KendalJones/whateverherreason/notcool/mytwocents/Irefusetousehastags/Idofindthecombiningofwordsfunhowever

So, if you’ve been keeping up with the latest FB outrage you have heard of Kendal Jones. The girl who kills big game animals and puts pictures up on Facebook with her not just sitting by them but holding them up and at one point she picks up a dead cheetah likes she’s hugging or dancing with it.

There was a huge backlash on FB and some started a petition for her to take the pictures down. Someone I know put up a retort by Kendal Jones and I agree, it is not as bad as her pictures and all the public outrage make it seem. This is a link to her page if you want to see it:
https://www.facebook.com/kendalltakeswild?fref=photo

However, . . .I still have a problem with her/it. This is why:

It bothers me because this type of action is just so exploitative. She is using these peoples poverty. If she really cared about them her pictures would be of her working along side the village to help them build a better life. She wanted to look cool. That’s all she cared about. She achieves this goal by smiling at the camera and degrading a creature (creation) whose life she took. She is insulting the life that once was there.

I don’t have a problem with the nature of a hard life where people need to kill to survive. But there are tribes that see the sanctity in all life forms and thank the animal for their sacrifice for the tribe’s survival. She is saying, “Let me throw some money at these poor people so I can pretend I’m dancing with a cougar or lion after I’ve killed it so my friends can get a chuckle and “like” my Facebook post.

She may think she’s helping the people of these villages and financially I guess she is. But she’s taking away something that is so much more precious… a connection (and a reverence for that connection) to a life force that all living beings share with one another.

Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.

Net Neutrality ~ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 2

So, we the American people are getting screwed again. Corporations are taking over the United States. It. is. really. happening. With Citizens United I thought, “What the Fuck!?” But not, “This is the beginning of the end!” Really though, it was.

The loss of Net Neutrality was the final straw for me. In the past it has always been a dictator, a megalomaniac, a tyrant that stole a country. This time . . . it’s Comcast, Verizon (I wonder if there is a connection between the fact that Verizon let the NSA spy on the America people and the fact that the government is now selling the internet to them? Hmmm. . .), Monsanto etc. . .  This isn’t a democracy anymore.

As a child I truly felt like the US was a great country. Now it’s just an oligarchy on it’s way to a revolution in 60 years. Net Neutrality is pretty much us getting fucked and then. . . fucked again. I have been reading the messages that people have been sending the FCC about bringing Net Neutrality back and a number of things struck me.

1. A lot of people don’t know it’s already a done deal. Net Neutrality has already been abolished. Why the FCC is allowing people to comment I have no idea. Probably something for the 1% to read and laugh at as they destroy another piece of our Democracy.

2. I read about 200 of the 94,000 comments sent in by June 6th and every one I read was by a perfectly sane person who knew what they were talking about. NOT ONE crazy. Not one. We, the average person (intelligent people at that) are starting to see that America is slowly slipping through our fingers.

3. There is nothing funny about net neutrality but some of the comments were quite clever. . . or just pissed off and full of cuss words and for me that’s pretty enjoyable too.

So far my favorite:

“I do not believe that ending net neutrality would be a wise choice. It would hinder start up companies and benefit only those who had the funds with which to pay for a higher bandwidth. One of the greatest things about the internet is the fact that data flows freely, with no hindrance. In conclusion, eat a big fat bag of dicks you fucking douche canoe…net neutral 4 life!”

I am so angry with myself for not copying the guys name. He left it on June 5th 2014. If anyone else comes across it and wanted to tell me his name. PLEASE DO! 

If you don’t know about the loss of Net Neutrality yet here is the link to John Oliver’s show that explains it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

Here is a link to the FCC Comments page. fcc.gov/comments

I know I said it won’t do any good, but leave a comment anyway, miracles sometimes happen. If nothing else, our grand children will have proof that WE THE PEOPLE did not silently agree to the selling out of our country.  Click on the link and troll the hell out of it!!

                       DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOODNIGHT
                   RAGE! RAGE! AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT