Madonna has outraged animal rights groups by dyeing her pet sheep different colours for a photo shoot.The ‘Hung Up’ singer and her director husband Guy Ritchie have been branded “irresponsible” after colouring their sheep blue, pink, yellow and green for a Vogue spread at their English country estate, in Wiltshire.
A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said: “Why is it necessary and what are they trying to prove? It is an irresponsible publicity stunt.”
The couple say the shoot - which will feature in new book ‘Vogue Living: House, Gardens, People’ - was staged in homage to legendary photographer Cecil Beaton. The noted portrait photographer lived on the £9 million Ashcombe Estate during the 30s and 40s.
Madonna, 49, and Guy, 39, also insisted the dye used was temporary and did not harm the animals.
However, the RSPCA do not accept their reasoning, and are adamant the stunt could lead to dangerous copycat incidents.
The source added: “We would really question the need to do it. It really does send out the wrong message about how to use animals.
“Animals used in this sort of publicity stunt can lead to copycats. Even if the dye used in this instance is safe for the animals, other people might copy it with a dye that isn’t safe.”
‘Vogue Living: House, Gardens, People’ profiles 36 homes and gardens of the rich and famous.
Dog fighting is a black thang, according to jackass Whoopi
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) - So much for the sedate alternative to Rosie O’Donnell on “The View.”
Whoopi Goldberg used her first day on the daytime chat show Tuesday to defend football star Michael Vick in his dogfighting case.Goldberg said that “from where he comes from” in the South, dogfighting isn’t that unusual.”It’s like cockfighting in Puerto Rico,” she said. “There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country.”The Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges last week, admitting that he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his Virginia property and helped kill six or eight pit bulls. Vick grew up in Newport News, Va.
Goldberg was selected by series creator Barbara Walters to replace O’Donnell, whose stormy tenure on the ABC program lasted less than a year.
In the Vick discussion, Goldberg served notice that she won’t shy away from controversy.
Co-host Joy Behar looked horrified at Goldberg.
“How about dog torture and dog murdering?” Behar asked.
For many people, dogs are sport, Goldberg replied, and it appeared it took awhile for Vick to realize that he was up against serious charges.
“I just thought it was interesting, because it seemed like a light went off in his head when he realized this was something that the entire country didn’t appreciate,” she said.
Vick has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League and will be sentenced on the dogfighting charges in December. He apologized and asked for forgiveness upon entering his plea in federal court last week.
Folks, I again feel helpless, I have this little viewed blog and so much I would like to say to the masses, but I can’t get past all of the liberal stupidity and misinformation.
Thanks you idiot jackass Whoppi, white people have again been fed a bunch of crazy bullshit about dog fighting being part of the Negro culture.
Folks believe me, I know my rhetoric is hard for some of you liberals to take and I tend to infuse racial humor in many of my posts, but when it comes to issues concerning black folks I’ll give you the straight scoop.
I don’t care what you read, I don’t care how many stupid twits out there want to write about “Negro culture” and sell you on the dog fighting crap, but it not true.
I’m at a quandary; feeding misinformation to the public is the greatest PR disaster for black folks everywhere. Black folks like myself are just screwed, what Vick did was retarded and any “culture” that engages in the crude and sick world of animal fighting of any kind is not firing on all cylinders.
People who engage in these types of activities are almost always condones in regions of the world that lack an important element, education.
Only morally bankrupt and socially retarded types find animal cruelty and this blood thirsty crap amusing and entertaining.
I saw an episode of “When Pets Go Bad” and watched a segment when in China they like to see horses fight to the death, yes horses!
Its’ obvious these crazy ass people don’t have shit else to live for.
That damm Whop doing what all liberal black jackasses do, make excuses for the ignorance and stupidity of black folks. Fucken baggy pants are part of our culture; do-rags are part of our culture; press on nails, fake hair, gold teeth, dropping out of high school and Ebonics are part of our “culture.”
What the fuck do sensible black folks do against the onslaught of Negro misinformation?
I guess nothing, not a damm thing. Folks I swear I feel helpless and on occasion embarrassed. With every utterance of Negro stupidity that comes from people like Whop all black folks take a giant step back.
We all (blacks) unfortunately have to wear the stigma associated with idiot ass comments about our perceived “culture.” and there is nothing right thinking people like myself can do about it.
White people count your blessings. The corruption of political figures, beauty pageant moms, senatorial sexual deviants, swinging couples, goat fucking, child starving, child molesting, porn pimping, mass murderer, country club snobs, redneck trailer court trash you name it, none of that can be attributed to “white culture.”
However Willie Horton, O.J, Rodney King, Al Sharpton, Jessie, crack snorting, ax vs ask pronouncing, Ebonics promoting, excessive weave wearing, baggy pants wearing, gold toofus shining, bling-bling flashing, chitlin, chicken eating and dog fighting…well…. all of us Negros have to wear those idiot culture tags. Thanks again Whop, you stupid fuck!
An NAACP leader said Michael Vick should be allowed to return to the NFL, preferably the Atlanta Falcons, after serving his sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation.
