One Good Deed Deserves....What?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_on_re_us/samaritan_protection
Heartwarming story! Or is it bone-chilling? I'm sorry the woman became a paraplegic, but that doesn't justify her attempts to make her co-worker's life a living hell! The only way she could justify this is by proving that she had repeatedly asked her colleague not to pull her out so roughly as she was being rescued! If she had told the good samaritan at the time of the accident that she'd rather wait for experienced emergency workers to arrive & help her, then she can claim that her colleague caused her permanent damage by ignoring her pleas. However, if she was screaming like a baby as she was being helped & expressing relief at the assistance she was receiving, she has no bloody business taking it out on her co-worker now! I'm even more amazed that the legal authorities have decided that she has a right to sue the person who rushed to her assistance!
Already we have adults refraining from extending a helping hand to small children, fearful of some nasty crime that they might be accused of! This, of course, is thanks to all the bogus legal cases of child abuse resulting from society's bizarre paranoia! Now, thanks to rulings like this, human beings will simply stop helping fellow humans under dire straits....and who can blame them?
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
"Saved: Rescued Animals & The Lives They Transform" by Karin Winegar (Photos by Judy Olausen)
I'm a genuine animal lover who thoroughly enjoys reading books about humans & their loving relationships with animals & birds. Although I liked most of the stories in "Saved", I was highly disappointed with the inclusion of one particular story in this collection. The story in discussion is "A Joy To Raise" (pages 181-190). This is a story about a hunter who "loves" & has spared the life of a stag named Li'l Buck! However, he has no qualms about regularly shooting other beings identical to his Li'l Buck, for fun & sport! I know that there are a lot of hunters around & also that hunting is legal, but I certainly do not think a hunter's story has any place in a book specifically about love for animals! It's an insult to the other dedicated animal-lovers featured in this book, to have Phil McIntyre's name taken in the same breath as theirs! I can understand the inclusion of a story about a former hunter who has converted into a dedicated animal-lover & given up his cruel hobby, but not a person who proudly hunts to this day! In future, it would be really nice if authors could issue "warnings" about such unique stories somewhere in the introduction or preface, so unsuspecting readers like myself do not have to endure the story of an avid animal-killer who has taken a fancy to one particular creature & kept it as a pet....in a book that is supposed to be about people's love & deep respect for all forms of life!
I'm a genuine animal lover who thoroughly enjoys reading books about humans & their loving relationships with animals & birds. Although I liked most of the stories in "Saved", I was highly disappointed with the inclusion of one particular story in this collection. The story in discussion is "A Joy To Raise" (pages 181-190). This is a story about a hunter who "loves" & has spared the life of a stag named Li'l Buck! However, he has no qualms about regularly shooting other beings identical to his Li'l Buck, for fun & sport! I know that there are a lot of hunters around & also that hunting is legal, but I certainly do not think a hunter's story has any place in a book specifically about love for animals! It's an insult to the other dedicated animal-lovers featured in this book, to have Phil McIntyre's name taken in the same breath as theirs! I can understand the inclusion of a story about a former hunter who has converted into a dedicated animal-lover & given up his cruel hobby, but not a person who proudly hunts to this day! In future, it would be really nice if authors could issue "warnings" about such unique stories somewhere in the introduction or preface, so unsuspecting readers like myself do not have to endure the story of an avid animal-killer who has taken a fancy to one particular creature & kept it as a pet....in a book that is supposed to be about people's love & deep respect for all forms of life!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Dear Mr. Barack Obama,
Kindly accept my humble suggestion for a response ad to John McCain's latest petty attack ad on you (comparing you with Britney Spears & Paris Hilton!):
Show pics of John McCain & Woody Allen on the same screen, and announce: Both are undoubtedly talented, old men. But would you trust your child's future to this man (at this point show a sexy {yuck!} pic of Woody Allen & his adopted "daughter")? I know I wouldn't! Then, end with the slogan: No Country For (Dirty) Old Men!
I know you are way too classy a person to actually use this. However, I feel Mr. McCain truly deserves it.
Regards,
An American Well-Wisher.
