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