semantic satiation

repeating a word or phrase to the extent that its meaning is lost.



all together now nutters...

pit bull poet laureate

The Reincarnation of Marian Keech

"A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point."
Leon Festinger, When Prophecy Fails, 1956


ZUPF'S BACK!! apparently i've been asleep at the switch, he's been back for a few months. zupf re-emerged on the youtube scene with one of my favorite subjects, DARLA NAPORA.

i think about DARLA often. the events after DARLA'S death are truly beyond comprehension. from C MARABITO'S desperate yet ever popular ladder theory to DONNA REYNOLDS' shameful eulogy to GREG NAPORA burying his wife with the cremated remains of her murderer and all with the blessing of her family, the events read like a rod serling meets william s burroughs novel. surreal and mind bending are an understatement. vintage says it best, "you can't make this stuff up!"

the hardest piece of this macabre puzzle to understand are GREG'S actions. i almost never speculate on the details of these attacks but GREG left me with a bitter SCOTT PETERSON like taste in my mouth. (why the nutters went to such lengths to fabricate the ladder theory with this fodder at their fingertips is a mystery in itself) his behavior is so far outside of the norm that i keep circling back to the possibility that he was directly involved – until now. i have been reading a book about disinformation and it has helped shed some light on GREG'S mystifying behavior.

take the case of UFO nutter, Marian Keech. KEECH claimed to receive messages from aliens warning her that the earth would be destroyed by flood. The aliens gave instructions for an evacuation plan for KEECH and her followers at midnight on December 21, 1954. KEECH and her followers (who had quit their jobs, left their spouses and sold their possessions) gathered for their outer space exodus at the preordained time. the space ship never arrived and the end time came and went without incident. at 4:45 am KEECH informed her followers that she received a new message: the aliens have spared the earth.

and now the story of the UFO cult gets interesting.

after KEECH announced to the cult members that the aliens decided to spare the earth, only one of KEECH'S followers got up and left. the remaining members were described as jubilant and the remaining members became even more committed to the cause. they began to proselytize in an attempt to convert others.

social psychologist Leon Festinger infiltrated the UFO cult and wrote a book about it. according to Festinger, it is psychologically painful to be confronted with information that contradicts our beliefs. it would have been too embarrassing for KEECH'S followers to admit they were wrong, so they set out to convince others to join their cult. if they succeeded at convincing others, they would not only avoid embarrassment, the conversion of others would constitute more evidence of their nutty UFO beliefs.

the lengths that humans will go to avoid admitting they are wrong are greater than i ever imagined possible.



craven recommends zupf, dogsbite.org and unSpun



ever wonder why we call them PIT NUTTERS?
read this and this and this and this.

Special Holiday Help Desk (SHED)

a friend sent me this fun link. this clever little website draws a picture to try and match the words that you enter. for example, if you type in "righthaven" you get the malevolent internet troll. given my obsession with pit bulls, i immediately started to plug in pit bull related words. type in "MICHAEL VICK" and surprisingly you get a football player, not a dog fighter or any one of the many drawings of VICK being bitten or urinated on by a pit bull. and if you type in "pit nutter" you get a Buster Brown comic. the results were interesting, here are a few of my favorites.

first up, Ms NCRC. since DELISE packages herself as a "researcher", you would expect to see a scientist, college professor or some geek in glasses and a lab coat. but when i typed in "Karen Delise", the google artist didn't produce a drawing of a vet tech or the director of research. instead i got an APBT advocacy logo. even google recognizes DELISE for what she is, a pit bull advocate.

btw, BRENT TOELLNER shares this mask with DELISE.

next up, DONNA REYNOLDS. this one caught me off guard. i was expecting a pot head or a bottle of tequila or a flakey artist. nope, google apparently knows better than i. DONNA REYNOLDS resulted in a certificate of death. ISYN.


of course, no experiment would be complete without the inclusion of the most famous BADRAP advocate of all time, DARLA NAPORA. care to guess what the google artist drew. wine? cheap jewelry? scott peterson look a like husband? nope.


finally, my favorite one of all - LEDY VANKAVAGE. i was expecting the BFAS logo or the ASPCA logo or maybe even st francis (sarcasm) but once again, google knows best. when i typed in LEDY VANKAVAGE, the artist drew the frankenstein/pit bull composite on craven desires. in the eyes of google, LEDY is not associated with helping dogs. she is associated with KILLING dogs.

