He's a beloved mayor, who's held the top office in Talkeetna, Alaska, for 16 years. So imagine the townfolks' shock when he was attacked.
Brutally mauled.
By a dog.
Oh, did we mention, this mayor's a cat?
Mayor Stubbs, a yellow tabby with more responsibility than your average cat, survived -- but is in bad shape.
A punctured lung. A fractured sternum. A 5-inch gash on his side.
Doctors took out a chest tube Tuesday, and he was breathing on his own for the first time since the weekend attack.
"It's a shame," said Ashley Kearns, who works at a pizza shop in the small town about 110 miles north of Anchorage. "He's the mayor, it's not a joke. I know it's ridiculous, but the town is run really well."
Well that is just horrible and I hope Mayor Stubbs makes a full recovery. (I might suggest that his first order of business when he returns to office is to make it illegal to be a dog in Talkeetna.)
I would also like to point out how unfair it is that such an easygoing, and universally beloved mayor has been attacked in such a brutal fashion.
I mean Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla for six years and nobody tried to maul her!
The same goes for Anchorage's current mayor Dan Sullivan. He is despised by at least half of the citizens yet his sternum remains fracture free!
Now don't get me wrong I am not suggesting that anybody SHOULD do such a thing, I am simply pointing out how it always seems to be the innocent who suffer up here in Alaska while the guilty remain living high on the hog. (No offense to hogs.)
I'm a huge cat lover and wish the Mayor a speedy recovery. What a tragic event!
ReplyDeleteIf I were the Mayor, I'd declare that dogs not be allowed to run free in HIS town! If they are arrested, they are to remain in a cage as long as the process takes for the Mayor to go through his healing process.
What happened to the dog that attacked him? Hopefully, he has been talked to and will be trained to be a better neighbor!
If anyone knows a contact or address for donations to help with his medical care .... I'd love to hear it. After all ..... how many politicians are concerned with providing their constituents with food, medical care, warm place to sleep and a little catnip to help pass the time? This one gets my support. Hope the little guy pulls through.
ReplyDeleteThat cat don't need no city manager to clean up behind him. Unlike Sarah, he knows not to shit on the trail. (Go behind a tree next time, Sarah, you dumb shit.)
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that.
ReplyDeleteUnleashed dogs and roaming cats don't mix well.
This is O/T but Gryphen you have GOT to see this! Beefy just posted an "alleged" picture of Baldy "crying" over a ring the Toad gave her on their anniversary!
ReplyDeleteNow you can't tell me that Baldy doesn't read here! Check out this picture and would love to have a caption contest of what the Toad is REALLY saying to her to make Baldy fake some tears!
My caption would be....
Toad: "Sorry Juicy...the Feds are going to indict you for Dairygate...the blackmail tapes aren't going to work this time...they're on VHS and BaldyPac can't afford to transfer them to DVD!"
Pic.....
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=579008218825301&set=a.110796025646525.13741.109696302423164&type=1&relevant_count=1
Sarah Palin's offensive remarks about Syria
ReplyDelete"Let Allah sort it out."
That is Sarah Palin's succinct argument against U.S. intervention into Syria. And I have to be honest: I'm impressed with Palin on this one. Not with her horribly callous recommendation, made via Facebook late last week, but because she appears to speak some Arabic.
I'm not saying Palin is fluent in the language, but she did use the Arabic word "Allah." She could've simply used the word "God" instead of Allah since it has the identical meaning. (Christian Arabs use the word Allah when speaking of God in Arabic.)
I think deep down she wanted to show off her language skills.
Could Palin know even more Arabic? She did go on to say that both sides fighting in Syria are, "shouting 'Allah Akbar' at each other."
She could've easily translated "Allah Akbar" into English, noting that the combatants were screaming, "God is great." Or as Sen. John McCain remarked Tuesday on Fox News, "Allah Akbar" is no different than an American Christian saying, "Thank God."
But Palin went with the Arabic. Why? Because I think deep down she loves the language. And I bet Palin knows even more Arabic words such as humus, falafel and possibly babaganoush.
So, let's get back to her statement, "Let Allah sort them out."
Now, there is a possibility that Palin believes that Muslims worship a different God than Christians and Jews. If she does, is she's actually saying that we should sit back and revel in watching Muslims slaughter each other? Could that be her barbaric message? Possibly.
But my cynical side tells me that Palin was just trying to use inflammatory language to get attention. (I know what you're saying: "No, our Sarah Palin would never do that.")
But let's not forget what Palin said about President Barack Obama's comments on Libya: "Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end." Palin was roundly criticized for using "shuck and jive," which is a term dating back to 1870s and was originally a "Southern 'Negro' expression for clowning, lying, pretense."
Palin denied she was being racially insensitive in using that phrase. Was it just an inadvertent slip or a ploy to draw media coverage?
So what's the genesis of Palin's statement, "Let Allah sort it out"?
Well, it appears to be based on the infamous phrase: "Kill them all, let God sort them out." This term reportedly comes from the time of the Crusades. You know, those "holy wars" waged by Christians that Sarah might refer to in her Arabic as a "jihad."
However, this expression was not coined in a battle between Muslims and Christians. Rather, legend has it that it was uttered by a Catholic monk in the 13th century as Crusaders were about to lay siege to the French city of Beziers, a town filled with Cathars, who were considered heretics to the Catholic Church.
When the monk in charge of the assault, Arnaud Amalric, was asked by the military commander how to distinguish between heretics and Christians, the monk responded: "Kill them all, God will know his own." Consequently, 20,000 people were slaughtered, including women and children.
It's unclear if Palin comprehends the origins of the phrase she used, but what's abundantly clear is that she believes that the U.S. should do nothing while people are being slaughtered in Syria.
I'm not sure to what God she prays, but I can assure her that the God of Christians, Jews and Muslims demands more than silence in the face of mass killings -- some 100,000 people, including scores of women and children.
ReplyDeleteIn the future, if Sarah Palin is going to show off her Arabic vocabulary, it's my hope that she doesn't use it to encourage the world to turn a blind eye as innocent people are butchered.
Instead, she might use an Arabic word such as "salaam," which means "peace," and encourages people to support a policy that brings an end to the fighting. After all, peace means the same thing in every language.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/opinion/obeidallah-palin-arabic/