Update: just to clarify, in response to a comment, in this headline, “Checkers” refers not just to Nixon’s dog, but is a metaphor for his humanity.
Jennifer Rubin’s article at Commentary, Trying to Reinvent Obama, starts out quoting Dee Dee Meyers, who seems to have identified a (gasp!!!) flaw in the messiah. She finds him “calm,” “cool,” and “self-possessed.”
But while eschewing emotion — and its companion, vulnerability — Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the “I feel your pain” connection that sustained [Bill] Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders’ intentions. If people believe you’re on their side, they will trust your decisions. Too often, Obama leaves the impression that he stands alone — and likes it that way. Clinton was fond of saying, “We’re all going up or down together.” Obama must make sure that people know that he needs their help as much as they need his.
But a Baghwan messiah has to be dispassionate. He wouldn’t be “cool” if he were human. This is the box they created for themselves when they created the political version of Max Headroom. Max is cool, because he’s not real.
See the similarity? Max is the likable one with a personality.
We’ve had a series of detached performances — Fort Hood and the Christmas Day bombing — in which he was weirdly unemotional. A snippy showing at the health-care summit. And an attack on the Supreme Court. Indeed, he seems most engaged when he’s attacking his opponents, as he refers to the growing number of those who disagree with him.
Obsessed with enemies, eh?
Myers gives campaign-style advice in consultant-speak (”reconnect his biography to his agenda”):
Obama also needs to remind people that things weren’t always easy for him. The campaign introduced the country to a man whose life story was both unusual — a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother, a childhood spent in Hawaii and Indonesia — and broadly shared: a single mom who worked hard and sacrificed for her children and a family that faced difficult times but never lost its faith in the future.
Aside from the fact that his mom didn’t sacrifice diddly, and ran off and dumped him with gramma, this is compelling exactly how?
But that all seems beside the point, oddly inappropriate for the presidency as opposed to the campaign. (There really is a difference between the two.) Something more fundamental is going on here: Obama seems not to respect his fellow citizens — the uninformed rubes who crashed the health-care town halls — nor care what they think. All his energy now is devoted to disregarding their strong aversion to his idea of health-care reform and forcing through a vote on something the public doesn’t want. It’s hard to bond with the American people, which is what Myers is suggesting, when your agenda conveys disdain for their concerns.
Jenny’s on to something. Even Nixon maintained that there was a “silent majority”. Obama isn’t even pretending popular support any more. He’s basically saying that he knows best, and the public just needs to be educated. That’s unprecedented.
Myers gets closer to the nub of the problem as she concludes:
Obama maintains a reservoir of goodwill. Even people who don’t approve of the job he’s doing like him personally. Most think he understands their problems and cares about people like them. In other words, people want to have a beer with him. They’re just not sure he wants to have a beer with them.
Translation: Obama is a dick.
Now looking back, some American presidents are more admirable than others, and some are more personable than others, and some knew how to carry themselves better than others. When we look back over the past 50 years, only one even comes close to being as peevish as Obama, and that’s Dick Nixon. But Nixon, peevish as he may have been, at least didn’t try to be a Vulcan. In fact, he had a kind of personable peevishness. His famous “Checkers” speech is heralded as political genius:
One other thing I probably should tell you, because if I don’t they’ll probably be saying this about me, too. We did get something, a gift, after the election. A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore, saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was? It was a little cocker spaniel dog, in a crate that he had sent all the way from Texas, black and white, spotted, and our little girl Tricia, the six year old, named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog, and I just want to say this, right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we’re gonna keep it.
The Obamas tried the dog thing, just like the Clintons did. Somehow, it rings hollow. But back to the Nixon speech:
I say that a man who, like Mr. Stevenson, has pooh-poohed and ridiculed the Communist threat in the United States — he said that they are phantoms among ourselves. He has accused us that have attempted to expose the Communists, of looking for Communists in the Bureau of Fisheries and Wildlife. I say that a man who says that isn’t qualified to be President of the United States. And I say that the only man who can lead us in this fight to rid the Government of both those who are Communists and those who have corrupted this Government is Eisenhower, because Eisenhower, you can be sure, recognizes the problem, and he knows how to deal with it.
That was then; this is now.
But just let me say this last word. Regardless of what happens, I’m going to continue this fight. I’m going to campaign up and down in America until we drive the crooks and the Communists and those that defend them out of Washington. And remember folks, Eisenhower is a great man, believe me. He’s a great man. And a vote for Eisenhower is a vote for what’s good for America.
And that, in a nutshell, is why Obama can never lower himself, as Meyers intimated, to having a beer with us. Nixon loved his country. Obama doesn’t. And his numbers are dropping like a rock for a number or reasons, but the biggest one is the intangible sense that so may of us are getting that he not only doesn’t love this country; he actually hates the country, and all of her citizens.
The essential difference is that peevish as he may have been, Nixon was a human and a patriot, and his dog showed that. This is something that Barack Obama can’t fake. He’s never had to pretend to love his country at any time in his past, and now, a few years short of 50, he can’t.
He’s got Nixon’s peevishness, but not his soul. That’s why he could never give an emotional speech about a dog. He just doesn’t have it in him.