btw, "FUZUPF", "JIM CROSBY" and "frankenmauler" also resulted in the frankenstein/pit bull drawing on craven desires.


try it yourself!

folie à plusieurs

congratulations CINDY MARABITO! the last pit nutter to stir such outrage in me was THOMAS CHRISTOPHER O'HALLORAN. in addition to the evocation of rage, MARABITO beautifully demonstrates the phenomenon known as Folie à plusieurs (madness of many) a syndrome in which two or more individuals share symptoms of mental illness

pit bull advocates have set a new low for rumor mongering with their promotion of the ladder theory in the death of DARLA NAPORA. waves of nutters gobbled up the fairy tale and repeated it. meet CINDY MARABITO aka ground zero.


drama queen CINDY MARABITO, with muzzled pie hole in a bit of pit nutter city council street theater 2001. MARABITO helped to kill a muzzle proposal in the aftermath of the savage murder of Diane Whipple. too bad that pie hole wasn't muzzled before infecting the nutters with her most recent bout of dementia.


MELANIE COY quickly jumped on THE LADDER DID IT bandwagon in a blog post titled, are you ready for it? IT CAN'T BE UN-SAID. no shit!!!! COY has since "apologized" and claimed to have learned her lesson. yeah right. and it's all how you raise 'em!

here are a few highlights of the collective madness that pulsated through pitternets last week.


righteously indignant ubergullible nutter soldier, LAUREN MCCAA, took it upon herself to educate dogsbite.org of the TRUTH! in an email with the subject line 'LIES'.
LAUREN MCCAA writes:

Hi Colleen,
The Pacifica woman was NOT killed by her pit bull she fell of a ladder. If she was mauled she would have bite wounds, flesh missing, and not trauma resulting from a fall. Maybe instead of being so worried about donations, which you still have not shown to go to any dog bite victims, you should get your facts straight. Way to go for jumping on the idiot band wagon and believing everything you hear. If you do not believe me here is an accurate article, http://www.examiner.com/american-pit-bull-in-national/pacifica-dog-mauling-what-really-happened-1, but I am nothing but a pit nutter with facts and you are a maniac with your opinions. Did you not learn after your infamous interview with people from the SPCA? Also all the victims you used are shark bite victims, yes I did little digging, and again you lie. I must ask do you have anything else to prove your case except shark bite victims and google articles, which were later proven that the dogs were not pit-bulls at all. Also pit-bull is not a breed, but I bet you knew that. Other than spreading lies and debunked opinions have you contributed anything at all to real dog bite victims??

LAUREN'S facebook comments include:
Im just not into the whole bully style and have gotten really confused. He is PR ukc and adba registered as APBT, but hes not a pure bloodline but a mix. I want to show him hopefully next yr.
when LAUREN is not chatting it up on facebook, she seeks advice on how to properly raise/socialize her super aggressive UKC/ADBA registered mixed pit bull:
I have a 2 1/2 yr old un-altered male, who I adopted from my friend about a year ago. He spent most of the beginning of his life on a chain and wasn't properly socialized with other dogs and has severe aggression around other males and smaller dogs. He now runs on half and acre with two mixed females. I love him to death and he such a sweetie around people, but he changes when comes near other males. His true personality is calm and really relaxed, but around other males/small dogs its like his prey drive and ego spike. He is not the foaming at the mouth or yanking me to the ground type, but if they get in his range he will strike. They did put him through extensive obedience training and does well with sit, stay, lay, come, and walking off a leash, but changes and will become unfocused around other males. Females he is fine around, no issues what so ever. I would like to know how to keep him stable and focused and not worry about him attacking other dogs. I want to know how to re-channel his true personality and keep him turned off. Thank you so much for the help.

another 'oops, he's never done that before' moment waiting to happen!

one proud pit nutter wrote to dogsbite.org and in an exceptionally bold move signed her/his comment PIT NUTTER:

