Babies

Somehow, the Facebook fairies have discovered that I like baby animals; my Facebook feed is now full of videos of newborn animal babies, bring cuddled by their dams, and the dams' humans!  I can barely restrain myself from squeeing at the sights; you have to do something to respond to them!

Most commonly they're horses, or cats, giraffes, or cattle—cows, anyway; the word 'cattle' seems so derogatory—especially woolly highland cows and calves.  It seems so horrible to learn that some livestock farmers specialize in veal, breeding baby calves expressly to slaughter them before they're yet a year old.  It's no more cruel than slaughtering an adult animal, but it does seem more cruel.  I'm depressed that I continue to eat beef and pork; though in very small quantities.  Do not feel that I'm judging you, readers, we're descended from carnivores, so it's natural. 

These days, there's plenty of news to feel horrified about, not least the war atrocities perpetrated by the government.  The only things that matter to the members of this administration are to remain in power at any cost.  And for what?  To treat those suspected of being immigrants with great cruelty and violence. 

Many citizens who voted for Trump did so because they were alarmed at the huge increase of non-white members of the population.  Those who did not go away to college, often never encountered anyone with a complexion that wasn't pale.  So it's only natural that they're uncomfortable with brown-skinned people, with their accented speech, which leads them to vote for a (failed) real-estate developer, with a very limited quiver of skills. 

But many of these bigoted people are far from being cruel.  The administration has tried to persuade them that the cruelty is necessary.  The administration knows that these people are not persuaded.  So now they have gone on to try to sell to the electorate that violence and death in Iran is necessary.  From all I know, Iran is the home for one of the most ancient civilizations on the planet.  Yet it's all targets for bombs now, and they're trying to find yet more bombs to carry on the destruction.  Meanwhile, it is emerging that there is evidence that numerous members of the political leadership of the last few decades were involved with pedophilia with Jeffrey E., and that our dear president was one of the primary organizers of the systematic raping of underage children. 

The readers who visit my pages are, I fervently hope, not sympathizers with those who hope to participate in these travesties.  We will remember; we will not allow all this to be swept under the rugs of foreign wars.

I seem to have wandered far from relating stories of baby animal videos, but I want to make it clear that many of us have seen and noted these things, and our patience is running out.

Kay