mullah cimoc say all world so ashame of amerika when man go prison more time for torture chicken than for torture muslim. this signal for come the destruct, maybe earthquaking.

this the hyprocite and show so mind control usa people. usa media not free press. ben frankling be so disappoint if see now. this call consolidate.

google: might wurlitzer +cia for begin learn the mind control technical employ now.

I hear ya.

“… maybe we’d outlaw killing children as quickly as we rushed to enhance penalties for crimes involving our pets….”

You mean, it’s LEGAL to kill children? Who knew?!!!!

I will keep that under consideration next time I’m at Target and someone’s little gumdrop is in the full tantrum mode.

That was just a modest proposal.

Smantix, I know you’ve quit blogging over at 6MB, but this new guise as Mullah Cimoc is outstanding. Kudos!

Mostly all I know about Rep. Campfield is that he has some problems with spelling (weird thing to remember about someone, yeah). But that’s not such a big deal (even if it is a personal pet peeve), because I figure you don’t have to be a perfect speller to be a great thinker or statesman. But this recent post…wow. Why does it have to be one or the other, anti-dogfighting or anti-abortion (or anti-illegal immigration), if that’s how you swing politically?

And I say that after struggling to get past the visual of Michael Vick forcing two tiny fetuses to throw tiny jabs and hooks in a tiny boxing ring. Once I push that away, though, the lack of nuanced thinking, especially from a state rep, is pretty disheartening.

I figure you don’t have to be a perfect speller to be a great thinker or statesman.

It helps even more if you’re not a hot-dogging idiot.
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I previously could not have imagined there’d be anything on which The Rep and I would agree.

Yet he has found an issue.

Yes, I’m pro-choice. Yes, I’m so liberal on immigration that I’d prefer we tear down the fences and take most comers, and let folks here now by whatever means become citizens.

However, I don’t get all the uproar over the dog fighting.

I’m not in favor of it. I think it should be punished. Worth losing your job over, as it seems Vick will do? Heck no.

Inasmuch as it’s a gateway crime, fine. But let’s punish the people who’ve actually hurt human beings worse, and let’s spend our time, money and media attention on helping, say, poor children.

I will add [though I feel sure it won’t matter to the animal-rights crowd], I have a dog myself. She is beloved, and except for her recent proclivity to break into my newly fenced garden and eat the almost-ripe tomatoes, she is a member of the family. I wouldn’t have to throw her in front of a truck to save one of my children; she’d do it on her own. She is a found dog, dumped on the streets of East Nashville almost 12 years ago. I feel sure that absolves me of nothing.

Feel free to pile on.

Worth losing your job over, as it seems Vick will do? Heck no.

I think that has more to do with the NFL’s PR office and what it expects of its star players than anything else. They don’t want to scare off the corporate sponsors. I’m sure if Vick were an insurance agent or lawyer or had some other job, he wouldn’t be facing unemployment.

I mean, goodness, if the Dixie Chicks could lose their sponsor and be publicly reviled for just seven little words, then I don’t have a problem with Vick being in the hot seat now.

Oh, and one more thing. Re: this statement, But let’s punish the people who’ve actually hurt human beings worse, we DO. Animal cruelty is at best a misdemeanor.

I think dogfighting is actually a felony in TN, but I am saying that as hearsay….waiting for the correction….

Animal cruelty is at best a misdemeanor.

And I think this is one reason animal cruelty cases generate such outrage. Punishments for cruelty to animals amounts to a slap on the wrist. That guy who threw his ex-girlfriend’s kittens into a fire while they were still alive; he just had to do some community service.

lcreekmo, you say you’re dog is beloved. If somebody brutally tortured and killed it, would YOU feel justice had been done if they spent a weekend picking up trash??

Yep. Sorry to disappoint.

Yep. Sorry to disappoint.

Then, your dog is NOT “beloved.” If you think a childhood chore is appropriate punishment for brutally torturing and murdering a living thing, than you do not “love” that thing I can assure you.

Well, I’m also anti-death penalty. If I happen to be murdered today in some horrible, brutal fashion, please don’t expend any effort trying to have my killer executed.

[Have at it. I’m sure that’s red meat for someone.]

I’m all in favor of law and order, but I’m not in favor of harsh punishment. You all without a log in your own eye, please do cast the first stones.

I also highly doubt you are in any position to judge my depth of love and affection for my dog or anything else. You don’t have to wish for vengeance to prove your love, for pets or humans.

I’m also anti-death penalty. Yet, justice still strikes me as a good idea.

I’m all in favor of law and order, but I’m not in favor of harsh punishment.

I guess we have differing views of harsh punishment. I don’t think a little jail time would be a very harsh punishment for torturing an animal.

You don’t have to wish for vengeance to prove your love, for pets or humans.

Vengeance? No. Some sort of justice? I say yes.

I don’t know any bulimic dolphins or dogs…or even whales–therefore I think he’s right, they probably wouldn’t have ended up in a comatose state like Schiavo.