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BOO!!!~!

heh heh

~K

Think for Yourselves!

If you know me, then you know that on one social network I post a great deal about injustice, whether it is about Animal rights, or the Rights of the People in my country, the US. Why do I post so much? Because I hope if nothing else it makes someone else think. To take a trip out of their insular little world and look at the view of the larger picture and what is going on while they are not paying attention.

Some might say that I am a Liberal, but I do not care to be labeled. What I am about is Right VS Wrong, and not one party over another. Being a Democrat or a Republican these days is a far cry from what it once meant. So many people place themselves in a box and just vote the way they grew up. Checking a box is not thinking. What do you really know about the person you just voted for? Lord knows that politicians will say just about anything to get re-elected. They play on your fears and needs, and rarely keep their promises.

So I challenge you. Take down the names of the people who are causing our government to come to a stand still ever since they took office. It has become a circus of 'Tit for Tat'. Finger pointing, corruption, and a huge waste of the tax payers money. Why should we continue to support people who have failed at their jobs for the last 4 or more years? If we performed in a like manner we would surely all have been fired long ago.

Their job is really quite simple. What is best for the American people, and not what is best for their own Political party. Recently they have passed a bill with a rider that will protect a huge corporation ( Monsanto) from farmers and citizens suing them. This is a company that's number one goal is to control the world food market, make the fruits of the earth their own by patenting the seeds and making farmers pay for it each year. They are in a sense holding the people of this country hostage, and forcing us to buy their products. They are also destroying the environment, killing off the bees with their pesticides, and feeding us food that has been doctored with genetic material and poisons. And our government seems O.K. with this. Why? Money and Power.

The Political machine that once held great promise and was a shining symbol for the rest of the world is gone.
The system is broken beyond repair, and continues to spiral down. The rich are feathering their nests while the other 98% of our citizens struggle to to support ourselves and our families. Female rights are being disassembled. The children who live in poverty have had the source of their meals removed. Small farmers are disappearing. And Corporations run our government behind the curtain.

How to fix this:  Dump every single non-productive politician out of office and never allow them back. Elect people who want to make a difference. Remove corporate lobbyists from Congress, the Executive branch and the Judicial Branch.  As long as working for the government is a means for people to get rich and gain control nothing will ever change.  I am calling for a revolution of Ethics and not bloodshed.

I hope that some of you remember this come time for Elections. We can create change simply by not bringing these people back. Our voice is our vote. Empower us to be heard. Together our voice would shake the foundations if we but demand it.

~K

Dare to Drive

This will be a short sarky rant about bad drivers. Having been the recipient of an accident that has totally messed with my life for the past year, I feel justified in making these remarks. Distracted, stupid, and unnecessarily in too big a hurry..these people drive without a care for any other drivers on the road.
Last night within a miles distance I saw 2 people blast through a red light in my town. I'd appreciate if local law enforcement stopped looking for past due registrations and spent a little more time parked near local intersections.

A week does not go by that I fail to see stupidity on our roads. Left turns against traffic with little room to spare, light runners, driving without headlights, tailgaters, and speeders. It's like they have no fear of reprisal.
Or any respect or care of hurting another human being.

If they are on their phones, texting, or showing off for their friends in the back seat...it makes no difference.
Other than yelling, flipping the bird, or laying on our horns...what can we do to make people more responsible?

I wonder...can you use a taser on cars? One that can travel the distance and stop their car in its tracks?
Wishes...so end-eth the rant.

K

Caretakers

I know I have talked about my live in companion before. His name is Gilligan. And odd name you say? Well for my generation who grew up with Gilligan's Island, perhaps it's not. He is my little buddy, as the Skipper would have said.

In cat years Gilligan is approximately the same age as I am, early 50's. He is steadily affectionate, though he has his moments of nipping. I am not sure what that means to a cat, but I think that he believes in some way that I am his feline mother. Since cats communicate so differently from us, posture, body language, the look in their eyes, the swish of a tail...you have to be able to read them.

