It's time to muzzle these dog park bitches!!!

I thought it was impossible for me to lose even more faith in the residents of Kansas City but yesterday's shameful display at the Parks Board meeting provided further evidence that so many people in this town have insanely screwed up priorities. Additionally, we all know there is hell to pay when a white woman can't get what she wants BUT the fact that the media had to be called in to witness a recent temper tantrum on the part of local dog lovers is simply ridonkulous.

Really, the way these bitches conducted themselves like animals was truly embarrassing. You might recall that the KC area Latino Leadership had their own problems with the Parks Board but NOT ONCE did the discourse break down into threats of violence and cursing among the main players. In fact, only the anonymous d-bags on this blog, talk radio hosts and a few lone nuts turned the debate ugly with racial slurs, personal attacks and threatening phone calls . . . But I digress, the point here is that folks in favor of KC spending precious resources on over-privileged mutts let this "debate" go to the dogs. The Star has some interesting details:

Shouts of “unfair” and “shame on you” erupted in the packed boardroom when President John Fierro announced that the park board would not hear more testimony on the subject.

“What you’re doing is totally wrong,” said Deb Hipp, who organized support for a dog park to serve the Brookside and Waldo areas. “You’re an embarrassment to the city.”

Outbursts from the crowd included foul language and threats to sue the park board. Police officers were called to maintain order, but there were no serious incidents.

“You just set the parks back 20 years,” Jeremy Schlicher, the designer of the proposed park, told the board. “You’re encouraging people to drive” to get to an off-leash area in a regional park, he said.

After the vote, the crowd moved to the lobby of the park administration building at 4600 E. 63rd St. and continued to complain loudly. The commissioners had to call a brief recess when dog-park supporter Gwen Caranchini returned to the boardroom and resumed her complaints.

All this on behalf of . . . DOGS. What a damn shame.

The main culprit behind this bastardization of the political process is a group of extremist, dog park activists who call themselves WOOF - Well Organized Off-Leash Friends. From the looks of the TV Footage these folks, like local cycling advocates, are nothing more than a predominantly white, affluent, extremely vocal and self-absorbed group of opportunists only looking out for their own hobby.

It's hard to even list where these people have gone wrong but think of it this way: Kansas City has hosted more than 65 homicides this year, the $300 million Sprint Center is without an anchor tenant only a couple of months away from opening, the prospects of the P&L District look dismal and even top ranking City officials warn that parking downtown and around Electric Avenue is going to be tight and expensive, while deep underground KC's sewers and water infrastructure are in need of more than 4 BILLION DOLLARS worth or repair . . . Yet what gets these people raving mad is that there is no place for their puppies to roam free? This kind of so-called grass roots organizing is beyond frivolous, these advocates for a midtown KC Dog Park are morally bankrupt. They are unworthy of Democracy and their selfish and time consuming agenda in spite of bigger problems facing Kansas City only serves as a visible (and mostly overweight) reminder that so much of American culture has sunk into nothing more than instant gratification and worthless, egotistical ideologies which put dogs or luxury hybrid vehicles in front of the greater good.

Obviously, some folks might disagree with me. But it's worth noting that already these doggie complaints are being directed toward the Funkhouser Administration. A local dog blogger (heh) writes:

This is going to be a (yet another) PR debacle for the Marky Mark's appointed Funky bunch. Marky Mark based his campaign off of public openness -- that didn't happen in this case. He also called out early in his administration that he badly wants to increase use of the city's public park spaces, and then had his parks department, behind closed doors, turn down an opportunity where scores more people would be using Sunnyside Park.

And while most of these complaints are fair enough, they mistakenly misrepresent the issue of a neighborhood dog park as something that matters. I especially like the attempts to connect this debate to the ruckus that was raised over a member of the Parks Board belonging to a hate/vigilante group as if the issue of doggie luxury in Midtown KC was tantamount to the national debate over the security of the borders and the plight of MILLIONS of immigrants looking to make a better life in the United States. Again, the priorities of KC dog enthusiasts are so repugnant that I only hope most of these women who have taken up the doggie rights cause have been spayed in order to preserve the local gene pool. Nevertheless, the blogger quoted above has a valid point - Mayor Funky made promises to folks like the WOOF wackos as well. And while the Funkhouser Administration can keep minority leaders and their issues at bay, these bitches have proven they can bark so much louder.

Yet, as funny as the temper tantrums of affluent white women can be, essentially this is a sad story that calls attention to notions of supremacy in our small city. Once again this story points out that when affluent, passionate white folks speak . . . People listen. It's just disappointing that rather than working to benefit any people living in Kansas City, these dog park advocates chose to vehemently fight for the best interests of their pets.