“…"We've been saying for a while there seems to be a subculture of dogfighting in the NFL, and this Vick thing seems to reinforce that," Goodwin said. "And the nonchalant attitude that Clinton Portis had in describing something that is a felony crime really drove the point home. The guy's attitude was unbelievable."…”

“One Small Step for Man…”  38 years ago today.

I have a new article on Blog Critics.  This one is dear to my heart.  I have some very good friends, Bob & Melba Matson, who own and operate the Wyatt Earp Birthplace Museum.  They are being literally bullied, stalked, and harassed by a professor who disputes their history.  It has been going on for over 20 years.  Enough is enough.  Here is the story.

I just know the burning question of the day is how did I do with the 30 loaves of garlic bread I promised to make for the church bazaar tomorrow. It is Christmas in July, Holy Mount Episcopal Church, starts around 8AM, lunch will start around 11AM.   How does one make 30 loaves of garlic bread when the last time one attempted to cook one caught the oven on fire?Simple – I ordered 30 pre-made loaves, will pick them up at 2:30 tomorrow and will deliver them to the kitchen.  No muss, no fuss, no fire!   NOTE:  They were ready at 9:AM, cost sixty bucks and were delivered by noon.  I’m done.

A VERY MINI RANT
Barry Bonds
Are the latest scandals besetting the NBA and the NFL paid for by Barry Bonds just to make his problems look like a hill of beans in this crazy mixed up world of ours or am I just giving into conspiracy hysteria?  I never thought I would see something in sports that would make him look good, but golly….!  Juicing looks minor compared to Vick and rigging basketball games for the mob!  As Bonds gets closer and closer to breaking Hank Aaron’s glorious record the problems in the NFL and NBA make him look so much better.  Even I am looking at him through a less jaundiced eye after I realized I was acting like a reactionary bitch over the whole thing.

A MINI RANT
HILLARY FAILS PENCIL TEST !
So, she’s got boobs (besides the big boob she's married too).  What’s the deal?  Frankly I think there are some entities in both parties who aren’t quite sure about her actual gender.  The poor thing just can’t get a break this year.  First the Pentagon slams her,
then she freaks both liberals and conservatives with her wardrobe choice.  Feminists are now angry with her.  Naomi Wolf must be having fits.  Lord have mercy!  I never thought I would be forced into a position of defending Hillary Clinton. I think the Pentagon criticism is well deserved and a bit humorous.  But – okay – it’s time to get out the Meow Mix…

Hiss, meow, meow – her chest line is way to boney to wear something so low-cut.  Look, my theory of life is ‘if you got it, flaunt it’ (and I frequently do) but the poor women doesn’t have anything to flaunt!  It’s quite sad really.  Maybe she needs some implants.  I’m surprised her Hollywood friends haven’t suggested it.  She looks like she can’t even pass the pencil test!  (If you don’t know what the pencil test is, I am not explaining it.  

Then Elizabeth Edwards goes after her.  

To me the whole idea of having a woman run for POTUS is the fact that a woman doesn’t think like a man!  Yesterday I was talking to a research colleague.  Finally I found someone who agreed with me that there is nothing wrong with looking at things through a woman’s viewpoint.  Elizabeth Edwards is complaining that Hillary isn’t acting enough like a man.  Evidently she’s read the internals about women thinking that Hil doesn’t act enough like a woman.  Something tells me she is trying to separate Hillary from her ‘base’.  I could make a really snarky comment about Elizabeth’s husband obviously spending more on his hair than Hillary (heck, he spends more than I do – in a year).  Flipping Mitt spends more on make-up than Hillary and I – or so he appears to do.  Yep, Elizabeth Edwards is being snarky.

What makes me mad – having to defend Hillary Clinton.  And so, NOTE TO HIL:  You look very nice.  The color is great on you.  It makes you look younger.  If you are going to continue to flaunt it, wear a Magic Bra, it’ll drive Bill crazy.  This isn’t the kind of advise the guys are going to give you and not be doing it with their heads (and other things) in the gutter.  I just want you to look nice.  Remember, there’s nothing wrong with Girl Power!  Flaunt the difference.  Celebrate it.  Don’t act like one of the guys.  (Okay, I know it is difficult for you).  

Just don’t let the catty women get you down.  They will try.  After all, they’re just jealous.  The dirty little secret of the world is a play on the old joke that every senator thinks he (or she) could be POTUS.  Let’s face it, most women know they could do a great job as POTUS.  After all, we’re all accustomed to running the world anyway, getting a heck of a lot of lip, letting others get the credit, and multi-tasking.

No, I’m not going soft.  It’s just a slow news day and Doc is driving me crazy smacking my fingers as I type.  Much more of this and we’re going to discuss the extreme manicure option.

