Roderick Lewis Bites Police Dog - and Holds On

A West Haven, Connecticut police officer grabbed the arm of Roderick Lewis as Lewis demanded drugs (angel dust) and reached into his waistband. Lewis then struck Officer Scott Bloom in the face. Bloom's police dog, Onyx, jumped from the police cruiser and latched onto Onyx's leg. Lewis then bit into the dog's side...and held on until Bloom eventually pulled the looney off of Onyx. Along with other charges, Lewis is charged with cruelty to animals. Bloom and Onyx were both treated for injuries. Source.

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Carson-Gore Academy Toxic: Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences Built on Toxic Dirt

The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is scheduled to receive 675 high school students on September 13th, 2010 in the Arlington Heights area of Los Angeles. But...the monument school named after Rachel Carson and Al Gore has been built on "toxic" dirt. The $75 million school "naming" committee chose "Carson-Gore" to first honor Rachel Carson, the killer of millions of African babies after successfully getting DDT banned almost world-wide, and the former Vice-President and author Al Gore, who has worked feverishly to murder the America economy and steal the wallets of all Americans through his "green" initiatives. After cleaning up the toxic dirt under the school, if that's possible, Gore and Carson will remain toxic to humans. Do we have any doubt that the teachers at this "academy" will be toxic to our children?

This LA Times article says construction workers worked "up to" the Labor Day weekend replacing the toxic dirt from two 3,800 square-foot plots - to a depth of 45 feet - enough to hold a four-story building. It is unclear whether the building has now been deemed safe. The school principal plans to install an organic food garden, but the seeds will not be sown in above-ground planters.

From The Blaze:

Before settling on honoring Gore, the school’s naming committee teased the idea of naming the school after a communist, but that idea was dropped after one member of the committee objected:

In the spring, a school-naming committee received six options, including Pete Seeger Community School. A representative from school board member Marguerite suggested that the folk singer’s “affiliation with the Communist Party among other factors, made that choice inappropriate, two in attendance recalled.

Read more about Rachel Carson who convinced environmentalists, and governments, that spraying with DDT to kill mosquito-borne diseases...the only effective preventative for malaria, was harmful when in fact, it was life-saving. Keep this in mind, a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. If you survive it, it reoccurs all though-out the life-span. There is no cure. World-wide, there are 250 million new malaria cases, and 1 million die every year. The Natonal Institutes of Health in 2007 said, "the ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children." If you are worried about DDT and a connection to the eagle population, you'll find this interesting.

Aside from naming a school after Carson and Gore, what's up with a $75 million school in a state on the verge of bankruptcy with a governor begging the fed to bail him out?

Thin-Skinned, Bratish President Treated Like a Dog

Obama speaking in Milwaukee today explained how he will stimulate the economy, yet again, for a bargain basement price of $50,000,000,000 taxpayers dollars.  But this juvenile thumb-sucking president denigrated and insulted dogs everywhere by whining that Republicans "talk about me like a dog." No examples were offered. New video added.

Treated Like a Dog - Get it at Zazzle

Democrats must know if they vote for this thing, their career as a public extortioner is over.

But then Ed Morrissey at Hot Air differs:

Don’t be too sure it won’t pass Congress before November.  Transportation bills like this give Capitol Hill denizens plenty of opportunity to get pork for their home districts and states.  In this election cycle, pork may be all Democrats can use as an argument for re-election.  They certainly larded the first stimulus bill with plenty of home-town pork, and with $50 billion more in borrowed cash, don’t expect them to be shy the second time around.

However, don’t expect it to work, either.  The original Porkulus had $105 billion in so-called “infrastructure investments,” and none of it produced any economic growth.  Transportation accounted for $48 billion; energy infrastructure and R&D got the same amount of money.  Housing got $10 billion.  Front loaded or not, the money got allocated and borrowed, and we’re back to flatlining economic growth just eighteen months later — only now we have a lot more debt on top of the other problems we had. 

From the Green Room, Doctor Zero:

President Obama “unveiled” his new “stimulus” plan in Wisconsin today.  It was a lot like watching an alcoholic unveil his new plan to get sober by switching to lite beer

But Daily Kos writer Joan McCarter, believes this is excellent news - "a solid, job-creating policy," she says, and even provides a White House "fact sheet" for us.  Republicans will have a tough time talking this one down according to McCarter.

I'm keeping my money on this expenditure failing, and I call on Obama to apologize to dogs everywhere. By the way, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold (D) was a no-show for the Obama speech. He wanted none of it. Remember when O referred to himself as 'Mutt?'  Source



Obama the 'Mutt' - They Talk About Me Like I'm a Dog (video

Two Goats Rescued from 6" Ledge

Two young Montana goats wandered onto a 6" slice of ledge under a railroad bridge and spent two days 60 feet above ground. There was a slightly wider piece of concrete just a few steps away from the female goats but they curiously stayed on the narrowest part - except to urinate. When the the urge came, they made their way to the wider strip of concrete, and then back to their 6" slice. See the rescue video below.

Two Goats on a Ledge

The Rimrock Humane Society rescued the two little ones with a piece of equipment much like a cherry picker, supplied by Signal Peak Energy.

Church [humane society president] said it wasn't clear how the nimble-footed animals got into the predicament, but she speculated they wandered onto the ledge at night then froze after the sun rose and they discovered where they were.

Montana Goat Rescue (video)

Bull Jumps Crowd Two Videos

This amazing video shows a bull leaping into the crowd in Tafalla, Spain. He jumps on, tramples the audience and gored at least one person. See the video below.

Why would the bull do this?

The incident happened during an event in which people try to provoke the bull to charge them.

The bull had already jumped twice into the alley surrounding the ring, police said. After damaging a horn, it was about to be returned to the corral when it escaped.

A 47-year-old man who was gored in the back was among half a dozen spectators taken by ambulance to the hospital at Pamplona, home to the San Fermín bull runs.

I don't get the attraction of bull-fighting. I was present when a famous Spanish soccer player was gored in the ring. If you can believe it, Americans who part of my travel group, actually rushed into the ring and saved the soccer player. It was bloody, emotional and frightening. See another excellent video of another bull charging into the stands - startling footage, along with some info on how fighting bulls are bred. Stay with the video at the linked above - just after the bull fight and see an incredible fight between two giraffes.


Bull Jumps Crowd in Spain (video)