Posts Tagged ‘dogs’

Dog Story Followup: Happy Ending for Matty and Grommet

Sunday, November 16th, 2014

Just Friday I reported on how wounded Army Spc. Brent Grommet had his war dog, Matty, taken away from him in violation of the law.

Good news! The story has a happy ending.

Days after The Post exposed the military’s wrongful, 16-month-long separation of injured Army Spc. Brent Grommet and his war dog, Matty, the two were finally reunited on Friday.

LinkSwarm for November 14, 2014

Friday, November 14th, 2014

There’s been so many people offering up so much information on “GruberGate” that I assume anyone reading this blog has seen coverage of it already. The fact that Jonathan Gruber not only lied to the American voters he called “stupid” about ObamaCare, but also got paid $400,000 to do it certainly adds insult to injury. As does the fact that both Nancy Pelosi and members of Obama’s MSM praetorian guard like Vox’s Sarah Kliff are now lying about Gruber’s central involvement in ObamaCare despite having cited him in that capacity earlier.

In other news:

  • Some really interesting nuggets of midterm statistical analysis from Sabato’s Crystal Ball. (Hat tip: SooperMexican’s Twitter feed.)
  • Republicans did very well picking up governorships, including some in deep-blue states.
  • Scott Walker just keeps winning.
  • More on the theme: “Does Walker sizzle? Not exactly. Is he a particularly charismatic speaker? No, he isn’t. But does he sit upon a throne made of the skulls of his enemies? Yes, yes he does.” (Hat tip: Moe Lane.)
  • Britain is poised to silence “extremist” speech. And who gets to determine what’s “extremist”? Why, the government, of course!

    Last month, May unveiled her ambition to “eliminate extremism in all its forms.” Whether you’re a neo-Nazi or an Islamist, or just someone who says things which betray, in May’s words, a lack of “respect for the rule of law” and “respect for minorities”, then you could be served with an extremism disruption order (EDO).

    Why do I get the impression that people pointing out Pakistani Muslim involvement in the Rotherham child rape scandals will be among the first targeted by this new law?

  • It’s not just the British who fail to investigate sex crimes: New Orleans police only investigated 14% of sex crimes.
  • Professional feminists have spent more time and energy denouncing video games than the sale and rape of girls in Nigeria and Iraq.”
  • “Honest, decent and intelligent people rightly perceive feminism as a limitless doctrine of fanatical hatred….Feminism isn’t about equality. Feminism is about hate.”
  • “Twitter has empowered leftist feminists to have a censorship field day.”
  • Just when the authoritarian left thought they had finally won the culture wars along came #GamerGate.
  • Time has a poll on which word should be “banned” in 2015. “Feminist” not only gets the most votes, it pretty much gets as many votes as all the rest combined.
  • Ted Cruz was right about the shutdown. It turns out that showing Republicans are opposed to horribly unpopular Democratic programs is popular with voters. Who knew?
  • Fake Maine hate crime ends up with accuser charged with “reckless conduct with dangerous weapon and driving to endanger.”
  • Democratic state Rep. Ron Reynolds’ barratry case has been declared a mistrial.
  • Islamist suicide bomber kills 50 at a high school in Nigeria.
  • Via Dwight of Whipped Cream Difficulties comes this Jim Schutze piece on how The Texas Tribune’s vaunted independence meant bupkis when it came to the Wallace Hall case.
  • China Vows To Begin Aggressively Falsifying Air Pollution Numbers.”
  • Price manipulation in the gold market?
  • Correction: Last week I gave the impression that Republican Carl DiMaio had won his California U.S. congressional race. That is what the early returns indicated, but he ended up losing a close race.
  • Here’s a dog story that will make your blood boil.
  • LinkSwarm for March 21, 2014

    Friday, March 21st, 2014

    Enjoy your complimentary Friday LinkSwarm, and be sure to tip your waitress!

