Friday, August 06, 2010

Friday Hound Blogging

Frequent reader(s) of this blog know the sweet kiss of acquiescence and the gentle caress of surrender...er...we mean know that we occasionally share our thoughts with you after imbibing a few adult beverages. This is not without precedence in the art world, and while some may argue that this blog doesn't come within a parsec of the art world, we would respond by saying affectation is the very soul of ill considered mimicry.

Well, anyway the point is that even if our ruminations on the world extant are occasionally skewed because of Ernest Hemingway Mojito night, or Edgar Degas Absinthe afternoon, or Dylan Thomas Whiskey week, or some combination thereof, there are also those times, rare as they may be which, because of the bizarre and outlandish news we bring you may assume we've been participating in Humphrey Bogart Martini morning when in fact we have not.

This is one of those times. Whilst innocently perusing the overlord neighborhood of the inter toobz looking for a bit of wackiness to bring your way, we ran across an example so clueless, so lacking in even a scintilla of sense, so dumfoundedly disconnected from reality that for a moment we thought we had unknowingly wandered into another episode of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Gin Rickey revival.

It's pretty well established that, as a group, the overlords are not the brightest LED in the display, but this person sets a new standard in, well, see for yourself:
Greyhound racing is growing in popularity.
Ah, that explains all the tracks closing.
And with this increase in popularity comes the wish to get more involved. No longer are people satisfied with having a punt, they want to get involved in the excitement of owning their own dog through greyhound syndication.
Exactly. Why be satisfied with losing the social security money two bucks at a time when you can pour all of it directly into an overlord's trailer payment at once?
Imagine not only the excitement of a winning bet, but the jubilation of seeing your own greyhound win.
Yeah, and it's just that easy too. Buy a greyhound, watch it win. Bridge in Brooklyn anyone?
If you are keen to take that next step and become more involved in the industry you have two options: outright ownership or greyhound syndication.
Well, truth is if you're "keen to take that next step" you probably ran out of options long ago. If you had any to begin with.
Starting a syndicate with your friends is a great way for the beginner to get involved as the syndicate will usually have a manager who is an expert in the racing industry. This means you do not have to invest a lot of time and money educating yourself and making expensive mistakes.
Right, because you already made the most expensive mistake you're going to make.
If you want to get involved through this syndication, you need to find yourself a greyhound pup or a ready to race dog.
OK, when you have to tell people who want to get into greyhound racing that they have to start with a greyhound you know you're not dealing with the world's most sophisticated investors, right Bart?


Bart is a little shy and unsure of himself. He is sweet and loves attention. He is easygoing, quiet and mellow. He will approach and lean against you for attention. He follows his foster mom around the house like a shadow. He is a quick learner. Bart would do well in a working family home with well-mannered children, 8 and up. He is good with other dogs and would probably do best in a home with another dog to show him the ropes. He is a little nervous when walking, so he would do best in a home with a fenced yard. For more information about this dog, and other rescued racing greyhounds looking for homes, go here. If you don't know about the plight of racing greyhounds go here.

29 comments:

greygarious said...

Time Share Opportunity: Staterooms on HMS Titanic, all amenities, going fast!

That really did read like an April Fool's bit.

Massachusetts is currently futzing around with a bill to expand gambling, one of the sticking points being slot machines for the tracks. TV footage from Raynham-Taunton GH Park highlighted a large number of weeds and scrub plants growing up through the sand. Although Sarkis and Carney are no longer trying to reverse the racing ban, the traps and oval have yet to be dismantled.

Pearl said...

It's odd, but when I was growing up, gambling was illegal and something crooks did. Now, of course, there are places to drop off the kids while you play the slots in Vegas, so why not get involved and call it a legitimate business venture?

And the dogs, when they're older? Someone else will take care of them...

Life With Dogs said...

You forgot to add that Bart is far brighter than the writer of that article. :)

Anonymous said...

If this isn't a play for the extension of the NRA and drug cartels, what is?
No popularity for "violence" you say?
Such a pity.

Anonymous said...

