Opinions - 20

It was so difficult to get out of bed this morning.....well midday cause I didn't wake up until around 11 30. I usually lay around in bed for while before I get up unless I have to be somewhere. I like to cuddle with Chhaya and stretch for a while before getting out of bed.
It warmed up here and it was so nice outside today, in the high 20's instead of some frigid single digits. That makes a huge difference. Me and Chhaya went for a walk in Kenai......so pretty and wintery out.





After that I went to the pool. And then some shopping. I bought a freshly baked (still hot) apple pie that I am bringing into work tonight. I'm going to incorporate the apple pie somehow in my stage routine, maybe sit in it? And then auction it off to the highest bidder, starting bid $ 200.



Me last night and my two funds. I case you don't know, I collect money for two funds that I started, one is a spay and neuter fund (for local animals) and the other is for an abused women and children local shelter (Lee Shore). I haven't been collecting lately because I feel a bit weird (embarrassed) asking people to donate, almost like I'm begging (although NONE of the proceeds go to me). But I need to start bringing out my funds at work more because I would like to donate the money before Christmas and then I can start all over again. I heard about another animal charity on the radio today that I would like to collect for. It's for funding vets and the supplies needed to mainly spay and neuter dogs and cats out in the rural Alaskan villages. You can read about it here www.akrvo.org
Even if what I collect won't be that much.......something is always better than nothing.
It makes me happy in my heart to contribute something positive to people and animals in need.



I was kind of tired at work last night and the club was so smokey towards the end that I couldn't stand it anymore. There is a pregnant girl at work, I don't know what to say about stripping when pregnant......I guess you do what you have to do in order to make money, I can just speak for myself and say that I wouldn't want to be in that situation. But you never know sometimes in life. The thing with this particular girl though is that she is smoking! I think it is really bad to smoke when you are pregnant, SO selfish. Is not not common knowledge or what? I am pretty sure she already has a kid, I don't engage with her because when she first started I got a trashy and druggie vibe from her and that's not my kind of thing. Then I was away for a while and now I guess she is pregnant. At least give up the cigarettes until you have the baby! It is so irritating to see her smoke knowing that she is carrying a child, I feel bad for her unborn baby and I wonder why she feels that she needs to put another kid onto this planet when she obviously have a problem taking care of the first one and in my opinion is severely lacking some crucial mothering skills. Smoking is gross. But to smoke when you are pregnant or expose your babies and/or (growing) toddlers and kids to cigarette smoke, that is plain disgusting. If you want to ruin your health with nasty cigarettes then do so but at least have the decency to not expose your kids and your unborn babies to that poison.

Are you ready to cry? A while back I wrote a blog about a little girl pitbull that was found in a park in Boston, badly tortured. Somebody took her to a vet and the vet said that they had never seen an animal abused that badly before.
That little innocent pitbulls name was KIYA, she was about two years old. I so wish I could had saved her, that SOMEBODY could had saved her! What happened to KIYA is that her original owner had to get rid of her due to breed restrictions. Breed restrictions means that dogs of a certain breed, usually pitbulls, rottweilers, dobermans etc are not allowed to live in a certain area, so people end up getting rid of their dogs. Little KIYA ended up on Craigslist a few times and she finally met her brutal fate in the hands of some disgusting Polish guy that beat her so badly that she could not walk and cut her tongue in half. EYE FOR AN EYE I say! Beat his fucking ass so he can't walk and cut his nasty tongue in half. This disgusting excuse for a human lousy Polish fuck should be executed. I would love to do it. I hope he gets tortured to death in jail. I feel HATE for him in my whole being when I read about what he did to that innocent dog. This asshole was supposedly in the country illegally and even stole checks from a church. There you go, that is a nice Catholic Polak for you. Act like a criminal and then go to church on Sunday and pretend you are all innocent and shit and then do a confession once a year and your sins are washed away. Bullshit hypocrisy, it makes me SICK!
Look, I was born in Poland and let me tell you, my patriotism only stretches so far. I love Polish food, I have a hot Polish temper and I guess I must look Slavic because sometimes people I have never seen before will come up to me and ask me if I'm Polish/Ukrainian/Russian. I do enjoy visiting Poland and hear others speak in my native language. But that's about it. I've had the pleasure of meeting some highly educated, well spoken and intelligent Polish people. One that I will always remember was my Polish teacher that I first met when I was ten, Leszek was his name. He was the first person that told me to question things in life and think for myself. When I was ten, the last thing I wanted was to be the different kid in class and be forced to take Polish lessons, I was soooo embarrassed by that but my Mom insisted. Now I am grateful for that experience and knowledge I obtained. Also as a ten year old I didn't really understand what he was talking about when he told me to question information and even authority, he was highly educated, a true intellectual and I am forever grateful to him.
Then there are the Polaks that waste their lives away drinking copious amounts of beer and vodka, talk shit about everybody because they themselves lead miserable lives and every other word that comes out of their mouth is "Kurwa.". Those Polaks I have NOTHING in common with and neither do I want to. Yes, when I get pissed off I do use profanities in Polish and other languages but I don't throw kurwa around when ordering coffee or engaging in regular conversations just because I have nothing better to say. It's just trashy and low class if you ask me and I was not raised like that. Yeah, I am a snob like that.....! And that I am thankful for, THANK YOU Mom! ❤
Growing up in Sweden there was a Catholic church in Stockholm that me and my Mom would go to (me reluctantly), I did the Confirmation and all as a kid. But my Mom, she is a pretty cool lady, decided to stop going to that church because she didn't like how some of the churchgoing Polaks acted. You know, dressed up in their finest clothing with every ring and necklace on display to show everybody else just how well of they now were in Sweden.
Polaks can be very noveau riche and extremely gaudy.....BLEH! Also LOTS of gossiping.
Too much. Especially for church. You do not need church to be religious or spiritual as we all know.......An yes, I do talk about other people too sometimes, I mean you have read my opinions about FUGLY and her sidekick The Bulldog. I talk about real stuff, things that are blatantly wrong AND also true. But I'm not going to sit around and tell random people about a friends STDs or other things she or he might not want the rest of the world to find out, or be glad when other people are going through a hard time in life. You know, trash talk others just so I can feel better about myself and my miserable existence that I try to forget by getting drunk five nights out of seven.
I am a Global Citizen anyways, Polish mixed with growing up in Sweden and I think I could probably fit in pretty much anywhere.

