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The hunt is on tonight to find whoever cut the leg off a pit bull. The abused dog was found wandering the streets of Atlanta this week.
The bone exposed on its hind leg — likely chopping it off with an axe. Veteranarians say the wound was no accident — that it was a clean cut with something very sharp. They suspect someone wanted the pit bull to fight, but the dog was too gentle.
C.K. and I firmly support knocking the block off the psycho who did this to this poor animal.
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This story (same page) is waaay more interesting: it has to with bablies losing their limbs.
No, it has to do with brainwashed kids wearing graphic t-shirts to school.
Dog won’t bite, so man hacks off it’s leg
This is a truly disgusting story, taking the old “man bites dog” headline to it’s cruelty-laden extreme: The hunt is on tonight to find whoever cut the leg off a pit bull. The abused dog was found wandering the streets…
Yes, it is the new McCarthyism at work here. Got to stick our noses in the uterus of every female, but let’s all rally around the 1st amendment, for this one issue. Oh, and let’s remember, Libby is innocent ’till proven guilty. We’ll suspend that right, then reinstate it when we feel threatened. The rest of you
CGFO.
Oh yes, maim dog — horrible.
Destroy human life — who cares?
That’s right, every teenage boy is out there committing mass murder if we define “life” as you guys define it. As far as destroying real human lives – how’s that war you guys keep cheerleading going? Mission accomplished.
The kid was wearing a sweatshirt — what he was saying was less sensational than the exaggerations you and MM publish every day. You know as well as I do why he was punished — you should know why it was wrong.
So here’s my question for you, Frank.
By what authority do you, or that little punk ass in Georgia, presume to force any woman to have a child against her will? What gives you that right?
That “little punk ass in Georgia” was put out of school for wearing a shirt, not forrcing a woman to do anything. Get a grip, Sadie.
If you want to start an abortion debate, that’s fine, but don’t get mixed up, here. We’re talking First Amendment here, not the Supreme Court’s NOW – influenced interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.
Ah, dudes…
As heartbreaking this story of dog mutilation is, I find it a sad commentary on the left in general that this has been raised as an issue considering the fact that 3 teenage girls had their fu*king heads sawn off by MUSLIM extrimists. Its all over the right-of-center blogs.
Nothing here.
Just sayin’.
And – by “she would have been euthanized” – NO, I do NOT mean my WIFE.
I mean THE PUPPY.
‘Scuse the syntax error. Don’t drink moonshine mead and blog, as it were.
It seems to me the person trying to change the subject to “babies losing their limbs” and “destroying human life” is the one trying to start an abortion debate. Or perhaps I misunderstood?
And the little punk ass was put out of school for asserting his right to dominate women by forcing them into childbirth against their will. The same right I am challenging to you to justify.
So are you up to it, or has your mouth once again written a check your butt can’t cover?
Tonight, also in Atlanta:
My wife and I adopted a lovely redhead Feist/Corgi/Dachshund mix puppy from an animal shelter, and christened her “Natalie ‘Honey-Punkin’ Portman.”
When I notified my brother of this, he asked (being particularly partial to the lithe brunette actress of the same name) – “Dude, does this mean I can now say that ‘Natalie Portman is my bitch’ without lying?”
Seriously, folks – animal cruelty is an everyday horror.
This beautiful little puppy is now downstairs making fantastic friends with our old-school chihuahua and watching ‘Law & Order’ with my wife. She would have been euthanized in short order.
Do something positive in response. Adopt a puppy.
This just pisses me off – and you want to know *why* you have all these stories about dogs attacking other people? Because of idiots like this who feel the need to compensate for, ahem, other areas.
What is needed in this country is tougher legislation that would stiffen penalties to those charged with any type of animal abuse (and, if I had my way, it would include hunting). How about instead of locking up people for drug posession, they lock the sickos up who do this kind of crap.
(And, while we’re on the subject, does anyone find it odd that, in the like Frank sent, the strongest anti-choicers are almost *always* men? You just *know* that if men were the ones that got pregnant, the abortion case would be almost non-existant).
Sadie: I didn’t say I didn’t want to engage in an abortion debate. Your bullying language doen’t disguise my point: I was not referring to the abortion debate; I was referring to the student’s right to wear a shirt with his opinion on it. How would you feel about a shirt that said War = Murder on it?