It's like telling Americans they "need" a Tea party. Even the Tea Party wants out!And Republicans, albeit, slow racers, are turning their backs.

Anonymous said...

COJONES

We got a lot of "saviours"
So we don't need any "favors".
We run'em in them pearly pairs,
Can hang'em both just Anywheres.
Anywheres. Anywheres.Anywheres. Anywheres.

Pray'em up!
Play'em up!
Boot'em out!
Shoot'em out!

Boom! Boom Gotcha!
Boom! Boom! Gotcha!

Target all them liberal moose.
Bears and wolves the hunters' boost.
NRA Alaska"s roost.
Projectiles blow, it's Heaven-loose.
Anywheres. Anywheres. Anywheres. Anywheres.Anywheres.

Pray'em up!
Play'em up!
Boot'em out!
Shoot'em out!

Boom! Boom! Gotcha!
Boom1 Boom1 Gotcha!

ALASKAH...THE DISASTAH...THE
FREEEEEEZE!

JUAREZ...THE BEES KNEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Sheriff Arpaio, Mariposa County, Arizona, tough guy. He's ok with being called a cowboy, a Nazi, and a hitler. Oh ya. Sheriff Arpaio gettin' his groove back with goin' after all illegal immigrants like a hog goes aafter meal. And he cares less and less about his tactics, morals and humanity. Our man of the day, Sheriff Arpaio who forgot where he came from and no idea ti where he goes.
Organized crime?
Weel, to be sure, his biggest fans are Blanchard, Carney and Pizzi.

Anonymous said...

hear the latest?
know why Peter King, New York, don't wanna give those first responders any Health care? from 9/11?
For their heroism?
get this.
because some of those first responders were illegal Mexican immigrants, the very ones sheriff arpaio wants to shoot!
Don't that just beat the band?

boom boom Gotcha!

Anonymous said...

According to Sarah Palin, "cojones" must be like the beer driver guy with the "disciplinary problems" in Manchester. With 2 NRA handguns, one for each "cojone" he "took care" of 9 people. God loves you afterall!
(And Greyhound Racing is also good for "its people".)

Anonymous said...

Know what's funny? 1938, Jews are leaving Germany, some children were accepted into Sweden. Sure. Their parents? Nope. Sweden didn't want the "older ones".
Isn't that odd? Sweden, racist? Or just wanted what was "practical"? Whatever. The parents all ended up dead in death camps. And you think Sheriff Arpaio can even read? Even English?
Sure. Sheriff Arpaio is not only "practical" he is a racist. Not in 1938 anymore; he's so very 2010 and so back with "the South".
Racetracking.

Anonymous said...

More than 100,000 unauthorized workers have fled Arizona! Not just Mexicans...Asians too! Imagine. They are all so scared and intimidated even the legal ones are leaving! They are saying it is total terrorism and hatred is the motivating factor. Like nazi germany erasing a race that helped build America! Literally.
Jim Blanchard...French?
Gary Guccione..Italian?
Oh yeah. France eats horses.
And Italy eats dogs.

Anonymous said...

They want to euthanize 200,000 geese in New York! Amazing there is alrewdy birth control for these birds and it's easily administered and 100% safe with absolutely perfect results. But America just loves "violence" so they'll just bind up their legs, bag and twist them and do a fast gassing. you call this Nation "sensitive"? No wonder the Mexicans are dying to leave and no wonder Greyhound breeders beat their own dogs to death.

Anonymous said...

NEWSFLASH!
Sheriff Joe Arpaio got some more death threats from the drug cartel! Oh ya! Seems like even Joe Arpaio is "depreciating". Five years ago he was worth 5 million to do a hit on. This week, he's only worth one mill!
These Familia types are sure doing their smart shopping! Guess Sarah Palin would say they got "cojones".

Anonymous said...

"Snow Falling On Cedars". Anybody see that? Ethan Hawke. Good actor. Fine story. kinda like the crap goind down in Arizona. hatred. racism, deportation.
Just like the Japs, know how many Hispanics, Latinos fought and died in all these Republican wars? Thousands. For America. Know how much they enriched USA? By billions.
Jan Brewer, Sheriff Arpaio, and all the millions of KKK mentalities out there, you are neo-Nazis and a complete disgrace.

