--Adolf Hitler

I know a guy who has a dog. He says his dog is trans. Seriously. He's been in the tree business for a long time. He's not a landscaper... he's an arborist. I've known this guy and his dog since said dog was a puppy. The dog has a penis. Boy dog. Arborist, however, gets angry if you don't accept that his penis-toting dog is a girl.

I heard, recently, a man made an observation, roughly saying: If you're 18 and you think you're actually a member of the opposite sex, you have a mental illness; while, if you're 8 and you think you're a member of the opposite sex, your mother has a mental illness.

Let's talk about dogs, in comparison to cats, in their relationship to people. Cats are, for lack of a better word, lame. Dogs, however, are cool. When you come home to a dog, the dog greets you at the door, thrilled to see you, ready for camaraderie, eager to please. When you come home to a cat, you wonder if the cat is even there. At best, the cat looks to see who opened the door, but keeps its distance as apathy and distrust both outweigh curiosity. The simplest thing, calling your pet by name, should elicit an act of loyalty... like, showing up. Dogs will come when called; cats may or may not care that you're speaking at all.

Dogs are easily trained, even by lay people, to perform simple tricks. Patient dog owners can teach them more advanced tricks. Cats are also easily trained--they can sit, roll over, play dead... oh who am I kidding? I can't even type this with a straight face. You need the patience of Job and a blow gun to get a cat to learn it's not allowed on the kitchen counter.

With dogs, playtime is anytime. Fetch, run full-speed with no apparent goal, learn new tricks, go for a walk... anything that involves wagging a tail, dog is ready. Cats are bit less playful--their playtime is really just practicing at killing something for fun and leaving its corpse behind for someone else to deal with.

Dogs are great protectors. If someone strange approaches your home, the dog will let everyone, including the stranger, know that something is amiss. If overseen by a cat, the house is fair game. The cat will likely stow itself away under a bed, and this hiding space will commonly be used whenever a stranger comes near, or if friend drops by, or a neighbor, or someone who also lives in the house.

Dogs are used in police work, search and rescue, handicap assistance, and in multiple government agencies including those countering drug smugglers and human traffickers. A cat will climb a tree, then find it's too scared to climb back down the same tree.

I know, you're thinking these comparisons aren't totally accurate. There are instances where cats have attacked people or animals who threatened a family member. Some cats can do wonderful tricks. Some greet their people at the door when they come home. On the flip side, some dogs are useless as guardians. Some dogs hide when people visit. Some little inbred Chihuahuas will bark at someone they've lived with literally their entire life. These exceptions prove the rule. A cat that comes when you call it by name... cool cat. A dog that does not come when called... lame dog. A cat that does tricks... cool cat. A dog that does not do tricks... lame dog.

In short, the coolest cats are the most like dogs; and the lamest dogs are the most like cats. They each have their idiosyncrasies. They are so common within their respective species that they are well-known to pet owners everywhere--not set in stone, just common traits. We love them regardless of their individual traits. We accept them for what they are, even if they suck and don't come when we call.

What's the difference between similes and metaphors? What little kid, at play in a swimming pool, would shout out using the simile, "I'm like a shark!" when he or she plays as such? Wouldn't happen. It would always be the metaphor, "I'm a shark!" Most people recognize that, regardless of the confusing metaphor, the child isn't actually a shark. Some people, however, are confused by metaphors--they think the child truly believes the shark thing. They think it's cute and encourage the child to be a shark all the time if that's what they want. Others may be convinced that the child actually is a shark trapped in a human child's body--the result of a rare mistake made by God. In unique cases, the parents of a child, with extraordinary swimming skills, will have fins surgically grafted onto the child's body (because that is the only logical thing to do) and demand that everyone who does not acknowledge the child as actually being a shark is guilty of some sort of hate crime.

Some people see gender roles and demand that they mean absolutely nothing. They believe that stereotypical activities associated with gender shouldn't even exist in the minds of contemporary human parents. They insist that physical appearances are the least reliable means of determining sex. Those same people will then witness a little boy playing with dolls and pour every ounce of energy into transforming that boy, mentally and physically, into someone who looks and acts like a girl, contradicting everything they hold to be true about appearances and gender roles.

There is an awesome and unique beauty in finding a cat that acts like a dog, but no matter how much it acts like a dog, it will never, ever... ever, ever, ever... be a dog. We do not need to graft dog features onto an awesome cat just because it satisfies our need to have something that acts like a dog also look like a dog. Let's just accept that some cats act like dogs, without demanding that those cats actually are dogs stuck in cats' bodies and we have to surgically alter them in order to satisfy our desire to have things fit into the categories we despise.

The arborist doesn't do work for us anymore. Why? Because we refuse to play his ridiculous game with his male dog, and he won't do business with anyone who doesn't accept his fantasy as reality. He was mad. He said he doesn't understand why people won't accept "her" for what she is.

"This is hypocrisy of the highest order. Why should eight billion people in the entire world be forced to change their hearts, to accept your false reality, when you, alone, couldn't even bend to accept true reality?"

It may be the single most dangerous attitude to have ever been instilled into the minds of a generation: "And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart." --Songwriters: Warren Felder / Andrew Wansel / Coleridge Tillman / Alessia Caracciolo

appears I hired a babysitter

unintentionally, but I did

I didn’t know I needed one

but on a ballot they were hid

my kids seem independent

the spouse and I both okay

we manage and we function

but apparently we have no say

was our educations inferior

or some decisions not divine

thought our goal to be successful

but I guess we got out of line

so we scratch and we ponder

all our way under a microscope

the sitter dismisses and reteaches

but when challenged we’re the dope

10/30/2021

Wake up! Wake up!

