Ok, here it is almost the middle of March and I need to rant a bit because it’s freezing in here. You can’t tell me climate change isn’t happening. I live in the Pacific Northwest, where typically, it’s mellow all year long. Sure it rains, but this year that moisture is coming down in the [...]
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Today’s Rant: Rewarding Bad Behavior, Blago gets 6 figures?
Ok, this subject truly deserves some ranting! It seems to me that a ton of crappy, just downright bad behavior gets rewarded with big bucks these days, especially in the political arena. I heard yesterday on the news that the impeached Illinois governor, Blago, has been offered 6 figures to write a tell-all book about the [...]
Clarification on Gut Instincts Rant
Yesterday I posted a rant about the issue of learning to trust your gut instincts and used an illustration for the post showing a sign on the wall that says “Dog Adoption Fair Today”. My dear friend Diane, who founded PAALS (People and Animals Living Synergistically), an organization dedicated to rescuing and serving old people and old animals, called [...]
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Today’s Rant: Learning to Trust Your Gut Instincts
I’ve learned over the years to listen more carefully to my gut instincts and this rant addresses my unwillingness or inability to pay attention. That’s the trust part of the equation. Even though these instinctive “knowings” were always there, I simply wasn’t always willing to listen.
It’s funny how we humans can justify anything….. truly ANYTHING. Whether [...]
More on Religion as Business Rant
Here’s yet another reason I don’t believe in organized religions any longer. The use of such trickery is almost comical. This is a scan of the actual card that was stuck in my front door in early December. Now, tell me…….aren’t they using difficult economic times to bribe folks in the door? I have to [...]
Sunday’s Rant: Organized Religion Is A Business
I no longer believe in organized religions at all! I realize many who read this rant won’t agree with me, but that’s ok. We all have to decide for ourselves what path forward serves us best, and religions do fill some needs. However, for me now, I think they are nothing more than business organizations, [...]
Ranting About Puppy Mill Puppies vs. Animal Shelter Dogs
This last week-end, I participated in a wonderful benefit, sponsored by local animal shelters and concerned citizens, for over 600 puppy mill dogs recently rescued from horrific living conditions. This subject absolutely deserves much ranting!
The local shelters are doing their best at rehabilitating these dogs and finding foster homes willing to nurse them back to health. [...]
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Today’s Rant: If Birds Can’t Fly, and Chimpanzees Can’t Climb Trees
Today it is so easy to rant about this subject because I think it’s absolutely tragic how humans feel so free to manipulate nature! Today there is the extremely sad case of the chimpanzee who attacked some poor woman and tried to detach her face. Birds aren’t meant to NOT fly, and chimpanzees are not [...]
Political Urgency Regarding the Stimulus Package Rant
It’s good everyone in Washington feels this “sense of urgency” to fix our economy! Oh, wait…..not everyone. Apparently only the Dems do! Honestly, most of the Repukelicans make me want to do just that, what with all their vitriolic rhetoric….spewing garbage, lies, distortions. I don’t think they want this “stimulus package” to succeed at all. [...]
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Today’s Rant: Delusional or Not?
So in this rant I admit I am, in some ways, totally delusional. Perhaps we all are to a certain extent. If I weren’t delusional, I’d be either depressed or insane, or both.
Digging alittle deeper, however, I’m wondering what the difference is between a delusion and a belief. The dictionary says a delusion is a false belief. [...]