Has anyone ever fallen further?

[amiquechu 0]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?se...mp;lid=tab4pos1

With apologies to Harper's Index …

Amount jailed star quarterback Michael Vick spent from July '06 to July '08, according to recent bankruptcy papers: $17.7 million.

Amount of that time he was in prison: 8 months.

Total amount of checks he wrote his mother, Brenda Boddie—not counting all her bills he paid—even while in prison: $21,400.

Amount he donated to her church: $327,900.

Amount he gave her for an Easter egg hunt: $700.

Number of Reese's Chocolate Easter Eggs that would buy: 5,259.

Amount of the check he wrote to Boddie labeled "chump change": $1,000.

Amount Vick was sentenced to pay to house and care for the 47 pit bulls he and his buddies didn't drown, strangle, hang, shoot, or electrocute for not winning fights: $928,073.

Average pay, per hour, of Vick's pit bulls' caregivers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah: $14.

Pay, per hour, Vick gets for washing pots and pans at Leavenworth: 12 cents.

Cost of a bottle of Shelter Blend Flower Essence aromatherapy used for "anxious, worried or easily stressed" dogs at the sanctuary: $27.50.

Number of hours Vick would have to work to afford a bottle of Flower Essence: 230.

Cost of a bottle of "Vicktory" wine with a painting of one of the rescued dogs on the label: $40.

Cost of a tin of tuna at some federal prison commissaries: 23 cents.

Number of cars Vick owned at one time: 9, including the '07 Land Rover for his fiancée; the '07 Cadillac Escalade for his fiancée's mother; the '07 Land Rover for his brother Marcus; the '08 Mercedes Benz for his financial advisor, David Talbot; the '06 Cadillac DTS for his pal Rodney White; and the '07 Ford F-150 he drove himself.

Ironic name of the Lincoln Mercury dealership Vick continues to make car payments to, despite sitting in jail: Freedom.

Sticker price of the '07 Infiniti Vick bought for his fiancée to keep in Leavenworth so she has something to drive while visiting him in prison: $65,000.

Cost of a cab from the Kansas City airport to the prison: $60.

Odds of seeing this ad soon on eBay—Like new 2007 Infiniti truck. Only driven by girlfriend twice a month on prison visits. Honest!: 1-1.

Amount Charles Reamon, Jr., a friend Vick put in charge of his finances while in prison, went through: over $3 million.

Percent of that money accounted for: 0.

Amount New York bankruptcy attorney Peter Ginsberg alleges Vick's business manager Mary Wong "wrongfully removed" from Vick's accounts: $900,000.

Percent of that money accounted for: 0.

Number of Vick's financial advisors who wound up being charged for fraud in unrelated cases: 1.

Number of boats Vick owned at one time: 2.

Number of racehorses he had an interest in at one time: 5.

Number of his racehorses that died of colic: 1.

Money invested in that horse: $60,000.

Name of man who takes care of his horses: Unknown to Vick.

Amount he's paid man who takes care of his horses: $0.

Amount mysteriously categorized as "miscellaneous" over two years: $3.5 million.

Number of fake Dasani water bottle "safes" with hidden compartments that would buy: 116,861.

Amount Vick took as "cash out": $1,112,664.

Number of $400 ATM withdraws, including $2.50 service charge, that would require: 2,764.

Number of ATMs in Leavenworth penitentiary: 0.

Amount of deal Vick signed with the Falcons in 2004, making him the highest paid player in the league at the time: $130 million.

Monthly average salary in the Arena Football League, where Vick will probably end up playing when he's released on July 20: $7,000.

Vick's ongoing cost to support his fiancée, their two daughters, his brother, his mother, a former girlfriend and his son with her, per month: $20,000.

Amount Vick still owes banks in Toronto, South Bend, and Charlotte, for loans he took to invest in a car rental franchise, a wine store/restaurant, and other businesses: $6 million.

Total amount listed as "loan payment" over two years: $33,523.

Amount of judgment against Vick that he still owes former agent Andrew Joel: $4.5 million.

Amount Vick still owes the Atlanta Falcons from his signing bonus: $3.75 million.

Amount the NFL attempted to recoup from Vick's bonus money: $16.25 million.

Useful name Vick might need when he's released: Ron Mexico.

Number of homes Vick owned at one time: 4.

Number he lives in now: 0.

Unfortunate name of the investment firm Vick sunk $245,000 into: Leake.

Essential question about Vick now after ruining his life—with bountiful help from leaching family, friends, advisors, agents and his own Hindenburg instincts: Can the chump change?

[MrsCat 6]

has anyone ever fallen further?

only Lucifer.

[PlatyPius 5]

has anyone ever fallen further?

only Lucifer.

Lucifer is otherwise known as The Morning Star. aka: Venus. The literal Latin translation is "light-bringer". There is no reference in any religious text to lucifer as "Satan". There are, I believe, 2 references to "Lucifer" in the Bible, and they are comparing two very earth-bound kings to the "Day Star". One reference is in regard to a king of Babylon, and another is in regard to the king of Tyre.

The passages compare them to lucifer (the star) to show how bright and high they were at their peak, before they descended to the 'pits of fire and damnation'.

Just one of those things I need to point out when I see it, because certain Pagan religions have Lucifer as a god, and it's NOT the Christian version of "Lucifer as Satan"...it's the Greek version of Lucifer as Venus/The Morning Star.

2 Peter 1:19

19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star (lucifer) arise in your hearts,

Isaiah 14:4-12

4 that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased! 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers, 6 That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet; they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.' 9 The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; the shades are stirred up for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; all the kings of the nations are raised up from their thrones. 10 All they do answer and say unto thee: 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, and the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.' 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! (lucifer) How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!

Edited November 28, 2008 by PlatyPius

[MrsCat 6]

interesting. . . . . . .

I simply understood Lucifer as the fallen angel cast out of heaven. I was unaware of the pretext of Lucifer as the Morning Star.

I learned something today.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

actually, i don't think it even costs $60 for a cab from mci to the fed pen.

[Peikko 1,575]

Ah, Charles, master of the irrelevant.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Ah, Charles, master of the irrelevant.

ah, ph, master of not reading the article.

[*Robert* 2]

Was this thread hijacked or what?!

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Was this thread hijacked or what?!

it's gone to the dogs

[*Robert* 2]

Was this thread hijacked or what?!

it's gone to the dogs

I think you're right!!!

[PlatyPius 5]

Woof!

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Woof!

probably safer to say that there than it is in leavenworth county.

[*Robert* 2]

Woof!

probably safer to say that there than it is in leavenworth county.

You're right Charles!

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Woof!

probably safer to say that there than it is in leavenworth county.

You're right Charles!

i'm gonna have to keep an eye out for this infiniti. i wonder if vick is over in the minimum security area where the geese hang out.

[amiquechu 0]

Woof!

probably safer to say that there than it is in leavenworth county.

You're right Charles!

i'm gonna have to keep an eye out for this infiniti. i wonder if vick is over in the minimum security area where the geese hang out.

If you find it, maybe you can put mushy dog ####### behind the door handle