Thursday, April 25, 2024
Cat rescue groups - a review
This may not be a fair analysis as I have not heavily researched the subject but is based on personal experience. Few years back I had two stray female cats temporarily living in the house and one was obviously quite pregnant so I contacted a cat rescue group. The end result was good she took the cats and they went to a foster home. Yes they have them for cats too. The methodology however. She came by late afternoon with two big cages in the back of her SUV and clearly wanted to follow the protocols of official cat rescue techniques which involves putting a bowl of food in the cages and as they say on detective stakeout shows we wait. Order Chinese? I was like how long is this gonna take I wanna watch Wheel of Fortune give me the cages. Somewhat hesitant she gave in and within ten minutes or less I handed her the cages with the cats inside and thank you and have a good night. FF to now and I have another situation with a tomcat that I've been feeding and has battle wounds on his face from territorial cat fights and so I texted the cat lady again who responded to my first text but hasn't replied to my followup texts. I realize these people are incredibly busy and serve large geographic areas but how hard is it to hit an emoji? Then I'm sitting on the porch with my fine cigar and observed a neighbor trying to get what looked like a female cat off the road and then feeding it and trying to get the cat out of harm's way so clearly our neighborhood has a cat problem as do many other neighborhoods so where are the cat people? Calling Jackson Galaxy!
Saturday, May 07, 2016
The 4 patron saints of lost causes, where do I rank?
They are Sts. Jude, Rita of Cascia, Philomena and a Gregory. With so many millions the world over praying to these big four for impossible cases despaired of where do I rank? Main problem: chronic tinnitus and let's throw in maybe a couple other problems while we have the divine connection. On one website of prayer petitions is a woman who wants a problem employee removed from the workplace. Where does tinnitus rank? Is it higher on the list? It's at least a medical/health issue and they're big on that although it can't rank as high as cancer of course. How do these four saints go through literally millions of petitions and decide which ones deserve their attention first? Do they have computers? They must have large staffs helping them. Excuse me I just got a text message......oh that's just another YPD Alert.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Shazam it & get pulled over
I absolutely love the Shazam app because so many times I'll hear a song on the radio and don't know the group or artist. Only thing is it's an issue when you're driving. Reverse phone lookup - I don't like it if I accidentally call another person's cell and they can find out everything about me. Creepy. Police tips apps by Citizen Observer - chances are your town or city has one. I've used the YPD tips one and you get a fair response. Google + I avoid like the plague. It's all public and out there if you rate an app let's say so you might wanna delete that sex book from your library first. I actually see men in the stall gabbing away on their phones and if there's ever a hepatitis outbreak you'll know why:)
Monday, April 13, 2015
Battle of the Dynasties
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Yonkers snow removal (not)
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Wintertime ramblings
Saturday, June 01, 2013
St. Francis with an iPad
Monday, August 13, 2012
The Closing Ceremonies were a little weird
Friday, June 15, 2012
Thuganomics and the psychology of organized crime
Friday, April 27, 2012
Beavers making a comeback in Westchester County NY
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Racial unrest in Florida
Al Sharpton is visiting the Sunshine State today, always a voice of reason and calm but I see this one as having the potential for riots and bearing national repercussions. I don't see how you cut it you can defend this guy Zimmerman, a one-man neighborhood community watchman/vigilante and I think on the merits I agree with the black activists and the black community in general on this one (now when was the last time you heard a conservative say that?). You shouldn't be shot dead if you're a 17-old young black man carrying a bag of Skittles through a probably mostly white gated community so how did this happen? Now I live in a neighborhood where when I look out the window, that's kinda the extent of my community watching here and if I see something dubious or questionable or in any way a gray area and let's face it some of these situations do involve young black men 9 times out of 10 I don't call the police. It's too, how shall I say vague...what do I say when I get the sergeant on the line? I'll call the police on average about one time a year over something happening in the neighborhood but by all accounts Mr. George Zimmerman was the exact opposite, hyper-alert and hyper-observant and probably hyper-imaginative as well. I think his racial adrenaline was flowing heavily juiced on by the reality of black crime is my view. This story has picked up so much steam I had to blog about it. I don't even see how the case justifies as an act of self-defense and he should've been arrested by now but I've had my say. What's your 2 cents?