Gilligan does not 'nip' out of meanness. It is his way of talking. Either it means "Back off, you've crossed the line" or it means some totally cat. He listens and obeys as well as any pup, though he would be insulted if I shared that with him. He plays fetch, sometimes with straws carried just like a dog would carry a stick. He misses me when I am away, and I get the full share of his happiness and disapproval that I was gone.

How anyone can dislike cats? It just means to me that they have not lived with one and cared for them. They love, they miss, they mourn, and they are happy as much as any person or dog would. They just express it differently than a human or a dog.

I have come to believe that all animals feel love, grieve and share  happiness. I have seen enough proof in watching elephants, otters, lions, birds...to believe that humans do not have the exclusive on feeling. It is arrogant to the extreme that we can believe that we are better than all the other animals on this planet because we have a bigger brain.

That does not mean that animals are less. What they feel is pure because there is not greater thought behind, or reasoning. It is simply feeling. And if they can love, grieve and remember, that means that they have just as much right to life and the right to live as we do.

Society as as whole, decided years ago that animals are simply property. That they have no feelings, no fear, no grief. That is a lie that must be corrected. We have no right to use them for experimental purposes. If we would not do it to a human, then we should not do it to them.

They are hunted as a prize or a trophy. You just killed someone's mother. Just because they can not stand up and scream "You killed my mother!" Does not mean that they do not feel their loss, or anger at their death.
It is horribly egotistical of humans to place ourselves above another species because we can walk on two leg, converse and destroy with impunity.

We are failing to follow God's purpose on this planet, mostly out of greed and the need to place ourselves as the most powerful species on the earth. We are no more worthy of God's love then the other creatures who share this world with us. Otherwise..why would God have tasked Noah to take 2 of each animal aboard the ark? He wanted to preserve them as well.

It is only man who decided that we were better than,. It is only man who hunts for sport . It is only man who places himself at the top of the food chain. Animals don't care about power over another species..only man does.

We, who have the greatest responsibility to preserve all of God's creatures, have failed in so many ways.
It was entrusted to us to preserve and protect. Instead it is abuse and slavery that we have succeeded in.
This has to change, or we have failed as the protectors of God's children. Why? Because we are NOT his only children.

If they could speak for themselves they would,. It is up to us, the caretakers, to preserve their right to live, and respect them as fellow children of God.
Believe and love. Believe and share. Believe and protect.

K

Signs of my times-Fluff heads

I have always enjoyed my own company, and I believe the ability to be happy alone has a lot to do with how I grew up. I was the oldest, the only girl, and we moved a great deal in my growing years. Maybe not as much as some military brats might have, but it was an average of every two years from the time I was about 8.

I got used to making friends, and yes, as a preteen and teenager there were rocky years and some tears leaving those friends behind. A few I stayed in contact with for a while, pen pals and summer time visits. But generally speaking I got used to starting over, and lost the fear of time spent alone. At 13, of course, it was all angst, "woe is me" and sad poetry. But by the time I was 16 and we made our last move to California I was a great deal stronger than an average 16 year old would be entering her senior year at High School. I was an independent thinker and I liked that about myself.

Did I need someone making me feel bad for working to earn money for college? Umm, no. So when friends (said with a raised eyebrow) made remarks about me never being able to drop everything and go with them it was pretty much " Sorry, I'm working." And inside I was thinking "what friend makes you feel bad for something you have to do?" Yeah, I analyzed how I was treated.

It's not to say that I did not make my fair share of mistakes, but the friendships that did blossom lasted a long time, some are still with me. The thing was I was not dependent on someone else to make my day. (relationships..that's a whole other can of icky worms and Not included in this subject.) So many people I meet these days are constantly connected to someone else. I wonder if they know how to disconnect? How can they get through a day without telling somebody something trivial, sharing every emotion and living like lemmings/leaches dependent on others?

I feel like yelling sometimes.."Disconnect and find yourself!!" "You are melting into the mass hypnosis glop of too much technology!" "Read a DAMN book and learn something important!" Fluff filled heads. There is nothing fascinating about who did what, who they talked to, what they wore, what celebrity wore a bad bathing suit to the beach, and who has cellulite. It sickens me that a large part of kids these days think that stuff is news.

