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Georgia, Handsome Dan, Curly and other pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation are getting a happier shot at fame, this time as stars of a line of boutique red wines.
The Vicktory Dogs Wine Collection features colorful portraits of 22 dogs confiscated from Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels that now live at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah.
“As a signature collection, it’s through the roof,” said Matt Hahn, co-owner of Carivintas Winery, a Southern California company that combines wine selling and philanthropy.
Each bottle includes a portrait of one of the dogs on the label. On the back, instead of description of the wine, there’s a brief story about each four-legged friend.
The pit bulls have been living at Best Friends since January while handlers try to reverse the mental damage done at Vick’s 15-acre estate in southeastern Virginia. Vick, a former NFL quarterback, is serving a two-year prison sentence in connection with the dogfighting operation.
Artist Cyrus Mejia, one of the founders of Best Friends, began painting the dogs after they arrived at the sanctuary. Gone in the portraits are any signs of snarling beasts fit for a fight ring. Instead, there are cocked heads, soulful eyes and floppy ears.
“I think he’s been able to capture the real personalities of each of the dogs,” said John Polis, a Best Friends spokesman.
Hahn and his small winery based in Buellton, Calif., jumped at the chance to use the portraits in creating the Vicktory Dogs collection. He said the goal was to show the dogs in a positive light.
 An obese inmate who goes by the nickname “Big Mike” has been granted early parole because a Canadian prison could not accommodate his 430-pound frame.
Michel Lapointe, 37, was released from prison earlier this week after serving 25 months in Montreal’s Bordeaux Jail for conspiracy, drug trafficking and gangsterism.
The Quebec Parole Board said this week that it based its decision for an early release on Lapointe’s health, along with factors such as good behavior and the support of his wife and mother.
The two-officer board stressed that Lapointe was not violent and did not pose a risk to society.
Lapointe will have to follow a series of conditions, such as finding a job and staying away from bars. He will also have to meet with a parole officer on a regular basis over the next three months.
A former chef, Lapointe was arrested on drug-related charges in 2006. In February 2008, he pleaded guilty to all of his charges. At the time of his arrest, Lapointe weighed 375 pounds.
Defense lawyer Clemente Monterosso said the prison’s poor diet caused his client to gain more than 50 pounds.
Following the court’s decision to release Lapointe, his mother, Claire Lapointe, said her son has always had weight problems. She said the problems were exacerbated while he was in jail.
Convicts’ weight has also been an issue in the United States. In one case, a 500-pound New York man accused of selling knockoff guitars was arraigned in a pickup truck in a parking lot because he could not fit into the courthouse.
PETA wants their breast milk ice cream, and they want you to have some, too. The animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), sent a letter to Ben & Jerry’s Homemade ice cream company requesting that they replace the cow’s milk in their famed ice cream with breast milk, according to a press release by PETA.
Ben & Jerry replied that “a mother’s milk is best used for her child,” according to WITN. PETA suggested that Ben and Jerry’s make breast milk ice cream to minimize the suffering of the cows. While their request was extreme and implausible, they could have made other more viable requests about th cow’s health. They could have also suggested vegan product lines for B & J, which are popular in health food markets and natural food markets.
According to the PETA press release, the idea came from the news that a Swiss restaurateur would be substituting 75 percent of the cow’s milk with breast milk. In the U.S. there are breast milk banks where lactating mothers with an abundance of breast milk can donate their breast milk. The lactating mothers are put through health screenings before the breast milk is made available to babies.
The PETA release also states that the mothers providing the milk for the unnamed Swiss restaurateur are paid for their milk. If this were to happen in the United States, how many of the mothers currently donating breast milk to breast milk banks for babies in need would opt to be paid instead? Would this practice truly make healthier humans as PETA suggests?
source: Breast Milk Ice Cream Idea Proposed by PETA to Ben and Jerry’s [AC]
A four-time convicted burglar gets sentenced to six years in prison for his latest crime — stealing $20 from a toddler’s piggy bank.
Prosecutors say he broke into a home in August 2007 and stole the money from a 2-year-old girl’s piggy bank while she slept in her room.
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According to canada.com, it seems that a simple typo in a Swedish magazine led to four people being poisoned.
See, a recipe for apple cake was posted, and “Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg, it said 20 nutmeg nuts were needed.” The error was spotted after printing, letters were sent to subscribers, and inserts were added to store issues. But these warnings didn’t reach everyone. One group of people still tried out this horrifically over-nutmegged recipe, and the four suffered poisoning symptoms like dizziness and headaches.
How can anyone choose to make that recipe and not question that amount, or not be turned off by it? One sniff of nutmeg is hint enough that it’s way too strong to imagine 20 nuts in one cake.
So, even if you don’t come to the conclusion that there was a typo, one would think that the recipe would just seem, well, gross. I can only imagine that those who ate it have taste buds that don’t measure sickening amounts of nutmeg.
A new biography of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner reveals that the soft porn magnate nearly died in 1977 choking on a sex toy.
“Hefner divulges he almost died doing what he loves best while he was dating ‘Playboy’ Playmate Sondra Theodore,” said a publishing source familiar with the book.
The incident happened when Hef and Sondra, the July 1977 Playmate, were in bed making love with a small sex toy. Somehow, the toy became lodged in Hef’s throat, said the source.
Somehow?
Source: Hugh Hefner almost died after a sex toy got lodged in his throat [Celebitchy] via WeSmirch
Hugh Hefner almost died after a sex toy got lodged in his throat (Cele|bitchy)
 If you’re naked and your neighbor is looking at you through your open window, you shouldn’t call the Seattle police to bitch about it.
A Seattle man accused of peering at his young female neighbors with binoculars couldn’t help it because the women’s blinds were up, his wife says.
Police reported the man acknowledged watching the neighbor women through their uncovered windows, but the man’s wife defended him, saying the women left their blinds up and were “putting on a show” by walking around naked, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday.
Officers didn’t cite the man and told the neighbor women, whose ages were not provided, to get their blinds fixed, the newspaper said. The report noted that the women said the blinds were broken but that they would ask their landlord to make repairs.
Sounds like a plan. The good news is that the women were apparently worth looking at naked. If these were some ugly bitches, he could probably sue.
The photo is not, unless it’s a really uncanny coincidence, of the actual neighbors who called the cops. She’s just some hottie named Pamela Spice (I’m guessing: not her real name) that I found when I did a Google image search. But, hey, people need pictures to help visualize these things.
Source: “Peeping tom victims told to fix blinds” [UPI]
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