Mullins - non sequitor / Paragallo - o boy

[HP]

On Mullins.

Mullins could not clearly articulate what advantage he believed the substance (Air Power) gave his horses if they did not have a cough.
\"Why do you put on socks with your shoes?\" he responded.
Well...sometimes people DON\'T put on sock with shoes.  Also, socks are generally not looked at as...medicine.  
Can they punish this guy just for being so stupid?

On Paragallo - the point of this excerpt is that he knew something was going on in FEBRUARY.  

-\"Richie Baiardi, a horse transporter, told the newspaper he picked up the horses at Paragallo\'s farm at the end of February. Their poor condition prevented him from taking them to Florida.

\"They were a bag of bones, literally walking hides,\" Baiardi told the Times. \"I knew I couldn\'t get health certificates for them, and I didn\'t even think they\'d make it to Florida. I didn\'t want to take them, but the guys working on the farm said if I didn\'t they were just going to die right there. They told me, two had already died that morning.\"

It was Baiardi, the Times said, who took them to the kill pen, and sold them for $680.

Paragallo said Saturday he has dealt with Baiaradi and he was a \"straight-shooting guy. And he did call me back after he took the horses and said a couple of them were thin.\"

But, Paragallo added: \"We keep our barren mares thin because we found it has worked for our breeding program.\"

In New York - a person found guilty of animal cruelty can face up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine for each count.  

How about getting serious and putting the guy in jail?  Nothing would have a bigger impact.

HP