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Actually I have to protest this headline. Richard Nixon loved America. Whatever his faults and his mistakes, he served in the Military and he loved this country. And when it really counted in 1973 he stood tall for Israel. He told the Military Transport Command to load up every plane we had with whatever Israel needed in the 73 War. Please don’t use his name in the same sentence as this commie bastard. Please!
@ Nevergiveup:
Read the whole thing. That’s exactly the bottom line.
snork wrote:
I know, but still that top headline?
Never thought I’d say anything like it it but Obowma you’re no Dick Nixon.
@ Nevergiveup:
Checkers is a metaphor. Not just the dog, but the humanity of the man.
Nixon never wore Mom jeans
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Words that should never be used in the same sentence: Nixon and Obama, Obama and courage, Obama and accomplishments, Obama and Law Professor, Obama and Israel ( unless the words “sell out” are in it), Obama and America, Obama and Honor, Obama and…..
Nevergiveup wrote:
Obama and second term
vagabond trader wrote:
No, he has to work at even being the first half of that.
Doppelganger wrote:
or threw a ball like a little bitty girl (yman)
@ Nevergiveup:
how about 0bama and Putz, 0bama and Jihadi, 0bama and Ideologue…
Grimcargo wrote:
Or ate arugula.
@ Nevergiveup:
We have this series, Israel Land of Miracles or something like that. Anyway one episode discusses how Nixon decided to assist Israel in the 73 war.His mother was religous and had impressed on her son that the “chosen people” must be respected and if he ever had the opportunity to help them he must.That sob Kissinger advised against aide but Nixon recalled his mothers words. Don’t know how true it is.
Doppelganger wrote:
OOh great one
just remove “Nixon” from the headline.
spidly wrote:
Those are words that SHOULD be used together
@ Doppelganger:
Winner.
vagabond trader wrote:
I’m not so sure Kissinger advised against?
I heard Alexander Haig had a lot to do with aid to Israel during the YK War. He supposedly was the one who pushed to have all our available wire guided anti-tank missiles (a new weapon at the time) sent to Israel and a cadre of Israeli officers and non-coms secretly brought to Fort Benning to learn how to use them.
Not that it really matters, but Nixon was full of contradictions. He was caught making antisemitic remarks, but he hired Henry Kissinger, and came to Israel’s aid. His foreign policy was brilliant; his domestic policy was horrible. His personal peevishness got him in the end, but he loved his country and would have died for it.
It used to be simply assumed that presidents loved their country; Democrat or Republican. There is a very short list of presidents who have given reason to question their patriotism. Wilson is the first, but I also had to wonder a few times about Carter and Clinton. There was never any doubt about Truman or JFK or LBJ. This isn’t about ideology, it’s about which team you’re playing for.
Obama takes this to the next level. Country means absolutely nothing to him, and never did. His loyalty is to his machine.
@ Nevergiveup:
Maybe I am not recalling who it was but someone close to Nixon wanted to let Israel swing for a while.
spidly wrote:
But then I’d have to switch “Checkers” and “Dick” around.
The Osprey wrote:
I would not be surprised. We lost a real hero in Haig
vagabond trader wrote:
Baker?
vagabond trader wrote:
Pretty sure it was not Kissinger.
@ snork:
Theres a likely candidate.The account may be in a book we recently read about the 73 war.Have to ask the old man,he knows way more about this stuff.
0bama and presidential
0bama and democracy
0bama and @ snork:
“HIS” machine, not the Chicago machine, which might get him into trouble…. he narcissism might lead him into forgetting for whom he works.
his
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Richard E. Nixon was no conservative.
Nevergiveup wrote:
From what I recall Kissinger seemed to do everything in his power to chop the legs out from under Israel.
I wouldn’t be surprised that ol’ Bo is unceremoniously left behind when the Obamas are kicked out of the white house.
Detached is right!
Oblabla was emotional once. It was while talking about the Palestinians at the Cairo speech. That’s about all that reaaly registers with him.
Speranza wrote:
I think it is Richard M. Nixon.
vapig wrote:
I don’t content he was Israel’s best friend. Far from it, but not sure that characterization is correct. Kissinger was an opportunist. He could usually be counted on to do what was in Kissingers best interest
Urban Infidel wrote:
I was imitating Archie Bunker. Where were you in the 1970′s!
Beltfed wrote:
The Palins could always use another hunting dog.
Speranza wrote:
High like everyone else
Nevergiveup @ 1:
A friend of mine who was in the merchant marine fleet at that time told me that his ship and a few others were ordered to load up with weapons and sail for Israel asp.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Actually George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan were Israel’s best friends. The most hostile POTUS’s were Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Nevergiveup wrote:
She was too young.
Speranza wrote:
Worse thing he ever did IMHO was to leave us with the EPA. Although, at the time (Lake Erie dead, acid rain, Indians crying with litter strewn oround their feet) it probably seemed like a sane idea.
Doppelganger wrote:
I’ll do that one better: Оба́ма and first term.
@ vapig:
Nixon was the last of the New Deal presidents.
@ Nevergiveup:
And thank God he could never be President.
snork @ 38:
Perfect, lol
It’s kind of funny. Clinton was driven SO much by the polls while Obama doesn’t give a rats ass about polls, it’s all about ramming what’s “best for us” down our throats because HE knows best, and we’re just a bunch of gun totin’ fools who don’t recognize his brilliance.