Who ever you are!

Wake up from this coma you’ve

been brainwashed into so hard.

The propaganda you have been

fed your entire lives,

Has now made you sick

and now some have died.

The cost of waking up from this coma

has been a terrible waste.

Now beware, they see you are becoming

more awake!

This was not in the programming,

this wasn’t supposed to take place!

If you out there wake up more to your power,

then harder it is for them your minds,

your souls, your wills to devour!

Do not allow these liars and thieves

to steal what is yours!

They are killing your children, your elders and your planet, teaching you it’s alright.

Telling you to calm down because your not really understanding what you’re seeing in the light.

When I’m reality you should be fleeing!

The elitists, the politicians and the hush men in their employment, these are the ones we need to be wary of because this is their enjoyment.

Take up your arms my friends.

This is about greedy power at its darkest hour.

Those at the top care not about those

whom they devour at the bottom.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Income Tax Evasion a federal crime? Isn’t that what Bezos, Musk, and others are doing? Hell, Al Capone went to prison for that ... or do you have to be a criminal before the Feds step in and do the right thing? If the average working stiff did what billionaires have been doing, you can bet your bottom dollar they would be in prison.

There has been so much talk about another stimulus paymment. As to a next stimulus payment and additional monies for social security, that won’t happen until after the current package gets passed and even then, it will be under reconciliation as Republicans will do all they can under McConnel’s leadership to thwart everything Democrats do.

And if Republicans do that, they seal their fate in the 2022 elections as it will show no support for the American people and their needs.

Between the House and the Senate; people like Jordan, Gaetz, Andrew Clyde, Taylor-Greene, Nunez, Cruz, Marco Rubio, Graham, Stefanik, Tuberville, Cotton, Kennedy, Rick Scott, McCarthy and McConnel all need to go. Sadly those who are Senators and not up for reelection will still be around for a few more years. There are also five open House seats, two of which are related to deaths three others who resigned. The House can add to that with Democratic leadership in 2022.

If you really want change -- a change that can reflect positively on the future of this country, get rid of the swamp rats. The same people who denied January 6th was an insurrection. The same people who back Trump. The same people who will not support you -- the American people.

I rarely, if ever, talk politics here, but keep in mind one very important factor: no Republican supported the last stimulus package. When they did, it was only when Trump was president, and Demmocrats supported that.

At the rate things are going, I fear the days of bipartisanship is and will be a thing of the past. Democratic Senators are calling for bipartisanship but the Republicans aren't responding

We can all cite the fact we are in debt, of that there is no mistake, but I would rather be in a financial debt than be out of a home, a job, food to eat, or children to take care of. It has been touted that with either another stimulus check or recurring payents (for a set period of time), it would reduce the poverty level for over sixteen million people. So ask yourself if you want to get out of debt first or out of the poverty line first.

And Trump’s prediction he will reclaim the presidency in August? On September 1st he will make this announcement: “That was all fake news. I meant next August.”

haughty joey got the wheel

to set the ship on course

but come his turn

most points he spurned

and the route could now be worse

04/02/2021

American sons and daughters are being deployed like mercenaries overseas to countries having civil wars that have been going on for years!

We don’t need to be drawn into another stupid “Conflict”

Case in point the Shia Muslims have their point of views on the proper way to live and worship Allah, and the Sunni branch of Islam has their own ideas of what is the best way to live and worship Allah.

So because they disagree these two groups of children of Abraham think fighting and killing is the best way to solve their problems!

Really?

In the thousands of years that humans have been on this earth, people still haven’t learned that the answer to the ancient riddle isn’t

“how much better can we

improve our killing skills?”

The answer is,

“ Look how far we have come

since learning how to negotiate

and work through our differences!”

In Palestine, both Israelis and Palestinians can get together for a few days for some of the most beautiful horse shows one can ever see. It’s a beautiful thing, all for the common love of the Arabian Horse.

If that can happen there, why can’t people find common ground together and stop all of this hatred and fighting.

Before the Houthis took over Yemen, the country was struggling. Now it’s even worse.

What has been made better by all the fighting?

Dead women and children laying all over the streets? Dead men defending their children?

WHO IS MADE BETTER?

If J.RR. Tolkien were alive today and had witnessed the political events which have unfolded, and seem to be the gathering clouds of a civil war in the USA, he might’ve written a tale that started out like this, with apologies again, to J.R.R.Tolkien for this piece of obvious humor from “The Hobbit”

...In a hole in the ground there lived some Republicans. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole, it was a Republican-hole, and that means it was filled with delusions of a stolen election, the support for a traitorous former president, and white privileged comfort which they wrapped comfortably around themselves, within their hole in the Capitol.

Deeper down in another dark chamber lived old Mitch McConnell, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Mitch - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a little gavel, and he waved it about quietly in the Capitol; for Capitol it was, wide and deep and deadly cold. He waddled around with large feet dangling over the side of his podium, but never a sound did he make. Not he. He was looking out of his pale lamp-like eyes for blind Democrats, which he grabbed with his long, thin fingers as quick as thinking. He liked meat too. Children he thought good, when he could get them; but he took care they never found him out. He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the Senate chamber, while he was prowling about. They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there, down at the very roots of the Capitol.

hickory dickory dock

the impeachment out of clock

though election done

and haves have won

they’ll still spend what we ain’t got

02/07/2021

I’d have backed diff’rent choices

(with indomitable voices).

If I had had my druthers,

there would have been some others.

Options may have seemed rotten.

Think ‘gone but not forgotten’?

Skirt the issue at question?

(Possibly, I am bettin’.)