Oh my god do you people pull this ridiculousness out of your behinds. Where does it state her nose was bitten off and oh just so you know her pit-bull did not maul her, she fell off her ladder. She did not have missing limbs, ripped flesh, or crushed bones, she had upper body trauma consistent with a fall. Before all you jump on the media bandwagon, who couldn't tell an accurate version of a story if it had already been written for them. http://www.examiner.com/american-pit-bull-in-national/pacifica-dog-mauling-what-really-happened-1. That is accurate version and not an article filled with lies to help sell. Oh and if BSL worked Ontario's and Denver's bite rates would have decreased, correct? Your wrong there bite rates have increased. Yes lets ask where your priories, believing lies and a website full of shark attack victims and not dog bite victims. Believing a website that cares nothing about receiving donations because the members are too dumb to notice real facts. Colleen has NOT ONCE contributed to a dog bite victim. Oh hey don't believe anything, but what the media say, because Colleen told you to. I am just a pit-nutter though with facts though filled with maniacs and their opinions. I guarantee not a single one of you could point out a 'pit-bull', since its not even a breed of dog....

well, s/he was right about one thing, s/he is "just a pit-nutter."


LINDA FRANCIS, phoenix pet welfare examiner and blog author of 'from my chair' where LINDA can in fact know the details of a fatal mauling hundreds of miles away without leaving the comfort of her chair.
Thanks for keeping us updated. I have no proof of course, but I can tell you that Gunner did NOT maul his owner, but was trying to get her up after her fall! I am betting this will be the outcome. I am saddened that once again, cops have shot first and asked questions later!


TRACEY SCIBILIA, cops are evil
How horrible! I am positive that sweet dog was trying to wake up his "mommy" sooo awful! The cop that shot that dog should be suspended and the reporters should be fired.
i wonder if c marabito even had her hand slapped over this piece of crazy fiction?


DAWN DUNSMORE, the psychic
Before reading the article I could already tell that they dog was just there at her aid. Such a tragedy for all, I hope the husband can be reunited with the other pittie, at least with the horrible loss that they both have endured, they will have each other.


FAITH HYNOSKI (SeaNuttle's FABB founder) chimed in
Thank you for sharing the true facts of this horrible story. Since I am now 8 months pregnant, I do feel for this poor woman, her baby, and the dog involved. Great to hear how rational the father is and that he was non-emotional (hard since it is his daughter that died) enough to want to learn from the evidence. I wonder if people will seek to ban ladders now?
you can read more about this ever so witty seattle nutter here.


DEBORAH NAVA, evangelical nutter
I knew there was more to this story. Pacifica police were just trying to justify the killing an innocent family pet. My heart and prayers goes out to this family. Since the dawn of man-dogs have been our companions. The Lord in his infinite wisdom created dogs/wolves to love us unconditionally and they help us in countless ways. God bless all dogs and good pet parents. The authorities need to return Tazi, the female pitbull to this family to help in their time of grief.
god created wolves to love us unconditionally :-)


JODY DARRIELL, litigious jody
Pit owners EVERY WHERE need to create a class action suit against the reporting media claiming irrevocable damage for falsely reporting this woman's death and blaming pit bulls.
JODY takes a third of the judgment for the irrevocable damage done to shit bulls.


MERYL COHEN with lion tamer CESAR MILAN
This is horrible and sad on SO many levels! As a professional dog behaviorist, I IMMEDIATELY noticed holes in the reporting (probably along with all of the educated, level-headed, individuals who read the initial reporting). I am thoroughly disgusted by the SF Chronicle and other news coverage of this event. This event EPITOMIZES what Pit Bull Terrier owners face, and owners of other powerful and misunderstood breeds, on a daily basis. I hope that the female gets returned to the husband or she finds a new home. Once the facts finish coming through, I will be writing a letter to the editor of the Chronicle, and I hope some of you on here do the same. It may not make a difference, but you never know.
professional dog behaviorist who specializes in bully breeds and specializes in regurgitating the pit propaganda (Helen Keller and Teddy Roosevelt) like any good nazi soldier.

dude says it best
Bwaaaaaaaaa-hahahahaha! Idiots!


the authorities stepped in and corrected GUNNER'S exaggerated weight of 125 lbs. this in turn prompted C MARABITO to start laying the foundation for the next lie. C MARABITO is now creating doubt about the authorities ability to conduct a necropsy in an effort to explain and excuse this wiggle butt's sinister deed.
Please share necropsy report and autopsy as soon as revealed. I would go on to suggest a second necropsy report be done if Peninsula Humane Society is involved....not a safe haven for pit bulls and other animals.

links

CINDY MARABITO IS A LIAR

SFgate the great muzzle debate

CINDY MARABITO: what REALLY happened?

