Obama praises Eagles owner for giving Vick a second chance
According to experts, the three indicators of a psychopathic child are bedwetting, cruelty to animals and firestarting.
According to the father of Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback, Michael Vick, his son showed a passion for abusing animals at an early age.
Now that Vick has led the Eagles to an impressive 10-4 record, everyone — including the president of the United States — has forgotten about the victims of this psychopath.
The Internet is buzzing about a phone call that Obama placed to Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie praising him for giving the ex-convict a second chance.
Did Obama also place a phone call to the homes of those caring individuals who took in 47 of Vick’s surviving victims, giving them a second chance?
I’m not surprised that Obama — a narcissist — is quick to jump on the Vick bandwagon. Everyone loves a winner — even if that winner is a sociopath who took pleasure in electrocuting, hanging and drowning dogs who didn’t live up to his expectations.
If you care about animals like I do, please read the LA Times’ touching story about Mel, one of Vick’s surviving victims who still suffers from the abuse he endured at the hands of Michael Vick.
Mel (pictured above left) is one of the unfortunate dogs who didn’t measure up to Vick’s brutal standards. Vick beat Mel daily to toughen him up. But Mel failed to display that killer instinct in the ring. As a result, he was mauled nearly to death by the other dogs.
Instead of nursing the injured Mel back to health, Vick threw the terrified animal back into the ring with ferocious dogs to be used as bait — a sort of sparring partner for the tougher dogs. Mel was sometimes even muzzled so he wouldn’t fight back.
While Michael Vick was screaming toward the sky, a black pit bull named Mel was standing quietly by a door.
On this night, like many other nights, Mel was waiting for his owners to take him outside, but he couldn’t alert them with a bark. He doesn’t bark. He won’t bark. The bark has been beaten out of him.
While Michael Vick was running for glory, Mel was cowering toward a wall.
Every time the 4-year-old dog meets a stranger, he goes into convulsions. He staggers back into a wall for protection. He lowers his face and tries to hide. New faces are not new friends, but old terrors.
While Michael Vick was officially outracing his past Monday night, one of the dogs he abused cannot.
“Some people wonder, are we ever going to let Michael Vick get beyond all this?” said Richard Hunter, who owns Mel. “I tell them, let’s let Mel decide that. When he stops shaking, maybe then we can talk.”
5 Haitian Teens Found Dead in Florida Motel Room
The bodies of five Haitian teenagers were found Monday in a Florida motel room by a housemaid who peeked in a window.
The bodies were lying on and around a bed at the El Presidente Motel in Hialeah, Florida just North of Miami near the Miami International airport.
Police say the teens, who rented the $62-a-night room on Sunday to celebrate a friend’s birthday, died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they left a car running in the garage directly beneath their room. The car was still running when police arrived.
“The room is sealed shut like it was an aircraft,” one of the victims’ friends, Junior Reeds, 26, told the Miami Herald. “This is a hotel room. You got to have vents. A minor incident could cause a big tragedy.”
The dead boys are identified as Evans Charles, 19, Jonas Antenor, 18, Peterson Nazon, 17, and Jean Pierre Ferdinand, 16. They came from the neighboring Little Haiti cultural enclave in Miami.
No drugs or alcohol were found in the room.
Carl Zogby, a spokesman for police in Hialeah, Florida, said the deaths: “seems like this is a tragic accident.”
The boys borrowed a Kia from a friend to make the short trip to the motel. About an hour before they arived, the engine was jump started by another friend, identified in the Miami Herald as Maxon Ofea, 18.
Ofea, who grew up with the five dead teenagers, said they had left the car running in the single-car garage under the room because they were afraid it wouldn’t start again.
A door at the base of a staircase leading up to the room from the garage was propped open, allowing deadly odorless gas to seep into the room.
Peterson Nazon’s mother, who arrived from Little Haiti, couldn’t contain her grief at the scene: “They killed my son, they killed my son,” she cried in Creole.
She told the Miami Herald she had been phoning the room all morning. “Nobody answered,” she said.
