Sometimes you just gotta shake your head...

[Amianthus]

I was just reading "Mock the Stupid" and this one guy was talking about something that happened when he was voting yesterday. Apparently someone tried to bring his dog into the polling area and was told that he couldn't. He left yelling about how his vote was being denied.

<sigh>

[Christians4LessGvt]

re:"Apparently someone tried to bring his dog into the polling area and was told that he couldn't"

dogs have replaced children in white society
whites dont have kids any more
so they buy dogs
not just one dog anymore
they buy 2, 3, or 4 dogs or maybe mix it up with 2 dogs/2 cats
then they divert all that natural love/attention they used to give children and/or lots of grandchildren to dogs/cats
they even allow their dogs to sleep in their beds and under the covers!
we should have bought stock in Petsmart to take advantage of this mental illness
you see news stories of some whack job holed up in their house with 50-100 dogs
i see loonies all the time trying to take their dogs into malls/stores/even restuarants
Lowes Hardware allows this crap
But they will halt the non-sense after a big dog fight happens
and they get sued because someone gets injured
so it doesn't surprise me that some loonie tried to vote with one
i bet it was a democrat

[The_Professor]

The dog was yelling this? Pretty good grammar for a dog.

[sirs]

Likely another example of how a voter was supposedly "disenfranchised"

[Rich]

Let's just hope the dogs owner wasn't Black.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Lowes Hardware allows this crap
But they will halt the non-sense after a big dog fight happens
and they get sued because someone gets injured
so it doesn't surprise me that some loonie tried to vote with one
i bet it was a democrat

==================================================================
I find it amusing that you think that people who think of their dogs are somehow Democrats, because you are less a doglover.

I think research might show that Republicans tend to have more Dobermans, German and Belgian Shepards, Mastiffs, Pitbulls and other large breeds, while Democrats prefer Jack Russell Terriers, Chihuahuas, Peekapoos, Poodles and small anklebiters.

I have no scientific research on this, but my daughter has a dog-walking business in Atlanta, and we have discussed the issue of who has what sort of dog at length. Hardly anyone with a large SUV like a Suburban, a Durango, Expedition or Hummer owns a small dog. People who like large guzzler SUVs like huge dogs, at least in Atlanta.

I think you would find that cat lovers are probably equally spread over all political spectrums.

Pets are substitutes for children to many, many Americans. I don't think this is an illness at all. I do own a cat, but I never take her out for any reason other than to see the vet. She hates to travel. She's not fond of the vet, either. There are too many big dogs in his office.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Let's just hope the dogs owner wasn't Black.

===================================================
Perhaps the dog was black, though.
There seems to be almost no discrimination based on color against pets.
My cat is a Sylvester-style black and white kitty, and yet she gets along with ginger cats, black cats and even pale white cats, who seems to be deaf. No one seems to dislike my cat because of her color. There are some who dislike her for being feline, though.

[Rich]

>I think research might show that Republicans tend to have more Dobermans, German and Belgian Shepards, Mastiffs, Pitbulls and other large breeds, while Democrats prefer Jack Russell Terriers, Chihuahuas, Peekapoos, Poodles and small anklebiters.<<

Another myth BO found rattling around in his head.

I think research might show ....  .... to much.

[Xavier_Onassis]

And yet YOU thinking that people who dote on their pets must be Democrats is perfectly normal.

I suggest you observe the pets you see in traffic. Large dogs seem to predominate in large vehicles. Some of which have bumperstickers.

People with large dogs tend to be motivated more by fear. Large dogs have the purpose of defense, while no burglar would be deterred too long by a Peekapoo.

[Amianthus]

Hardly anyone with a large SUV like a Suburban, a Durango, Expedition or Hummer owns a small dog. People who like large guzzler SUVs like huge dogs, at least in Atlanta.

And, of course, you now assume that anyone who owns an SUV is a Republican.

As I told Brass a few times, most of the SUVs around here had Kerry stickers on 'em last election cycle.

[Rich]

>>And yet YOU thinking that people who dote on their pets must be Democrats is perfectly normal.<<

Another myth heard from. Or perhaps this is just an outright lie (paranoid delusons?).

Sirs really has you pegged.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am simply making conversation here.

People often buy huge SUV's because they feel safer. People seem to like Dobermans and other guard dogs for the same reason. People who like one sort of big things often like other big things.

Perhaps what I have observed in Miami and my daughter has observed in Atlanta does not apply elsewhere.
I am simply commenting on what I have observed.

Richie seems to enjoy naysaying more than discussion. He probably thinks the words are pronounced tomato, potato and either as well. (Fill in the 'other' pronunciation).

I suggest that nothing one might say about people's preference for cars or dogs could be subject to paranoid delusions.

I don't think that an opinion can be a lie, either.

[Michael Tee]

Here's my totally unsubstantiated theory of dog ownership:
1.  Academics and innalekshuals tend to own cats and not dogs;
2.  Childless couples, dogs (more fun to be with, more romping outdoors)
3.  Fascists and militarists, powerful, menacing dogs:  Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Doberman Pinschers.  These are physically or mentally insecure people who identify vicariously with the power of a military force and rely upon that identification to assuage their true inner feelings of insignificance and powerlessness.  The dog, on a much lesser scale, serves the same psychological purpose as the military. 
5.  Democrats:  Democrats are more imaginative and creative than Republicans, so they tend to be all over the map in dog ownership - - those with "Lord of the Manor" fantasies can get Old English Sheepdogs or Airedales, or they can go for cute, small and practical in homage to their working-class backgrounds, working dogs like Jack Russell Terriers, kids' dogs (cocker spaniels, dachshunds,) trademark dogs (the Haig & Haig Scotch terriers) - - except for the scary guard dogs, all kinds of dogs - - particularly mutts - - can be found in Democratic households.
6.  Women, traditional:  smaller dogs, "cute" dogs; or cats.
7.  Women, feminist, "liberated:"  same dogs as "men," i.e., as fascist and militarist men, simply to prove a point; or if they are beyond proving points, then cats, smaller dogs, cuter dogs.

[Christians4LessGvt]

I find it amusing that you think that people who think of their dogs are somehow Democrats

uh? where did I say that?
i jokingly stated that someone that attempts to bring a dog into vote with them must be a democrat

because you are less a doglover.

x i in fact love dogs
i just think alot of people seem to be becoming obsessed with dogs
i think it is further evidence of people becoming loners
a dog won't divorce you
a dog won't lie to you
a dog won't tell you to go to hell
instead of dealing with reality, dealing with people
dogs/cats are therapy
people talk to them just like they are other humans
a release

but honestly i see many becoming compulsive/obsessive
"honey, I want to get another new puppy, it doesn't matter we already have 3 dogs"
yeah a new puppy is like a shot of morphine
my best friend now has 4 dogs and 3 cats, and yes they all live in the house
and the house smells like shit
my best friend's wife calls her dad every single day with a "doggie report"
she tells the dog's "grandpa" a full report on what they have eaten for the day
how many bowl movements they have had
that they have had their daily bath
these friends decided they dont want kids
hey, it's their life
but that doesn't mean i must refrain from realizing her pet complusive insanity

as a society, lets abort the babies and replace them with dogs
great idea
 

[Amianthus]

You forgot #4.

Regardless, larger dogs are friendly than smaller dogs. My GSD would immobilize people who came into the yard by rolling over onto their feet and beg for a tummy rub. It's only insecure people who think that "big" must be "mean."