CINDY MARABITO: answered questions

CINDY MARABITO backpeddling :)

CINDY MARABITO'S blog

CINDY MARABITO'S nutter rescue

CINDY MARABITO'S pet sitting business (this woman is not to be trusted!)

MELANIE COY'S DIARY

MELANIE COY + craven desires

SFgate profile of pit nutter: C MARABITO be sure to check out C's fascinating journey from texas to cali. from her early days as girl friend of lead guitarist of a communist punk band (the Dicks) to seasoned pit propagandist and founder of reunion rescue where she pairs up the ultimate canine gladiator with "not-so-perfect" tolerant san franciscans who are attempting to "reinvent" themselves. C also rattles off an extensive list of famous pit bulls and pit nutters, the majority of them bogus: Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and of course Sgt Stubby.

Special thanks to Camden Swita at the Pacifica Patch!

BADRAP member killed by her pit bull

Skeptifem weighs in on the Badrap scandal.

Lies Lies Lies

the ladder lie was exposed tuesday and now one more pebble from their crumbling edifice has fallen, the dog's weight.

Scott Delucchi, Sr. VP, Community Relations of the Peninsula Humane Society set the record straight
My organization, the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, never said we wanted to be "reasonably sure" the female wasn't involved before returning her to her owner. We wanted to be SURE, and we were following our examination of both dogs and from info given to us by the Medical Examiner and two odontologists who compared dental impressions from the dogs with the victim's bite wounds and conlcuded with no uncertainty that the male dog was involved and the female was not. We saw no signs of abuse or neglect on either dog. The dogs were licensed, they had a regular vets. No neighbors called our organization to complain about them. The female was spayed and the male was not neutered. Contrary to reports, he did not weigh 125 lbs or even close. His listed weight from multiple vet visits was between 68-77 lbs.We don't know what could have triggered an attack like this, but believe there must have been one. We do know that many owners either miss warning signs and behavioral cues or notice signs that their dogs' behaviors are changing and ignore them, figuring the behaviors will work themsleves out or get better over time. We know the opposite to be true...that puzzling/problematic behaviors usually become more pronounced over time if unaddressed and always advise people to seek help from a behaviorist. That said, I want to stress that the owner of these dogs said neither had shown any unusual signs or behaviors. Sad, tragic event!

i guess now we wait for rabies to be ruled out to hopefully satisfy all of nutterdom.

Pit bull advocate Donna Reynolds speaks

DONNA REYNOLDS' reflection on the murder of DARLA NAPORA inspired another brilliant critique from anonymous.

BadRap's advocacy is a failure......if they are unable to convince their own members/supporters to be responsible owners, and do things like neuter their dogs, then how can you expect them to convince the general public?

• In the eyes of BadRap, Darla's death was worth it; a small but necessary sacrifice, the price we pay for the "privilege" of living with their beloved breed. (and I would add they see it as normal)
  

• We cannot trust pit bull owners assessment of their OWN dog's dangerousness.

• Pit bull owners/advocates seem to often be young people who lack maturity and common sense......why on earth would the Naporas own two large active dogs when they lacked secure housing? They were in a rental unit. And why would they keep these dogs in a tiny, one bedroom cottage? Why would they fail to neuter their dog?

• Pit bull "advocates" are fanatics. They are misanthropes who value the life of a pit bull as being equal to, or more important than, the life of a human. They are often bullies, who blame innocent victims of attacks for "provoking" it, and somehow deserving what they got. They lack empathy and compassion for human victims of dog attacks.

• Pit bull "advocacy" protects the dog fighters and back yard breeders who are abusing these dogs by fighting against sensible BSL to control over-breeding. Pit bull advocacy's primary function is to protect the rights of people to continue to make money off of these dogs through back yard breeding and dogfighting by protesting any and all regulation on breeders.