CHENEY IN CHARGE
Well, tomorrow will be one of those days nightmares are made of – for Democrats!  Dick Cheney will be ‘president’ for a few hours while the Prez has a procedure.  Just think of all the mayhem Cheney could cause and the heartburn he could give liberals….oh well, it was a nice fantasy.   Heading Right has an “I’m loving it moment” with a photo of Darth Cheney!   Be afraid, be very afraid.  

NEAR CATASTROPHE Believe it or not I finally got hit with a major opinion poll on politics and GWB, politics, who do I prefer, etc.  It is a first for me.  While I am typing this, Bat (Brat) Masterson is up on the table top, exploring, entangling himself in the usual pile of plugs, wires, etc.  It always bothers me when he tries something like this because he is such a little brat!  He is getting so BIG!  I figured he would be a small cat, but he is going to be huge.  He is also getting his winter coat, which is quite thick, and the mane Weegies have is starting to develop.  If I were to predict winter by the cats, we’re due for a cold ‘un.

I am still trying to figure this one out.  In San Diego on school is doing Islam extreme.

Obama and Genocide – This man is NOT ready for prime time.  I like MacsMind’s version –

GOP Bloggers

We all know the only reason Mitt-Flip is attacking Obama is because he’s getting air-play over it.  Can you think of anything more horrific than the possibility of those two light-weight, camera posing, empty suit, brainless air-heads being our nominees?  It would be the battle of the stupids!


FOOTBALL, DOG-FIGHTS, PEDOPHILES & BASEBALL
Dogfighting is getting more attention than pedophiles. What does dogfighting and the fight against pedophiles have in common?  More than you think.

DISCLAIMER:  I do not like football.  I detest football.  I think it is a drag on our society.  I am extremely biased against football.  It is rude, crude, and brutish and should be banned by polite society.  The ONLY sport people should be allowed to play is BASEBALL.  Baseball is graceful, intellectual, glorious, and the most perfect expression of the fully evolved human there is.

I am amazed, no wait, I’m not.  I think what that disgusting football player (I am not a football fan.  I think the game is obscenely barbaric.) Michael Vick is horrific.  I really do want to make a snarky remark and comment that what can one expect, he’s a football player.  But – I am refraining.  You might also want to read The Palmetto Scoop for more information on the subject, and what is going on in SC,
 where Vick held dog-fights.

From The State

“..Frick, now a private attorney in Winnsboro, said he wasn’t surprised to hear about the connection between the NFL and pit bulls. During his investigation of Tant in 2004-05, authorities found evidence Tant had sold a pit bull to former NFL player Nate Newton. Authorities found a photograph of Tant in Charleston with Newton, a former offensive lineman with the Dallas Cowboys.  NFL players connected to dogfighting “are doing this as an investment, to make money,’’ Frick said….”

More
“….An ESPN report that aired Sunday on “Outside the Lines” featured an undercover informant who has been involved in the dogfighting subculture for 20 years. The informant says he personally put one of his dogs up against Vick’s dog in 2000 while the then-Virginia Tech star wagered with other spectators on the fight’s outcome. More critically, the informant says Vick is not the only professional athlete deeply involved in the blood sport, estimating that at least 20 to 30 others, mostly football players, are in the dogfight game….

…Which means it’s time for the king of NFL heavyweights — Commissioner Roger Goodell — to enter this fight. When the league’s highest-paid player is being fingered by dogfighting insiders at the same time his home is being raided, and a Pro Bowl running back is speaking out in support of the quarterback, the league needs to drop the hammer — and quick.
Portis thinks the authorities are picking on Vick because of his celebrity status: “I know a lot of back roads that got a dogfight if you want to go see it. But they’re not bothering those people because [they] are not big names. I’m sure there’s some police got dogs that are fighting them, some judges got dogs.”…

…The NFL has largely avoided scrutiny on other controversial issues that plague other sports, notably the steroid epidemic, but a large-scale involvement in dogfighting would do enormous damage to the league. Even if Vick avoids prison time, if he is proven to be even remotely associated with this cruel and inhumane brutality, the commissioner needs to take a firm stand and jettison him from the league. It wouldn’t be easy, and it wouldn’t be pretty. But it would be the right thing to do…”

ABSOLUTE ZERO – Fighting pedophiles
MY MINI RANT

What we’ve seen in the past few days is horrific.  I love animals.  Most of my regular readers know how much I’ve spent this year just trying to save the lives of a few kittens.  I am one of the great softies when it comes to innocent little animals.  This said, I am disgusted by the extreme amount of coverage the Vick indictment is receiving and how little coverage the abuse of children actually receives. Why can’t we expose pedophiles in the same manner.

Our children are not going to be safe until pedophiles are imprisoned for life.  I want mandatory life sentences – Federally. I want a law mandating that molesting a child is a Federal offence punishable by life in prison, no parole, no exceptions.

IMPRISON  PEDOPHILES  FOR  LIFE!