Author Topic: Whoopi Proves She's Stupid (Read 1518 times)

midnight Target · « **Reply #45 on:** September 10, 2007, 03:19:42 PM »

You can suppose whatever you want. The guy they interviewed saw the killing of "poor performers" as doing a favor to the breed. I got no problem with your complete inability to see an issue from other perpectives though. Makes the world a simpler safer place to ignore.

Maverick · « **Reply #46 on:** September 10, 2007, 04:46:13 PM »

There is a difference between putting an animal down in a humane manner vs doing so in a cruel manner. Even if you do not have access to the resources a vet would have you do not have to use the methods that vick used.

This isn't really a cultural issue as there is more than enough information transfer to allow anyone in the US to understand that dogfighting is illegal. I've met a couple folks involved in it. They know damn well it's illegal, they just want to continue anyhow. They know that they may face prosecution but they don't care. Rather selfish actually.

john9001 · « **Reply #47 on:** September 10, 2007, 04:54:53 PM »

""Now every time I go to town
The boys start kickin my dog around
I don't care that he is a hound
They gotta stop kickin my dog around ""

WWhiskey · « **Reply #48 on:** September 10, 2007, 05:27:31 PM »

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Originally posted by FBplmmr
She got on the view? I thought she was tending bar on a spaceship?

and what about the people that killed all those on her planet
the borg i think it was i guess they wernt from the south cause she sure hated them fellows

Druss · « **Reply #49 on:** September 10, 2007, 08:40:03 PM »

"Actually I had just watched a documentary piece on HBO "Real Sports" on the Dogmen of the South. You might find it interesting."

Oh, well! THAT'S different. If it's on TV then it MUST be true. LOL!

Oh no! Those alien abduction documentary pieces! I've been denying the truth all these years! We're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!!

midnight Target · « **Reply #50 on:** September 10, 2007, 10:20:23 PM »

Normally I ignore idiots. I make sure to pay even less attention to the really dumb idiots. Sometimes idiots will say somethig funny, and I'll acknowledge it.... this isn't one of those times.

Druss · « **Reply #51 on:** September 11, 2007, 01:38:51 PM »

LOL! I agree. Whoopi is an idiot. Headlines in the last 24 hours:

Dog fighting in Chicago:

http://www.goodnewsforpets.com/Articles.asp?ID=868

Dog fighting in Maryland:

http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_254115146.html

Dog fighting in Ireland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6988669.stm

This is not a "Northern thing", a "Southern thing", or a "Irish thing". It is barbaric, criminal thing.

SaburoS · « **Reply #52 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:20:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Druss
LOL! I agree. Whoopi is an idiot. Headlines in the last 24 hours:

Dog fighting in Chicago:

http://www.goodnewsforpets.com/Articles.asp?ID=868

Dog fighting in Maryland:

http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_254115146.html

Dog fighting in Ireland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6988669.stm

This is not a "Northern thing", a "Southern thing", or a "Irish thing". It is barbaric, criminal thing.

The point she's been trying to make is that Vick grew up in the atmosphere of dog fighting being a sport, where dogs used for fighting are commodities, things, tools, not loving, loyal pets. She never once excused or condoned dog fighting or Vick's participation in it.
...and some of you are calling her stupid or dumb??? LOL, Keep tripping over yourselves in your witch hunt of Whoopi.
You think Vick just woke up one day as a professional athlete and discovered the world of dog fighting?
Here's an ARTICLE from the Humane Society's website.
The following is just a part of it:
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Dogfighting Territory

Central Ohio seems an unlikely hotbed of dogfighting. Home to the country's largest college campus, Ohio State University, Columbus has fewer than 800,000 residents. Its compact homes with A-frame roofs are typical of a small Midwestern town. But since 2002, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office has served more than 40 dogfighting-related search warrants and secured more than 50 convictions.

Pick a spot anywhere in the United States and you'll find a similar story: if you're not in dogfighting territory, you're not far from it. While Kulina was nursing Rita's wounds, Oregon prosecutors prepared an 11-count indictment of a suspected Portland dogfighter. Police in Florida seized drugs, fighting paraphernalia and 32 dogs from a Tallahassee property. An animal control officer in Nebraska interrupted a pit-bull street fight staged by teenage boys.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Though the Vick case has thrust dogfighting into the national spotlight and the conscience of a horrified public, it isn't a new phenomenon. Once a clandestine activity confined to rural areas of the South, it has migrated into the inner cities after being embraced as a macho symbol of the urban hip-hop culture.

While some 40,000 people participate in organized rings with high-stakes betting, The HSUS estimates that at least another 100,000 fight dogs informally for the chance to win a few bucks and bragging rights.

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Druss · « **Reply #53 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:42:29 PM »

Your reply proves my point. It is not a Southern cultural thing.

"Once a clandestine activity confined to rural areas of the South"

Yet, once, bull and bear baiting was a popular spectator sport in California. Should we cling to the notion that Californians are still enamored with watching a bloody bull vs. bear match, or should we say there are sickos in many cultures that would enjoy such sport?

As for me, I think this topic has been beaten to death.
Cya.

SaburoS · « **Reply #54 on:** September 11, 2007, 03:55:49 PM »

Sorry, your point that Whoopi is an idiot has not been proven.
The argument of dog fighting being only a southern thing was never an issue.
There is dog fighting going on in California also. The article even states that it is no longer a southern only thing. It still goes on in the south though.
You have yet to prove that Vick wasn't exposed to dog fighting at a younger age.
It probably is rare for a professional athlete to 'change their colors' once they become professional. They just happen to have a lot more money at their disposal to do the things they've always done.
Vick happens to fall in that group.
The main point of Whoopi's comments was she was pointing out how Vick was slow to realize how bad dog fighting and his treatment of his dogs was a bad thing. How what Vick thought wasn't too bad, the rest of society (including the south) would look down upon.
Hardly the comments of an "idiot" as she was spot on.
Like I said, this thread is a witch hunt.

john9001 · « **Reply #55 on:** September 11, 2007, 04:02:14 PM »

SaburoS, maybe we should bring back slavery, that was a "southern thing". I wonder how woopi would like that?

SaburoS · « **Reply #56 on:** September 11, 2007, 04:29:39 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
SaburoS, maybe we should bring back slavery, that was a "southern thing". I wonder how woopi would like that?

Maybe you should develop your reading comprehension and reasoning skills.

Druss · « **Reply #57 on:** September 11, 2007, 04:30:13 PM »

You make make good point Saburo. I may be mistaken in my initial take. Vick may have indeed grown up in a pocket of dog fighting culture. While a culture as a whole shuns such behavior, there are indeed, small groups of cockfighting , dog fighting, etc... groups all over the country, including the south.

john9001 · « **Reply #58 on:** September 11, 2007, 05:45:07 PM »

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Originally posted by SaburoS
Maybe you should develop your reading comprehension and reasoning skills.

my reading comprehension and reasoning skills are good enough to see that as a personal attack.

SaburoS · « **Reply #59 on:** September 11, 2007, 06:06:54 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
my reading comprehension and reasoning skills are good enough to see that as a personal attack.

Now you're being too thenthitive.

My responses to you are based upon your posts to me. Back off.