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She defended Michael Vick today. She said that where he comes from in the south, dogfighting isn't very unusual. I will never support any of her endeavors again.
I'm with you. That is the most ridiculous statement from a prominent person - wait nevermind. This happens all the time. A girl on the radio was defending him too. I just remembered who it was, it was Monica Pierre.
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is just as bad as he is. They are on my sh*t list too. Vick's crime and his defenders are something or someone I will never forgive or forget...God forgive me.
She was not trying to openly defend him but said "allegedly" after comments from callers. Maybe she had to say that because she's on the radio. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
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Re: "God forgive me", the Almighty probably will, for He is reportedly pretty forgiving...
September 4 2007, 11:31 PM
.... after all, He's expected to forgive Michael Vick - or at least intercede (presumably as the God that we're one nation under) to get him a light sentence - for Michael Vick has apparently "... found Jesus, and asked Him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God".*
In the third of a century or so since Watergate, I've seen a lot of convicted criminals among public figures claim on TV to have found Jesus - usually between conviction and sentencing.
Watching Michael Vick's performance, I don't think that my gorge has risen so strongly over anybody playing the Jesus card since back in the 1970s, when I saw the appalling Chuck Colson - President Nixon's convicted henchman who in a way had tried to steal and destroy the Constitution of the United States - snivelling about finding the Lord while being hugged by the creepy Reverend Robert Schuller in the great Glass Cathedral (I almost needed a barf bag)!
If memory serves me correctly, Colson - who since achieved some eminence in the cause of Christian Rightness if not rectitude - got about four months in prison, when he deserved life. It will be interesting to see what onerous a sentence is handed down (or up?) to Mr Vick.
[* I was astonished to see Vick's public statement to this effect on Fox News' 'The O'Reilly Factor' this evening. At least the usually God-fearing Bill O'Reilly indulged in a little televisual humor: as Vick mumbled to the TV cameras about his pre-sentencing epiphany, Fox technologists superimposed a little golden halo around his brow..]
between defending Michael Vick and stating that dog fighting is a cultural manifestation. In Michael Vick's world dog fighting is/was acceptable. I don't think you'll find that Whoopi Goldberg thought or said that she thinks it is acceptable.
People seem to read news blurbs, endlessly forwarded emails, and Gawd only knows what else and jump to conclusions (often misguided). This is a really bad way to run a democracy.
Maybe it's a good thing, then, that our republic is not yet a democracy!
September 8 2007, 9:18 AM
But, to return to topic, surely everything's going to be all right now. Reportedly Michael Vick has found Jesus, so will presumably be kind to dogs henceforth - even though dogs, when (rarely) mentioned, generally get a bum rap in the Bible*.
For example, according to Leviticus (11:27) "... whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean...". I guess that Vick had to do some physical as well as spiritual cleaning up after his involvement with and euthanizing (to use a euphemism) of those battle-scarred fighting dogs.
[* Which may be a cut above cats, who don't get a scriptural mention at all.)
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