He was not put out of school for asserting his right to dominate women in any way, shape or form. He was put out of school for taking the “wrong side” of a controversial issue. Again, not an abortion debate.
As a woman who has no doubt either had an abortion or two, or has one or two unwanted children, I’m sure sure this issue has touched a real sore point with you. I am not so encumbered. My attention is on the prospective life, whose chances of being born are reduced to zero by artificial termination of pregnancy at the whim of selfish women.
To the best of my knowledge, the fruit of pregnancy is a child. Few, if any, women have given birth to Legos or toasters. Nine months after conception it’s always babies.
That’s what I’m thinking about — not some contrived “penumbra” of privacy that extends to the uterus. See, I don’t play games with the issue. Neither you, nor any other woman, has any more right to interfere with pregnancy than I do, in my book.
The person who “is forced to have children against her will” engaged in sex voluntarily, knowing that she might become pregnant. Demonstrate to me that there are pregnant women out there who were raped, or incompetent women out there who had no idea that sex would lead to conception, and I will concede that those women can have abortions, if they so desire.
Otherwise, I disagree, and I will continue to disagree with the ridiculous notion that women can have abortions, just because they want to. There are lots of things people are forbidden to “do with their bodies,” and I don’t see why abortions should be excluded from that list.
Of course, had the right-wingers known that my wife once exercised her own right to choice, they probably would have wanted to throw a Terri Schiavo down on her, too.
Kindness begins in one’s own heart.
Viva la categorical imperative!
This was a post about a horrible case of animal cruelty. There shouldn’t be any partisanship on this point, but Frank brings it in anyway.
Sick.
The only thing worse than people who don t know what they re talking about, is people who try inaccurately to tell you what you re talking about.
Frank’s words. Compare with this response to Sadie B:
“As a woman who has no doubt either had an abortion or two, or has one or two unwanted children, I m sure sure this issue has touched a real sore point with you.”
Luckily Frank has no children.
Frank, the point I was making was that you the one who started the bullying with your inflammatory language about “babies” and “human life.” But as usual, you can’t stand to be called on it. Calling yourself the victim does not make you one, nor is that little snot in the story a victim.
And by the way, not that it matters (ad hominen much?) but all three of my children were very much wanted, thank you.
But at least you answered the question, which us more than one can usually expect from you. You believe women deserve forced childbirth because they have sex. So now we are clear that this is about punishment, about punishing women for being dirty little sluts.
That’s all well and good, you are entitled to your opinion as much as the next person. Only explain to me please, how you can consider yourself one who loves and defends children when you have just told me children are a punishment?
No, you said they were a punishment. I think they’re a gift — I think that all children are a gift. And I don’t believe children are forced on anybody. Childbirth, maybe, but the baby, no.
As far as “what is expected of me”, I answer plenty of questions, not that the questions I answer that are not yours, are any of your business, but the fact is, that I answer questions in other than stereotypical and conventional ways. I often answer questions in ways that are outside the box, sometimes even outside the “Conservative Box.”
I am accused of not answering questions, often, by people who did not get the answer they want. For example, you pressured me very heatedly, for a response concerning abortion, when that was not the issue, and I said that. But you persisted.
I answered your question, anyway. You responded by putting words in my mouth, which I could have ignored but I did not. You will probably persist in saying that “one can not usually expect from me” that I will answer questions, won’t you?
Oh, and Bryan, I have two children — once again proving that you are willing to make affirmative statements, about which you know nothing.
Frank, I thought when you said, having suggested that Sadie had had abortions, that you were ‘not so encumbered’, the assumption was you were still talking about having kids. I apologise for my mistake; I wonder when you will apologise to Sadie for yours?
Bryan, don’t sweat what Frank said.
He always gets huffy when he’s in a corner. We are all entitled to Frank’s opinions, whether we want them or not, we just aren’t entitled to challenge the logic behind them.
You’re joking, right Frank? You don’t honestly think you answer questions in unconventional ways, do you? You have to be the most predictable and stereotypical right-winger on this site.
We always know what you are going to say about anything, probably even before you know it yourself. This is why some of us sometimes think you are actually a Parody Troll. A Junior Jesus General maybe, working on his chops.
But I’m willing to play it straight if that’s how you like it.
So explain to me, then, how it is that childbirth can and should be forced on sinful women, but children should not? Maybe you would like to go back to the days of Magdalene Houses, when poor unwed mothers were used as baby mills to produce healthy white newborns for the middle class adoption market?