Back to KIYA. You know.....I have a pitbull......Chhaya but her name is pronounced KAYA.
When I moved to Anchorage I lived in a pretty bad part of town in a crummy one bedroom apartment, because it was the ONLY place that I could find that allowed pitbulls. I would do anything for my Chhaya and I hope that KIYA's first owner, some woman, feels really bad that she put her dog up on Craigslist now that she knows the outcome. There are too many pets out there that get abused and neglected. Again, spay and neuter you animals or DO NOT breed them and then put them up on Craigslist just so you can make some money. The same thing that happened to KIYA could happened to your beloved dogs puppies, how would THAT make you feel? STOP and THINK!
There needs to be tougher punishment for people that abuse animals, it is proven that a large number of the freaks that engage in this will also do harmful things to humans. Read up on zoosadism and see for yourself, the numbers are staggering.

Beautiful, sensitive and innocent. I am thinking about her. ❤



Read more about this case http://shine.yahoo.com/pets/man-arrested-animal-cruelty-puppy-doe-case-211100031.html
Read my old blog about this here

And yes, I am aware of that it is supposedly "derogatory" to call somebody of Polish decent a Polak (or Polack depending on how you spell it) but guess what.....I don't care. I'm Polish and yeah.....there are some lousy Polaks out there, no doubt about that. Just like there are some lousy excuses for humans of every other nationality out there also.
One more thing.....I write pitbull instead of the correct way, pit bull. I am aware of that also.

Ever since Chhaya was a little baby I have been taking her to playgrounds, she loves to climb up on stuff, she is agile like a mountain goat and she bravely runs don the slides. I stand on the sidelines and cheer her on soccer mom style, super proud over MY kid. My doggie kid.







A story just came out about a disgusting couple that kept four little boys in horrible conditions in an apartment. The boys were found malnourished, filthy and communicated by grunting. The apartment was beyond dirty with flies, feces and reeked of cat urine. Even more unbelievable is that these "people" had three OTHER children taken away from them a few years ago for basically the same reasons. Not much upsets me more than abuse and neglect of the defenseless, children and animals. I am absolutely for strict laws on who can or cannot become a parent and even for forced sterilization of anyone found guilty of any kind of abuse of a child. The authorities should had sterilized the couple in this case after they proved to be unfit parents a few years ago, instead these sickos had four more kids. For what? If you are a drug addict or an alcoholic I don't think you should be allowed to have children until you get sober. If you can't take care of yourself you can't care for a child. If you want kids badly enough then sober up and get your shit together! I also do not think that people on welfare should be able to have kids until they can support themselves. That would probably cut down on the people that only give birth so they can collect more money in form of handouts.
How are you going to feed and clothe your children if you can't feed yourself? Newsflash.....the kids should not support you, it is the other way around. People with serious mental issues should also not be allowed to have children. If you are crazy you can barely concentrate on yourself and keeping track of the meds you have to take every day. I suspect there were some sort of mental issues in this case, at least the so called Mom looks like she lost all her marbles a long time ago and the Dad looks like Charles Manson. Creepy.
Same goes for pet owners. If you abuse or neglect your pet then you should not be allowed to have any animals ever again.

