Pro Bowl Today

The Pro Bowl's happening in Honolulu later today.   It serves as the kickoff for Super Bowl Week and all the hype and hoopla surrounding the NFL title game and three of my Houston Texans footballers made the squad.

Representing my local NFL franchise are NFL rushing champion Arian Foster, fullback Vonta Leach, and wideout Andre Johnson.  

One other player who also made the NFC Pro Bowl squad is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick.

Cue PETA hatin' in him in 5...4...3...2...1....

By the way PETA, will have my 21 piece bucket of original recipe KFC yardbird ready and parked by the TV so I can enjoy the game without moving very far off the couch. 

Yum...finger licking good.    

(Slurp Slurp)   Now that I've finished licking my fingers, let;s get back to the post.


The NFL All-Stars play in Aloha Stadium's tropical breezes in President Obama's home state later today while being coached by the staffs of the AFC and NFC title game losers, the New York jets and the Chicago Bears. 

In the meantime the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers are enroute to the Metroplex to prepare for Super Bowl XLV at the Jerrydome, oops Cowboys Stadium.

Who am I rooting for in this game?    I'm an AFC girl of course!     
 

Yo PETA, Guess Who's Starting For The NFC In The Pro Bowl

Was very happy to hear that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and MVP candidate Michael Vick's comeback season has been capped off by his fourth appearance in the Pro Bowl.

He will be headed to Honolulu as the NFC's starting quarterback, assuming the Philadelphia Eagles don't have an engagement later in the week to play in Dallas for their first National Football League title since 1960.

I'm getting more than a little sick of PETA, conservafools and white peeps in general piling on Michael Vick and making it sound like he was the only person in the United States involved in dogfighting when we know that many of the people involved in that world look like y'all.

I'm also more than a little irritated about the fact that Vick served his two year stint  at Club Fed, got a second chance to play in the NFL, has been speaking to kids about how uncool dogfighting is and y'all still wanna hate.

What are y'all gonna do if he wins the NFL MVP award?   I guess second chances in life only count for people who don't have melanin in their skin, huh?  


Congrats Mike on an amazing season.    I'll have to celebrate the January 30 occasion of that Pro Bowl by stooping by my nearest KFC and picking up a bucket for the game.

PETA's Probably Hatin' On The New Louisville Arena Name

Just before I bounced from Da Ville, the announcement was made about which of the five finalists had won the fierce competition for the naming rights of the new Louisville Arena.

It's scheduled to open in November with a game against 2010 NCAA championship finalist Butler.

It was Louisville-based Yum Brands who inked a $13.5 million, 10-year naming rights agreement with the University of Louisville. The U of L men's and women's basketball teams will be the primary tenants for the downtown arena.

Yum Brands in September 2006 donated $5 million for the naming rights to the University of Louisville's basketball practice facility.

Yum Brands owns Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, and PETA's least favorite fast food franchise, Kentucky Fried Chicken. All will be available in the new arena's food concourses.

The 22,000-seat area will be known as the KFC Yum! Center, and you know PETA's probably got their hate on for the new arena name.

I won't be surprised if PETA show up in Da Ville and try to stage some kind of protest during the Cards opening night game.

There PETA Goes Again

PETA's at it again with their nekulturny behavior in terms of selecting their 2010 worst dressed celebrity list.

The same geniuses who brought you Klan hoods at the Westminster dog show and 'nekkid' women to protest fur couldn't stay away from disrespecting the sistahs for continuing to wear them.

They already been warned upfront what will happen if they even attempt to try to damage fur coats owned by Kelis or Mary J. Blige, and I see they haven't felt froggy enough to make that leap.

But back to the latest PeTA hijinks that will have me heading at warp speed to partake of some yardbird or whatever meat du jour I feel like scarfing up.

In the process of selecting their 2010 worst dressed list, they've added some disrespectful commentary toward the sistahs.

There's no love lost between Aretha Franklin and PeTA, and this is the comment they left under the picture of the Queen of Soul rocking her fur.

Finally: footage proving that Bigfoot really does exist!

They had this to say about Rihanna, who's been sporting an array of furs with increasing regularity. They had to go there and try to link her personal drama with their BS.

You'd think that being a victim of violence would have opened Rihanna's heart to the suffering of others—like the animals who were beaten, drowned, and electrocuted for her fur coats. Girl, you've got beautiful eyes: Use them to see the pain and suffering your wardrobe causes.

PETA, how about opening your clueless eyes to your insensitive, bigoted, racist, sexist, and (fill in the blank) commentary?

You also need to heed what Aretha told your clueless behinds a while ago.

please mind your own friggin business..... and then just maybe, when PETA gives an iota about the human race...maybe we can chat...

love and kisses, Aretha

Kelis' Letter To PETA

TransGriot Note: Y'all know how much I loathe PETA and their racist, sexist, classist, abelist (pick an ism) behinds. In their anti-fur campaigns they've been getting pimp slapped lately by African-American celebs who don't quite see the issue the way they do.

Mary J. Blige has already warned their anti-fur paint throwing hooligans what will happen if they try to throw paint on any fur she owns.

Well, PETA wrote the singer Kelis a letter, which she responded to on January 14 and posted on her Myspace page. Moni's going to save you the trouble and post it here.

