As we waited at ringside for the terrier group to go in, I glanced over at the Welsh terrier and his handler kneeling a scant 2 feet away.
We all knew the Welsh well, watched him grow from the puppy classes to become a top winner. Over the year, the black and tan dog had filled out, the coat had filled in, and he was now every inch a top show dog, perfectly trained, every hair in place.
His handler was aware that I'd seen "Joey" at his earliest - and most unattractive - stage. And we both knew that we both knew what was under the carefully coiffed coat.
As our competitive relationship at the time was (to put it kindly) combative - I was pleasantly surprised when he invited my opinion.
"He's come a long way, eh?"
"Much better than he looked as a puppy."
"Yeah, he's really come around."
"Much better."
"Thanks."
I gave the compliment a few seconds to sink in.
Like you do with meat tenderizer.
"In fact, Doug, I'd say that Welsh of yours deserves his own theme song."
"Oh, what now?"
"Three Dressed Up As A Nine".
Have a great weekend, everyone - your tips in the comments.











What’s In A Name? Dems Support Social Security Benefit Cut — By Calling It Something Else
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/whats-in-a-name-dems-support-social-security-benefit-cut----by-calling-it-something-else.php
Via Memeorandum (sic)
Kate, here I thought we would be graced with a video showing the terrier competition. Rock music, tch, tch.
Illegal immigrants have no right to free health care a Federal court of Appeal has ruled. Watch for the "no borders" crowd to scream blue murder.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/08/illegal-immigrants-have-no-right-to-free-health-care-court/
I'm kind of sorta part of the 'no borders' crowed and I'm not unhappy to the ruling.
I read that Tony Clement has said that there won't be huge civil service and spending cuts like under the Liberals. There will be "responsible" (read: ineffective) cuts instead. When will everyone admit I was right about these jokers? Never mind it's too late to save Canada's Right anyway.
Kate, you are a treasure.
Ah, the "old cuts", where top level players and their friends at "Animal Farm" sidled out the side door to big pensions from a different budget and
then sidled back in through the other side door as "contract consultants" paid from yet another budget. Really knocked the payroll levels down to
the "targeted targets" and made everyone look pretty awesome and due for promotion.
Dog shows and politics? Ain't going to mix no how.
You take your dogs and add some ponies, and then. . .
You have a dog and Pony Show.
Not watching hearing or reading just gotta say that a 3 dressed as a 9 is good if the 9 owns a condo.
Just saying...
My dad told me that a five with a house is a nine...
but we're talking about dogs
right?
Shaidle: "As always, the truth/best commentary is in the comments."
Shaidle's site: No comments
Probably one of the most idiotic and totalitarian UN documents that has come out. Delingpole writes about it in his article UN master plan for destruction of the global economy which can be found at:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100095817/un-reveals-its-master-plan-for-destruction-of-global-economy/
Among other things, it suggests that no-one should make more than $10,000/year, that CO2 emissions be limited to 3 tons/person/year (requiring a 75% cut in power use by N. Americans), that apartment living is the only way to go and that the private sector can't work nearly fast enough and that massive government intervention is needed to change the way people think or we're all going to fry. A combination of the worst case CAGW disaster scenarios together with the most statist plan I've yet seen come out of the UN. No wonder they want to disarm the civilian population of N. America as any reasonable person who reads this document will be ready to open fire on any blue helmeted "peacekeepers" who will be enforcing this UN watermelon agenda.
Time to flood PMSH's office with letters asking for Canada to quit the UN as this is one seriously deranged organization.
so how's that acquisition going Rupe?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/news-corp-stock-plunges-hacking-fallout-170639550.html
"It has shed more than seven percent since Tuesday, slashing the company's market capitalization by more than three billion dollars."
ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!
More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
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"Job gains in Alberta top numbers for entire U.S."
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/gains+Alberta+numbers+entire/5077426/story.html
CBC gets a fact check, found wanting.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39186
They've done some corrections since then.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/06/f-volcanoes-faq.html
mitchel44,
I have long since given up on the news media with exception of their ability to report sports' scores and yesterday's weather.
I grew up the son of a cop and saw how badly they reported on crime and law.
I was a hard rock miner for five years and saw how badly they reported on mining.
Twenty years oin the Navy hasshown how badly they report on the military.
Why does anyone read or watch a news story they know something about and get upset over how inacurate it is only to go to the next piece that they know very little about and accept the reporting as gosple?
I really do not get how anyone can do that.
catchy tune..and unfortunately, true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CsGViY5JQ
Just when you thought you had heard it all here is Mark Steyn on Atlanta's lying education system.
