Michael Vick Indictment

[Lakal]

The Vick indictment said that in April 2007, Peace, Phillips and Vick "executed approximately eight dogs that did not perform well in 'testing' sessions by various methods, including hanging, drowning and/or slamming at least one dog's body to the ground." Vick also is alleged to have consulted with Peace before Peace killed a losing dog by electrocution in 2003.

MSNBC fired Don Imus when they decided it would cost too much money to keep him. Do you think Nike will do the same with Michael Vick?

[swampfox]

Glad to report that Nike has done the same to Michael Vick. The Vick line of expensive shoes that were coming out next month have been cancelled. I do have to say, though, that this remarkable bit of corporate citizenship comes from a company whose shoes are still made largely by slave labor (in prisons) in China or for 25 cents/day workers in Malaysia.

But continuing a remarkable tale, Vick trading cards, jerseys, and memorabilia have been cancelled by at least three other companies that I've heard of so far.

Maybe this is the best way, to hit him in the pocketbook. Given a private meeting with him I'm not sure if I could be as kind.

Now I'd like to see him and anyone else associated with this mess banned from professional sports altogether.

[Paul on Cressfell]

Maybe this is the best way, to hit him in the pocketbook.


Oh, your insight is so telling. Now, he will just have to live off the meager wages from his best-selling book about the whole ordeal.

[swampfox]

When is yours coming out, Paul? I might buy a copy of that one.

[Paul on Cressfell]

When is yours coming out, Paul? I might buy a copy of that one.


Is that the best you can come up with? Sounds like your dribble has, hmmm hmmm, "gone to the DOGS".

[swampfox]

Your mama like it.

[cuebald]

Now that the mushroom cloud from the Vick explosion has abated a bit, let's think about his crime.

He killed the dogs much in the same way cattle are slaughtered for market.

Why is one animal's death considered to be criminal and the other to be commerce?

[swampfox]

Did he eat the dogs?

[cuebald]

That was never mentioned. In Korea, he would have. There are street vendors who keep dogs in cages and slaughter them and cook them on the spot when you place your order.

Not exactly a pretzel stand in Central Park, but similar.

The point being, there is nothing humane about the way the animal is dispatched in either scenario.

[anti-babble]

Cue, have you been over there? And if so did you ever eat dog meat?

[cuebald]

Never been there, but here is a link to one of 2 million hits for the subject on google.

http://www.dogbiz.com/dont-eat-dog-meat.htm

[anti-babble]

Dog consumption became a necessity during the war when there was nothing else left to eat. Kind of like a cowboy eating his horse. After the war it became a fad and is not as common as one would think. I would think that it would take alot of SOJU or O.B. Lager for someone to be able to their family pet.

[cuebald]

According to several of the articles, dogs are eaten by @ 10% of Koreans. I remembered the story from the Olympics when they moved the street vendors from the venue to avoid upsetting foreigners.

Maybe this is the answer to Gaston's seemingly ill-fated Collard Festival.

[swampfox]

The collard is considered a pet in many cultures.

[cuebald]

I used to keep black widow spiders in jars under my bed when I was a kid, but I don't recall having eaten any of them, now that you mention it.

Maybe it's a cultural thing.

[better days]

Cue I don't buy into the cultural southern thing that Whoopie threw out there. Cannibalism and running around bare assed could be considered a cultural thing amoung the Candoshi tribe also. The world has changed and as Americans there have become certain things that are just taboo period. To say it's just a demograpic problem is an insult. It's againest the law as the housing of A GIZILLION chickens next door to my house should be so I guess the answer must be, political lobbist perfer dogs for pets instead of chickens.

[cuebald]

The French eat horses, the natives in Papua New Guinea eat spiders, Koreans eat dogs, Saudis roast goats and eat the eyes, Aborigines eat bats, Chinese eat bear paws, in Lexco they eat chitlins, and college students used to swallow live gold fish.

I would consider all of these to be cultural markers, and would imagine that each of these groups would be horrified at the things at least one of the other group eats.

I personally have eaten alligator, snapping turtle (both meat and eggs), rattlesnake, eel, and have frog legs in the refrigerator at this moment waiting to be sauteed.

Nothing wrong with any of it. Just the way you grew up.

BTW - what's wrong with running around bare-assed?