Hope you didn't have too much trouble getting here... I moved BoerBlog from www.boerblog.com to boergoats.com.

The BoerGoats.com Classified section has been very busy lately. 712 ads as of this morning. I'm still culling about 10% of the postings as trash; from folks wanting you to invest in this or that to a flood of work-at-home schemes.

Is there something going on out there in the real goat breeder world that I'm missing? There's never been a time when so many of my advertisers are late paying. Something to do with the down-turn in the housing market? Or, perhaps, just some irresponsible people?

OK... I've vented.

The OnLine Show will loose a judge at the end of this season. Paulette Wohnoutka will be resigning as she is no longer in the goat business.

The new television season programming is starting to be advertised. Looks to me that y'all will have plenty of time to care for your goats - there ain't nuttin on the tube again this year.

What's with this Michael Vick guy?

the Crime...
He financed an illegal dog fighting operation - there are no legal ones in the US.
He personally took part in destroying low-performing dogs in an inhumane manner.
He got caught.
He pled guilty.
He apologized.

the Punishment...
He lost his job.
He lost his endorsement money.
The maximum criminal punishment for the crime that he pled to is 5 years.
The District Attorney recommends a 12 to 18 month sentence for this crime and reserves the option to bring additional related charges.
A majority of Virginia Tech folks think his only punishment should be public service.
A lot of Atlanta Falcons fans agree. A third of them want him back on the team.
This shouldn't be a race thing but the majority of African Americans think he's being singled out for unusual punishment because he's black.
Many people, of all races, think that he's being singled out for unusual punishment because he's a celebrity.

my Comment...
He's an outstanding athlete whose celebrity thrust him into the position of role model to millions of young Americans. For SIX YEARS that "role model" materially participated in an illegal and morally wrong enterprise.

And now he says that he sorry for that "mistake", as he calls it?
A mistake is when you do something wrong that you thought was right. A mistake is when you misspell a word, not when you electrocute dogs that you used illegally in the first place.

I just don't understand how any decent human being could condone dog fighting much less participate in it. We spent a lot of centuries climbing out of our "blood sport" era with it's coliseums and killing fields. We obviously haven't made it all the way. Is it that we have yet to mature as a species or is it, as Michael Vick claims is his case, that we just grew up in a bad environment?

One thing good may have come out of his tribulation... he says that it made him find Jesus. Oh, come on now! How many times have we heard that one from fools after they got caught doing something illegal?

Here's a link to the indictment
http://www.linkcharleston.com/docs/vick_indictment.pdf

My take on it? Give "Ookie" the same punishment that a non-celeb would receive for the same crime. Use the case of David Tant as a model - he was sentenced to 20 years.
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