Twice annoyed.
All right. Kamloops is a pile of crap. Two things.
Yesterday, someone was bit by a german shepherd. Guess what happened? Well, nobody bitched, that's for sure. I mean, they destroyed the dog, but beyond that, there was a definite lack of bitching. Now, imagine if this had been a pit bull. A lot of people would have bitched and tried to get pit bulls banned and pit bull crosses banned and pit bull owners sterilized and so on and so forth. If you're going to be prejudiced against dogs bred for aggressiveness, then be prejudiced against all of them, not just the chosen aggressive breed du jour. Any moron who raises their dog to bite people will end up with a dog that bites people. Yes, a pit bull is more likely to take to biting just like a border collie will take to herding, but so will a damned german shepherd. I don't approve of banning any breed of dog, but if you're going to ban aggressive dogs, that includes german shepherds. Dorks.
Yeah, that was a pretty sad thing to be annoyed about. The next one is way better, though.
Last weekend, for something to do, a youth group got together and had a fair about dinosaurs. You know, so kids could go look at dinosaur bones and learn about them and whatever else. Pretty nifty, right? I thought so. Until I saw the report on the local public station. These kids learned that dinosaurs and people lived together and that evolution is a crock. I was treated to little children looking innocently into the camera and repeating (on cue!) all this tripe. Right down to the "well, evolution is just a theory" nonsense. The absolutely best part was when they assured me that dinosaurs are probably still alive today, somewhere. Yeah, sure they are. They're called birds, you cracked out, deluded children. They're kids. I don't blame the kids. But the people who were teaching them all this malarky took grade ten science and therefore know the bloody scientific definition of a theory.
I'm cheesed. Cheesed that this town thinks it is okay to teach our children to be stupider.
On a lighter note, John and I are going to Vancouver in October for, what else, a New Pornographers concert. They'll be playing with Immaculate Machine and Novillero. I've just started listening to Novillero, so I'm pretty excited.
Yesterday, someone was bit by a german shepherd. Guess what happened? Well, nobody bitched, that's for sure. I mean, they destroyed the dog, but beyond that, there was a definite lack of bitching. Now, imagine if this had been a pit bull. A lot of people would have bitched and tried to get pit bulls banned and pit bull crosses banned and pit bull owners sterilized and so on and so forth. If you're going to be prejudiced against dogs bred for aggressiveness, then be prejudiced against all of them, not just the chosen aggressive breed du jour. Any moron who raises their dog to bite people will end up with a dog that bites people. Yes, a pit bull is more likely to take to biting just like a border collie will take to herding, but so will a damned german shepherd. I don't approve of banning any breed of dog, but if you're going to ban aggressive dogs, that includes german shepherds. Dorks.
Yeah, that was a pretty sad thing to be annoyed about. The next one is way better, though.
Last weekend, for something to do, a youth group got together and had a fair about dinosaurs. You know, so kids could go look at dinosaur bones and learn about them and whatever else. Pretty nifty, right? I thought so. Until I saw the report on the local public station. These kids learned that dinosaurs and people lived together and that evolution is a crock. I was treated to little children looking innocently into the camera and repeating (on cue!) all this tripe. Right down to the "well, evolution is just a theory" nonsense. The absolutely best part was when they assured me that dinosaurs are probably still alive today, somewhere. Yeah, sure they are. They're called birds, you cracked out, deluded children. They're kids. I don't blame the kids. But the people who were teaching them all this malarky took grade ten science and therefore know the bloody scientific definition of a theory.
I'm cheesed. Cheesed that this town thinks it is okay to teach our children to be stupider.
On a lighter note, John and I are going to Vancouver in October for, what else, a New Pornographers concert. They'll be playing with Immaculate Machine and Novillero. I've just started listening to Novillero, so I'm pretty excited.