Back during the first Clinton campaign, Rush commented on a someone at one of the ‘town hall’ debates who said something along the lines of ‘what would you as, symbolically, the father, do for us’. Obama’s taken that liberal desire for a ‘father figure’ to take care of them to a whole new level. Unfortunately, we’re seeing it in other places too, though, with the NY assemblyman who wants to BAN the use of salt in restaurant cooking. It’s tragic that the concept of ‘personal responsibility’ has gone out the window.
@ vapig:
Despite all of that, the EPA was a reasonably stable and straight agency as federal agencies go until this bunch got their mitts on it. Now, it’s so political, it’s going to have to be taken out back and shot.
Beltfed wrote:
Yup. I know Nixon made more than his share of Anti-semetic things, but when the chips were down, really down, and it mattered Nixon stood tall and helped Israel in one it’s most desperate hours. Nobody should ever forget that.
@ Speranza:
There’s no way I’d remember that and I used to watch the show.
Where was I? I was going to a Catholic all-girl HS in Queens!
Beltfed wrote:
I was a kid when he was in power, but I remember just recently listening to him speak on what Israel should be doing to insure peace and if I’d had a loaded gun I might have shot my tv. Dude infuriated me!
However, just now hearing that he’s been taken to the hospital for stomach pains, so I don’t want to potentially be dancing on his grave. He’s 85.
@ Speranza:
0bama is the first of the raw deal presidents
@ snork:
I don’t think that poodle would last very long in Alaska.
@ vapig:
Hi vapig! You would like this series. Lots of “unexplained” occurences in modern Israel. Like the soldiers who were trapped in a mine field and suddenly a huge gust of wind blew over it revealing where every single mine was.
Macker wrote:
I remember my classmates all thought he should be prez. Considering how prog we all were that should tell you everything you need to know about the man. Libs loved him!
@ Nevergiveup:
Nixon said when people were complaining that all the transport planes (filled with weapons) were being flown to Israel were going to enrage the Arabs – “They will be just as angry if we sent 50 planes as if we sent 10, so send 50″.
Urban Infidel wrote:
It’s a lab. Labs live to chase birds.
vagabond trader wrote:
Got a music thread pending which I hope will be put up tonight.
mfhorn wrote:
Dumbest idea ever! Our bodies are made up of salt. We need salt to live! There was also a time when salt was worth more than gold!
vapig wrote:
Outside of Reagan, I do not know of any POTUS we had since Nixon who Kissinger would have been worse then.
@ Speranza:
Oh goodie. I’m by my lonesome tonite and will tune in.
snork wrote:
LOL! I’d even be satisfied with ripping our their teeth and claws by defunding them.
Speranza wrote:
That shows a lot of insight into the Arabs.
@ mfhorn:
pony tail guy
Urban Infidel wrote:
Ya got my sympaties.
Archie Bunker to Methead “Listen buddy boy, let me tell you one thing abut Richard E. Nixon. At least he knows how to keep Pat in line”.
spidly wrote:
That should be made into a bumper sticker!
“Dark skined,,, “golden calf”.
snork @ 59:
A Portuguese water dog.
vagabond trader wrote:
Really?!!? Cool! You’ll have to send me the name of it.
@ Speranza:
Loved Archie,lol.
snork wrote:
Quite concur! Do what you think is right, stand your ground, and what can they do about it?
@ Beltfed:
Looks like a Poodle to me.
vapig wrote:
if tea party people go and make their own salt will they be Ghandi-esqe or terrorist nazis?
@ vagabond trader:
Oh, and Morning, {{VT}}! Even though it’s almost afternoon.
Is it raining a miserable up where you are today? I have to go out inot it and I keep puttiong it off. I could’ve already been back by now!
vagabond trader wrote:
One of the great TV characters of all time. Uber liberal Norman Lear thought the audience would be laughing at him, instead the audience was laughing with him.
@ spidly:
The SALT Party? Sodium Allied Libertarian Terrorists.
@ Beltfed:
I was thinking of the Clintons. But don’t go thinking those dogs can’t hunt. The real problem with that kind of dog in Alaska is that they have no undercoat, and despite the long hair, can’t handle cold weather.
Speranza wrote:
Because the way Carrol O’Conner played him, he had such empathy. The meathead was the annoying one.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Gloria annoyed the crap out of me.
@ vapig:
Will do.Just looked in the “library” and couldn’t find it. Will ask the librarian when he calls.
A proposed ‘Pay to play’ tax could bring even MORE government control
spidly wrote:
Ah, let me guess – OH, I know! B!!!
vagabond trader wrote:
That sounds a lot like the account in John Loftus’s “The Secret War Against The Jews” which examines conspiracies AGAINST the Jewish people from WWI to the present. According to Loftus, Kissinger was trying to woo a lot of Arab countries away from the Soviets and felt that another overwhelming Israeli victory like ’67, only accomplished with American weapons, would forever damage our relationships with the Arabs. Haig, on the other hand, being a military man, understood the gravity of the situation far better than Kissinger did, that the new mobile SAM batteries the Soviets had provided Egypt and Syria had neutralized Israel’s air superiority. With no air cover, Israel’s armor was hopelessly outnumbered. So it was at that point that Haig, who at that time was White House Chief of Staff, used his military connections to get the Israelis the TOW and make sure their people were trained in how to use it. The TOW proved to be a devastating surprise to the Egyptians and Syrians.
spidly wrote:
It’s not that hard to make your own salt.
