So, with Iran's aberrant President on a road trip to Syria bucking up a peevish Hafez assad with all the reasons why Islam is putting a happy face on terror and why Hafez should stop worrying and love the bomb, a splenetic Hillary screeching on and off about the plantation, a witless Kerry busily dissing the NSa but saying he'll probably not vote to cut their funding before he does, a grating al Gore stridently shrieking about search warrants and the meaning of adobe, an increasingly daft Ted Kennedy's staff finally finding some little known codicil that'll finally sink the good ship alioto, a gagged up Howard Dean bawling nonsense about something he can't quite put his finger on, but pretty sure it has to do with Bush, and with the usual ludricrousness emanating from the noted parlor liberal and idiot savant, George Clooney, there's an increasing perception that the animal kingdom is putting this crowd to utter shame.
It appears clearly that our pets are taking far better care of us than the Islamist moolahs, the poncing Democratic party poobahs and all the politicized illiberal movie stars you can shake a stick at.
Harry Truman once said that, in Washington, if you want a friend, get a dog. I think he had something there.
Let's take a look at some recent stories.
Last November, Michael Bosch, of San Rafael, California, adopted Honey, a cocker spaniel, from a local shelter, after waiting a long time to find a member of this particular breed, just two weeks before his near fatal accident.
Then, as he backed out his driveway, he went a little too far and plunged over an embankment, landing upside down in his SUV with Honey trapped inside with him. Hanging upside down, it took Bosch a considerable bit of time to free the dog, then to get his window down and let her loose on a quest for assistance.
In a scene seemingly lifted from the Lassie TV series, Honey ran a half mile to the nearest neighbor's house and barked so incessantly and ran in the direction of the wreck so often that neighbors eventually responded with the county fire department, saving Bosch's life.
Then in early January, Tommy the cat saved Gary Rosheisen's life in Columbus, Ohio.
Gary had originally acquired Tommy in an effort to lower his blood pressure. During the course of his ownership, Gary attempted to introduce the cat to the vagaries of the telephone 911 sequence, never really knowing if the feline understood his attempts and would be able to perform the life saving functions if called upon.
Rosheisen is wheelchair bound and had fallen to the floor on that fateful day, unable to reach the telephone or the push button by his pillow.
Somehow, the minimal training had made a difference and Tommy was able to knock the phone off the cradle and punch in 911, reaching the police, who dispatched Officer Patrick Daugherty, when the dispatcher could contact no one at the end of the line.
as he entered the apartment, the police officer found the usually shy Tommy the cat sitting next to the telephone.
Just a few days ago, in the State of Washington, two dogs saved the life of another man.
Bill Burns, who suffered a black out due to a problem with his medication, had collapsed in a rural pasture in the company of his two Labrador retrievers, Dusty and Butch.
a passing sheriff's deputy noticed a flashing light coming from the middle of a maize field and stopped to investigate.
When he approached he found Dusty lying on top of Bill, apparently keeping him warm, with Butch circling around the pair, waiving the flashlight he was holding in his mouth--the flashing beacon which had piqued the interest of Deputy Hoffman.
Medical aid was summoned and Burns, too, survived.
Hey, folks, the animals are telling us something. Sure, cats and dogs have alerted us to earthquakes and fires for years and now they're really going out on a limb for us and laying it on the line, time after time, with our safety in mind.
and now dogs are helping researchers sniff out cancers, as well. Researchers in Massachusetts and California are using dogs to detect the smell of a number of cancers and eventually hope to refine the methods so that the dogs can detect cancers on the breath of patients before the cancers can be found by current laboratory procedures, again providing us with life saving assistance. a few of the dogs in the study are able to detect cancerous samples in numbers approaching 90% of the time.
So, while the liberals refuse to actively involve themselves in our national security and put our lives at risk by their negligence, their adherence to their tired and antiquated "value" based issues and their banging on about the rights of our enemies, our pets are walking the line for them.
I'm hoping that my two English setters have paid some attention to my training on the 911 system and that Digby the cat stays on his toes. I think they'll provide my family with a lot more support, when push comes to shove, than all the left-wing windbags combined.
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