Crabby Blogging Lady

I read my local news to read about another tragic teenaged-driving death. This stuff is so horribly, horribly heart-breaking. An 18-year old drunk teenager, skipping school to drink, was roaring down the road in a SUV with another teen passenger (who was not drunk). A middle-aged woman in a minivan spotted the erratic driving of the oncoming SUV, and pulled over to let it pass. The teen driver nonetheless slammed into the parked minivan. Her teen passenger was instantly killed. The woman in the minivan was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

This is just horribly unconscionable. I think everyone is too stunned and too sad to be angry. But they have a right to be angry. The teen driver is in jail, with a pretty high bail. She is charged with charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. Those are some pretty serious charges for an 18 year-old. It’s just a heartache all around. WHY oh WHY do teens drink and think it is so cool? And then, they drive??? Lawdy… just so heart-breaking. Mesothelioma and other diseases are bad enough… do people have to go around killing each other, too???

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Maybe word will get out about this very serious problem of carousing teens and careless driving. Then again, people have been idiots for thousands and thousands of years, it isn’t likely that they will stop anytime soon.

Hoh boy! Hello, New Yorkers! Here’s more of your wasted tax dollars at work! New York State government claims that we have a “Canadian Geese problem”! So they plan to knock off TWO-THIRDS of the geese. Can you believe it?! According to the Huffington Post, “400 geese in Prospect Park were euthanized and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been removing the birds from several locations near JFK and LaGuardia Airports.” A goofy state senator held a “vigil” for the dearly departed, saying there were more human ways to get them out of here.

This was shocking to me. Are the geese terrorists? Menaces? What is wrong with the geese that is causing such a sharp, reaction?

Well, apparently, there are two things: the geese slam into airplanes (as what happened to the Hudson flight a few years back– remember that captain who landed the plane on the Hudson River?). And secondly, too many geese are flooding our parks and backyards, leaving their gooey geese dung all over the grass.

I find it unconscionable that the government wants to kill the geese. The geese are basically harmless! If the government just REALLY REALLY wants to kill something, how about all the DEER that are everywhere!!!! The deer are a total menace! They have exploded in numbers, and eat EVERYTHING in sight. And to the people who hate walking in geese dung at the park– WATCH WHERE YOU ARE WALKING!

How’s them diamonds?!

I think we should save the geese.

This is going way way too far. Watch this video and you tell me what you think.

That poor cat!! They are calling it “hydrotherapy” for cats, but did you hear that poor cat plea for help? That isn’t hydrotherapy!! That’s torturing the poor cat! Cats hate water! If the poor cat has an injured paw, get the cat some power wheels, don’t torture the poor thing in a pool!

Cats are NOT people, hello!!!! “Hydrotherapy” for cats, balderdash! More like “millions of bucks” for therapists.

I don’t know where the idea has derived from in our modern culture that animals are equal to humans. Hey– animals are CUTE, they deserve to be well treated, absolutely. But to treat animals like humans is insane. It shows how far gone society has degraded. Animals cannot reason. Torturing them to make them “better” is not humane, it’s WEIRD.

Just my two cents, as always. :D

It’s like a plague or a sudden fad from the catwalks of Paris– the “Extended Protection Plan.” EVERYBODY and their mother is offering them these days. This must be how the stores make their big bucks, kinda like how the fast-food restaurants make their money– offer the goods at *reasonable* prices, then tantalize you with “extras” for unconscionable prices.

I ordered a $75 appliance from a Big Box store, online. $75. Before I can even submit my order, I am bombarded with TWO windows begging me to sign up for the “Extended Protection Plan.”

Gee, is their product so crappy that they have to offer a “just in case” insurance policy for the thing? And look at the price of the “protection”– $59 bucks!!! LOL, I could just go out and get another appliance, dudes!

And everybody is on this “extended protection plan” bandwagon. I can’t even buy phentermine or buy a package of gum without being asked if I want to also spend on this or spend on that.

No! I just want to buy a pack of gum! Is that OK with you?!

So anyway. I’m looking forward to my appliance. And it better not be a dud, or I will kick myself for not getting the “extended protection plan.”

Why do news media outlets think it is so important to throw up (pun intended) images for their news stories? Most of them are “from the archives” or “file” images and are meaningless space wasters. Like this terrible one I saw this morning.

That’s a terrible image. Cheesy, yes. But TERRIBLE. Do we really NEED to have such an image to depict this story?!

Sheesh! While they’re at it, why don’t they just have some blood stains, or blood dripping from the knife? Why not have a severed head for a REAL eye-popping effect, huh?

Note to news organizations: skip the cheesy images. We’re all adults here. And while you’re at it, please ditch the cheesy bad breath treatment ads for “morning breath” and the underarm deodorant ads with people sniffing their armpits. They’re kinda dumb, too.

Men think they are God’s gift to earth, ya know that? (Well, the REALLY great men who ARE God’s gifts are to humble to think that– it’s only the arrogant buffoons who think they are so great). This summer has been a doozy so far. I’m not talking about hurricane seasons and radar detector alerts (by the way, where’d all those clarion calls of devastation and destruction go? Didn’t these bright guys prophesy billions of end-of-the-world hurricanes last year and the year before??) Anyway. I read the headlines and have coniptions. What IS IT with all the murders these days? And these aren’t your everyday, bad murders. These are heinous acts.

One insane idiot held up his 3-month old baby at arm’s length and blew him away. Why? Because he was mad at his girlfriend. Good God, people. A little baby in cold blood, two feet away.

Another incident has me seething mad: a 13-year old pervert boy raped and murdered a 2-year old girl that he was babysitting. DISGUSTING. The kid should be hung by his pubescent facial hair. That is plumb evil. And why did he do it? The girl was nagging him because she wanted to play, and he didn’t. Wicked. I also don’t understand why mothers would leave their precious little babies with teenage boys. Don’t they know what idiots 99.9% of teenage boys are?! Lord, it’s SO sad it would rip my heart to shreds.

Makes me sad, stories like this. Makes me very angry, too. Oh Lord, those poor little ones.