1. Go get a few buckets of sea water.
2. Let them dry out.
And don’t let the salt warden catch you harvesting sea water without a license.
Water Dogs are great family pets. They crave the human touch & I don’t belive that Bo, the Obama dog is feeling the love from Michelle.
Speranza wrote:
All in the Family was fondue night at my house when I was a kid. We all thought meathead was an ass and Archie was the one will all his marbles! My dad loved him!
Nevergiveup wrote:
I have to give Lear credit. He did show Meathead to be a sanctimonious blowhard. I particularly liked the one where he kept treating George Jefferson’s kid as a black object, rather than a person.
snork wrote:
It might qualify as attempted murder if you serve your home-made salt to others
Nevergiveup wrote:
The thing is, Rob Reiner is meathead! Everything he touches has an uber liberal message about it. His shows are unwatchable and he’s switched to kiddie shows so he can indoctrinate the next generation of malcontents!
@ snork:
Things haven’t changed much in the last 30+ years, have they? The left still treats minorities like little children.
Speranza wrote:
That show should be revisited and updated. It would take place in San Francisco and the Archie character instead would be a raving lunatic liberal like Olbermann and the daughter a patriotic Tea Party’er. OH the laughs would ensue!
Checkers was some sort of Spaniel, right? Considering who lives in the White House, what is Bo, a pit bull?
@ vapig:
Carroll O’Connor was a big lib too.
@ vapig:
Rob Reiner just shows why second-generation is usually mediocre. Dad was hilarious. Junior is…well…a meathead.
Rob Reiner did a good job playong an ungrateful, sactimonious jerk.
He lived off of Archie, but found everything about him distasteful & beneath him.
FishFearMe wrote:
Oh heavens no. This is a non-aggressive WH. No animals with teeth, balls or pointed ears allowed.
Precise details of what transpired in Washington during the first week of the Yom Kippur War, launched by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973, are hard to come by, in no small measure owing to conflicting accounts given by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger regarding their respective roles.
What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon — overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia — implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period involved hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivering more than 22,000 tons of armaments.
This was accomplished, noted Walter J. Boyne in an article in the December 1998 issue of Air Force Magazine, while “Washington was in the throes of not only post-Vietnam moralizing on Capitol Hill but also the agony of Watergate. . . . Four days into the war, Washington was blindsided again by another political disaster — the forced resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.”
“Both Kissinger and Nixon wanted to do [the airlift],” said former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters, “but Nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. He said, ‘You get the stuff to Israel. Now. Now.’”
Boyne, in his book The Two O’Clock War, described a high-level White House meeting on October 9:
As preoccupied as he was with Watergate, Nixon came straight to the point, announcing that Israel must not lose the war. He ordered that the deliveries of supplies, including aircraft, be sped up and that Israel be told that it could freely expend all of its consumables — ammunition, spare parts, fuel, and so forth — in the certain knowledge that these would be completely replenished by the United States without any delay.
White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig concurred:
As soon as the scope and pattern of Israeli battle losses emerged, Nixon ordered that all destroyed equipment be made up out of U.S. stockpiles, using the very best weapons America possessed. . . . Whatever it takes, he told Kissinger . . . save Israel.
“It was Nixon who did it,” recalled Nixon’s acting special counsel, Leonard Garment. “I was there. As [bureaucratic bickering between the State and Defense departments] was going back and forth, Nixon said, this is insane. . . . He just ordered Kissinger, “Get your ass out of here and tell those people to move.”
When Schlesinger initially wanted to send just three transports to Israel because he feared anything more would alarm the Arabs and the Soviets, Nixon snapped: “We are going to get blamed just as much for three as for 300. . . . Get them in the air, now.”
Haig, in his memoir Inner Circles, wrote that Nixon, frustrated with the initial delays in implementing the airlift and aware that the Soviets had begun airlifting supplies to Egypt and Syria, summoned Kissinger and Schlesinger to the Oval Office on October 12 and “banished all excuses.”
The president asked Kissinger for a precise accounting of Israel’s military needs, and Kissinger proceeded to read aloud from an itemized list.
“Double it,” Nixon ordered. “Now get the hell out of here and get the job done.”
Later, informed of yet another delay — this one because of disagreements in the Pentagon over the type of planes to be used for the airlift — an incensed Nixon shouted at Kissinger, “[Expletive] it, use every one we have. Tell them to send everything that can fly.”
Nixon acted despite threats of reprisal by Arab oil producers — indeed, the day after Nixon asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $2.2 billion for Israel, Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal announced an embargo of oil to the U.S. — not to mention Europe’s overwhelming opposition to aiding Israel.
Some revisionists have taken to claiming Nixon’s actions on behalf of Israel were prompted by Golda Meir, who supposedly threatened to go public with all manner of juicy political and personal information she had on the president. Another commonly cited blackmail scenario, popularized by the play Golda’s Balcony, has Meir putting the squeeze on Nixon by threatening to use nuclear weapons.