  • Fourteen different ways you can you can avoid the ObamaCare tax.
  • Joaquin Castro to boycott Buc-ees? He should have almost as much luck in Texas boycotting air conditioning and football. Hey, when Castro can offer outstanding fudge and the largest, cleanest restrooms in the state, let me know…
  • Democratic Senators decide they’d like to avoid committing political suicide by voting for Obama’s gun-grabbing Surgeon general nominee.
  • Colorado Democratic Senator Mark Udall proves once again that taxes are for the little people.
  • Democrats recruit the perfect candidate for congress: an 86-year old ex-felon.
  • Rich liberal environmentalist Tom Steyer is 100% opposed to Keystone pipeline. Well, except when endangered Democratic Senators are involved.
  • What liberals are leaving out of their hagiography of Cesar Chavez: he opposed illegal aliens and would have hated amnesty.
  • Liberals hate the Koch brothers so much they freak out even when they’re donating money to a hospital.
  • How dare some racist Americans call some Muslims pedophiles just because they want to marry 8-year olds?
  • America could hurt Russia by lifting natural gas export restrictions.
  • Swell story of resurrecting a badly damaged B-2. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
  • It’s gotten to the point I can no longer tell liberal ranting from parody of same.
  • More Yelp hilarity for the Backstreet Pub and Grill owner who went out of his way to insult gun owners.
  • Supporting Neil Young and Scarlet Johansson against the Israel haters.
  • “Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue….” Yeah, that’s pretty much where I stopped reading.
  • Solider adopts dog. Dusty room ensues.

  • Instead of Actual Content…

    Thursday, March 6th, 2014

    …enjoy a Golden Retriever nodding its head in time to the music:

    There may or may not be any real content today, as it’s a Stuff Needs To Be Done day. But certainly I’ll have something tomorrow at the latest…

    LinkSwarm for November 8, 2013

    Friday, November 8th, 2013

    Time for another LinkSwarm, still top-heavy with ObamaCare failure news:

  • Have insurance through your employer? Don’t worry, ObamaCare will screw you as well.
  • “Can the Obama-loving media really bring itself to report that their Beloved is simply lying about every single aspect of his signature program?” Beyond a few iconoclasts like Sheryl Atkinson or Chris Wallace, I think we all know the answer to that one.
  • ObamaCare was bad enough to start out, but the Obama White House intentionally made it worse.
  • Short and no doubt woefully incomplete list of businesses that have already cut back hours and hiring due to ObamaCare.
  • ObamaCare demonstrates “timeless demonstration of the failure of central planning, government regulations, and the entitlement state. It is a failure so total, so comprehensive, and so multifaceted that it will be studied by schoolchildren 50 years from now when their teachers explain to them why the giant welfare and regulatory state built up in the second half of the 20th century collapsed in the first half of the 21st.”
  • Krauthammer on ObamaCare’s continued unpopularity: “And unless they stop the avalanche here, the Democrats are going to get buried in this.”
  • And now the ObamaCare website is dishing out gibberish?
  • A quarter million Coloradans have their health insurance ObamaCared.
  • I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Chicago’s Democratic machine abusing bonds to paper over deficits.
  • Having Dana Milbank say that Obaama lives in a reality bubble is like the guy who just mugged you saying “Man, this is really a high crime neighborhood! You should watch out!”
  • Philadelphia man adds two more to the dead goblin count.
  • If you’re the son of the most famous Fascist* in British history, maybe it’s best not to participate in Nazi-themed S&M sex orgies.
  • Voters in Amarillo and Houston rejected spending money for sports complexes.
  • Another hammer drops on Prenda Law.
  • Things to make you furious: Cops killing puppies.
  • And speaking of dogs, I missed this from a week ago: Giant George, RIP.
  • Heh.

  • *Real Fascist, not just in the liberal name-calling sense.

