And in this corner, weighing in at 3 pounds 5 ounces, from 53rd and Lexington Avenue, wearing no trunks............LITTLE JERRY! .........Lets get ready to rumble.
Posted on 01/27/2005 4:27:33 AM PST by 4kevin
AN American senator hopes to revive cockfighting in the state of Oklahoma by putting tiny boxing gloves on the roosters instead of razors. The Oklahoma legislature outlawed the blood sport in 2002 because of its cruelty to the roosters, which are slashed and pecked to death while human spectators bet on the outcome. But State Senator Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban had wiped out a $US100 million ($129 million) business. To try to revive it, he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing gloves attached to their spurs, as well as lightweight, chicken-sized vests configured with electronic sensors to record hits and help keep score. "It's like the fencing that you see on the Olympics, you know, where they have little balls on the ends of the swords and the fencers wear vests," said Senator Shurden. "That's the same application that would be applied to the roosters." Janet Halliburton, president of the Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting, which led the drive for the 2002 law, said Senator Shurden was really seeking to loosen the ban. "What this is going to do is make a platform for him to continually try to amend the existing ban," Ms Halliburton told The Oklahoman newspaper. The Oklahoma State Senate will consider Senator Shurden's proposal next month.
The gambling lobby OWNS the governor, and apparently all democrats in this state!
Let me guess, he's not a member of PETA.
Cockfight ping!!
And in this corner, weighing in at 3 pounds 5 ounces, from 53rd and Lexington Avenue, wearing no trunks............LITTLE JERRY! .........Lets get ready to rumble.
"But State Senator Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting"
Okay... I was a bit hasty when I claimed Dems were out of "ideas".
[cough]
Ta-mal-e!
"cockfights with gloves"
a logical extension of their safe sex rhetoric
"It's like the fencing that you see on the Olympics, you know, where they have little balls on the ends of the swords and the fencers wear vests,"
There are some things that sarcasm, humor, and satire just can't improve on. Just another reconformation as to why I live waythehellandgone out in the country.
Like your tag line.
....Beware the wrath of PETA....L.O.L.
I would have figured the person who proposed this was from San Francisco.
I don't think "The Onion" or "Scrappleface" could have come up with a better story.
Probably. I find cockfighting disgusting and barbaric. It should not be legalized.
For 'training purposes', they actually DO use little boxing gloves.
I agree. How can he be so stupid? He probably wants dogfights legal too...but with some kind of muzzle (like these people are going to adhere to the rules to begin with...)
These Democrats constantly embarass my state. If its not a judge with a pump, then its cockfighting....good grief!
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