Kindly accept my humble suggestion for a response ad to John McCain's latest petty attack ad on you (comparing you with Britney Spears & Paris Hilton!):
Show pics of John McCain & Woody Allen on the same screen, and announce: Both are undoubtedly talented, old men. But would you trust your child's future to this man (at this point show a sexy {yuck!} pic of Woody Allen & his adopted "daughter")? I know I wouldn't! Then, end with the slogan: No Country For (Dirty) Old Men!
I know you are way too classy a person to actually use this. However, I feel Mr. McCain truly deserves it.
Regards,
An American Well-Wisher.
Monday, January 14, 2008
My letter to Brian Williams:
Dear Mr. Williams,
I just watched your evening news show from January 14, 2008. This is in reference to the final feature in your news programme, i.e. The difference between the 2 sexes when it comes to the functioning of their brains concerning memory & emotions. I just want to start off by saying that I was raised in a huge joint family, and have had the good fortune to be able to observe members of both genders growing up. I have seen so many cases defying the stereotypes concerning the 2 sexes that I'm an avid believer in the role of nurture being the far more important factor in influencing behaviour than nature. In the case that you used as an example of the husband and wife having very different memories of their wedding day....is it not possible that they think in these different ways because that's how they were raised; that's how , as members of different sexes, they are oriented to reacting?
However, what surprises me even more is the confidence with which you show such features, most of which come acroos as favouring men (big surprise that is, I'm sure!). Would you get away by showing elaborate features on how black people's brains operate differently from whites? Or Jewish people's brains work differently from Christians? In this modern day fever of political correctness, whenever differences based on race, culture or religion are brought up, people get highly uncomfortable & start insisting that we shouldn't stereotype human beings and should ideally judge a human for who he is & how he behaves. Shouldn't we show the same respect when it comes to the different genders? I can give it to you in writing that if you separate a group of 100 Italian-American males into 50 men with flattish noses & 50 others with sharp noses, the brain functioning of the 2 groups regarding a particular issue would not be identical. Based upon that "research", would you arrive at the conclusion that Italian-Americans with flat noses think differently from the ones with sharp noses?
You "warned" us that there would be more episodes of this boy vs. girl difference in your future shows. I, for one, am not looking forward in eager anticipation. Who knows? Maybe I'll feel the need to write a longer note after viewing what the "future" holds. Thanks for allowing me to have my say.
Dear Mr. Williams,
I just watched your evening news show from January 14, 2008. This is in reference to the final feature in your news programme, i.e. The difference between the 2 sexes when it comes to the functioning of their brains concerning memory & emotions. I just want to start off by saying that I was raised in a huge joint family, and have had the good fortune to be able to observe members of both genders growing up. I have seen so many cases defying the stereotypes concerning the 2 sexes that I'm an avid believer in the role of nurture being the far more important factor in influencing behaviour than nature. In the case that you used as an example of the husband and wife having very different memories of their wedding day....is it not possible that they think in these different ways because that's how they were raised; that's how , as members of different sexes, they are oriented to reacting?
However, what surprises me even more is the confidence with which you show such features, most of which come acroos as favouring men (big surprise that is, I'm sure!). Would you get away by showing elaborate features on how black people's brains operate differently from whites? Or Jewish people's brains work differently from Christians? In this modern day fever of political correctness, whenever differences based on race, culture or religion are brought up, people get highly uncomfortable & start insisting that we shouldn't stereotype human beings and should ideally judge a human for who he is & how he behaves. Shouldn't we show the same respect when it comes to the different genders? I can give it to you in writing that if you separate a group of 100 Italian-American males into 50 men with flattish noses & 50 others with sharp noses, the brain functioning of the 2 groups regarding a particular issue would not be identical. Based upon that "research", would you arrive at the conclusion that Italian-Americans with flat noses think differently from the ones with sharp noses?
You "warned" us that there would be more episodes of this boy vs. girl difference in your future shows. I, for one, am not looking forward in eager anticipation. Who knows? Maybe I'll feel the need to write a longer note after viewing what the "future" holds. Thanks for allowing me to have my say.
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