Millie (the Pit Bull I just picked up) presents a clear & present danger to my birds so I’ve been calling every rescue group in the metropolitan area to place her. Half have gone out of operation & the rest were over capacity, not accepting more animals. But they just don’t have it in them to turn away an animal who needs help. Some posted her photo on their web sites, some offered food.

One man who rescues only cats had me come to the spa he owns to pick up twenty-five pounds of food & then offered to pay for Millie’s vet care since she has some serious skin issues.

If she gets cleaned up physically she can get on a caravan to Denver where they foster animals rather than kennel them till they find a family.

I’m actually overwhelmed by the constant kindness of people & not just toward my dogs but toward me. It would be nothing but disgraceful ingratitude if I ever slipped into misanthropy toward the human race who have been nothing but generous to me.

Obama says we live in most peaceful era in human history

Obama with funny glasses from yournewswire

Obama is in Germany to open the world’s largest industrial technology trade fair in Hannover with Angela Merkel. Speaking at a news conference with Merkel, he pushed the Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), a proposed trade agreement between the US & EU & he also pushed the Trans-Pacific Partnership with the 12 Pacific rim countries. Corporations & banks will make a bundle off both those agreements which are based on militarism & sweatshop economics.

In his notorious monotone & not evidencing his Ivy League education, Obama droned: “…given the challenges that we face in the world & the headlines we see every day, may seem improbable but it’s true. We are fortunate to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human history.”

This is an SOS from the western hemisphere. Come & save us. we’ve been taken over by aliens.

(Photo is Obama at trade fair)

Being a human being is sufficient reason for asylum

Refugees in Sicily (Antonio Parrinello:Reuters) Apr 27 2016

Just so we’re clear about who the refugees are: this doctor disembarking from a Doctors Without Borders ship in Sicily is carrying a child rescued on the north Africa to Italy refugee route.

Most photos in media show only boatloads of African men being rescued. Given the rancid state of racism & white supremacy, it’s an image that lends itself to xenophobia & insularity. It is true, according to UN demographics, that nearly 75 percent of refugees from African countries are men & boys because it’s safer for them to travel. Only 10 percent are women & 16 percent are children, including a huge percentage of unaccompanied minors.

Human rights activists don’t ask what gender, age, country, or any other damn thing you are. Being human & wanting asylum is sufficient.

Immigration is a human right. Open the damn borders.

(Photo by Antonio Parrinello/Reuters)

The Armageddon refugees are fleeing

Aleppo, Syria bombing (Ameer Alhalbi:AFP:Getty Images) Apr 27 2016

Just so we’re clear on what Syrian refugees (as well as Iraqi, Afghan, & Pakistani refugees) are fleeing from: this is a scene from Fardous, a district near Aleppo, following an airstrike yesterday.

On February 27th, 97 fighting rebel groups as well as the Syrian, Russian, & US-led coalition agreed to a ceasefire. Russia claimed it had grounded its warplanes in Syria. But according to media reports, it was not immediately clear whether strikes were carried out by Assad’s air force or by allied Russian warplanes.

One resident said the bombing & shelling came down “like rain” on public markets & residential areas.

Since the conflict began in 2011, 270,000 people have been killed in Syria & millions forced from their homes.

Sending US war planes & ground troops is not the beginning of a solution to this catastrophe but the beginning of Armageddon.

US out of Syria & Iraq!

(Photo by Ameer Alhalbi/AFP/Getty Images)