Little Haiti was established in Miami in the 1980s by Haitian immigrants who arrived by boat after fleeing famine, poverty and persecution in Haiti.
Ironically, Hialeah is where Cuban immigrants settled after fleeing communism in Cuba in the 80s.
Person of interest held in Traxx owner shooting death
According to online reports, police have a person of interest in the shooting death of Traxx owner Durand Robinson.
Robinson, 50, (pictured above left) was found lying in the middle of Hadlock street with a gunshot wound to the chest in the early morning hours of August 25th. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say Robinson may have been a victim of a carjacking. The suspect fled the scene in Robinson’s pickup truck, but crashed a few minutes later and fled on foot.
It isn’t clear if the man is currently in police custody.
“I spoke with Major [Keith] Meadows (Major Crimes Commander). He advises we do have person of interest but are withholding the name at this time,” said APD spokesman Sgt. Curtis Davenport in an email to the Georgia Voice.
Even though Durand was one of the key organizers of Atlanta’s annual black gay pride event, he denied being gay himself.
Teenager charged with breaking into Tyler Perry’s home; Jermaine Dupri’s home in foreclosure?
A teenager has been arrested and charged with breaking and entering into Tyler Perry’s home. According to the AJC, Chloe Ware, 18, was caught within moments after breaking into the actor and playwright’s mansion on Paces Ferry in Atlanta.
Perry’s bodyguard caught Ware around 4 a.m. last Thursday, but two others escaped, police said.
Ware was booked and released on her own recognizance. The career criminal has been arrested in the past for auto theft and shoplifting, among other charges.
Perry recently offered to rebuild the burned out home of a 85-year-old Atlanta woman, who narrowly escaped the fire with her 4-year-old great granddaughter.
Speaking of mansions, word has it that music producer-turned-DJ Jermaine Dupri’s Paces Ferry home and studio are headed toward foreclosure. Friends say Dupri, who recently laid off his entire staff at So So Def Records, is hemorrhaging money due to his insatiable appetite for strippers.
fanMAIL: Does Seal have anger towards Black women?
I totally agree with loyal reader S S who writes in to ask “does [Seal have] anger towards black women?” It’s quite clear that Seal has unresolved issues by the way he manhandles baby Lou in public. He is never careful with that child. Where in the baby handbook does it say it’s okay to pick up a 1-year-old baby by her arm?
Loyal reader S S writes:
I really thought you were being overly critical of Seal and his daughter. I don’t like to accuse people of stuff like that unless I am certain. However, after careful consideration and more than one photograph he seems unusually angry, annoyed, and too aggressive with his handling of her. I don’t see the same aggression attached to his sons. It is disturbing to say the least and the look on his already scary face is heart breaking. Do you think it is because he has anger towards Black women? I sincerely hope he is not mistreating or abusing her. I will pray for that baby. If he treats her roughly she will think it normal when others do it as she gets older. Not fair.
Have a Fantastic Day!
Celebs Out & About: Rihanna
Rihanna and her BFF Melissa Forde were pictured frolicking on Sandy Lane Beach in Barbados with friends while on holiday. Doesn’t it warm your heart to see Rihanna and her BFF back together again? I bet Matt Kemp is somewhere kicking himself for not being man enough to treat Rihanna like a lady. By the way, I know some things that I wish I could tell you, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy. That’s the flip side of being friendly with celebs and their camps. In 2011, that will change.
Photos: Splash News Online
Celebs Out & About: Seal, Keri Hilson, Kim Kardashian, Teyana Taylor, Polow Da Don
When is singer Seal going to learn how to hold his baby daughter Lou the correct way? This makes the fifth time that Seal has been photographed holding Lou in an unsafe manner. Heidi Klum (not pictured) and Seal took the kids to the Coldwater Park in Beverly Hills, CA yesterday.
Singer Keri Hilson joined pals Alex Gidewon, left, Polow Da Don, right, and Teyana Taylor (pictured below) to celebrate her album release at Compound nightclub on Saturday night in Atlanta. No Boys Allowed is in stores now.
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