A little after 1 am here on June 27 which is my half-birthday btw. What is a half-birthday?
Well this is the explanation according to Wikipedia, "A half-birthday is a day approximately six months before or after the anniversary of a person's birth. It is sometimes marked by people whose birthday falls near major holidays, the celebration of which may overshadow celebration of the birthday.". My REAL birthday is December 27. So in case you want to gift me with something.....I want the new Camilla Läckberg book,
The Stranger and new stripper shoes, Pleaser Bejeweled 801-DM, size 8.
Anyhow......I am doing laundry while writing this, STILL sticking with the organic home made fabric softener. I hang dry most of my clothes. Went for a 25 minutes run around 11 30 and I am in bed now. Chhaya just curled up right next to me.
So ready for some of my thoughts......? Do you think Edward Snowden is a hero or a traitor?
I pretty quickly made up my mind that I look at him as a hero, absolutely. I also think that Julian Assange (WikiLeaks) is a hero. What Snowden did was brave, he stood up for the Fourth Amendment, that people have the RIGHT to be SECURE in their persons, houses, effects......and so on. When a government listens in on people's private conversations without their knowledge then their right to be secure in their person and house has been compromised and is no longer there. So yes, to me Snowden is a hero. I wish him the best and I hope he can find a safe place to live. This is probably only the tip of the iceberg, who knows what else the government is doing. This is a mock democracy.....but I have said that before. Starting to remind me of Russia back in the day. The best thing to do is to start planning for self sufficiency. Easier said than done. But when the stores run out of food and stuff, the people that are self sufficient and have a way to defend themselves will be the ones surviving.
I heard that
1984 by George Orwell is selling like hotcakes on Amazon. Coincidence or are people staring to slowly wake up?
And now to a controversy on a more local level.....involving a dog and a toddler. Recently a sled dog husky bit a two year old after the two year olds Mom took her three small kids into a dog yard with about 50 chained up huskies. One dog got loose and mauled the toddler and now the question is, should the dog be euthanized? My opinion? NO. I feel bad for the little girl that got bit BUT her Mom should had never brought three small kids into that dog yard.
I don't care what she was doing in the dog yard, leave the kids outside or in the car. This is not the friendly family lab we are talking about, these are sled dogs, most of them live their lives chained up and are not socialized with children. I am personally against keeping dogs chained up like this and think it is border line animal cruelty. I have already written a blog entry about that. The husky that bit the toddler is not a bad dog. I do not see why he, his name is Wizard, should be put down. Nothing good is going to come out of that. You can't bring your kids around every dog, that is just how it is. I got bit as a toddler by our dog, it was MY fault, I was bothering the dog. My Mom was smart enough to know this and the dog continued living with us. I would never let Chhaya be around kids unsupervised, I rather not have any kids around Chhaya period. Just to avoid accidents. Chhaya has been around kids but she is kind of stand offish with them and I can tell that she'd rather not be bothered by them. And I respect that.
Of course Wizard should live! I think the Mom is at fault here. So then should she be considered a negligent parent and have her kids taken away? Nothing good would come out of that either. She just has to live with the fact that she made a mistake. We all make mistakes. That's life. But she should not push the responsibility of her mistake onto Wizard. That is not right.