But Mordechai Gazit, who at the time of the Yom Kippur War was director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office, told authors Gerald Strober and Deborah Hart Strober in Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency: “The airlift was decided not because we asked for it. Our relations with the United States were not at a point where we could have asked for an airlift; this was beyond our imagination.”
As for Meir herself, to the end of her life she referred to Nixon as “my president” and told a group of Jewish leaders in Washington shortly after the war: “For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to our people.”
mfhorn wrote:
The difference is, these days, Lear would have been tarred and feathered for pointing it out. These days, he’d be considered by the upper west side crowd to be a right-winger for occasionally pointing out meathead’s hypocrisy and banality.
RIX wrote:
Typical Boomer, now living off Archie’s grandkids
@ The Osprey:
Sounds like an interesting book,just scanned some of the reviews on Amazon, thought I was on teh Daily Kos.:-) The husband loves Israeli history,thanks for the info!
RIX wrote:
Exactly. The liberal elite mentality encapsulated.
@ RIX:
Urban Infidel wrote:
Never met a pit bull bitch, have you? I could see one and Michelle having a deep mutual understanding.
@ Speranza:
She was the real dingbat.
@ FishFearMe:
Love your moniker and avatar. Did you happen to see this?
Archie was everything Liberals hate. He served his country, He went to work, He bought a house, He paid his mortgage, He got married and had a kid, He voted, and he loved his country right or wrong.
Yisrael Hayom purports that a Palestinian might say: “And here is our new square. We named it after the most praised hero in the history of our people, the legendary freedom fighter who opposed the occupation and was killed while carrying out her duty, the holy martyr Dalal Mughrabi, may God have mercy. What did she do? Oh, she kidnapped a bus together with her comrades and murdered 37 Israelis, and 70 more were wounded. Children? Women? Of course. They are all soldiers in the army of occupation; they were all children of death. They were always like that. And what about the peace talks? Don’t worry, the Jews are dying to speak with us, it doesn’t matter what we do. What do they do there? Speak. We complain about the Israelis, request more easing of restrictions and more funds, and then we issue a statement to the press that the Israelis are obdurate and not willing to compromise. A lot of those in the media think that. Those Jews, they have an ancient custom: To blame themselves no matter what.’” The author then quotes a Palestinian director who once produced a play in which Dalal Mughrabi was the central figure, “‘Dalal is a symbol of Palestine. We see Dalal as belonging to the Palestinian conscience.’ Penetrating words. That is the Palestinian conscience, and any nonsense on peace talks and agreements and cooperation and the rest of the political spittle are just foam on the surface of our bloody history.”
@ vapig:
Both of you will appreciate the thread coming up @ 6 EST/3 PST.
Today they would portray Archie Bunker as a fool. A racist fool.
AnAnd Mike Stivik would be a sophisticated progressive. His patronizing tone for Lionel Jefferson would be welcomed in this new progressive world!
And Lionel would be wearing a bow tie
Urban Infidel wrote:
Olbermann is the perfect example of what a true leftie ideologue is all about.
snork @ 79:
The original Portuguese Water Dogs (Cão da Agua) were bred to serve on cod fishing vessels they were trained to rescue fishermen that fell over board.
The Portuguese Cod Fishing Fleet that fished off the Grand banks and up in the Davis straits always carried at least one of the Portuguese Water Dogs.
Even to this day a Portuguese Water Dog is carried aboard the Creoula a restored Cod fishing schooner.
The local fishermen also carried these dogs aboard their coastal fishing boats. A long standing tradition that lives to this day.
@ Urban Infidel:
How wonderful!
@ Urban Infidel:
O’Connor was a huge lib, however he gave Archie a lot of humanity.
Rob Reiner as thinking of runnign for Governor of California. Why bother, Arnold is pretty much a lib himself.
Doppelganger wrote:
And an Obama button.
Nevergiveup wrote:
And he still is today.
Meat Head felt entitled & that precluded gratitude.
He showed his true self several years after he graduated by divorcing Gloria.
Am I over analyzing a sitcom?
RIX wrote:
For a sober person- yes
Speranza wrote:
Question is, can he out-meathead Jerry Brown?
@ snork:
Gad, what a choice!
“Didn’t need no welfare state,everybody pulled his weight….”
snork wrote:
neither of them have any hair left
snork wrote:
Former Governor Moonbeam is more sensible.
All in the Family
Nevergiveup wrote:
Reiner wore a rug during the All in the Family years.
Obama couldn’t carry Nixon’s water dog
RIX wrote:
Except I think it does reflect larger social trends. The meatheads of the world, who use their women and then discard them, will also call
Buzzsawmonkeyyou a misogynist for disagreeing with their use of women.@ Beltfed:
After their defeat in the Roman/Galic War, the Gale refuged down the Iberian Penninsula & discovered Water Dogs.
They were impressed by their ability to learn, friendliness & their working dog abilities.
They took the dogs with them to Ireland , where they are bred to this day.
Doppelganger wrote:
Obama couldn’t carry Nixon’s Dog’s urine
Speranza wrote:
Fuldkommen Gak!!!!!11
@ vapig:
Thanks,vapig, for the nice words and the link. If the stuff in that story even APPROACHES becoming reality, I’ll change my nic to “EnviroWeeniesFearMeOrShould”.
snork @ 86:
Salt Evaporating ponds in Portugal.
