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Iza leaned down into her board, slicing through the surf at Linda Mar Beach, the cheers from spectators filling the air. Moments before running aground, she leaped off the board and gave a shake. Iza, a 5-year-old French bulldog, was one of more than a dozen canine competitors who traveled to Pacifica from as far as Brazil to participate in Saturday’s annual World Dog Surfing Championships with their humans. Dogs surfed alone and in tandem with their humans, in roiling waves that one human compared to a washing machine. Thousands of spectators filled the beach, braving fog and 55-degree air,...

From the "Mountain out of a Molehill" files comes the story of how outraged the left is over the picture of Trig Palin standing on the family dog. "OUTRAGEOUS!" scream the ninnies on the left: “It’s odd that anyone — let alone a mother — would find it appropriate to post such a thing, with no apparent sympathy for the dog in the photo.” whines PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Then again, PETA, along with everyone else, is used to the hard-hearted, seeming obliviousness of this bizarrely callous woman.” adds Newkirk, whose organization slaughters kittens. And there was more: She pointed...

The dog-eating reference is a dig at the current inhabitant of the Oval Office, via his memoir "Dreams From My Father", notes Politico, in which President Obama discusses eating dog meat in Indonesia. Palin asks, "Did you go crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dog meat?"

Once again, Sarah Palin has made her critics look like idiots. A fake controversy (I like the neologism, fakeroversy) was generated when PETA expressed outrage over a picture of Palin posted of her Down syndrome son Trig standing on his service dog, named Jill Hadassah, a black Labrador.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1788 HomeLatest Columns PoliticsLaw and GovernmentMediaSocial IssuesEconomyNational SecurityForeign AffairsScience and TechnologySports and CultureReligionEducationUnyielding Quick TakesLU Web CrawlerAbout About UsSubscribePrivacy PolicyContact UsAdvertising Our Webstore Home / Media / Libs outraged by Palin pic of kid standing on dog; delighted when Ellen posts same Libs outraged by Palin pic of kid standing on dog; delighted when Ellen posts sameBy Michael Dorstewitz on January 3, 2015 at 1:19 pm Source: www.tpnn.com When former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ushered in the New Year Thursday by posting...

If it’s January 1st it must be time to do some trolling to see what Sarah Palin has done wrong so far this year. And sure enough - right out of the box she’s been caught red-handed engaging in animal abuse. No, not moose hunting this time; dog cruelty:Trig Palin stands on family dog to reach the sinkEric Ericson, editor of Red State and well known animal rights activist, responded:Ellen gets a pass though because, well, you know…she’s a lesbian.Seriously, this is probably not a good idea, butt if you’re going to allow it might I suggest a somewhat larger...

Is this an actual fake outrage, where partisans pretend to be offended at something to play up the supposed inhumanity of their opponents, or is it a fake fake outrage, where only a few even bother to pretend but the media seizes on it anyway because it’s a “controversy,” sort of, and they’re bored? For the moment, it looks like it’s being pushed not so much by American liberals but by foreign press — the Independent, an Irish newspaper, and the always buzz-hungry Daily Mail. Turns out Facebook commenters grumbling at a former VP nominee now qualifies as international...

Sarah Palin has sparked outrage by posting pictures on Facebook of her son standing on her dog.

Yesterday, Governor Palin shared a seemingly benign "happy new year" Facebook  post that included photos of her son Trig using their dog, Jill Hadassa, as a footstool of sorts. True to form, the media and the Left (pardon the redundancy) jumped at the opportunity to express their outrage. Animal rights groups also made their disapproval  of the photos known as well, per POLITICO: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called the post inappropriate.“It’s odd that anyone — let alone a mother — would find it appropriate to post such a thing, with no apparent sympathy for the dog in the photo,” PETA President Ingrid...