28 thoughts on “Their Leader’s A Bitch”

  1. Ahh, but you see the real power is then held by the person in charge of “interpreting” what poochie says.

  4. I once dog-sat a border collie for a couple of weeks. Scarily smart.

    If one MUST elect a dog as maximum leader, it’s probably the best choice…

    1. It’s entirely possible that the dog is the most intelligent being in the bunch. Border collies are very smart, hippies not so much.

      1. And extremely unlikely to bite the hand that feeds it. Wait . . . I think that makes this a horrible choice. What were they thinking?

  6. 1. Whatever goes on two legs is an enemy.

    2. Whatever goes on four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

    3. No animal shall wear clothes.

    4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.

    5. No animal shall drink alcohol.

    6. No animal shall kill any other animal.

    7. All animals are equal.

    Hell of a lot of violating going on, but they’re right on track.

  8. Last dog I had was a Border Collie and I never saw an animal like him. He was mind bogglingly smart. When we walked in the woods and he generally raced way ahead of me. This one day he was stopped on the trail and as I went past him – irritated that he didn’t come along – he just stood there, looked at me and and woofed at me. No matter what I said.

    Walked over to him and there was this female mallard duck…all hunched up. As we were both standing inches away from it, and it didn’t move, I thought it was frozen to death. So I told Casey let’s go.

    Woof.

    Sure enough I look at the duck and it’s eye blinked.

    So I pick the duck up stuffed it under my coat and started for home. Only then did Casey move. Thawed the duck out, kept it in a cage for a few days and turned it over to the wildlife management people.

    One freakily smart dog.

    p.s. the duck was not as smart as the dog and was extremely irritated at me and everything around it. Getting it back into the cage after cleaning the cage provided good footage for a Three Stooges movie. I bought very thick leather gauntlets.

  9. The Yippie Rioters (DNC Convention, Chicago ’68) elected a pig named “pigasus” as their leader, if memory serves.

    Just think of how nicer the world would be today if we’d simply have machine-gunned them all when we had the chance….

  10. We have a border collie. She’s easily trained, totally obedient, but ritualistic. She gets nervous and confused if routines are altered. She can tell time. She’ll come to us from another room where she’s been sleeping when the usual times for her favorite activities roll around. Our theory is that she recognizes familiar voices or sounds on TV (we’re ritualistic in what we watch at night), possibly notes the strikes of the grandfather clock in the daytime when the TV’s always off.

    She’s made so many friends around town in the seven years we’ve had her, she could easily win a seat on the city council.

    1. Our golden retriever is the same way. She can tell time, and has her own plan of the day that she expects us to follow, and has no problem telling us when we are messing with it. The plan does change though, not really a ritual. And everybody knows her. Neighborhood kids ring our doorbell to ask is she can come out and play.

  11. I was at the FreedomWorks BlogCon 2011 in Denver today when the Occupy Denver people tried to invade the event. Hi-larious. We have video at PPC (link on my name). The protesters got surrounded and aggressively mocked into fleeing the hotel. And yes, we did demand to talk to the dog, and even had a box of Beggin’ Strips ready in case she showed up.

  13. Aside from the yelling and the guy who got arrested outside the event, it looked like everyone was having some fun. Even the OWS’ers were laughing at themselves.

  14. Yes and no. The attendees were largely having fun, and the dark-haired guy seemed to be a good sport about it, but the older woman and a young man near her appeared to be more angry/agitated, and were trying to squeeze into the conference room (the altercation shown was immediately outside the door to the venue). At one point she nearly picked a fight with Crowder – she was pushing on him and he wasn’t taking it kindly.

    1. The other interesting part was at the end when they guy got arrested.

      Their tactics for confronting the police looked hollow when you consider that the protesters were there trying to intimidate and infringe on the free speech right of others and not walking down the street or standing in a park protesting for their cause. The strategy of instigating confrontations with police doesn’t translate well to other situations where police are involved.

      1. The guy being loaded in the cop cruiser was hilarious. He refused to sit down in the back seat.

        COP: Just sit down, sir.

        OCCUTARD [in best 1960s ‘we-shall-overcome’ tone] : I SIT FOR NO MAN!

        Really? Not even your dentist? That must be tiring.

        I’d mace the whole crowd, fence off the campsite, then release them one at a time to their parents after being booked.

        1. OccupyDenver got shut down overnight (oddly enough, at the same time BlogCon2011 was adjourning). Their Twitter feed was an amusing melange of tired 60s protest tropes and propaganda tics:
          – the words “protester” and “protest” were nearly always preceded with “peaceful”;
          – the police actions were exaggerated and cast as “brutality”, “violence”, “oppression”, “repression”, “suppression” (and I’m sure they would have worked “compression” and “impression” in there had they thought about it long enough);
          – exaggerations reached paranoid levels, with tales of rubber bullets, stun grenades, ubiquitous tear gas (which turned out to be a fire extinguisher turned on a camp/cooking fire);
          – their self-importance led to comparisons with Kent State (which tips one off on where they expect/want these protests to lead);
          – the “peaceful protests” were expressions of First Amendment rights and so exempt from all other laws, like public health regulations, public venue use permits;
          – and there was endless whining about cops destroying or confiscating their private/property (tents and possessions) from the park, with no appreciation of the hypocrisy involved given their attempt Friday to invade and disrupt a private function on private property, or their own confiscation of *public* property at the heart of their “occupy” activities.

          Good thing they’re not as violent and dangerous and stupid as the Tea Party, though.

    1. Looked like they were protesting clothes made in sweatshops, so you know they will be marching on Apples stores across the nation any day now…

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