Anonymous said...

BLOOD DIAMONDS. What a movie! Leonardo Dicaprio. a Blockbuster. The whole world turned themselves around and went after all these ruthless mega jewellry stores, NY-London-Tokyo, wherever. People don't like subsidizing death, pain and corruption from this ,,,like racetracks, too. And I hope it becomes even clearer with that dumb, black bitch, Naomi Campbell. Hiding thirty diamonds after whoring her way into the pants of Charles Taylor, better known as the Hitler of Liberia! So what can you take from this brutal murderer of 50,000 people; mothers, infants, daughters raped, amputated, enslaved decaapitated, motivated with teenage boys on induced states of highs with violent drugs all orchestrated by Charles Taylor? I'll tell you what.
Not only will all these "dog beaters" and Tri-State frauds and tax evasive hoods be exposed for what they all are truly doing, the International boards of Human Rights will incarcerate these bastards who are into human smuggling, as well, besides all their dirty money laundering in Wachovia and Swiss banks.
Because, where there is no conscience like Naomi Campbell, there's no stopping Hitlers like Charles Taylor. So, listen up all you extreme right GOP. Judgement Day will soon arrive in the form of Kansas King. And just for you, I'm sure Naomi Campbell will take your side. (for cash)
Hey! Even diamonds!(dirty or not) And she can say she never knew ...right George Bush?

Anonymous said...

Thank God for Mia farrow and Carole White!
Witnesses are everything!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Liberia, Somalia, Mexico...the list goes on and on. For corruption. For arms. For narcotics. For oil. For tyranny. All due to fear and power. Drug cartels, pirates, dictators, gun runners. The stories are old but the pain is always brand new. And these kinds of unstable, unsatiable, deplorable countries spread their black magic, outwards to other weak and bankrupt regimes. Madmen chasing their dreams. All wanting to crucify its peoples. And they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, like super model, Naomi Campbell. Imagine! A woman who can wear push-up bras can also "hook-up" with the likes of Charles Taylor... a mass murderer of 50,000, his victims young and innocent. And all for diamonds. And it didn't matter if they were "dirty" or "bloody" or illegal or even "without a box". Naomi took them all the same. Such a pretty face. With such an ugly past. In such a terrible "scandal". And she is upset because she has been "inconvenienced"?
By "the dogs"?
Just think what Kansas King will bring.
And "smile".

Anonymous said...

What's the difference if you use a phone for a weapon like a rock or like a bat?
Nothing!
You terrorize with a gun or a machete...same idea.
Weapons are weapons and if they "get loaded with drugs"...sky's the limit.

Anonymous said...

It's called brute power! And Naomi Campbell loves to weild it!
Bra or no bra.

Anonymous said...

Giuliani's daughter got caught SHOPLIFTING? Come on!
These GOP can never get enough. And it's looking like they breed that way! (Gary Guccione????)
Globetrotters.
Australia. Ireland. Mexico. Russia. England. Germany. Africa.
Interesting.

Anonymous said...

What can you say? Criminals like Naomi Campbell attract criminals like Charles Taylor!
Same goes for Doug Pizzi and Gary Guccione and Earl Ray Tomblin!
It's called : "The Ring of Fire".

Anonymous said...

Rick Sanchez. God Bless You! An Hispanic growing up in Miami, loving baseball and he just gave the "Who Cares" trophy to A-Rod after hitting #600. Know why? Greed. For money. For more seats. A corrupted baseball business powered by steroids. STEROIDS! Hear that all you bums out there in Greyhound Racing? An Hispanic is calling out all you "Mr. Americas". All you fuckin' GOP who started steroids in Texas in the eighties...with your own fuckin' kids! Such unchristian "values"...not accepting for who you are...such thievery and falseness.
Such bullshit!
Nothing is real anymore in the South except racism, botox and the NRA.
No souls.
Period.

Anonymous said...

