The internet is a public place

If young men are doing something illegal, why would they feel the need to post it on YouTube?

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21665328/detail.html

Maybe the flaw in my reasoning is thinking teenage boys have brains to go with the testosterone they’re loaded with & I don’t take into account the definite lack of maturity that typifies a 19-year-old boy. That has to be it.

Finally, something I approve of

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34063281/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/

It’s about time, too. Not only is it painful, it’s inhumane. Have parts of your fingers cut off & see how you feel.

More Chinese imports

Uh oh

http://www.denverpost.com/rawnews/ci_13832286

I wonder if there is melamine in them. Or if it would even matter, given what they are.

Curious minds want to know: Are they watching for the stuff that goes in them?

Beauty fades, dumb is forever

Oh. My. There seriously are no words.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/hJeQqueXicc/now_thats_strategery.php

“Sarah Palin announces plan to crack down on Ahmadinejad by imposing sanctions on “Iraq“.

Why does this woman even talk in public???? And the nonsense continues:

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/palin-crack-down-on-iraq-to-prevent-nuclear-iran.php

“During her interview with Sean Hannity that aired last night, Sarah Palin made an interesting declaration: That we need to prevent a nuclear Iran by cracking down on “Iraq.”

Hannity asked what can be done to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. In her response, Palin seemed to be confused between Iraq and Iran:

“We have allies who are as concerned about Ahmadinejad’s actions as we are. We need to be working closer with France, and with Britain, and start, not just considering, but seriously taking steps towards the sanctions that we hear all about but we never see any actions towards, though.

“Cutting off the imports into Iraq, of their refined petroleum products. They’re reliant — 40 to 45 percent of their energy supply is reliant on those imports. We have some control over there.

“And some of the beneficial international monetary deals that Iraq benefits from — we can start implementing some sanctions there and start really shaking things up, and telling Ahmadinejad, nobody is going to stand for this.”

 

 

 

When I grow up……

I want this attitude:

http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/thanksgiving-letter-to-the-family-2009/

This lady reminds me of the way my Great-grandmother talked. When Chris first met her, he blushed. She was busy expressing her disapproval about something with her favorite staying: “Oh balls!” (When he heard that for the first time was when he blushed.) She was in her mid 90’s at that point, so who was going to comment about her language? She was incredible.

 

Why?

Do I continue to pay for cable television even though the majority of it irritates me?

During the day is a prime example. Lately, you can’t have ABC, NBC, or CBS on without being made ill by the repeated “news” of Palin. John McCain should be horsewhipped for bringing her out of Alaska.

Then there are the local channels. On there, it’s a glut of ads for sleazy personal injury ambulance chasers. Or the “colleges” whose credits don’t transfer, cost as much as a real 4 year college & prepares you for nothing.

If you go to Investigation Discovery (Comcast 271) all the ads are for the various insurance companies & Medicare Part D coverage. Or the “Jitterbug” phones for old people.

I have to take it easy on my back today, because tomorrow I have to do a deep clean on the 210. We’ve had a fish emergency here, in the 210, that took a professional to get it fixed. He showed me what I need to do & left instructions for another deep clean after 48 hours. Then he yelled at me because he saw me looking up where to buy diatom filters. According to him, I have plenty of filtration on the tank, to stop trying to spend money on something I don’t need. (Chris was listening & was in agreement, cretin that he is.) So no running the vacuum or doing baseboards. I have to be able to reach the back of the tank & that will require being on my step-ladder, bent over, stretching. I need a taller ladder.

Oh well. I have books.

Even England is having a hard time with it

I’m sticking with my original opinion. It isn’t the dog that’s bad, it’s the people who have them.

I read an article about the issues London (it appears) is having with dangerous dogs. They’re having no better luck than Denver is, in its ban of pit bull terriers. Claims being made about pits being a bad breed, because aggression has been “bred into them”. Well, in some respects, that’s true. But the dogs aren’t breeding themselves. People (the originators of the problems) are doing the selective breeding to get the aggression.

Good breeders, who genuinely love the breed for what they can be, are breeding the added aggression out of the pits. It can be done & it is being done. Careless breeding, or “cash cow” breeding is having an effect on Golden Retrievers. Are they next?

People talk about banning dangerous dogs. That won’t work. The very same people who want the dogs as mean as they can get them are the same ones who are telling the city/county/state to “ban this”. What is a dangerous dog, anyway? A dog that can cause a lot of damage? Mine could, in the right circumstances. But she’s protected by me. The little terrier who got out of his house last week could be considered dangerous to small children. Any dog could be dangerous. Doesn’t even have to be a dog. I’ve had blood drawn by my own parakeet & by one of my fish. Are they dangerous? Only to me. 

The problem isn’t the dogs. The problems are caused by people. People who are so sick they get their kicks watching dogs tear each other up. People who don’t care what happens to the dogs after they get their thrills. Those are the dangerous animals who should be wiped out. People like Michael Vick who got a slap on the wrist & was set free to go play, but the dogs were put down. Some were able to be re-homed, but a lot of them had to be killed because of the damage he & his did to them.

Wiping out the pit bull breeds won’t do any good. The sick suckers who have to torture something to get their jollies will just turn to another breed. To fix the problems, get rid of the cause.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/17/weapon-dogs-attacks-traits

h/t to Frank.

Could they find something else to complain about?

Without going into details of why, I get A LOT of emails from people on the right. Right now the particular content of those emails is the fact that Obama has/does/will bow to foreign leaders.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why. All they have to do is look at the people who that sign of respect is being shown to. Not to Gordon Brown, or Angela Merkel, certainly.

But, how about the KING of Saudi Arabia? The EMPEROR of Japan? The QUEEN of England?

These people are royalty in their respective countries. Bowing is a sign of respect. They aren’t elected, they’re born to their positions.

For my opinion: Obama isn’t doing anything that would take away from the power he holds as the President of the U.S. No, they aren’t his rulers, he has no “ruler” other than the population of this country. (Well, maybe his wife, in private.) He isn’t showing any sign of ’subservience’ to anyone, no matter what the right says. And after the damage that BushCo has done, it could be considered a little bit of good will.

With the displayed lack of morals & ethics, as well as the deviant personalities displayed by the Republicans in various offices, a person would think they had too much on their collective plates to worry about a sign of respect from one leader to a King, Queen, or Emperor of another country that said leader is visiting.

In other words: Chill out & worry about more important things here. Like running off all the independants & conservative democrats by foisting a nitwit on them, then wondering why they have no base left. I would think figuring that out would take everyone’s time.

Pass the Pepto, please

If a person had been marooned on a deserted island for years, then came back at this particular point in time, their first question would be something along the lines of:

“Who is the hottie in red that’s splashed all over the television & papers?”

For awhile they would be enthralled with her looks. But after listening to her word salad speeches along with her “getting even with everyone who slighted me” attitude, being enthralled would cease. Their next move would be to get back in their boat to go back to that deserted island. But they would be in for a surprise.

I would have beat them to it!

This fascination the general public has with that moron Palin is enough to make me sick to my stomach. Bad enough that I would consider taking Pepto, which the smell of that alone makes me gag. When is this flash in the pan gonna implode?

Feelin’ the need for a little snark?

Or maybe a lot. Go here:

http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/13/matthew-continetti-sees-moose-burgers-in-the-white-house-because-palin-is-more-popular-than-john-edwards/

‘Nuff said.