Hatred

Hi Humans,
Some of you humans hate other humans with great venom for foolish reasons or for no reason at all. Some dogs are taught by humans to hate, but we do not hate naturally the way humans do. An example of human hatred is the way some humans hate President Obama. They try to justify it by saying he did this or that, but they are ashamed to give the real reasons. Apparently they hate him because he is black, intelligent, has a funny name, and he is a Democrat. They hate anything associated with him just because it is associated with him. They hate Obamacare even though many of them actually benefit from it. They deny climate change and say it is "pseudo-science" even though most of the real scientists know it exists. They claim he is a socialist even though he saved capitalism after the Republican administration preceding his brought the economy to the brink of collapse. They consider him radical although he is actually the real conservative. If Obama says
1 + 1 equals 2, they say no, it equals 3.
Unfortunately Republican congressmen are pulled into following the haters in validating their hatred because the haters are an important part of their constituents. However in spite of whatever they say, Obamacare will persist because it is correct and part of the natural progression of things although a future Republican administration might change the name and call it something else (Republicancare?). Climate change will happen because it is really happening. And President Obama will go down in history as one of the greatest US presidents because that is the truth.
Chloe

Guns in Chicago

Hi Humans,
Have you heard the news from Chicago? I am especially interested because although I was born in California, my human family is from Chicago and we spend part of each year there. Last year a Black human was shot and killed by a White policeman. It would appear that the policeman in this particular case used at least poor judgment which resulted in a death that should not have happened. Also the local government was accused of a cover up in protecting the policeman. As a result, the police chief resigned, and the Black Lives Matter people are demanding that the mayor also resign. I agree that Black lives really do matter just as much as any lives. The question is how to best serve the goal of protecting lives. The Black Lives matter people have every right to protest in a free country. But would removing Mayor Rahm Emanuel really serve the goal of protecting innocent lives? What are the factors that need to be addressed? I agree that racial prejudice really does exist (all over the USA, in fact all over the world), and there are probably some racist policemen as there are racists among humans in other occupations as well. Certainly racist policemen need to correct there attitude or find another occupation. But there is more to it than that. The police protect the citizens from crime, and they put their lives on the line every day when they go to work in a country where guns of all kinds are much too available to the public. The decisions of when to shoot are often split second, and the decision can result in the police killing a citizen wrongly or being themselves killed because of hesitation. The most important factor is to get guns off the street to reduce the number of times the police are faced with that decision. To do that strict gun control is needed, but instead the Republican Congress has chosen to support the NRA against the people and the police by creating a gun anarchy. Mayor Emanuel has been a staunch supporter of strict gun control in Chicago and in that way has done more than anyone to protect the lives of the citizens of all races but gun control is needed throughout the USA. Otherwise the criminals and sociopaths can go outside the city and come back with whatever guns they want.
Chloe

Terrorism or Something Else

Hi Humans,
I imagine you have heard about the horrific mass gun murders committed in San Bernardino today. In the news there has been a discussion as to whether the crime was terrorism or not. But is there really a difference? The result is the same. Innocent humans are dead. Either way, the crime is committed by small minded sociopathic murderers who feel the need to kill to inflate their egos and have access to weapons. They kill for the sake of killing and justify it as a perverse expression of their religion or as an answer to some personal feeling of persecution. But really whether you call it terrorism or something else, it is murder. We dogs do not kill for religion because we do not think so sophistically, and we are not gun anarchists because we don't have access to guns.
Chloe

Political Language

Hi Humans,
It is interesting how you can tell a human's political affiliation by what he says when he is talking about something other than politics. You humans, especially politicians, have a way of saying things that are politically correct rather than speaking directly about the issue.
For example, I am sure you have heard about the terrible gun murder in Colorado Springs. Today on CNN the governor of Colorado and the mayor of Colorado Springs were interviewed. The governor stated that there have been  too many mass murders in the USA, and something needs to be done about it. What was implied but not said is that guns are too available to every screwball who wishes to shoot other humans for whatever reason or just for the fun of killing. On the other hand, the mayor gave a wishy wishy desire for something to be done but said one must not go against the Constitution. One can tell from what they said that the governor is a Democrat and the mayor is a Republican. And looking them both up on the internet confirms this suspicion. The governor implied but did not directly place the blame where it belongs on the gun anarchy in the USA. The mayor put the special interests of the NRA and the gun anarchists ahead of the safety and welfare of the citizens and his own police.
We dogs are more direct.
Chloe

Mr. Trump and Mathematics

Hi Mr. Trump,
I understand you said something like the victims of the Paris murders should have had guns. I supposed you said that because defense of gun anarchy in the USA as opposed to gun sanity in other developed countries is the mantra of the Radical Right whom you are now courting to win the Republican nomination. 
Well, Mr. Trump (and other gun anarchists). These are the facts.
Including the 2990 victims of 9/11, in the 12 years from 2001 to 2013, deaths from terrorism in the USA were 3380 or an average of 282/year. Since the US population has been around 300 million lately that is about 1 victim in a little over 1 million people per year. That is too much and needs to be corrected and avenged. But compare that to the 33,875/year or in other words 8,856 per million people killed in gun violence each year in the USA, and you see gun anarchy is an even greater threat. Compare that to the 30 per million deaths per year related to guns in France (population 60 million). Even if you add the 150 people killed this year by terrorist guns in France, it pales in comparison to the gun deaths per population in the USA each year. So the numbers show that simply arming the civilian population in France would not have made France a safer place. That simplistic pseudo-cure would have been worse than the disease. Bigger minds than Mr. Trump are needed to figure out the best defence against terrorism. Even a little dog like me can see that.
Chloe

More Guns Will Protect? Crazy!

Hi Humans,
The gun violence continues too frequently. The NRA says the answer is more guns. That makes as much sense as saying that the cure for AIDS is more promiscuous sex. We dogs would never believe such nonsense. And you humans are supposed to be the ones with big brains.
Chloe

Gun Murder in Oregon

Hi Humans,
Well humans in America have done it again. The present weak gun laws have allowed another crazy human to acquire guns and kill multiple students and a teacher at a college in Oregon. It continues over and over again, and nothing is done to make America safe from this insanity. Guns are controlled in all the other advanced countries in the world, but not here. The President is ready to correct it, but his hands are tied by a Congress and many state legislatures that are beholden to the NRA. They self servingly say the answer is more guns. The truth is more guns = more gun homicides as reported in

Am J Public Health. 2013 Nov;103(11):2098-105. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301409. Epub 2013 Sep 12.The relationship between gun ownership and firearm homicide rates in the United States, 1981-2010.
Siegel M¹, Ross CS, King C 3rd.

Scott Wilk, the assemblyman in our neighborhood, Porter Ranch, California promotes the Second Amendment. That is code for favoring gun anarchy. He also voted against a proposed law banning concealed weapons in schools in California. Fortunately we have other representatives in our state who are not so small minded.
These rampages will continue to recur until the people of the USA wake up and vote the cronies of the NRA out of Congress.

Chloe