Sacrifice

Hi Humans,
Have you noticed how people who promote austerity want others to sacrifice but are not willing to do the same sacrifices themselves? The salaries of the Congressmen are not affected by the government shutdown although the livelihood of many of their fellow citizens are very much affected. Congressmen enjoy government health insurance but are willing to shut down the government and destroy the credit of the USA in order to deny comparable opportunity for health insurance to their fellow citizens. I would call that hypocrisy, but would I know? I'm just a dog.
Chloe

Radical Republicans, Please Act Like Adults

Hi Humans,
So now the US Congress has shut down the US government causing financial difficulty for many of you humans and soon might cause the government to default on its debt obligations. This is happening because a group of radical right wing Republican congressmen are holding the USA hostage to prevent the American people from benefitting from the Affordable Care Act. These radicals pretend that the Affordable Care Act is a huge change that will be harmful. Even a little dog like me can see that they are not telling the truth. The Affordable Care Act will cause all the people to have health insurance. Until now, those of you who have insurance have been paying for those who do not in the form of higher hospital costs incurred by uninsured people raising medical overhead. Obamacare would have eventually occurred no matter who is president because it is necessary. The Radicals are so vehemently against it because they hate Obama. They are like little children who throw over the checker board when they are losing. The radical right Republicans need to grow up.
Chloe

Gun Owner Responsibility

Did you hear about the massacre at the Navy Yard in Washington? Another screwball was able to buy a gun even though he had a record of mental illness and violence. Gun control laws with teeth are needed to prevent more of these horrible massacres. If I may be so bold as to suggest some real legislation (although I am just a humble dog), why not make laws that make gun owners truly responsible for their guns and the damage that they might cause. Any gun sale or gift (by a gun store, gun show, or a private individual) should involve a registration with the police and a thorough background check of the recipient of the gun. This should be put into a national computer system which also contains all police records which would raise a red flag if there were a prior arrest or investigation into the activities of the gun recipient and would prevent the transfer. If a gun is lost or stolen, the owner should have to immediately report it to the police. If a gun results in death, injury, or is involved in any kind of crime, the gun owner should be held liable and can be punished with a fine and/or imprisonment. If a gun is transferred illegally (i.e. without being reported to the police and without a proper background check), the gun owner prior to the transfer should be considered to be still the owner of the gun and should be held liable for any harm done by the gun. This would give gun owners an incentive to be truly responsible for their guns. It wouldn't protect the rest of us creatures from your human "sport hunting," but it would at least protect you humans from yourselves.
Chloe

Human Cruelty

I see in the news that the Syrian government has been using nerve gas against the rebels and anyone who gets in their way. We dogs can not comprehend the cruelty of some of you humans.
Chloe

The President is Doing a Great Job

Hi Humans,
President Obama is attacked from the Left for supporting the US intelligence community in carrying out the necessary surveillance to protect the public from terrorists and from the Right  for anything he does. Being attacked from both sides means he must be doing a great job. This little poodle knows that. Maybe the more intelligent of you humans with your big brains know that too.
Chloe

A Little Nebbish with a Gun

Hi Humans,
So the Zimmerman trial is over and Zimmerman has been aquitted. I don't know if Zimmerman's version of the events leading to the death of Travon Martin was true or not, but the prosecution had the burden of proof to convict him. They were not able to convince the jury of his guilt with absolute certainty.
Looking at Zimmerman on the television screen, I was struck that he looked like a little nebbish. He had  volunteered for a neighborhood watch program, carried a concealed gun, and tried to act like a big policeman (which he was not). His inept vigilantism resulted in tragedy. One wonders how many nebisshes are out there in the human community who feel the need to carry a gun to make up for their lack of self esteem. The gun lobby feeds on those people who enrich the gun manufacturers by buying guns to somehow make themselves feel important.
We dogs don't have such needs. We know we are just dogs, and we don't need guns to make us feel more important than we are.
Chloe

Zimmerman Trial

Hi Humans,
You humans have been talking a lot about the Zimmerman trial on television. I don't know if Mr. Zimmerman is guilty of murder or not, i.e. did he really intend to commit murder? You humans have all these categories of killing (first degree murder, second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter). I would say that he should not have been carrying a gun in the first place, and so he was guilty of negligence resulting in death. So one might say he committed involuntary manslaughter. Perhaps the real guilt belongs to a culture that worships guns. Evil is not always committed by psychopaths but often by simple people who are misled by their environment. I would be more sympathetic to Mr. Zimmerman if he would acknowledge the evil that his carrying a gun caused and separate himself from the gun nuts who support him. But on that issue he is silent. As far as I can tell, he thinks he was correct and was only defending himself. Sometimes I don't understand you humans with your supposedly big brains.
Chloe