In February of 2005, Guy Clairoux picked up his two-and-a half-year-old son, Jayden, from day care and walked him back to their house. They were almost home. Jayden was straggling behind, and, as his father's back was turned, an animal jumped over a back-yard fence and lunged at Jayden. "The animal had his head in its mouth and started to do this shake," Clairoux's wife, JoAnn Hartley, said later. As she watched in horror, two more of the same animals jumped over the fence, joining in the assault. She and Clairoux came running, and he punched the first of the animals in the head, until it dropped Jayden, and then he threw the boy toward his mother. Hartley fell on her son, protecting him with her body. "JoAnn!" Clairoux cried out, as all three animals descended on his wife. "Cover your neck, cover your neck." A neighbor, sitting by her window, screamed for help. Her partner and a friend, Mario Gauthier, ran outside. A neighborhood boy grabbed his hockey stick and threw it to Gauthier. He began hitting one of the animals over the head, until the stick broke. The police came. The animals were pulled away, and the Clairouxes and one of the rescuers were taken to the hospital. Five days later, the province’s legislature banned the ownership of these animals. "Just as we wouldn't let a great white shark in a swimming pool," the province's attorney general, Michael Bryant, had said, "maybe we shouldn't have these animals on the civilized streets."

--from Troublemakers, by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, February 2006.

The animal in question was a pit bull. Pit bulls are dangerous and sick. They turn on their neighbors. They turn on their owners. They turn on their own babies! If you are a pit bull, that’s good for you—not for anyone else.

If pit bulls shouldn’t be let on civilized streets, should we let them govern our country? We already know what happens if pit bulls are allowed to govern our country, with two of them at the helm of affairs in Washington. Do we need more pit bull sh**?

Only if it is wearing lipstick.

That was my thought and soon as I heard her refer to herself as a animal known to attack children frequently!

Don't they shoot Wild Foaming at the Mouth PitBulls....even if they are wearing Lipstickl?

Relax, seriously. The pit bull analogy was a M E T A P H O R. Thats:

a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

So really, you don't have to worry about Sarah eating your face. I can almost guarantee it.

I am happy with everything you said, except for the "almost" part...with a pit bull, I would want a full guarantee :)

they make their dogs up in lipstick! So....is that just on Friday nights.....or every time they take out to do their bidness?

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they make their dogs up in lipstick! So....is that just on Friday nights.....or every time they take out to do their bidness?

No Silly, Hockey Moms wear Lipstick - Pitbulls don't.

Besides Pitbull is a metaphor in this case. And Yes I want Sarah Palin in the WH we need a "pitbull" on the world stage!

I confess to being thrown for a bit of a loop there.

And you know, that's the delicious irony with you Evangelicals (I assume you are one, T-bone)...Christ says, "turn your other cheek..." while you guys seem keen on deliverting the first slap!

Isn't it important to follow Christ's message of peace? Or do you think that's only if you are dealing with your fellow (perhaps white) Americans? Don't you see how much you start to resemble the "islamic jihadists" when you do that?

I think Christ would approve of saving millions of American lives in a just war like the ones we are fighting in Iraq and Afganistan.

God (the first part of the Holy Trinity) supported the Israelites in many wars. ....Go Figure!

I thought he was the whole damn thing...or is that just a Catholic thing?

God manifests Himself to Man as The Father (Creator), The Son (God in human form), and the Holy Spirit.