"In the week of the News Of The World revelations, it was reported that the Atlanta Public Schools system has spent the last decade systemically cheating on its tests. Not the students, but the Superintendent, and the union, and 38 principals, and at least 178 teachers – whoops, pardon me, "educators," and some 44 of the 56 school districts. Teachers held "changing parties" at their homes at which they sat around with extra supplies of erasers correcting their students' test answers in order to improve overall scores and qualify for "No Child Left Behind" federal funding that could be sluiced into maintaining their lavish remuneration. Let's face it, it's easier than teaching, right?
The APS Human Resources honcho Millicent Few had an early report into test-tampering illegally destroyed. So APS not only got the federal gravy but was also held up to the nation at large as a heartwarming, inspirational example of how large urban school districts can reform themselves and improve educational opportunities for their children.
And its fake test scores got its leader, Beverly Hall, garlanded with the National Superintendent of the Year Award, the Administrator of the Year Award, the Distinguished Public Service Award, the Keystone Award for Leadership in Education, the Concerned Black Clergy Education Award, the American Association of School Administrators Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award and a zillion other phony-baloney baubles with which the American edu-fraud cartel scratches its own back."
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/federal-307529-news-gun.html
Dave, Re: Atlanta
And the comment by an APS Supporter "We must lower our Expectations" the standards are to high
This is like the Sask NDP when they were faced with teenage prostitution.. they lowered the age of consent..no more problem...
MSM's Bony Finger of Trooth.
Left-liberalism says, It's your fault.
H/T Ontario-Liberal-socialist McGuinty.
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"Visitors refusing to wash hands not helping outbreak, health officials say Toronto Sun"
http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0
Obama talked about his election being the moment when the oceans began to recede (or some similar garbage).
Well this coming Monday may mark when the global governance tide began to recede. Following the Canadian conservative partys lead, the GOP is about to do this:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/08/house-gop-set-to-repeal-incandescent-bulb-ban/
The long slow but inevitable rout begins...
More cuts to the arts of left-liberalism.
"OPSEU is urging members to wear pink and "cuts hurt" Band-Aids at work to protest the cuts."
Da choice? Hobson's choice: Big Satan PC Hudak or Little Satan Liberal-socialist McGuinty.
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"Five-thousand Visits to Sexual Health Clinic in Three Months"
"It was a busy spring at the Ottawa Sexual Health Clinic."
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"'Pink Slip' Thursday: OPSEU"
"... more job cuts are planned for next year if the Liberals win the October 6th election.
OPSEU says that if elected, the Conservatives under Leader Tim Hudak will cut even more jobs and privatize services."
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=80430
I'm not a fat ninja. I'm wearing a niqab
http://ezralevant.com/2011/07/im-not-a-fat-ninja-im-wearing.html
Ezra hits another home run! Thankyou for the link Revnant Dream.
loki - every single soul in North America should read the link you have given us. Forewarned is forearmed.
@ loki, regarding the link @ 6:06, would this be 666?
PET Cemetery: A Can-Am Report.
Welcome FDR Cemetery:
"Socialism is theft made possible by deceit, murder, and calumny. Never forget it."
"For my entire life on this planet the initials FDR stood for sainthood.
No matter what the real history was. No matter what ruination was brought to the doorsteps of this country and its constitution. FDR was sanctified not for what he did but mostly for what he WANTED to do.
We have had policy based on dreams turned into nightmares.
You say that the Democratic Party is over? Not when they continue to import losers as part of our immigration laws, not when they have created addicts on the public teat, not when they too will see their livelihoods diminished.
Should the majority find the waning days of liberalism/progressivism/fascism/Marxism/socialism a warning in the years to come, someone somewhere will continue to resurrect it and tart it up in new rags, disguised to appeal and prevail.
Any democrat who runs for higher office should have the mantle of Obama hung from their neck and they should be made to bear the brunt of the decisions of others. They should all be tarnished by the same brush because you can bet they will still be hellbent on the resurrection of the same hideous policies.
The left is all Obama, all the time. He is rightfully the face of the bogeyman, the destroyer, the malignancy of left wing politics, an ideology that ultimately enslaves, dehumanizes, and at its core, it just another con job, a blueprint for breaking and entering, a haven for millions of thieves.
Socialism is theft made possible by deceit, murder, and calumny. Never forget it."
H/T "86. Betina"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/07/08/out-of-a-job/#more-15611
Check this out, a 3D printer, absolutely amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"onanistic hate junkies" !!!
You've come a long way, winged monkeys!
That 3D printer: WOW!!
Thanks, Lev.