Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Dog killers treated better by Olby than turkey harvest by-standers

Yesterday Lex wondered how MSNBC’s chief nit wit, Keith Olbermann, would react to Corporal Twentykills dispatching 20 Taliban knuckleheads after Olby went postal on SarahCuda for being in the vicinity of a turkey harvesting operation.

Today Michael Vick is back in the news, and it’s nothing good. Vick pled out, at the state level this time, for his cruelty to dogs. In his plea, Vick admitted to killing dogs by hanging, drowning and beating. A bit more disturbing is Vick’s admission that he’d regularly throw house pets into the cage with fighting dogs to enjoy watching happy-go-lucky little Fido get mauled. That’s sick. I cannot bear the thought of my neighbor’s dog Luke being tossed into a cage with an angry pit bull.

So I wondered what the sanctimonious little pest Olbermann had to say about Vick. That’s when I ran across this. I read this twice and can’t quite figure out if Olby is apologizing for, defending, condemning or justifying Vick’s bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. I think he’s coming down on Vick’s side. The tell is that Olby's at least a little on Vick's side is that he start’s out with the “those who hate Vick” BS. Yeah Keith, it’s all the Vick haters’ fault for Vick’s own poor judgment and psychotic behavior.

For the record, I don’t hate Vick. But I don’t think he ought to ever take another snap in the NFL. What franchise could survive the PR nightmare of hiring a sadistic bastard like Vick? I see Vick’s future in pro wrestling, bill collection or host of some MSNBC nightly rant-a-thon. But wait, why demean pro wrestlers and bill collectors?

Tomorrow’s a big day for big appetites. For some perspective, here’s Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their Joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness"

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th. day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the greatest degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executive and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations(especially such as to have shown kindness to us) and to bless them with good government ,peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

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