Or I would have put Vick on Rushmore.

The Vick situation does raise some questions about our legal system that are interesting to consider. They have this guy dead to rights. Co-defendants flopped and a boatlaod of evidence. Yet they are offering Vick this plea deal. If not accepted they have additional felonies to bring to a trial if he doesn't accept the deal with a shorter term on the one charge.

The issue is if he is guilty of multiple felonies, and they have the evidence and conspirators to testify why are they offering him a deal and lesser punishment?

If he was a primary figure and financier in the operation and they want to send a signal to others running this rather dispicable business across the country and they have the case, why not throw the book at him?

It must have something to do with money. The cost of a huge trial, and then the possibility regardless of evidence, that one juror could go not guilty then you have to do the whole thing again.

Money, money, money. In America it even dictates justice.

That Vick's attorneys are split on accepting the plea. I guess the smart ones on his team are the ones that want to reject the deal. He pleads and goes to do his time. And the meter stops running on the cab the attorneys are driving for him.

that the philosophy of plea bargains are simply the prosecutors saying, under their breath, that their experience with jury selection is that of interviewing a prospective pool with a bunch of morons.

Is a good one. These guys are legends, granted glorious group nicknames. The primary reasons for celebrated and nostalgic championships despite the attention given to the "skill" players.

Bonds almost becomes a Christ figure, nailed to a cross.

Offered to replace Bonds on Rushmore, i.e. Tom Brady, and to the question of icon status.....Go review sports talk radio or sports blogs for the last 5 years. Add up the talk and type about Bonds versus anyone else......100-1 minimum in Bonds favor.

Miami Fla., Virginia Tech, and Boston College left the Big East and the Big East was a laughingstock. The almost universal opinion of fans and media was they should have their automatic BCS bid stripped.....The Big East has now won 6 straight bowl games, 2 of them BCS--one of those against the SEC champ in the SEC champ's home state.

There's very litle difference between these conferences and any D-1A road game is tough.

And there would be 30 or more non top 25 teams who at home would be favorites, pick-em, or very slight underdogs to the top-25 team.....Yet when you play a top-25 team, or a few of them, you have a damn tough game or schedule, if you play those other teams you "didn't play anybody."

For the most part the American sportsfan and media are mongoloid.

The columns of our local newspaper sports nitwit, and I think-----It's guys like this who send in their ballots and that determines who the fans think has a tough schedule.

Pointed out the problems with over-glorification of the military. There's some real losers, morons, fake he-men, sadists and jerk-offs in the military. And this is another huge cost of choosing war----what the hell that segment of the military is capable of doing in war.

They hear all the ass kissing of the military by everyone, and they figure they can do whatever the hell they want to do.

Well, considering the neocon plan is to stay in Iraq permanently...........

To put Vick in one of the heavy duty maximum security prisons. That's not productive use of those limited cells.

Charged or convicted of this Shite-Sunni pitbull match that we opened the door for.

Well, except for Saddam, and looking back he seems to be the one guy who was preventing it.

Is rinky-dink next to Dick Cheney

The thing that seems to have triggered the real outrage is the executions of the dogs.....we need to know more about that. If the losing dog was badly mauled then execution, however done, may have been the one decent humane thing.

I think the dogfighters should be somewhat commended as long as they restrict it to two pitbulls each with a fighting chance..........I mean they could do crap like toss kittens poodles down in to the pit

Lies with Noah. The son of a bitch didn't have to round up two of EVERYTHING before the flood. Use some discretion.

They should be commended for not tossing kittens in to the pit.

They pummeled each other for about 40 rounds and we were all mesmerized. Look at 'em now.

A legitimate way of doing the dogfighting and gambling. But you'd have to have guys down in the pit so when one dog got a prescribed advantage you seperate and declare a winner........like a technical knockout before serious damage is done.

It's a majority--barely.

Has merit. Our local radio talk loudmouth today kept saying that Vick personally "murdered" the dogs.

I just meant that on all the cable talk shows the right wingers keep saying --"Why doesn't the Dem Congress defund the war? They are gutless......They couldn't if they wanted to. You'd need 60 votes in the Senate to start with and then 67 to over-ride.

Which part did you think I was joking?

My goal would be too get progressively less funny.

I concur. Raise hell even if you don't have the votes.........It's funny the way it is, having the Speakership of the House, Leader of the Senate, and committee chairs does give us power. But the only real power is to investigate as a check to the executive branch, which didn't happen to Bush/Cheney for the first 6 years....But then all you get is executive privilege stonewalling and eventually voters tiring of the investigating.

Disapproval of Congress is GOOD for us......There's twice as many republican Senators up for re-election as dems in 2008.