The woman was given her marching orders after her havoc-wreaking hog began walking up and down the aisles. Even attempts to strap it to an arm rest failed to settle the farmyard animal on the flight from Connecticut.

Source: Woman kicked off flight after emotional support PIG became rowdy

According to Wikipedia:

Service animals are animals that have been trained to perform tasks that assist disabled people. Service animals may also be referred to as assistance animals, assist animals, support animals, or helper animals depending on the country and the animal’s function.

I am getting the small hint that people are starting to abuse the whole Service Animal thing. Therapeutic pigs? I reckon if you need to search for truffles at your destination or have a sudden urge to have some “supportive” BBQ, you may need a service pig.

Other than that, just hire Rosie O’Donnell. No, wait. She will also run up and down the aisle, squealing and being the obnoxious creature she can be. Just get a chihuahua.

Update: Reader @TXVB  sends us an interesting info with a link

Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals. Where are they allowed and under what conditions?

“Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA”

Well, well, well. And it makes sense too.

Apparently a Shero is a hero for the Women’s Lib causes.  Let me see if I get this right: Mattel is making a doll that celebrates a woman who follows a religion makes her subordinate to man who is allowed to beat her and stone her, she is  considered sub-human. But just because he wore a hijab as part of the Olympic Fencing team in which she was beaten like a cheap rug during Spring Cleaning she is some sort of role model to follow?

So the message from Mattel to girls is : Be a stupid loser, allow yourself to be treated like shit and buy our products.

PS: I wonder if Sharia Barbie comes with hole in the ground and rocks to be used in her stoning.

So this made the news:

If you go over The Guardian Facebook page, you will see all sort of Brits gleefully in favor of the execution of our President by a foreign government. Nothing surprising there, but since they are on their way to get “shari-ed” up the ass in the Caliphate of Al-Anglia, I don’t care much.

However, here are home:

Yup, those are our fellow citizens siding with a communist leader who is starving people to death, has a vast network of concentration camps where whole families are dying slowly and he is playing with nuclear shit to see what he can kill.

Apparently Trump is worse and needs to be eliminated according to these idiots. Now imagine the contempt and wishes they may have for us, the common folk.

Tree of Liberty and all that.

Insurance Company: Dear Mr. G, we are sorry but we have to deny your pain elimination procedure.
Me: Why is that?
IC: Our doctors have determined that other methods can be used to manage the pain.
Me: Such as?
IC: Therapy for starters.
Me: Wait, I can barely move and you want me to bend and twist and shit, things that I can’t do because of the pain?
IC: And we can control your pain via medication.
Me: If you actually have seen the reports, you know opioids in low levels don’t do shit to me and I refuse to ingest enough of  that crap till I am a zombie. Perhaps you have heard about the opioid deaths across the country?
IC: Then you can have the localized injections.
Me: The ones I already had and work only for a very short time? You want me to be stabbed regularly in the back with huge needles?
IC: Mr. G, you must understand how medicine works…
Me: I know how my body works and feels. But what intrigues me is why I have to do all this crap before the procedure. It will not work, it will take probably another year and cost a shitload more than if I just go straight with the procedure. Right?
IC: (Crickets)
Me: You are just going through a fucking list, ain’t you? All boxes must be check-marked before continuing?
IC: We’ll get back to you.

I know there are not many soccer fans here, but it is daddy’s blog and I shall post what I want.

Italy failed to classify for the World Cup. 

Italy has always been one of the top teams in the World Cup. The last time they did not make it was before I was born more than half a century ago. Soccer is the second religion of Italy close behind Catholicism… and then maybe I am being too conservative.

I have been trying to find an equivalent in the US, but I can’t. We are talking an important part of the soul of the Country has been soiled and it has to be hurting the most that they lost against Sweden, a good team but not historically a great team. I would not be surprised that the Coach and players are under police protection right now.

Economically, FIFA is gonna take it in the chin. The Tifosi (Fans of Italian soccer) will now not give a damn  about the World Cup and will not watch it. And I am not talking just Italy but millions of descendants of immigrants that left before and after WWII and moved to the Americas. Even in soccer countries like Brazil and Argentina, the Italian team has dyed-in-the-wool fans just because it is a family thing. The rest of the big teams have classified, but still is gonna affect the bottom line.

The good news? A bunch of tickets pre-assigned to Italian fans will now be available.

Somebody will be offended.

(Dam it! I hit PUBLISH rather than Schedule)

TAMPA — A 60-year-old man was shot and killed before dawn Tuesday morning in Seminole Heights, the fourth victim in a series of killings in the neighborhood that started last month, Tampa police said.

The victim was identified as Ronald Felton, 60, of Tampa, an unemployed construction worker who volunteered several times a week at a food bank near the shooting scene…

…Investigators believe the shooting is connected to the three previous slayings in Southeast Seminole Heights…

Source: Police say shooting death of Tampa man, 60, is likely fourth in Seminole Heights killings

They even have video of the suspect.

So how come we have not heard this in the National news? The three major TV News networks plus CNN should have remote truck parked 24-7 in a hotel somewhat nearby where the killings are occurring, how come they don’t?

…Police described the suspect in a news release as a black male, 6-foot to 6-foot-2, with a thin build and light complexion and armed with a large black pistol. He was last seen wearing all black clothing. At the news conference, police said he was wearing a baseball cap.

OK, I got it now. Never mind… the killings may continue to go unreported outside the State of Florida.