And there’s another problem, too. If you believe abortion is homicide, like the tee shirt said, then how can you also say it is acceptable in cases of rape or incest? Because the fetus sure isn’t the perpetrator, so how can you say it should be legal to kill them? Seems kinda inconsistent to me.
Bryan: That’s what happens when you stick your nose in other people’s business. This may be a public forum, but that doesn’t mean you speak for me or her.
I meant, if you are curious, that I wasn’t ever going to have children or an abortion.
ps – I missed this one the first time.
“For example, you pressured me very heatedly, for a response concerning abortion, when that was not the issue, and I said that. But you persisted.”
So you deny that you brought up this subject with your references to “babies losing their limbs” and the “destruction of human life.” Don’t you realize anyone reading this thread has only read the earlier comments and see how full of crap you are? Those comments are still sitting there, you can’t erase them now.
What a typical right winger — attack, attack, attack and if anyone stands up to you, you scream like you’re being murdered. It’s pathetic.
Sadie, I love that thing that trolls do where they say “I wasn’t talking to you”. You were spot on about the predictability.
I think most people feel differently about different issues. I cannot say I fall into any political party lines for any 5 issues, let alone them all. We have a lot more parties to choose from in the UK, and I have a firm grounding in the policies of most of them.
SadieB: I didn’t bring up a “topic” — I merely pointed out that the story concerned abortion, because that’s what the shirt said. If you took that as a call to arms, hooray for you. Nonetheless, you got your question answered, even though, in your opinion, “one can hardly expect that from me.”
I quote myself: “it has to [do] with babies losing their limbs.” {as opposed to a dog}
You even found yourelf an erstwhile ally, to carry water for you. He said I “scream like [I'm] being murdered.” Seems to me like he was doing that, and it wasn’t even his dialogue.
I think you’re all getting a little testy around here. Maybe the idea that Libby and Rove won’t be drawn and quartered, or burned at the stake, has all you lefties a little tense and disappointed.
I didn’t come to regret anything, much as you wish I did. Why would I? Have you “bested” me, or proved me wrong? No.
OK, I’ll explain it so even a woman can understand (you want to be gratuitously insulting, then so will I).
First of all, it was a passing remark, not an invitation to a catfight, or a flamefest.
But I will explain it, anyway.
Under the headline, “What is wrong with people”, Oliver posts a reference to a story about dog getting its leg cut off, apparently, because it wouldn’t fight.
I go to the link, which is now gone (it’s still working in my comment), by the way, and discover that there was a story about a kid getting suspended or expelled for wearing a sweatshirt (I believe) that said “Abortion = Homicide”, for two days. Then he was “allowed’ back in school.
The story explained that “Once the issue was fully investigated, it was determined that there was no substantial disruption in the classroom, nor was there any disciplinary or dress code infraction,” Laura Nurse, a spokeswoman for Gwinnett County Schools, said in a statement.
This led me to believe that it was the content of the shirt that got the boy suspended. So, actually, Oliver’s remark, “No, it has to do with brainwashed kids wearing graphic t-shirts to school” was incorrect.
There was nothing about the shirt that was “graphic”. The language was blunt, not graphic. It was Semanticleo who said, “Got to stick our noses in the uterus of every female.” Not me.
So I said, “Oh yes, maim dog horrible.
Destroy human life who cares? ”
I further commented (once again trying to return to the subject of the shirt, not abortion): The kid was wearing a sweatshirt what he was saying was less sensational than the exaggerations you and MM publish every day. You know as well as I do why he was punished you should know why it was wrong.
You saw red, and decided that I was trying to “force [a] woman to have a child against her will.”
What I was saying was, was that a story about a t – shirt with an anti – abortion (abortion = maiming, at least, IMHO) remark on it was more interesting than a story about dog – maiming.
Now, launch, wild one!
Ummm, I was the one who said you scream like you’re being murdered. The next time you try to categorize someone, maybe you ought to actually read them?
And exactly what does a tee shirt advocating forced childbirth have to do with a dog again? Because the original story was about a dog. You tried to hijack the thread by dragging abortion into the picture, though it looks like you came to regret it. Tough.
And now you want to change the subject, again, to Libby and Rove …..
Don’t worry, Frank, we will be talking about Libby and Rove for a long long time. The fun is only just beginning.