It's getting harder to find real news online when much is celebrity bullshit, tid bits on who is buying or wearing what, etc. When I find an article on an underwater discovery or some other science fact I latch on like it was gold. Even what they are passing as news is really just another way to make your feel that you want something, or need to have it...or YOU are missing out.

Because we have accepted the fluff without protest it has taken over our lives. The Media feeds us the  political agenda of whichever corporation controls that channel. Very few ever delve into finding the real truth and are satisfied with someone else's false take on the news. Anything that is truly newsworthy but fails to fit the agenda is Not covered.

So to those who are just starting out in their adult lives..please take time off everyday to THINK. Turn off the fluff and ask questions. Read a book. Venture into a subject that has worth and learn more.
We are becoming a mass of technology controlled sheep. If anyone does question with facts lined up they are dissed as a conspiracy theorist or just a nut.. Not everyone who searches for the truth is crazy.

If you find yourself after unplugging and thinking, your will appreciate real friendships and good conversation, and real issues a great deal more than f-l-u-f-f. A whole new you, independent of the plug . Someone who might have something truly important to share with the world.

G'nite, K

A new world

Trees as far as the eyes can see.  A night sky not yet obscured  by city lights; stars that you feel that you can reach out and touch.  Water flowing in streams and falls; lakes yet unpolluted by industrialization.  Wild life abundant and untouched. These were the Americas that the age of modern man had not touched.

What would it feel like to be in a world not yet changed because of man? To soak in the beauty and breathe in the wonder? To take the first steps into a virgin forest, and be a part of that land?  Joy. Pure and simple joy. To feel part of what God made, and live a life that did not change what was already there.

The excitement of discovery. To walk where no man had walked before. To stay and be a part of that dream. The smell of clean earth, the taste of fresh herbs, the glory of being new.

200 years. Just 2oo years that  wiped away the fresh newness. That welcomed industrialization, that polluted what was new and untouched. The people native to this land respected the gift that was given. The people that conquered and dominated had no respect, just forward moving to what they considered progress.

How many, I wonder, wish they could turn back the years and see that virgin forest? Could see a sky not polluted by automobiles and industry? Could learn to live in peace with nature and rejoice in the beauty that surrounds them?

If Icould turn back time, it would be to that place. Not to a person, not to a moment, but to then...the beginning. And strive with all my heart to leave it untouched.

k

The Waiting Game

Normally I am a fairly patient person.(in most respects)  But I must admit that the waiting this time for answers is manifesting as stress, and stress, ( lovely silent migraine maker) likes to play games with your mind and your body. This I know from ignoring stress levels at other times in my life. One year belly, next year headaches, then heart palpitations, etc. This year it has decided to give be jaw aches, which is funny because if you know me you know I cannot grind my teeth.

I thought it might be a bad tooth but the soreness is further back on my jaw line and it is also sore to the touch. So I of course mulled it over in my head for a few days until I realized that it was once again stress.
Really, I have to find an outlet since I seem to be predisposed to stress materializing in it's various forms.

The cause of all this bullshit? Waiting for State Farm to make a decision regarding to pay or not pay for my most recent money sucking medical bills. The injury became obvious after the accident and my quick trip to the ER last August. It did not jump out and say "Ow!" the night the accident occurred, but instead over the months following it grew to be noticeable. Namely compressed nerves in my neck, but also disc bulging in my back. The MRI showed normal aging signs as well, and I do not expect them to pay for that. However the compressed nerves in my neck? Yes because they won't ever go away according to my neurologist. He freaked me out saying that forced movement of my cervical spine or surgery could actually cause paralysis.
So yeah..I'm playing the waiting game.

It's a damn good thing I don't bite my nails because I would have none left. I just want an answer.

Not grinding my teeth...grrr..
K  

9-23-2013
PS: The jaw ache was the harbinger of the flu. It knocked me out for almost a week. Still rubbish from State Farm. One claim (mine) stating they are waiting for the doctor's note that clearly states the compressed nerves and bulging discs are from the accident, The other (claimant) sharing that they will only pay the medical bills. I see an attorney tomorrow.