Posted on 08/27/2009 3:01:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Robin Starr has been an outspoken critic of NFL quarterback Michael Vick for leading a cruel dogfighting ring. Vick acted despicably, then served his time in prison.
But today Starr is dealing with a cruel twist of fate.
A 16-year-old family dog died in the back seat of her car last week after being left there for four hours on a hot day in Richmond, Va.
Let's be clear: By all accounts so far, this was an accident that could have been avoided.
Starr, the CEO of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, says she didn't realize the deaf and blind dog -- named Louie -- was in the car.
That's because her husband, Ed, had put the dog in the back seat but failed to tell his wife. The dog died of kidney failure.
Already, internet message boards are full of hateful comments about Starr. Some try to equate the accident involving her dog with the Vick dogfighting incidents.
There is no valid comparison at all, and people know it.
Vick knew exactly what he was doing when dogs were mauled or even killed during the dog fights at his home.
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The same principle applies to anybody who spends an inordinate amount of time criticizing somebody else for their failings. Be careful of those self-righteous types for they are often attempting to conceal their own faults through pointing out those of others.
In the Boston area, there was a local councilwoman who was a member of MADD and who was always campaigning for tougher and tougher drunk driving laws. In her opinion, ANY amount of alcohol constituted drunk driving. She actually tried to get a law passed that would allow police officers to sit in restaurants and arrest anybody leaving after having a drink who then got behind a wheel. Now she wasn't necessarily referring to just saloons and taverns but ANY restaurant, be it an Applebees or or an Outback! If you were a law abiding person who had a glass of wine at the Olive Garden, this woman wanted to destroy your life and put you behind bars!
You can probably guess the rest. Yep, sure enough, this woman was pulled over for a DUI one night. Predictably, she screamed her innocence in the media and accused her political enemies of setting the whole thing up. Something about her prescription medicine and mouthwash combining to produce a false positive on the Breathalyzer. Or maybe somebody poured some alochol in her Diet Coke without her knowing about it. Nevertheless, once the headlines died down, she pleaded guilty to DUI and put herself in a detox program.
This woman with the dog...just goes to show that one should never be self-righteous. For it usually will come back to bite you on the butt.
Unfortunate accident, but if it were a child that she forgot back there, she would be charged and prosecuted. So finally, an animal activist, to save her own ass, has to admit that the rights of a human child SHOULD supercede the rights of an animal. Welcome back to planet Earth, Ms. Starr. Is Ingrid in the spaceship with you?
This isn't kindergarten, the "Safety Device" in your brain is called common sense, it's supposed to kick in when you have an animal, or more importantly, a child in the car with you. Enlighten me, what could distract you so much that you could forget your own child, in a car, in the summer....
Unless you are not human, which I suspect you are, it absolutely could happen to you.
Have you ever locked your keys in your car? Locked yourself out of the house? Simply forgot where you put something?
This has nothing to do with being stupid it has to do with being human. Your brain can be fooled just the same as anyone elses.
One would almost think that liberals are all hypocrites. ;’) Thanks nick.
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Posted on 08/25/2009 5:54:23 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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“Enlighten me, what could distract you so much that you could forget your own child, in a car, in the summer.... “
Only about a million different things!
Absolutely no one is exempt from something like this happening. Astrounauts and fighter pilots can make mistakes, get distracted, forget to put the landing gear down. push the wrong button. etc. etc.
Do you really think you are the perfect human being incapable of making these kinds of mistakes? I know the answer. Do you?
That's a dangerous sort of arrogance you've got going on there. It's dangerous to believe you are incapable of error.
See... the thing about mistakes is you don't know you're making the mistake at the time.
No, I am anything but the perfect human. But in all the years of my life, I have never "forgotten" where I put my children, or my animals. Leaving your kids to die in a car is not a "mistake".
Then your priorities are different than mine. My kids are more important than getting my hair done, checking out the latest video or having a blow on a crack pipe. There is nothing more important than your own children, for normal thinking humans.
That’s like saying everybody will forget to feed their pet, or their children.
Now that I have a pet I have to take care of, I never forget to take care of them. It’s part of the routine. And when the kids needed to be fed, we fed them.
You forget to call your mother on her birthday. You forget your anniversary.
You don’t forget that you put a dog in your car. If you think you could forget that, you don’t put the dog in the car.
If EVERYBODY only forgot ONE TIME that they had left their dog in the car, nobody would have a pet because every one of them would be dead.
Instead, it is a rare occurance that a dog, or a child, dies in a car.
That’s because the VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE would NEVER forget. Only a FEW PEOPLE forget.
You are arguing that this is random, that ANY person could be that one of the few that forgot. But if that was the case, with millions of people there would be thousands of cases a day.
No, it is clear that 99.99% of us do manage to NEVER FORGET.
There’s a big difference between saying that anyone CAN make a mistake, and saying that everyone WILL.
How does it feel to know already that for the rest of your life you’ll NEVER make a mistake? Wow... that must feel awesome.
First of all, we aren’t talking about “any mistake”, we were talking about a very specific mistake, leaving your dog, or your child, to die in a closed car.
If you think you have any chance of leaving your child to die in your car, by “mistake”, please don’t ever put your child in a car.
I feel quite confident in saying that, in all the years I had children who had to be put in a car, I never ever had any chance of FORGETTING that I had put them in the car.
That would be like forgetting I was driving the car and letting it run off the road, or forgetting that I was walking and falling on the floor, or forgetting that I needed to eat and starving to death.
Sorry, it isn’t amazing or awesome. It’s the minimum requirement for being a parent — the knowledge that you will be responsible enough not to forget you have them.
I certainly could have made mistakes, and those mistakes could have killed someone. I could have run a red light, or a stop sign, or driven off the road. I could have accidentally fell over carrying the children.
I could have made any number of mistakes that I can’t even think of.
But I was never going to forget I had my child in the car with me.
Oh PLEASE. We're talking about the CEO of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. You and another troll come on here talking about how everyone makes mistakes. I would assume the CEO of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals might want to know where her dog is.....if for no other reason than it makes her look like a liberal fool with an agenda when the dog is found dead, in her car, from neglect.
Yes but any one of us is capable of being the .01 that do.
If you don’t understand that, I don’t know what to tell you but it is a fact.
That’s why pilots and such have such strict and seemingly redundant procedures. This is because they know anyone is capable of screwing up and killing themselves or others no matter how smart they think they are. Most pilots remember to put the landing gear down 99.99% of the time but they also know at anytime they could be the .o1% that don’t.
LOL! What do you suggest, a checklist for putting the baby/dog into the car? Government nanny to make sure you don't screw up and forget the kiddo? It's called personal responsibility...apparently you can't walk down the street and buy gum.....you might forget you left your child behind. Take it back to DU troll.
Heh... yah. Like they say: There are two kinds of pilots... those who have landed wheels-up, and those who haven’t, yet.
“LOL! What do you suggest, a checklist for putting the baby/dog into the car? Government nanny to make sure you don’t screw up and forget the kiddo? It’s called personal responsibility...apparently you can’t walk down the street and buy gum.....you might forget you left your child behind. Take it back to DU troll.”
I would suggest not trying to argue with someone who can use simple logic. You are looking silly!
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Try your high school debate elsewhere. I will ask again, what could distract you into forgetting you have children in your car? "A Million Things" isn't an answer. Troll.
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