They gave “Gloria” a spion off called “Gloria” which lasted all of 3 episodes. She and Joey move upstate and she becomes an assistant to a veternarian.
All in the Family gave us these spinoffs
1. Maude
2. Good Times
3. The Jeffersons
4. Archie Bunker’s Place
5. Gloria
Archie Bunker’s Place was not bad, however it was a bit of a stretch to imagine Archie running a business. Also that great niece of his “Stephanie” served no purpose/
Speranza wrote:
I thought stephanie moved to Alaska, changed her name, married a stud, and went into politics?
@ Beltfed:
They do it in Baja, too. In the ’90s, the chlorine/caustic plant I was working at was paying $22/ton delivered. Sometimes solar power does pencil out.
vagabond trader wrote:
I know. It brings a tear to my eye. How beautiful.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Now that is funny. The actress was Danielle Brisbois. She was a cute kid on All in the Family but an awkward looking young adolescent on Archie Bunker’s Place.
Norman Lear was also behind Sanford and Son, which was politically incorrect back then:
@ Speranza:
They should have had Gloria move in upstate with Rosie O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow and start freegan collective.
@ snork:
One of the greatest scenes ever. Tarzan movie….bwahahahahahaha
Nevergiveup wrote:
Without citizens like this, the left would have no one to steal from. These people are the ones who keep America going. And the left has the nerve to look down on us. I fcking hate them.
snork wrote:
Funny thing is ( and that was funny ) they could NOT do that today? And you call that progress?
@ Speranza:
True. He did. He was the show.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I don’t. They do. And these same people drape themselves in the First Amendment when it comes to art that offends Christians. But not Muslims.
I don’t get it.
Beltfed wrote:
I love Portuguese Water Dogs. My friend has one. It’s adorable.
Beltfed wrote:
watched a show on salt mining under the great lakes.
trust me I’m no engineer but is that a wise thing to do.lol
Must go out and brave the slop! Sigh – my fault. This could’ve been done hours ago!
snork wrote:
Sure ya do
mawskrat wrote:
Not when you can do it from seawater for under $100/ton. But sea salt has a lot of calcium and magnesium, and may not be suitable for some uses.
We have our second right now. They are very smart & very loyal.
EOUL, South Korea — Henry Kissinger, the former United States secretary of state, was hospitalized here because of stomach pains on Saturday. But his condition has quickly improved, said a spokesman for Yonsei University’s Severance Hospital in Seoul.
“There is nothing serious about his condition,” Lee Seong-man, the hospital spokesman, said during a telephone interview. “His condition is continuing to improve, and in a case like this, we expect him to leave hospital tomorrow.”
Mr. Kissinger, 86, was brought to the hospital on Saturday morning for abdominal pains, Mr. Lee said. The spokesman said that he had no further details on Mr. Kissinger’s condition.
Mr. Kissinger arrived in Seoul on Wednesday and the next day delivered a speech at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a private think tank. On Friday, he met South Korea President Lee Myung-bak and was reportedly scheduled to leave Seoul on Saturday.
What do they eat in South Korea?????
Nevergiveup wrote:
What don’t they eat?
@ Nevergiveup:
Bow wow.
RIX @ 128:
That I didn’t know, learn something everyday.
Here’s the web site of a Brother Marine and Nam vet that breeds water dogs
@ vapig:
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name – already shortened from “DeCorti” to “Corti” – to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American.
He was the man who played the Indian that sheds a single tear for a blighted American environment in “Keep America Beautiful” ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s.
@ Nevergiveup:
you’ll never see a stray cat.
that’s all I’ll say
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100313/tts-uk-ireland-cartoonist-ca02f96.html
Swell.
@ vagabond trader:
It’s like a headline from The Onion, only horribly, horribly real.
It was every businessperson’s nightmare.
Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was … 4 cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv’s with an obligation of $202.35.
Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical.
“It’s hilarious,” he says, “that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents. I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities.”
Now he’s trying to figure out how penalties and interest could climb so high on such a small debt. He says he’s never been told he owes any taxes or that he’s ever incurred any late-payment penalties in the four years he’s owned Harv’s.
In fact, he provided us with an Oct. 22, 2009, letter from the IRS that states Harv’s “has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due.”
IRS spokesman Jesse Weller isn’t commenting “due to privacy and disclosure laws.”
Zeff says he’s as offended as much as anything else by what he considers rude behavior by the IRS guys. While at Harv’s, he sniffs, “they didn’t even get a car wash.”
Did I miss the prayer list post? or do i just not know what day it’s usually posted?
vagabond trader wrote:
bow wow wow
Your buddy must be having fun breeding them. Water dog breeders are a very ehical group. I have never heard of a puppy mill with them & I do hope that continues.
Ours is a male & he has a lot of white markings like a Border Collie & people ask if he is a Sheep Dog, but he is most definitely a Water Dog
Think the left can’t stoop any lower?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/13/george-w-bush-urinal-reported-cbs-news-and-msnbc
@ vagabond trader:
And if either of the cartoonists defended themselves with ‘deadly force’, they’d be arrested & jailed.
