicans having non sanctioned conversations? Is it like it used to be in Russia? No one can have a differing opinion? Must we hide now?
Just what is the goal of this insanity?
MyDD* flags an intense minute and a half from John Edwards in Creston, Iowa, yesterday in which he heatedly tells an audience that the attention to trivia (I assume the reference here is to his haircuts) is "not an accident" and that "they want to shut me up" to silence his message about ending the war and universalizing health care.
He warns, in the video segment posted by his campaign, that if we don't beat back these unnamed oligarchs, "They're going to control the media. They're going to control what's being said."
He doesn't go into detail about who "they" are, other than a reference to people who make $100 million a year, and compares them to the (actual well-funded, conservative) operation that put the Swift Boat ads on air.
He also doesn't explain exactly how this corporate-media collaboration works, but his audience seems to be rapt.
Here's from his remarks:
This stuff's not an accident. Nobody in this room should think this is an accident.
You know, I'm out there speaking up for universal healthcare, ending this war in Iraq, speaking up for the poor.
They want to shut me up. That's what this is about.
They will never silence me. Never.
If we don't stand up to these people, if we don't fight em, if we don't beat them, they're going to continue to control this country.
Thye're going to control the media.
They're going to control what's being said.
They do not want to hear us talking about health care for everybody.
*UPDATE: The person who posted the video to MyDD, Tracy Joan Russo, is actually an Edwards staffer who does blogger outreach. So the campaign must think this is a winning message.
That's right, because it's the Republicans who are pushing the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.... oh wait....
What should one expect from a liberal hypocrite - $500 haircuts and $8 million mansions. Well, I guess we should be thankful that Elizabeth is giving up tangerines to help with global warming!
Perhaps Mr. Edwards needs to read Proverbs 17:28 "Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent."
This is the utmost in hypocrisy on Edward?s part since he was the one conspiring with Hillary to shut up other Dem candidates by preventing their participation in future debates.
He's just setting the stage for "Fairness Doctrine" lawsuits every time a talk radio guy makes fun of his hair... He's not as dumb as he looks!
This lawyer turned politician turned snake oil salesman is the epitome of what is wrong with politics.
No one really wants Edwards to "shut up"; they just want him to go away.
This poor jerk, masquerading as a champion of the poor, wouldn't know "poor" if it fell on his head!
And until Edwards stops using his wife's terminal illness as a catapult, his chance of success range somewhere between zero and none.
Notice how Mr. Liberal, Mr. Global Warming is holding a bottled water as he speaks.
Any hypocrisy there? Maybe someone should remind him that bottled water is the latest target of the global warming movement.
Well, if there is a "they" list to shut him up, sign me up ('cause i sure don't want to hear this overpriced dipstick any more)!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0707/Edwards_They_want_to_shut_me_up.html
Here's the whole pathetic thing. Like was said before, it's embarrassing to see so many Iowans endorsing this guy. It doesn't help with 1st in the nation. It makes Iowa D's look as looney as Edwards has become.
How do you guys process this crap and not feel like taking a shower? DO you really believe these paranoid rantings?
Is a Paranoid scaredy boy what you want to have close to the red button?
Robert S. McIntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group whose calculations are widely respected by tax experts, said that if the cost of extending tax cuts for people earning less than $200,000 was added to the calculation, the plan would create a $35 billion revenue shortfall instead of the extra $50 billion predicted by the Edwards campaign.
“John Edwards is trying to do something nice for low-income people,” Mr. McIntyre said. “The question is whether he has a way to pay for it.
He is repealing tax cuts on the rich that really do not exist and the only part of substance is that he is expanding the Bush tax cuts to everyone else, but doesn’t count it.
I don’t want to go overboard in the criticism, but this is very deceptive.”
Dennis J. Goldford a political science professor at Drake University in Des Moines, said Mr. Edwards’s tax plan is “consistent with his populist image of going after the wealthy and helping the poor.”
But, he cautioned, “he’s got to be careful, everyone wants to be rich.”
First - John portrays himself as the Breck Girl.
Second - John portrays himself as Robert F Kennedy (he couldn't go after JFK, cause Kerry already tried that. And, besides, JFK reduced taxes and enjoyed a booming economy as a result)
Third - John portrays himself as Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor. (Robin Hood was a criminal, although a populist criminal).
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards delivered what his campaign called a "major policy address" this morning in Des Moines. The event was held in the auditorium inside the student center at Grandview College. The last time I was in the room was for a Howard Dean event where Dean stressed his credentials as a doctor and his health care reform plans.
About 300 people were in the room to listen to the speech -- and they had to wait for a while because Edwards was 45 minutes late.
According to his staff: "He's talking to Elizabeth
A few in the crowd laughed when Edwards re-told the story about his dad borrowing $50 in order to bring him home from the hospital after he was born.
In talking about attacking vested interests that have "rigged" the system: "They will not change until they're made to change. You can't do this by being nice. You have to tell the truth.
You have to be strong and you have to fight and the time to talk to them is after you've beaten them," Edwards said.
Fred Thompson's campaign manager, Spence Abraham, carries water for the Jihadis. He obtained millions in government funds for Hamas and Hezbollah.
The greatest generation failed in one respect, it bread the whiny self centered and lazy hippies of the baby boom.
Even worse, we boomers, on the whole, thus far proven to be even worse parents as we have created a generation that thinks Jon Daily is real news, rap is art and jihadists want to kill us because the US invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam.
GREAT, GREAT post Uncle Ted.
Dead on.
Vick is joke.
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