• Bad Rap's response to this tragedy reveals how far this groups members are from normal society. Greg Napora's ONLY public statement about this tragedy was NOT to talk about his wife...but to defend his dog and the "pit bull breed". He immediately removes his Facebook page, and while in the midst of burying his wife, is on the phone to Donna Reynolds of BadRap? Greg Napora acts like a man who is more upset that he let the members of his "cult" down, than a man who lost his wife and child. Donna Reynolds bizarre statement....that it was just a dog being a dog, essentially......is accompanied by a graphic of a woman and her pit bull walking peacefully into the sunset together. She adds insult to injury by ending her post with "R.I.P. Darla and Gunner", in perhaps the most spectacularly insensitive response to this tragedy I have seen yet.
  

• BadRap members, and other pit bull fanatics, are endangering the public by relentlessly promoting these dogs as pets, and encouraging immature, irresponsible people like Greg Napora to own and promote the breed. It could have easily been one of the Naporas neighbors who was killed.

• Its time public officials stopped listening to the dog lobby, and small groups of fanatics, and craft public policy that will restrict breeding and ownership of these dangerous dogs.

BadRap Advocate Killed by Her Own Pit Bull

32 yr old pit nutter DARLA NAPORA

the SFGate obituary states DARLA NAPORA "passed away" in her home last thursday. gee, that almost sounds like she died peacefully in her sleep or maybe even an instant painless death after falling off of a ladder, rather than the violent grisly death at her wiggle butt's gaping maws of doom. you can read the preliminary results of the investigation into DARLA'S mauling here.

In lieu of flowers the family would like donations made to The Darla Napora Memorial Fund (i wonder if this will benefit the cause DARLA avidly supported - pit bulls?)

meanwhile, DONNA is having a tough time deciding which BADRAP t-shirt she should wear to the funeral. i vote for PIT BULL JUNKIE and maybe bring a stack of autographed copies of JIM GORANT'S book in honor of GREG'S unimaginable devotion to the breed AND the deed. i don't know many men who have the presence of mind to immediately delete a facebook account in the wake of his spouse's murder. i don't know of any man who issued a public statement defending their dog and the breed in the aftermath of his spouse's murder. and i certainly don't know of any man who would even consider burying his wife with her murderer. obviously, GREG NAPORA is a very special nutter.

now is a good time to reacquaint yourself with pitthetic dementia, this story is just getting started.


DONNA REYNOLDS, BADRAP

Anonymous, thought provoking comment inspired by the murder of Darla Napora

What is really frustrating to me, in the case of homicide by dog attack.....if this were a mountain lion or grizzly bear, we would have every freaking detail about the damn animal. This is a preventable death, which has serious public health implications....and there is no digging into the story to get more information? No picture of the dog, no background on the dog...was it up to date on its shots? Did it see a vet regularly? If so, what did the vet say about it's demeanor? Has this dog been bred? As BadRap supporters, did the dog attend "pit ed" classes? Did it attend any other training classes? Where did the dog come from? Did a rescue organization adopt it out with a promise that it would be a "love bug" if raised with hugs and kisses? Was it purchased from a local back yard breeder, or popular kennel advertising "Monsta Pits"?

If we are ever going to protect the public, we have to address the SOURCE of the problem....who is breeding and selling the dogs that kill people? There is huge political pressure to NOT divulge this information, because the fanatics in the humane movement know it can lead to BSL. The Peninsula Humane Society is on a tightrope now, they can't piss off the pit lobby, because they risk losing the support of donors if the pit jihadists start a campaign against them. So they try to withhold information about the dog. The police, on the other hand, just don't seem to know any better....they don't seem to ask these questions. The reporters just don't get it either....there is a bigger story beneath the surface....can you just imagine being the reporter who breaks the story that, say, a BadRap dog killed someone? Or that a "pit ed" graduate killed someone? Or that the dog came from popular kennel with the typical gansta website advertising giant pit bulls with names like "Mayhem" and "Chaos", replete with spiked collars, and obscene rap music blaring? Might put the husband in a different light, huh? It also may convince the public to demand mandatory s/n for pits to shut down kennels like this.

If it were a person who killed this woman, by now we would know everything about them, even where they went to kindergarten. Reporters would be interviewing the murderer's parents and family. But because its a dog, the authorities are just sitting around, hoping to find out if the dog had rabies or a brain tumor. There may be nine other litter mates of this dog, just as dangerous, like ticking time bombs, and maybe the owners are ignoring warning signs.....don't you think the public has a right to know this stuff?

follow the murder of DARLA NAPORA at dogsbite.org.