From Bernie Sanders… “If you think it is too expensive to take care of our veterans, don’t send them to war.”
Volunteering… not just for the holidays
It’s been a hard few weeks here in America. Mass murders seem to happen almost daily. Against all common sense, some people still think Donald Trump is not only a viable presidential candidate but also an actual compassionate human being. The whole world truly seems to be spinning out of control. Given the rapid approach of the holiday season, I thought it would be best to look for something positive to write about that promotes the message that good, kind and compassionate people still exist. I found it at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center.
Hiland Mountain is the proud home of
Birthday greetings
My friend Grace turns a very old age today. I can say this because she will turn that age before I will by about two months. We’ve been friends since we were about 3 and I spent a good deal of our childhood jealous that she got to do everything first because she was older. I no longer think that way.
Is it just me or…
Whenever I see Ben Carson I feel like I’m watching a Saturday Night Live skit and at any moment it will end and he’ll open his eyes and be a normal human being. Because if this is really him as he is… WOW!
Jery Falwell Jr.
Asking all the students at his university to carry concealed weapons so as to fight off anyone trying to shoot them. Yep, what could go wrong… guns in the hands of young men who are still in the midst of impulsive behavior. And, of course, it being a Christian university, no one would ever drink at a party and use the guns inappropriately. This man is truly an idiot.
Dog love
Here’s how you know you’re a real dog lover. You wake up to your dog standing on your chest and exhaling his overwhelmingly fishy breath into your face and you find yourself smiling and hugging him.
Another day, another shooting
Here is an excerpt from President Obama’s reaction to the shooting at the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last week. “This is not normal. We can’t let it become normal. If we truly care about this . . . then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough.” Poor guy. He’s actually delusional enough to think that this shooting will make any more or less of a difference than the many shootings before it.
Robert Lewis Dear was described by those
That man who wears an orange cat on his head
The national news outlets report that Donald Trump’s numbers have fallen into the low 30% and view this as good since he is down from the 40% or so he’d been polling. And all I can think is, “In what world is it good news the 30% of Americans think Donald Trump is qualified for anything other than looking for a new wife since his current one must be close to her mid thirties and that puts her in the too old range for him?”
Murres
I don’t know how the national news is not yet covering this. Murres, a sea bird, are dying at record numbers in California, washing ashore starved to death. Here in Alaska, Bird TLC has had over 30 admitted in the past few weeks, all starving, and none of them anywhere near where they should have been.
So what’s happening? And why isn’t the national news interested? Oh, that’s right. No Kardashian is involved.
How do people without pets do it?
As I lay in bed last night, warmed by the two little doggies bodies curled up close against me, I wondered again how people without pets survive. Kids and spouses may be ok substitutes but they will never equal the real thing.