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The last quarter is mostly feral, with just a spice of civility as a cover to the mad little book which they are. They do not need a reason to do anything, nor do they usually look for a reason. Sassy, especially, just makes up reasons to attack the curtains. Why, they are there, are they not? Reason enough to be sure, if you are a cat. Sam is still insane, she just does not feel the need to always act on it. With her, like when she vomits in my room and waits for access to sneak in and do so, there is a reason. Passive-aggressive grudges are the reason there. Even if she is just protesting her lack of access to the room. Which, under any logical criteria, would seem to undermine her cause. Then again, socialist humans are even worse so I will not castigate if I will make sure she has no access for even longer.
Humans are some of the most interesting creatures to watch, though I do enjoy my cats I know they do not actually make most of their decisions. Cats act on instinct. That instinct can be nurtured or castigated but never completely changed. Humans, on the other hand, have the capacity to decide, are armed with all of the tools by which to make decisions, and yet most often will choose poorly. I remember, as a child, being first a victim then the culprit in the scheme to trade littler kids a nickle for a dime, since the dime was smaller and the nickle so much larger... or selling the rights to feed, walk, water, and in all other manner manage my dog for a week's allowance... but I retained ownership (a sister, for three weeks, until our parents found out).
Adults seem very little better at these things. Including myself, though I am working on one part of it and some of that was sort of necessity. Oh, what is that? Credit cards, or really debt of any kind. How much you pay in interest is often double, triple, and more than what the item you purchase was worth. And, the worth of items goes up, at least initially, to cover demand. And, demand keeps increasing as debt is eased. So, you are paying more and more for less and less and never getting out of that hole. I do know people who owe more than I could pay off in a lifetime who make far less than myself. My house, sure. The rest is being slowly paid down. One gone last month. I did incur more, but needed lawnmower, weed whip, and a few other things. Need was not negotiable and other options (in my opinion) would have ended up costing more in both cash and headache (buying used, unless you know what you are doing, is foolish... the nickle for the dime thing).
Then again, there are people who should know, by now, that Democrats are purely against the constitution and the bill of rights. Republicans might not be always for them or with them, but they are not specifically against them. And yet, they keep voting for people who are exactly against everything the people are screeching about being the problem. They pick strawmen as their real enemies and ignore the only people with the power to make any real changes. My mother thinks it is the rich people taking away her rights. She is a smoker, and was (is) furious about losing the right to smoke in bars, for example. She continues to elect the very people who take away what she wants while screeching about the rich... I do not know... getting ahead? Yeah, something like that. Ignore, pull plunger, screech. Okies...
Well, I am about done being annoying, so will go back to doing something no one cares about. Still trying to figure out how to get going. That last window did close, but I got ahead and have made plans for when the next window appears. A bit at a time I will crawl out of this damned hole. Probably only to fall harshly back into another, but... that is life, or at least my life. This, unfortunately, is not a choice. I have no choice in this matter, save to keep trying or give up and move to a nursing home or something. Bah! It is all good. Later.
Electing more of the Rand or Ron Paul variety might make a difference. But electing more of the usual Republican toe-suckers won't get us anywhere we're not already heading.
ReplyDeleteMy theory of cats is that their madness is directly proportional to the amount of oriental genetics in their makeup. I have one half Siamese cat and one quarter Siamese cat, and they are both wack. I hear tell that purebred Siamese are utterly, utterly mad.
ReplyDeleteBut in a good way.
I have to disagree on Rep vs. Dem debate, fully. The worst Rep is as bad as a Dem, but the middling actually conservative Rep (typical) is beyond a bit better than the most "conservative" Dem. On the Dem side, it is massively lockstep, for one of a thousand reasons, that they are worse. I really don't see that among conservatives, save in the recent attempts to block legislation. When in power, they simply cannot agree it seems. For good or ill.
