Vents: Random Acts of Venting!

[Dexter Morgan]

wisdom for the ages!

We live in a sue happy society. It doesn't matter what it is, somebody can find a law suit in it. 

[lex]

Ya know, it's crazy but I don't think that would slow them down one bit.  We find a lot of beer bottles and cans along our road. Drunkards and dead cats GoodTimes!!!!   

There are always the 4 legged speed bumps known as deer. Start feeding the local deer population, put out corn feeders, salt blocks, a watering pond and enjoy watching nature. Where I live the deer population is so out of control we all have to watch for them or wreck hitting them. And they are HUGE, so that if you do hit one, it's a major show stopper.

I would also check and see if the power lines are across the street and request the power company run them underground to you. This will cause them to trench across the road to you and create a speed bump that will last for a few seasons at least depending on the skill of the grader operator who maintains your road.

Or keep records of when people go flying through, and if you find a pattern, then let local law enforcement know you have an easy bust for them.

[Dexter Morgan]

Between the road and an over population of coyotes, the poor cats haven't got a chance.  Many of my outside cats have come up missing, I've heard they make great hor'derves for the coyotes.  I think the only thing that will affect the speeders, is if there is a very bad accident, on this road. 

[lex]

Between the road and an over population of coyotes, the poor cats haven't got a chance.  Many of my outside cats have come up missing, I've heard they make great hor'derves for the coyotes.  I think the only thing that will affect the speeders, is if there is a very bad accident, on this road. 

They might have a bounty on coyotes where you live if you check, it makes for an interesting hobby for some people to hunt them. I see farmers out hunting them all the time where I live. If you have lots of them, you might encourage some hunters to thin them out. Overpopulation of any wildlife is bad for the species. Sickness and starvation can set in and wipe all of them out.

The road is an issue which I would take personal though. It might not be cat someday that gets greased by insane idiots driving fast on it, it might be you or someone you know by your house. I would ride the authorities asses about it until they dealt with it.

[tallulahdahling]

  Here we go again...... Today was pay day. We're not allowed to pick up our checks until 1:00 pm. One of our shift managers came in at 12:00, and wanted to get her check early, because she was hungry, and didn't have money for food.   She's pregnant I might add. My boss told her she couldn't have it until 1:00. She got mad, which is understandable considering the circumstances. My boss kept carrying on after she left, because my coworker gave her some lip LOL!!! She came back at 1:00, and put in her 2 weeks notice.  I tried to reason with my boss because, she is very emotional due to the pregnancy. My boss said she didn't care.  I asked my boss, if the coworker cooled off and called in a day or two,and wanted her job back, would she take her back??? She said absolutely NOT!!!  It really pisses me off, that my boss is sooo cold and mean. It's not like the world would have ended, if she got her check early.  I feel soo bad for her. The baby's Daddy walked out on her,and  now she only has her other job,t hat she only works at one day a week. I understand there are rules, but my boss didn't have to be mean like that.  She was hungry, and needed money for food for cryin' out loud.  What a bitch!!

Which leads me to something else about her..... Today, she told us she hits her kids sooo hard, it breaks blood vessels in her hands.  She was gloating about it, like it was something to be proud of.  I truly hate her,and I don't hate anybody, soo you know she's horrible. 

Wait a min--is your BOSS preggers or the employee?  Sorry, but I stay confuzzed   

Your boss, the troglodyte, doesn't deserve children if she brags about beating them.

Somebody needs to go Tony Soprano on the beotch, in my opinion   

[tallulahdahling]

Between the road and an over population of coyotes, the poor cats haven't got a chance.  Many of my outside cats have come up missing, I've heard they make great hor'derves for the coyotes.  I think the only thing that will affect the speeders, is if there is a very bad accident, on this road. 

We have packs and packs of coyotes here too, Dex.  The dogs are a great help keeping them away from the property but I'm always afraid that they will think they are 10 feet tall and bullet proof and get outnumbered by the damned things    Worry, worry!

Ain't worried about the cat, though.  I've seen him take on possums and armadilloes.  He is one bad ass kitty!

[Dexter Morgan]

They might have a bounty on coyotes where you live if you check, it makes for an interesting hobby for some people to hunt them. I see farmers out hunting them all the time where I live. If you have lots of them, you might encourage some hunters to thin them out. Overpopulation of any wildlife is bad for the species. Sickness and starvation can set in and wipe all of them out.