Ironicus Maximus.. there are many of us who are still wondering why George
Carney and Mike Curran never acknowledged the fact that they used and abused these dogs to death for more than forty years.
Grey2K is, thankfully, an international membership and so many of us want to know what price , particularly, Carney, paid in dollars, to "home" and "care' for all the remaining injured and homeless Greyhounds.
Being a rich garbage collector and due to the persecution of these Greyhounds, now a rich real estate mogul, where is not only the fine, but the gratitude?
Please put in capitals so Art Carney's record and Mike Curran's as well, will be known....all over GOOGLE.
Thank you for all that you do.

Anonymous said...

George Carney and Mike Curran? ("Carney and Curran")
Sounds like the "Irish Mob" to me.
While you are at it, Ironicus Maximus, can you draw a line from "A" to "B"?
("Carney-Curran" to "Pizzi-Guccione")
You know...that "protection of workers" routine.

Anonymous said...

"Cojones"?

Personally, all the doctors out there who already know that maybe 1 in 6 kids are bipolar (continuing into adulthood) and perhaps, if two parents are bipolar-raising the genetic chances to 75% for a bipolar child-continuing into adulthood-can you possibly tell me , with this information, alone, how on earth there could be even ONE doctor belonging to the National Rifle Association?
Knowing fully well, and irresponsibly so, that there are easily MILLIONS of people walking around with depression and rage at any given moment?
And that's not even counting all the unemployed, the drug addicts and the terminally ill!

Anonymous said...

"Cojones"?

Personally, all the doctors out there who already know that maybe 1 in 6 kids are bipolar (continuing into adulthood) and perhaps, if two parents are bipolar-raising the genetic chances to 75% for a bipolar child-continuing into adulthood-can you possibly tell me , with this information, alone, how on earth there could be even ONE doctor belonging to the National Rifle Association?
Knowing fully well, and irresponsibly so, that there are easily MILLIONS of people walking around with depression and rage at any given moment?
And that's not even counting all the unemployed, the drug addicts and the terminally ill!
And now, we are truly seeing all the "effects" of the "freedom to bear" idiots...like in Manchester.
And on top of all of this, we have the farmers, like all the puppy mill criminals, dispersed all over the Heartland!
And if you think the recent jail escape with three murderers from Arizona is unique...this country is just starting to "warm up".
Oklahoma...here it comes.

Anonymous said...

Just saw Mia Farrow with her hand on "the Bible".
She totally remembers super model Naomi Campbell saying the diamonds were from Charles Taylor.
Who you gonna believe?
A druggy, pea-brained criminal like Naomi or the actress who called it when she said Woody Allen was a pedophile?
I'm with the blonde in the glasses.
Know why?
Violence is violence.

Anonymous said...

Oh boy.
"Cojones"
Pedophiles.
Steroids.
Anti-Gays.
NRA.
Everybody with their "McCarthyism" hats on better look ALL the way up! Seriously.
Ted Olsen, news ddirector and online managing editor of Christianity Today" is now teaming up with bigtime Liberal David Boies. You got it. The same Boies who went after PENNZOIL, TEXACO oil companies!
Slammed MICROSOFT abd SOTHEBY'S and CHRISTIE'S!
And pulled out all the plugs with NAPSTER and copyright on INTERNET!
Top "Guns".
Right and Left supporting GAYS!
True rights as Americans!
And when you have the added "history" of Ted Olsen's extreme right wife as one of the victims in that 9/11 plane that was flown into the Twin Towers, this is truly something you "can believe in".
Ted Olsen knows how tragic it can be losing the one you love! In the very worst of circumstances!
And he, being "real" particularly as a "Christian", is finally doing something about it!
Right and Left.
Both being "real", together, at long last!
Homophobia and all the hatred that goes along with it, showing exactly what it is .
And that, my dear Americans, is purely "politics" in the South.

Anonymous said...

Thank God Carl Reiner (Hollywood Producer) is working with BOTH, Ted Olsen and David Boies on the "Gay Issues".
Never say "Never".
Particularly in Hollywood!