It’s probably a good thing I’ve got NO artistic talent. The prophet Mo as a stick figure just doesn’t have the same impact.
mawskrat @ 146:
I saw that show. One cave in and the lakes empty, lol
@ vagabond trader:
An Obama crapper would be racist.
@ Kirly:
At’s tomorrow.
vagabond trader wrote:
but the creationists are the greatest threat to the world!
/
@ Nevergiveup:
The scariest part is the IRS will have authority over he11care compliance.
@ vagabond trader:
these people are despicable! we should take stickers with obamas dumb face on them and paste them in urinals and toilets. how fast would it be called racism? i hope these people spend eternity in hell.
@ Nevergiveup:
I’d suggest paying the whole thing in $1′s, but it’d just hack the feds off and guarantee an audit.
We’re talking about dogs, so this (@BVoAF) must be about us:
snork wrote:
thanks snork!
i have an important addition to request and didn’t want to miss my opportunity.
Yeesh:
@ snork:
How the h-ll is a dog peeing on Obama’s picture, or whatever the videos are showing, racist?
Must be because it’s anything other than blind worship of the man.
@ snork:
Frogs? Isn’t that offensive to the French?
Don’t like the Zero dollar?
mfhorn wrote:
Nah, another man sleeping with wife of the French President might be offensive…oh wait…sorry, their fine with that apparently? Never mind.
snork wrote:
classy lady
/
@ Beltfed:
Looks like they went by way of France.//
OT Anybody with a sock know if Mandy changed her avatar?
@ Doppelganger:
Cursing the exchange rate. Brilliant.
George Soros, she ain’t.
@ snork:
Damn, I can’t believe I missed the swamp-bash open thread last night. What’s up with Mandy’s avatar?
gulfloafer wrote:
Jimmah’s objecting, and – shocker – KKKilgore’s standing up for Mandy.
RIX @ 163:
He is proud, last reunion he had two of his dogs with him, beautiful dogs.
When news that the zero had decided on the water dog he got swamped with phone calls from TV and Newspapers for interviews. He was speechless.
Chuck Teasley C 1/26 on News 10
OT – can someone give Glenn Reynolds a decent haircut? Please?
snork wrote:
LMAO! And so it begins; lines are being drawn in the sand. All socks on deck!
Mandy is a fool to stay there. they don’t like her. she doesn’t fit in.
she is I’m sure sick of compromising her core beliefs.
LEAVE AND BE FREE MANDY!
@ Poteen:
Was that the one of Calvin peeing on some Arabic-looking script? It was up when I posted last night.
Poteen @ 181:
Nope, still hanging on, lol
mfhorn wrote:
Yea. Mandy Cato and Weazy are back this AM with no mention of the avatar issue. I can’t see the avatars so I don’t know if she caved.
She should change her avatar to Piss Christ.
see what happens. They’d applaud her for embracing diversity of thought
Beltfed wrote:
Atta girl!
@ Kirly:
@ mfhorn:
The mind of a libral.
The story comments are pretty good.
Check the picture!http://michellemalkin.com/
@ Doppelganger:
Don’t really care either way,it might be humiliating for her to ask for sanctuary elsewhere.Maybe a friend with her addy ought to intervene.
@ vagabond trader:
so she should flounce and start over with a clean slate. I think it’s more humiliating to stick around and take shit for sticking by your core beliefs.
She hasn’t left 1.0
1.0 left her ( and lots of people)
difdifference is, the people who refused to bend and change who they were to please that douchebag with a pony tail, got the Hell out of there
@ Beltfed:
I was very unhappy that the Obamas chose a Water Dog. My fear is that they will become very popular & new breeders wiil pop up & open puppie mills.
As it stands now the breeders are very careful & ethical.
They even scrreen prospective owners very carefully.’
Doppelganger wrote:
She sure does everything she can to try and fit in at that hell hole. When selrahC is finished toying with her she’ll meet the same fate as the other sychophants. As far as her “core beliefs” go, I’d really like to know what those are?
@ vagabond trader:
I think KKKilgore sees Mandy as his buffer. Once she’s gone, he might become the weasel’s next meal.
The place is like Survivor.
@ snork:
It could get rather Byzantine, esp when the muzz contigent arrive.
@ gulfloafer:
as best as I could tell ( and from recollection as I don’t visit that shithole anymore for over 6 months ) she was a quasi-conservative.
certainly was a big Rudy supporter, and anybody who referred to Obama as FCBBHO had their head screwed on right.
so she’s caved in lots to remain. that’s her business. I find it sad and pathetic.
she should flounce. tell iceweasel where she can stick it, and leave with a shred of self respect intact
Ever had the feeling you were being watched?
Mandy is putting up a hell of a fight over there.
I must say that I am impressed. How does she avoid being banned?
vagabond trader wrote:
Why would they waste their time at that place?
RIX wrote:
Chunkles can’t resist a woman who talks dirty.
@ Doppelganger:
Yeah, we Americans are a forgiving lot. Or maybe she really enjoys the notariety. Who the he11 knows,anyone with brain waves should have left by 6 months ago. Those who stayed have “issues.”