The road is an issue which I would take personal though. It might not be cat someday that gets greased by insane idiots driving fast on it, it might be you or someone you know by your house. I would ride the authorities asses about it until they dealt with it.

The farmers don't need any encouragement, to shoot the coyotes. We have 3 hog confinements out here. Hell, one day one of the farmers jumped out of his truck, in front of my driveway, and started blasting away across the road.  I just about shit my pants, when the first shot rang out LOL!!!I thought we had a sniper in the area LMAO!!! 

[Dexter Morgan]

Wait a min--is your BOSS preggers or the employee?  Sorry, but I stay confuzzed   

Your boss, the troglodyte, doesn't deserve children if she brags about beating them.

Somebody needs to go Tony Soprano on the beotch, in my opinion   

My coworker is preggo T. Today, all my boss did, was talk shit about her. One thing in particular she said really pissed me off. She said "Well I hope to God, she doesn't think any of us is going to her baby shower Sunday." I really wanted to drop her on her ass.    I think I may have bit my tongue in half LOL!!! Stupid bitch anyway. 

[Dexter Morgan]

We have packs and packs of coyotes here too, Dex.  The dogs are a great help keeping them away from the property but I'm always afraid that they will think they are 10 feet tall and bullet proof and get outnumbered by the damned things    Worry, worry!

Ain't worried about the cat, though.  I've seen him take on possums and armadilloes.  He is one bad ass kitty!

Armadillos?  You need to get a llama, I've heard that a bunch of critters, are scared to death of them. 

[lex]

The farmers don't need any encouragement, to shoot the coyotes. We have 3 hog confinements out here. Hell, one day one of the farmers jumped out of his truck, in front of my driveway, and started blasting away across the road.  I just about shit my pants, when the first shot rang out LOL!!!I thought we had a sniper in the area LMAO!!! 

Are these commercial hog lots? We have a few of them around where I live. My state hates them, well the people do. This is Iowa and we have been so proud of our small hog farmers, then the POS corporations come in and sod it all up with their big pig operations.

These monster hog lots can be smelled for 20+ miles, and its sickening. You hardly smell the small time hog farmer more than a few miles away. I bet the methane emissions from these big lots is enough to warm several planets from icebergs to wastelands.

Which is a segue into a tangent about "gee, why haven't we tapped methane as an alternative fuel source, didn't everyone see "Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome?"".

Snipers, the beauty of them is if you are the first one they shoot, you will never know it and not have to be stressed about it. Raised in a "high volume of gunfire neighborhood" I have found that if you hear the shots most likely you got missed. At that point I am more interested in bullet "whine and wizz" and the sound of ricochets. If you can hear those its time to move along and perhaps seek shelter.

But I can feel your pain. By rights that farmer opening up right in front of your house was just plain RUDE. 

[Dexter Morgan]

Are these commercial hog lots? We have a few of them around where I live. My state hates them, well the people do. This is Iowa and we have been so proud of our small hog farmers, then the POS corporations come in and sod it all up with their big pig operations.

These monster hog lots can be smelled for 20+ miles, and its sickening. You hardly smell the small time hog farmer more than a few miles away. I bet the methane emissions from these big lots is enough to warm several planets from icebergs to wastelands.

Which is a segue into a tangent about "gee, why haven't we tapped methane as an alternative fuel source, didn't everyone see "Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome?"".

Snipers, the beauty of them is if you are the first one they shoot, you will never know it and not have to be stressed about it. Raised in a "high volume of gunfire neighborhood" I have found that if you hear the shots most likely you got missed. At that point I am more interested in bullet "whine and wizz" and the sound of ricochets. If you can hear those its time to move along and perhaps seek shelter.

But I can feel your pain. By rights that farmer opening up right in front of your house was just plain RUDE. 

We had 2 hog confinements up the road maybe a mile from us. Last month they completed the third one. I don't know how many hogs are in them. If the wind is blowing in the right direction, we don't smell it. Sometimes, after a rain storm we smell them. When it is very hot, it smells like a hog roast, when we go out in the yard.  Nobody even knew they were putting up a third one, until they broke ground for it.  By then it was too late to do anything. I think hog confinements are a horrible way for those pigs to live. That said....I contribute because I eat meat, and can't seem to kick the meat habit LOL!!!