ReplyDeleteFrom sheriff to governor to president, Dems have key issues which 90% of them share, mostly against constitutional rights. Reps are maybe 60% to 70% on the good there. Of course, Republicans have to battle the media just to get out what they are doing and why. If their ideas weren't solid, given the media, they would no longer even exist as a party. Same goes with academia being stilted completely to one side. Those are powerful enemies. And, it does effect people's minds, perceptions.
I don't buy into either of those enemies of the state, don't watch tv, pick where I get my information (news), and have disavowed academia as a farce long ago. Otherwise I might be in that boat... Believing there is no real difference or that the wrong side is the right side. Of course, my notions have limitations. No doubt.
I might just buy into the Siamese thing. Sassy is a pure mutt, she has a little of everything in her. She steals little trinkets of mine (like my plastic toothpicks), does some crazy ass smart things cause she loves me, can whip around the house like a tornado, and then can turn around and just be the sweetest little fur nugget you ever saw. But, I see a bit of the Siamese in her eyes... Something about the shape, angle... something.
ReplyDeleteWhile Sam is more quietly insane. Not sure I see any Siamese in her at all, though. Then again, she is almost 8. While not old, even for a cat, it is middle aged. She is settling. And, then too, she has her moments of crazy-bat-foolery, which is delightful and a bit dangerous though I play that game of hers when it is up!
Thanks for the theory... Imma play with that a bit.
"I really don't see that among conservatives, save in the recent attempts to block legislation. When in power, they simply cannot agree it seems. For good or ill."
ReplyDeleteBut that is really the whole problem with putting much hope in them! When out of power the best they can seem to do is slow down the direction the Democrats are going. When *in* power (witness, much of the Bush years), they flail around like they don't know the direction they are supposed to go is *away* from the direction the Democrats were going--on sound limited government principles, not just to be reactionary. But they end up divided and confused and begin to do some of the same damn things their liberal counterparts would do if they were in power. That's why Vox can point at them and very legitimately call them the R half of the bi-factional ruling party.
Toe-sucking retards, I'll call them.
Now we're seeing a bunch of high-profile hooting and bloviating, scheduling votes to repeal Obmacare for example, when anyone paying attention knows it is purely for show, as Obama himself would have to sign such legislation (or have over 60 votes in the Senate) for it to go into effect. This is 1994 all over again, when the newly elected Republican majority made a big show of voting on the provisions of the Contract With America (remember that?), knowing full well the votes were not there to actually get any of it passed!
Then it was back to business as usual, dickering with Clinton and finally colluding with Bush to **expand** government rather than shrink it!
Bah!
No, they simply do not have the power and never have. At least one third of so called Republicans are stealth Democrats (think Bloomberg, Guliani, and a whole host of others in the senate and house (Snow, etc.). Come on, even you know this.
ReplyDeleteWe will see. If the Tea Party wave doesn't flag, time will tell. Gotta keep an eye on any politician, but if enough heads roll and it isn't simply voting for people with an "R" by their name, and we can elect more center right than actual left and center left, we can do it. Party leadership is even in flux.
No, it will be different, if we can stay focused. Even then, are you honestly telling me Bush was as Bad as O, or that the Rep congress was as bad as this last one? Honestly? Your hiding something. Don't tell me you ARE a Democrat? Oh well.
No, it is just that choosing between Bad and Really Bad, finally has sunk in as a bad choice either way.
ReplyDeleteI'm not counting on political solutions anymore.
Maranatha!
(Don't let Bob see that or he'd go into a froth anew...)
ReplyDeleteRegarding seeing the siamese blood in a cat, Samuel has very little that would mark him as part siamese. He is a gray striped tabby from all exterior appearances. Only the shape of his head and his above-average litheness betrays the fact that he is 1/4 siamese.
ReplyDeleteBut I saw his mother when I picked him from the litter, and she was definitely about 1/2 siamese from her coloration.
There are other oriental breeds too, that look more like western breeds, but the high intelligence and madness are often present in those as well.