Kelis' Letter to PETA

Good morning all!
Ok, so you’re gonna love this. The other day I got a personalized letter from PETA! Lol so after some thought I've decided to write one back. Goes a little something like this:

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There is no humane way to kill anything, let me start there. It’s unfortunate but it’s part of life. With that being said, I would eat pterodactyl if you found some and you told me it was meaty and delicious. And after doing a very minimal amount of research....... I found out that the founder Ingrid Newkirk is completely batty. I had a feeling but she far exceeded my expectations. I mean certifiably insane! Lol this chicks will is nuts, google it – it’s a riot! Beyond the fact that I think she's a diabetic, which means she needs insulin, which is taken from lab pigs (I know this because my sister happens to be in veterinary school), which would be completely hypocritical. It’s like don't abuse animals unless it can help me.

I feel very strongly about a lot of things such as the sweatshops that spin cotton and the blood on their hands. Btw it’s not just the look of fur. It’s warm as hell and feels glorious, ever rubbed faux fur on your body? Nothing luxurious about that. Then the letter proceeded to name artist and designers who don't wear real fur. Great! More for me! I don't judge them, don't judge me.

If I started wearing endangered animals like polar bear or orangutan then talk to me. (Which btw for the record I would not - I do believe in the preservation of endangered species) But the minks and chinchilla that quite honestly are rodents and if weren't in the form of a coat I would demand they be put to death anyway are not an issue to me.

The death of high fashion. Ugh.

I eat meat, and in fact my mouth salivates as I type the word meat! And the paint throwing that's just ridiculous! What if I was hurling Loubitons and Pierre Hardy's at every sad poorly dressed person on the street? As right as I may be it’s just fanatical and crazy. And people have the right to feel as they please. What about art? Survival of the fittest. Natural selection? No let's just let all the rodents run free and over take our cities. Oh wait they have, NY and LA in particular are infested! Why don't u save them all from scavenging on the streets and ruining my evening strolls, take them home. Make them pets! Get off my back! Pun intended!

Underpaid minorities picking your vegetables, now that's fine for you right? Please, fight for their rights. How about the poverty in the communities of brown people around the world. She had the nerve to say (and I quote) "get over it" talking of the issue of black people and slavery in this country verses cows being slaughtered. Is she kidding me? Lol yes she must be. Actually, she's lucky most black people have real issues to worry about in the U.S and don't give a crap what her delusional privileged opinions are. But she should try saying that again just for kicks n giggles on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Harlem n see how well people "get over it" lol.

If u want to preach do it about something worthwhile don't waste my time trying to save the dang chipmunk.

Find a worthwhile cause like the women being maimed in these Middle Eastern countries. Or female circumcision. Or women's rights here in America, we still get paid less for doing the same jobs as men. Quite honestly if you hate the world so much go live in the forest where no one else has to hear you complain about the perfectly good food chain the good Lord created. Everyone has the right to an opinion, and that's mine on that! xoxo

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Amen, Kelis

PETA's Feathers Ruffled Over Chicken Statue Permit Delay

Yum Brands, Inc. is the parent company for Kentucky Fried Chicken and is headquartered here in Louisville Metro.

That means that we've been getting visits on the regular by the boys and girls from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

In addition to picketing various KFC locations and Yum Brand, Inc. headquarters, they even showed up to picket Sunday services at the massive Southeast Christian Church, where some of the Yum Brands execs worship.

PETA asserts that KFC's chicken processing methods are cruel and harmful to our future Original Recipe pieces. Even if that's true, PETA as usual has done their usual stellar job in alienating supporters and pissing people off to the point in which many of us who are sympathetic to the cause stopped caring what PETA had to say a long time ago.

PETA's in Da Ville threatening to sue the city over their stalled request to erect for three months a five and a half foot tall statue of a bloodied chicken on crutches.

PETA wants to put it downtown on the corner of Fourth and Market Streets. The statue was created by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss and reads at its base 'KFC Cripples Chickens'

Martina Bernstein, PETA’s litigation attorney, wrote a letter to James Mims December 17 stating metro government’s denial of a permit for the display is bogus and doesn’t “survive even the mildest scrutiny.”

“Accordingly, PETA respectfully requests that you exercise your authority to reverse the (Department of Codes and Regulations’) decision on the grounds that it is baseless and order the department to issue the requested permit forthwith.”

James Mims, the director of the Department of Codes and Regulations, wrote a December 28 letter saying PETA did not pay its $25 application fee and gave the city no “site map” of the proposed location of the statue.

“All I want to do is make sure that whatever we’re doing in the way of permitting this object recognizes required exits and entrances into buildings, doesn’t disrupt emergency services, allows for passable pedestrian areas in front of the buildings, and does not create a hazard that would impede pedestrian travel.”

He also stated in a Courier-Journal interview that PETA’s application was never denied and the application will be processed as soon as they receive the site map required by city ordinance.

PETA claims it has already done so, and the city is just stonewalling them.

PETA applied for a similar permit in July, but no decision was made because the city instituted a moratorium on temporary structures in public rights of way until new rules could be written.

Those new requirements say groups putting up a temporary structure must get adjacent property owners’ permission before the display can be approved by the city.

KFC spokeswoman Laurie Schalow told The Courier-Journal that that the request was a "despicable publicity stunt that we hope the city will have the good sense to disapprove."

At any rate, if and when it goes up, I'll be making a beeline once again for the closest KFC and have a picnic with a bucket of original recipe in front of the statue in question.