“As a society, we should aid in his rehabilitation and welcome a new Michael Vick back into the community without a permanent loss of his career in football,” said R.L. White, president of the group’s Atlanta chapter. “We further ask the NFL, Falcons, and the sponsors not to permanently ban Mr. Vick from his ability to bring hours of enjoyment to fans all over this country.”
White said the Falcons quarterback made a mistake and should be allowed to prove he has learned from that mistake.
Let me translate…. Hey you are fucking up my fantasy football team in addition to screwing up my favorite football team.
No Michael Vick means, sorry team, more losses, no playoffs, fewer fans, sad city, restaurants, sports shops or course loss revenues.
If Michael Vick were some 3rd string receiver or offensive lineman and not the NFL human highlight film he WAS, these Negros in the ATL would not give a shit.
On Monday, Vick said through a lawyer that he will plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce in aid of unlawful activities and conspiracy to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture.
Three Vick associates have pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and say Vick provided nearly all the gambling and operating funds for the “Bad Newz Kennels” dogfighting enterprise. Two of them also said Vick participated in executing at least eight underperforming dogs, raising the possibility of the animal cruelty charges.
Last month, state and local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged the public not to rush to judgment in the Vick case. The civil rights organization said animal rights groups, talk radio and the news media were vilifying the embattled athlete, and that his team and corporate sponsors were prematurely punishing Vick.
White said the Atlanta chapter supports Vick’s decision to accept a plea bargain if it’s in his best interest, but he questioned the credibility of Vick’s co-defendants, saying an admission of guilt might be more about cutting losses than the truth.
“At this point, you’re not looking at guilt or innocence,” White said, referring to the possible harsher sentence Vick could have received had he taken his case to trial and been found guilty. “You’re thinking, ‘What I better do is cut my losses and take a plea.’ But if he saw this as the best thing to do at this point for his future, then I think he made the correct choice.”
White said he regretted that the plea deal will mean all the facts of the case might never be known.
“Some have said things to save their own necks,” White said. “Michael Vick has received more negative press than if he had killed a human being.”
White said he does not support dogfighting and that he considers it as bad as hunting.
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.
Actually, farts are considered even more harmful to Gaia than CO2, as they contain methane. But Norwegians mustn’t feel too guilty about ruining the climate and condemning us all to apocalyptic doom with their 120,000 moose. At least they’re not responsible for Ted Kennedy’s belching and farting.
GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Two pit bull terriers broke into a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman said.The woman was able to grab a gun and try to shoot the dogs, then break away from the attack and lock herself in her car, where she called 911, sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.
The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a hospital in Tacoma, where she was listed in serious condition.
Officers planned to talk to the dogs’ owner.
The pit bulls also killed a neighbor’s Jack Russell terrier, which entered the house during the attack, Troyer said.
“The thought is that the Jack Russell heard noise in the neighbor’s house, came in and was attacked by the dogs,” Troyer said.
Firefighters responded first, locking the dogs in the house, treating the woman and calling for an ambulance.
Officers “had to pepper spray and fight the dogs until they were detained. We almost had to shoot them on site,” Troyer said.
The dogs were taken to a Humane Society and will probably be destroyed, he said.
It was not immediately known why the dogs entered the house, whether the woman had dogs of her own or what set off the attack.
I know more and more communities are outlawing these dogs and hopefully as more and more stories about vicious attacks by these dogs are exposed we can expedite the process of throwing the owners of these dogs in prison for extended periods of time.
Hey when you think about it mostly meth junkie rednecks and crackhead ghetto rats own these dogs (coughVICKcough), they already have one foot in jail anyway.
Oscar the Cat awakens from his nap, opening a single eye to survey his kingdom. From atop the desk in the doctor’s charting area, the cat peers down the two wings of the nursing home’s advanced dementia unit. All quiet on the western and eastern fronts. Slowly, he rises and extravagantly stretches his 2-year-old frame, first backward and then forward. He sits up and considers his next move.In the distance, a resident approaches. It is Mrs. P., who has been living on the dementia unit’s third floor for 3 years now. She has long forgotten her family, even though they visit her almost daily. Moderately disheveled after eating her lunch, half of which she now wears on her shirt, Mrs. P. is taking one of her many aimless strolls to nowhere. She glides toward Oscar, pushing her walker and muttering to herself with complete disregard for her surroundings. Perturbed, Oscar watches her carefully and, as she walks by, lets out a gentle hiss, a rattlesnake-like warning that says “leave me alone.” She passes him without a glance and continues down the hallway. Oscar is relieved. It is not yet Mrs. P.’s time, and he wants nothing to do with her.
Oscar jumps down off the desk, relieved to be once more alone and in control of his domain. He takes a few moments to drink from his water bowl and grab a quick bite. Satisfied, he enjoys another stretch and sets out on his rounds. Oscar decides to head down the west wing first, along the way sidestepping Mr. S., who is slumped over on a couch in the hallway. With lips slightly pursed, he snores peacefully — perhaps blissfully unaware of where he is now living. Oscar continues down the hallway until he reaches its end and Room 310. The door is closed, so Oscar sits and waits. He has important business here.
Story LinkA spokesman for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said: “Why is it necessary and what are they trying to prove? It is an irresponsible publicity stunt.”
The source added: “We would really question the need to do it. It really does send out the wrong message about how to use animals.
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