    LinkSwarm for September 27, 2013

    Friday, September 27th, 2013

    Another Friday, another LinkSwarm:

  • When it comes to ObamaCare, it turns out that Democrats lied about, well, pretty much everything. “Millions of low-income Americans won’t receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won’t get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers won’t need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected won’t run their own insurance marketplaces. And a growing number of workers won’t get to keep their employer-provided coverage.”
  • ObamaCare is bending the cost curve. Upwards.
  • Even moderate and conservative Democrats dislike ObamaCare.
  • Green Eggs and ObamaCare.
  • Just starting, the ObamaCare Wars are.
  • Oh how Republican Senators hate Ted Cruz for expecting them to behave like Republicans.
  • Another Dead Goblin.
  • Given the chance, more Wisconsin teachers break their union fetters.
  • Thanks to high costs, mismanagement and union rules, New York City can no longer support two opera companies.
  • The DEA thinks Big Brother should have access to all your prescription records.
  • Is Texas DPS refusing to hold illegal aliens?
  • The Onion profiles an Obama voter.
  • Cosmo, RIP.
  • New York Yankees guaranteed to win as many post-season games as the Astros this year.
  • Mark Steyn Dogs Obama

    Saturday, April 28th, 2012

    The whole “Obama Eats Dog” Kerfuffle was notable only for the amazing speed liberal pundits shut their lips instead of continuing to mouth off about a 1983 Romney family vacation. But we can be thankful the episode allows us to enjoy Mark Steyn operating in rare form:

    There followed an Internet storm of “I Ate a Dog (and I Liked It)” gags. Axelrod, an early tweeter of Romney doggie digs, has now figured out that the subject is no longer profitable for his boss. The dogs he let slip aren’t quite that savvy. Jeremy Funk, communications director of “Americans United for Change,” is still bulk-e-mailing links to the dogsagainstromney.com video “Should We Have a President Who Isn’t Even Qualified to Adopt a Pet?” Confronted by the revelation that his preferred candidate only swings by the Humane Society for the all-you-can-eat buffet, he huffs that this is “false equivalence.”

    Snip.

    Just for the record, Romney’s father was not a polygamist; Romney’s grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist. Miles Park Romney died in 1904, so one can see why this would weigh heavy on 86 percent of female voters 108 years later.

    Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather. It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist.

    And this:

    Axelrod is right. Obama’s appetite for dogs isn’t as critical as his appetite for spending and statism. But it was part of his cool. “Mitt Romney isn’t cool,” declared Brian Montopoli of CBS News this week in a story headlined “Can Mitt Romney Make Boring Sexy”? For economically beleaguered Americans, the more pertinent question is: “Can Barack Obama Make Cool Affordable”? It’s not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he’s screwing the pooch.

    Plus a bonus reference to Obama’s “big stick.”

    Read the whole thing.

    PETA With Suits and Deodorant

    Monday, April 23rd, 2012

    Here’s a superb example of a viral attack ad that accomplishes everything it sets out to do: attract attention, create an impression, make viewers question their previous view on a subject, and provide a few laughs:

    Until I saw this, I had no idea how much the Humane Society had come to resemble PETA. But you start digging down into the information, and not only do you find out that they’re a lousy charity, but that they have indeed signed on to the whole anti-meat/anti-farming PETA agenda.

    (Hat tip: Shall Not be Questioned, who used the same line from the video as the headline.)

    Dog-Shooting Cop Indicted

    Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

    In an encouraging follow-up to the previous story about a cop who shot a dog in a dog park, the office in question has actually been charged.

    Don’t Read This if You’re a Dog Owner and Have High Blood Pressure

    Thursday, August 5th, 2010

    Your dog gets into a tussle with another dog in an off-leash dog park. Do you:

    1. Separate the dogs
    2. Ask the owner of the other dog to leave the park
    3. Shoot the other dog dead.

    Evidently, “3” is the answer you choose if you’re an off duty cop and criminally stupid. And because he was a cop, no charges were filed.

    It angries up the blood, it does…

    (Hat tip Say Uncle.)