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Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 22

Posted on 2019-12-12 Updated on 2019-12-13

Greetings and Salutations! Today, in the House, much of the time has been spent by the two parties working on… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil     Tags: Democrats, El Cheeto, Liberals, lies, Progressive, Republicans     Leave a comment     


Talking with a Cultist, part 2

Posted on 2019-10-24 Updated on 2019-11-18

I had an interesting discussion in a thread today, and, one of the posts was involved enough that I decided… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil     Tags: Points of contention, President Obama, Trump Cultists     Leave a comment     


The Censor Ship

Posted on 2019-09-20 Updated on 2019-09-20

Greetings and Salutations; It being just past “Talk like a pirate day”, I thought it appropriate to go on a… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Politics, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil     Tags: ad hominem, alternative views, censorship, prejudice, The Other     Leave a comment     


Fair Well, Forest (a tale of inhumanity)

Posted on 2019-08-08 Updated on 2019-08-08

I apologize in advance for this post. It was a difficult one to write, and it is a difficult one… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Observations, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: declawing, discarding animals, inhumanity, senior animals     Leave a comment     


Civil Discourse about Touchy Subjects.

Posted on 2019-07-17 Updated on 2019-07-17

An interesting moment on Facebook that is a perfect example of the extremest stances that we are in these days…. Read more

Posted in Cosmology, Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Atheism, civil discourse, FSM, intolerance, religion     2 Comments     


How “Sheltered” are abandoned or surrendered Companion Animals?

Posted on 2019-07-15 Updated on 2019-07-15

Today, this image was posted on Facebook, with the following commentary, by a fellow named Jason Franks I died today…. Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Animal Shelters, betrayal, Euthanization     Leave a comment     


Sifting Through The Ashes, Part 19

Posted on 2019-06-24 Updated on 2019-06-24

Greetings and Salutations; As we are all aware, the political turmoil and madness that has engulfed this great land continues…. Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: dictatorship, Iran, Trump, Voting, war     Leave a comment     


Is this the End?

Posted on 2019-06-09 Updated on 2019-06-09

Just a little bit ago, one of the folks I see on my timeline posted a link, to a Forbes.com… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Christianity, Christians, denier, destruction, environment, Global Climate Change, storms     Leave a comment     


The Joys of Living in the Country

Posted on 2019-05-22 Updated on 2019-05-22

Greetings and Salutations; For something completely different, let me tell you about a moment we had a few years ago,… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Something Good This Way Comes     Tags: Black Rat Snake, country moments, Good Stewardship, Protect the Earth, The Octagon     Leave a comment     


Education In America?

Posted on 2019-05-21 Updated on 2020-10-02

Greetings and Salutations; Well, life is complicated, so I have a fair backlog of items to discuss, which, hopefully, will… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Charter Schools, Computer Assisted Learning, Education, funding, learning, Shakespeare     Leave a comment     


Gun Clubs for People Of Color

Posted on 2019-03-10 Updated on 2019-03-10

  Greetings and Salutations; We are seeing more and more news reports of people of color being gunned down by… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Family, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Uncategorized     Tags: Gun Clubs, Law Enforcement, Lethal Force, misogyny, People of Color, racism, Training     2 Comments     


Some Thoughts On Religion

Posted on 2019-03-02 Updated on 2019-07-17

Greetings and Salutations; As has been true for thousands of years, one of the hot topics for discussion is religion…. Read more

Posted in Ethics, Family, General, Humanity, Nuttiness, Observations, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Allegories, God, Law, Mercy, Parables, philosophy, religion     3 Comments     


What it means to be “Liberal”

Posted on 2018-10-25 Updated on 2020-07-24

The following post showed up on my Face Book thread today,  and, Mr. Allen (The author)  makes just good points… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Humanity, Nuttiness, Politics, Questionable decisions     Tags: liberal, principles, standing up for right     1 Comment     


Declawing Cats, Part 2

Posted on 2018-05-20 Updated on 2019-06-06

Greetings and Salutations. This is a follow up to my Previous Post on Declawing.   This is really important, so I… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Heath, Humanity, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil     Tags: cats, De-clawing, disability, pain, physical issues     Leave a comment     


Mass Killings – How can we prevent them?

Posted on 2018-03-05 Updated on 2018-03-30

Greetings and Salutations; The recent uptick in violence in America, some of which is real, and some of which is… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Mass Shootings, mental health, parents, Parkland, Red Flags, schools, Society     Leave a comment     


the donald and the BSA

Posted on 2017-07-26 Updated on 2017-07-26

Greetings and Salutations; I have said before that it appears there is no depths to which this world will sink… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Political rants, Questionable decisions, Snake Oil     Tags: Boy Scouts of America, failure, Jamboree, the donald     Leave a comment     


Thoughts on this Fourth Of July

Posted on 2017-07-04 Updated on 2020-10-02

Greetings and Salutations; As the midnight hour passed this morning,  and the 4th of July celebration began,  it struck me… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, General Thoughts, Humanity, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Something Good This Way Comes     Tags: crown jewels, Fourth of July, industry, SCROTUS, Society, statue of Liberty poem     Leave a comment     


Hillary Clinton Returns!

Posted on 2017-05-06 Updated on 2017-05-06

Hillary Clinton has finally emerged into the world again.   She had an interesting interview the other day,  where she… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Politics, Questionable decisions     Tags: Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, misogyny, politics, Russa, the donald     Leave a comment     


“The Other” – What Does This Mean?

Posted on 2017-03-20 Updated on 2017-03-20

Greetings and Salutations; I recently wrote a short entry on the works of Ayn Rand, the philosophy of Objectivism that… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General Thoughts, Humanity, Nuttiness, Politics, Questionable decisions     Tags: enemies, hominids, oligharchs, Republicans, self-worth, The Other, tribalism     1 Comment     


What Drives Republicans?

Posted on 2017-03-16 Updated on 2017-03-16

Greetings and Salutations; I have been unable to avoid the turmoil over the ongoing madness in the Political world these… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Politics, Questionable decisions     Tags: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Fountainhead, Objectivism, Republicans     2 Comments     


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