I've never been in the middle of a shoot out thank God, but I would imagine it would be scary as hell. We had a guy get shot out our Walmart.  He took 9 slugs, and he's still kickin'. It was really bad, because he was holding the hand of his 3 year old son, when they shot him.  The child wasn't harmed physically, but I'm sure the poor little guy will have problems mentally. 

[lex]

9 slugs, egadz that had to hurt.

Kids are more resilient than you think. The damage will not show up probably until later life when the person can appreciate the situation more. When I was a child I can recall bullets whizzing by and over my head in my backyard due to some overzealous law enforcement officer not checking where his field of fire went. I was merely annoyed at the time because I had to stop what I was doing and retreat. If it happened today, I would be off the charts upset, stressed and probably firing back at least some heated insults.

If you think hogs live in some crappy conditions (pardon the pun) in those massive hog lots, you should see how poultry fairs in the mass production systems we have. The produce mutant birds, chicken and turkey so that they have huge breasts. The poor things are underdeveloped in other areas because they don't get exercise due to growing up in tiny contained areas.

I find this disturbing on a multitude of levels. First lets consider what are they feeding these birds to mutate them into big breasted stick figure birds? We eat these birds and think that we will not get some byproduct of these mutagens into our own bodies? We wonder about cancer which is basically run away cell growth, yet we eat meat that is produced with chemicals that cause normal cells to grow abnormally.

Now hogs are a filthy animal, full of filth and live in filth. Major religions of the world weren't smoking dope in pipes when they dictated to their followers to eschew swine. You are what you eat is pretty simple and universally true. Now if our industries can take a fairly safe to eat animal such as poultry and poison it up with its own filth and chemical, I am quite sure the swine industry is going to follow suit and at some point hand us some nightmare.

You are what you eat. What are we becoming? Our technology started changing us years ago in contrast to the world. Our refrigeration allowed us to keep fresh milk for our Olympic athletes and they were stronger than the others in the world due to this small edge. Today we are genetically engineering food for us and feed for our animals. We brew up foods and chemicals to digest, we take medicines and tonics.

Our environment is toxic. Will we adjust to it and become toxic as well or will we at some point hit an overload and come crashing down.

But sadly no matter what, in spite of it all, we can't seem to come up with a good idea on how to improve the life expectancy of cats around your house.   

[Dexter Morgan]

A while back there was a scandal with workers abusing the chickens, that  KFC is supplied with. The supplier was contracted with KFC, KFC didn't own it, but they got the full brunt of the fall out. At that time we didn't realize it, but a lot of the chicken legs we got were broken.  When we found out about the abuse we were horrified.    I cannot understand for the life of me, why people get off on torturing,maiming,and killing animals.    People like that have to be sick in the head.  You're right about pigs, and chickens being filthy animals. 

[lex]

Sick in the head is right. Sadly I seem to know lots of sick people. Normal fellows that seem to snap and do something sick just when you don't expect it. Now I had my cruel moments when I was a kid, me and a BB gun was a thing to be feared if you were anything that moved. But when I start beating myself up for my past sins, I am given pause by some of the people I have come across.

Cats seem to be the victims of a lot of this angst. At first I thought you were the rare guy that appreciates cats, then while reading elsewhere on the boards I gleaned you were a woman. That explains the concern, whereas I have found that myself and one friend are the only guys that aren't card carrying members of the secret society of cat haters.

KFC and I have a local history as they have had a bad habit in their past of not cooking the chicken all the way. They are better about it over the last few years and I have forgiven them of the horror stories I have went through with them. I love KFC chicken, if it doesn't cluck when I bite into it.

I am mystified as to why someone would hurt chickens though. I have known some sick people, but that one gets by me. We eat them, but somehow that is different. Torture is so wrong and I think those who do it injure themselves deeply.

Meh..can't write any more. I have someone chattering at me and can't get a hint that I am busy.

[Sandy Eggo]

I think that may be the reason that many people become vegetarians....it's the way the animals are treated when meat is mass produced. I've tried that route and I can't do it. I enjoy eating meat, so I guess that makes me a hypocrite of sorts, but I don't understand the torture of animals either. I understand survival of the fittest and the pecking order and all that, but I don't understand why it has to be cruel.