@ RIX:
Good for them. My wife’s a huge fan of Golden Retrievers, and I like those and the Westies. I hate seeing ANY breed turned into fodder for puppy mills though. Every cat or dog I’ve owned has come from a shelter or was adopted from being a stray.
@ snork:
The joint is evolving ? Have to keep the diversity train going.Bleeeech.
snork wrote:
It is! They’re probably getting college grant money to run a psych experiment on intertubes correlation analysis. CW hit it square, the place is a nut house.
vagabond trader wrote:
Explain that the options are being a psychotic, right wing, guns and God addicted internet stalker militiawoman or a Progressive, Pudgy, Ponytailed Plucker’s pecker sucker.////
AG Holder Didn’t Reveal All
@ mfhorn:
Ours have all been orphans and throw aways.I would try a specific breed rescue if a pure bred was wanted. Like RIX says, bet there will be a lot of homeless water dogs due to the Obama pet. Sad “unintended consequence.”
@ Poteen:
Oh lol, tee hee chortle guffaw.
@ Doppelganger:
“she should flounce. tell iceweasel where she can stick it, and leave with a shred of self respect intact”
I agree. But I doubt she has her “coming to Jesus” moment anytime soon. She’s too vested and the Stockholm is strong in that one.
.
The creeping anti-Israel conversion of CJ continues.
He’ll be even more into it when Jimmahs new BFF Muslim pals arrive.
@ gulfloafer:
Stockholm and the cultish features of the place.
@ RIX:
He’ll finally ‘belong’ somewhere.
bbl
@ RIX:
Oh my, let me guess, Israel is on the precipice of being tossed out of paradise by the blogtator and his fruit and water un-matahari amour?
@ vagabond trader:
Those who stayed have “issues.”
That’s putting it mildly vagabond. It’s my opinion that anyone who would stay there and compromise their principals, assuming they’ve got any, lack any semblance of self-respect.
Retrievers are great dogs, but you have to be careful.
We had one years ago & it turned out that the breeder was running a puppy mill.
There were problems with the entire litter.
RIX @ 198:
You’re right, my buddy Chuck said that he has received numerous calls from people who want to buy the water dogs as first time pets, he refuses to sell to any of them.
He’s very picky of who gets one of his dogs.
RIX wrote:
Oh Charles! I’m so sorry …
-Sharmuta
I would make book on it.
@ RIX:
Why would people, angry at Clinton, send “hate mail” to Chunkles?
Capital B Capital S.
@ gulfloafer:
Cj just gets worse & worse. Where is the bottom?
@ vagabond trader:
Several of us have been predicting that for months. The ship turns slowly, but she turns definitely.
Just speculating , but Chuck must have jumped on board the Israeli bashing over new construction in Jeruslem.
Earlier he was claiming that he is getting death threats over Mandys avatar
Beltfed wrote:
I thought you got the stick.
Now that Sharmuta is gone, is there anybody over there who really cares about his hate mail? Earth to selrahC; you run a blog, you simple jackass, of course there’s going to be people who don’t agree with you on issues. Why do you feel the need to let the entire world know about it every damn day?
What a self-absorbed buffoon.
@ gulfloafer:
I’m not buying that all of it’s real. Some, probably. All, no.
RIX wrote:
He’s in uncharted intertubes territory. A real trail-blazer in treachery and deceit.
@ Beltfed:
You’re right, my buddy Chuck said that he has received numerous calls from people who want to buy the water dogs as first time pets, he refuses to sell to any of them.
He’s very picky of who gets one of his dogs.
They are very reputable as a group. We got our second Water Dog , because we got our first from a friend of the breeder, who vouched for us.
She calls all of the time & is very interested in all of her dogs.
We’re beyond it, but for people with small children these dogs are a great choice.
snork wrote:
Most of it is taken out of context and some is no doubt outright fabricated.
snork @ 227:
Like the aircraft carrier he mention on the Dangerous Minds interview. lol
Interesting
RIX wrote:
KKKigore sent him that one.
I mentioned this in the “LGF Asylum” thread, but I wanted to share it again. I was “stealth-banned” from The Sewer. The only thing that bothers me about it is that I lost my lucrative LGF Twinkie Concession.
@ RIX:
Obviously it’s because Chunkles has the power to control Hillary. Verily, he has the power to control Obama. That’s why this “person” is mad at Chunkles over this.
It helps if you put on your psychosis helmet first.
@ FishFearMe:
Just a heads up, since you’re a fish type. Fishing thread @ 6 EST/3 PST.
snork @ 229:
My buddy Chuck, a Marine Grunt, not some limp wristed wimp from a gated community in Culver City.
Chuckie Huskie can wave his “stick” all he wants, like the tooth fairies, it don’t mean jack.
My kind of “sticks”
gulfloafer wrote:
fixed
@ snork:
I await it with “baited” breath.
/Buzz off
Chuck Cyber Shaheed Johnson
Like muhchausen syndrome, he sends his own hate mail. Self inflicted martyrdom!
Scott Brown delivers a nicely crafted rebuttal of Husseins weekly lecture.
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/
@ Doppelganger:
Yup, that’s what I think.
@ Doppelganger:
You’ve hit on something there. Like the way you think.
RIX @ 236:
Calling Cj a bitch is hate mail, WOW
Husky has delusions of granduer,
He prefers beyotch, it has street cred.