I find it odd that New York is so strongly against MMA. I didn’t realize they banned boxing back in its prime either. Kind of stupid considering you can go out into the streets of New York and find something more violent than MMA or boxing. Ignorant people make baby jeezums cry.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if just by banning MMA, New York could change it’s image? Heaven forbid they OK it and have an event as successful as Montreal did. But seriously, being blind is not as bad for a legislator as being deaf to what his constituents want. Now that is downright despicable behavior for a statesman, regardless of his sports preferences. Let New York stay out of the field and allow Chicago and St. Louis to monopolize the sport. That would certainly make Illinois born Matt Hughes a happy man.

Boiling Tater,
The comma might have been in the right place:
In his first full day as governor, David Paterson acknowledged yesterday that he has had affairs with “a number of women” in the past – including one state employee.

“But not as ridiculous as a state that elected a perv and blind, black dude as their representatives.”

So a blind white dude would have been acceptable?

I’ve done worse before. For example, just last week I made fun of Cecil Peoples, who, as someone later pointed out, is a brain cancer survivor. Basically, my place in hell is secure.

As I was reading the comment, I knew what comment was coming from mile away.
“Oh God, hopefully Ben knows he bl…..nope”
Yea, you just made fun of a blind person. Ouch…

Just cause he is blind is no fucken excuse not to watch the fucken fight.

“he asked why a state that banned cockfighting and dogfighting should allow this”

Maybe because they have nothing in common. Dogs and Roosters don’t have much choice in the matter, the dogs are usually tortured and starved to make them more aggressive, and death to one or both animals is more common than not.

This is the same bullshit fear-mongering they pull when they compare MMA to Roman Gladiators. Then again, since when do politicians not pander to the lowest common denominator?

ahh that is hilarious. I swear things like this constantly happen here…constant jumping all over people without the facts again, eh?! lol Still good reads but maybe you guys should be digging a little deeper haha

Keep in mind that NY is also the state that banned boxing during the sport’s Golden Era.

“Myles” placed his comma in the wrong place, for the sake of clarity.

NY “elected a perv, and a blind black dude…”.

Spitzer was the perv, whereas Paterson is blind? Or has there been additional FBI wire-tapping implicating Paterson too?

You might have been a little overzealous but one has to wonder if the point is still not valid…. Can a blind man truly grasp the brutality or lack there of, of any sport.

Overzealous? Probably.

But not as ridiculous as a state that elected a perv and blind, black dude as their representatives.

New York needs fewer blows to the head…so maybe not passing this vote is a good idea.

Blind, huh? Well that explains it. Maybe I was a little overzealous then.

I feel it would call into concern his comments on how brutal it was because most of his reference on what the sport was would come from explanations from others who might be biased. It sounds a little harsh but one has to take what he says with a grain of salt

The governor is blind, but that would also make him a poor source for comments on how brutal a sport is.

He sure is blind. Nice research CP.

Along with listening to the fights he spent a good 5 minutes feeling James Thompson’s gross ear for his fact finding mission. Apparently a large lump means “bad stoppage” in braille.

On corruption and crookedness, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

With Xyience investors as only one recent point of reference associating the family, some shady manuevers and crookedness appears likely. And ordinarily, a cat doesn’t change its stripes. And as history makes apparent, Xyience was not an isolated incident in terms of the family’s fingerprints being found at the scene of the crime.

And on the NY Gov. listening to televised MMA rather than watching, he is legally blind, to some degree. So the issue shifts to selective hearing?

Yeah he’s blind. Not “pitch-dark” blind (as I understand it) but, facing the screen wouldn’t have given him any additional info on what was happening.

David Patterson is MOST DEFINITELY BLIND

Isn’t David Patterson blind? Cause that would explain why he only heard the event

“one who does not know that he knows not, is the most pathetic”