Senator wants cockfights with gloves

news.com.au ^ | 1.27.05

[4kevin]

Some call Don King!

Kevin

[RasterMaster]

The gambling lobby OWNS the governor, and apparently all democrats in this state!

[sheltonmac]

JERRY: Kramer, cockfighting is illegal.
KRAMER: Only in The United States.
JERRY: It's inhumane!
KRAMER: No, Jerry, it's not what you think it is.
JERRY: It's two roosters peckin' at each other
KRAMER: What?
JERRY: Yeah!
KRAMER: Well, I thought they wore gloves and helmets, you know, like "American Gladiators."

[EmilyGeiger]

Let me guess, he's not a member of PETA.

[ovrtaxt]

Cockfight ping!!

[Cagey]

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.

[Ticonderoga34]

Some call Don King!

ONLY IN AMERICA!!!!

[Fenris6]

"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]

[Larry Lucido]

Ta-mal-e!

[fnord]

"cockfights with gloves"

a logical extension of their safe sex rhetoric

[womcg]

"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.

[Route101]

....Beware the wrath of PETA....L.O.L.

[Mad Mammoth]

Mick to Cockfighting Rooster:
"You're gonna eat lightning, and crap thunder!"

[ProudVet77]

"cockfights with gloves"

That would be like take a shower with a raincoat on.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Senator wants cockfights with gloves

I would have figured the person who proposed this was from San Francisco.

[Popman]

...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...

I don't think "The Onion" or "Scrappleface" could have come up with a better story.

[Dante3]

Probably. I find cockfighting disgusting and barbaric. It should not be legalized.

[ErnBatavia]

Thirty years ago, I visited the father of my girlfriend at the time...in Salisaw, OK - he'd raised fighting cocks for years, and showed me the operation.

For 'training purposes', they actually DO use little boxing gloves.

[zoobee]

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...)

[yellowdoghunter]

These Democrats constantly embarass my state. If its not a judge with a pump, then its cockfighting....good grief!