So by now I guess that most people have heard about the senseless killings at a mall in Nairobi. Some Islamist group claimed responsibility right away. Aaaaahhhh.....Islam, I've heard that it is supposed to be the peaceful religion. Then how come so many Muslims are out there terrorizing the world in the name of God? Or should I say Allah? Is Allah ok with this happening I wonder? The death toll in that mall shooting in Nairobi is at around 72, maybe more as I am writing this. Some of the attackers are included in that number. Are they martyrs now I also wonder. Do they get to frolic in heaven with 72 virgins? That is a lot of virgins to be having fun with, so I can see that some backwards thinking dude might think that becoming a martyr in the name of Allah is the way to go. Yes! How can you even shoot a 16 year old girl or a pregnant woman, just because.....they are not Muslims? Here is a quote from an interview from The New Yorker. “There was a pregnant woman on the floor, dead” he said. “She was hugging a man. He was also dead. I guess it was her husband.”
And this, "Survivors were claiming that after entering stores and restaurants, the gunmen told Muslims to leave. A police officer told me, “I heard these guys, they came in and asked, ‘Are you Christian?’ They shot you. ‘Are you Muslim?’ They let you go.” Maggie claims that as the gunmen shot the man on the ground, they yelled, “Allahu Akbar!”
This is exhausting. I have cried over this. Felt awful for the victims and their families and friends left behind to deal with the pain. I would feel really bad if I was a Muslim and had to try to make sense of these repeated events, killings in the name of Allah.
I know that there used to be Christian martyrs. I haven't heard of any recent ones. But I do not claim that I know of every single newsworthy event around the globe, so if you know of a recent Christian martyr or any other religion for that matter, besides Islam, please enlighten me. In Sweden we celebrate Saint Lucia on December 13, one of my favorite holidays actually. Lucia was a Christian martyr, said to have plucked out her own eyes. She did not hurt any other people, she did harm to herself. If perhaps I wanted to protest an injustice of some sort.....I would not think that I would make a difference by going into a public place with a machine gun or a bomb, gunning down or blowing up myself and whoever happened to be near me. I would maybe go on a hunger strike or set myself on fire, like I have seen reports of Buddhist monks do. But it seems like spreading the kind word of Islam or protesting something in the name of Allah means mass killings. I've heard that not all Muslims are terrorists but nearly all terrorists are Muslims. That seems like a fairly accurate statement.
Yes, I know that there are many senseless and brutal killings happening every day, all over the world, committed by all kinds of people. Like those freaks that skinned the dog alive recently, or the severely beaten and tortured pitbull that was put to sleep the other day. Now those freaks DESERVE to die, not for religious reasons but for humanitarian reasons. It is simple, do you want them to live next to you and perhaps one day snap and torture you, your child or your family pet? No, I didn't think so. But the people just massacred in that mall in Nairobi are dead simply because they were not Muslims. Like I said, the peaceful religion strikes again.
Or how about issuing fatwas on people that dare to say something against Islam? That too is a rather peaceful message right? Fatwas can be issued for any questioning or critique against Islam and you might be put on some sort of a hit list, like for example Salman Rushdie or Molly Norris. And no, I am not scared of Muslims or any other religious people for that matter. So, no I am not an Islamophobe, let's get that straight. If you conduct your life in a "normal" matter, you know without randomly killing and torturing innocent beings, then for the most part I don't have a problem with you. Of course I am aware of that there are plenty of Muslims and even personally know Muslims that fall into that category. But I am kind of against organized religion in general, so I will probably have a difference of opinion with many religious folks out there that are against abortion, against women's rights, against gays etc. And the ones that do not treat their animals well. Or throw trash in nature. Nasty behavior in general I do not agree with. But having a difference in opinions is part of living and being human, that does not grant for some senseless killings in that name of some God.

www.thereligionofpeace.com

I am a FLEXITARIAN......that means I am very flexible, more so than most people. If you could only see how flexible.....you would be amazed....how else do you think I make all my money.....and it is lots of it too.
No but really, on a more serious note, flexitarian means that I eat mostly a vegetarian diet but I do eat meat occasionally. Not often. I did have some chicken the other day, I made stir fry.
It was delicious.



So yes, I do eat meat once in a while, rarely actually. I can't remember last time that I had beef. And I DO feel bad for the chicken, I do. I saw that there was some article on yahoo today and yesterday about the dog meat trade in the Philippines. I did not read it, I can't. It will make me cry. It is absolutely possible to survive and live well on little or no meat. Look at me, do I look malnourished? Lately I have been eating lots of super yummy veggie sandwiches that I make at home. It's simple and cheap, you can make them too and skip on eating meat at least a few times a week.



