Too Cold

New rule, I don't blog when it is below 5° Fahrenheit outside. The morning walk with Dempsey was so cold that even he showed no desire to play at the park. When I took his leash off, he just sat there and looked at me. Eventually he ran around a little bit and did some sniffing, but it was not long before we headed for the home front. As soon as we got home, he headed back to bed, curled up in a ball and buried all exposed appendages under his tail.

In the news from yesterday . . . one of the most amusing movie parodies has been parodied in real life. Back when the Austin Powers franchise was funny, they wrote stuff like the scene below:

It is their take on Oddjob from Goldfinger and his hat throwing skill. Below is the Iraqi press version of the same scene.



The reporter is being praised as a hero throughout Iraq for his actions. With the first shoe came the exclamation, "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!" With the second, "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq." I'm assuming in the first example, he wasn't using "dog" as in the street vernacular (see: What up dog!?). Had Bush been a real man, he would have defended himself with a flying wingtip of his own, but instead maintained a look of shock and awe. That would have been the greatest lame duck move in the history of time.

Hats off to the caption writer at Fox News, "Pres Bush ducks when Iraqi man throws his shoes at him" . . . even with the sound turned down, I was able to figure out what was going on in the clip thanks to that one. It is no wonder the world thinks we are stupid.