One more thing. I don't like it when people try to "force" me to eat meat or some other stuff that I don't want to eat. I don't do that to others so do not do that to me. I am old enough to decide for myself what I eat or do not eat and no, I am not missing out.....thank you.
It's about 1 am here.....I am about to sleep soon I think, unless I find something interesting to read. I finished Dan Brown's Inferno . I liked it, it brought up the important topic of human overpopulation, a topic I have strong opinions on and that I have written a few blogs about (what have I not written a blog about?) I am absolutely for birth control and a limit on how many kids people can have. No, I do not support a family like the Duggars. Or any other family or single person, woman or man that feels the need to breed like a rabbit. I'd rather live in a world that can sustain it's population and at 7 billion and counting we might (or already are) be pushing our luck.

There was a pregnant woman that got assaulted in Sweden recently, she was wearing a hijab, for those of you who do not know, it's a veil that some Muslim women wear. The word hijab in Arabic means a screen or curtain. She was attacked from behind and did therefore not see who her attacker was, there has been discussions and reports in Sweden that she got attacked by a man showing his hate and disapproval of Muslims, basically a hate crime. I have also read a report that it was her own husband that did this to her. What the final outcome will be on who did this to her is at the moment unclear.
However, many women across Sweden decided to wear a hijab for a day (in Sweden now known as hijab upproret) to show solidarity and sisterhood with this woman and many Swedish bloggers wrote in favor of this decisions.
I too want to get involved in this discussion and give my take on it. I am a feminist and would choose NOT to put on a hijab to show my sisterhood with this woman. Why? Because to me the hijab, burqa and chadri (other types of garments Muslim women wear to cover themselves up) stand for oppression and control of women. That is how I look at this.
I suspect that the politically correct thing in Sweden (right now) is to show that you are open minded and put on some sort of a hijab to prove it. No, I am not a Muslim woman and therefore I can't speak on their behalf and how they stand on this issue. I read a few reports on this, there are Muslim women that absolutely agree with the outreach of solidarity of donning the hijab for a day and others that are totally against it and against the practice of covering up. I am not a religious scholar by any means, far from it. I am very well aware of that there are many people out there that get enraged when you discuss or question THEIR religion, even the smallest critique is many times met with death threats and violence.
See Salman Rushdie, Theodoor van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Danish cartoon controversy, Malala Yousafzai - just to mention a few.
You can look up the names and events I mentioned and read up on them if you are not familiar with them. I was very upset when I found out about Theodoor van Gogh's senseless and brutal murder and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
To me, the veil symbolizes submission. Who is the woman submitting to, God or a man that is telling her how to act and what to wear? That is the question. I have Muslim friends in Sweden that practice Islam and they (they are women) do not veil themselves, so I know it is perfectly possible for a woman practicing Islam to go about her your daily life without wearing a veil of some sorts. Does Islam mean personal freedom for women in some countries where they are not allowed to drive a car, get subjected to female genital mutilation, get married without their own consent, are not allowed to step outside the house without a male chaperone etc. Is that freedom? NOT in my book it is not. Why, if women and men are equal in God's eyes, do some women have to cover up their face, hair and body or otherwise risk getting shunned by society if they don't? Is there something about a woman's appearance that is shameful or dirty? Or is it because some men cannot control their sexual urges around women? That is not equality to me. Yes, a woman should have the freedom to wear whatever she wants, if SHE truly wants to. Not because she has been forced or brain washed from an early age about how she should dress in order to fit in to society. By all means, if you really want to wear a hijab, burqa or chadri without any sort of input from a man, go ahead! I don't care. I myself am wearing capris, a t shirt and some flip flops today.
I decided myself on what to wear, to wear my hair up or down, or whether I am wearing any make up or not. And no, I am not a slave to Western society "rules" about putting on make up when I go out in public, I couldn't care less whether some guy out there finds me attractive or not.
To me sisterhood is about fighting against any religion or injustice that attempts to hold women down. Hundred of years ago in Europe women got burned alive, tortured and drowned because they were accused of being witches. What a scary time that must have been to be a woman! Women gained the equal right to vote in Sweden in 1919, 1920 in the US. Progress people! Some countries are showing very slow or no progress on women's rights, some countries are even going backwards it seems, I can not show any solidarity with that.
I can recommend Ayaan Hirsi Ali's autobiography Infidel . It is a great read and she describes her experiences as a former Muslim woman that managed to escape all of that and is now living in the US. She had female genital mutilation forced onto her as a five year old (torture in my opinion) and was supposed to enter an arranged marriage. She also describes her surprise when she discovered that the women in the Netherlands were walking around without covering themselves up with some form of veil and that women and men managed to co exist perfectly fine. Go figure!