CDC Report on Teen Mental Health??

Let's talk teen mental health, specifically-- girls.

CDC Survey says-- incredible sadness, suicidal thoughts and sexual assaults. Surprising?

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over & expecting different results--Why is the official recommendation.....Do more of the same??

Where is the outrage about PHONES, PHONES and PHONES? Studies show an obvious correlation between phone use and teen depression!

The inmates are running this phony asylum.

Who? 😝? Thinks that teen girls living in a zombie bubble of social media likes, comments,  pics, pruning, waxing, always comparing, comparing every private corner of their body, lives and selves a healthy thing?

Who?😝? Believes that tween boys watching endless phone porn at the back of the school bus is somehow benign to everyone's social development?

Maybe, just maybe, Tim Cook is the crazy one...🙈

Why Dogs are Way Smarter than Humans

Dear Humans:

Here's the howl-- as I observe the naked, 2 legged kind-- a.k.a. homo sapiens,  can't help but notice, you just might not be as smart as you think! 

Dingo's List As To Why Dogs are Smarter than People:

#1- No dog has ever fallen off a cliff or into the ocean while taking a selfie.

#2- Dogs can't be scammed by bots. We get our info from butts--always accurate.

#3- No dog would shoot their ex for the insurance money.

#4- Dogs don't trust TV & social media, only nature and nurture is the real deal.

#5- Dogs wouldn't inject themselves with lip filler until they look like puffer fish.

#6- You do know dogs invented Yoga and stretching before exercise, thank you.

#7- Dogs never, ever have the problem of food waste.

#8- No dog needs to read a scientific article just to know that sleep is good.

#9- Dogs don't spread outrageous lies about each other.

#10- And no dog has ever threatened to start a nuclear war 💥!

Voting for Charisma Over Character

Dear Dingo:

I am fearful of the midterms elections and Trump 2024.... and what will happen beyond that??

Answer:

Settle down my little friend. People vote with their feelings, not facts. How do you think folks like Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin even got their toes into the political game? Even Biden--was simply a bit more likeable than Bloomberg or Buttigieg. 

Trump has freakishly high charisma. Enough so, that people are willing to vote for  politicians whose sole policy platform is to perpetuate their false prophets lies!

Of course, this would be worrisome if Trump were 42 years old and a health nut.  But he's not. Even if term limits are thrown out like a greasy McDonalds wrapper, he is no cyborg. All that will remain--underqualified, non-charismatic representatives. 

Attention Elon and Your Libertarian Pipe Dreams

 Dear Dingo:

I'm concerned that Elon Musk is a sheltered rich guy--Don't believe he understands that giving miscreants a megaphone (like Twitter) may harm democracy more than help it. Does he think he is some kind of Libertarian or just naive?

Answer:

Back when I lived in Alaska, one of the most outspoken libertarians in the Mat-Su Valley, freaked out when their neighbor's pit bull attacked and killed their dog-- all of a sudden this guy was talking leash laws, breed restrictions, rules, rules, rules...

 Since that time, we have a household saying--"a libertarian is just someone who hasn't had their dog killed yet".

Pretty sure Elon does not have a dog, so that wouldn't have much of an effect on him. How about he takes five minutes out of his ADHD fueled existence to read about: Hannah Arendt, German born philosopher, who escaped Nazi Germany?

Or I'll spell it out for you--Hannah argued (and lived through) a simple truth: there is no real line between free speech and propaganda. Nazi "free speech" in effect lead to the Holocaust. 

Speech was allowed to dehumanize others. Mocking, blaming, over and over...

In modern America, "free speech" has become a euphemism for money-- morally vacant and profit driven.

 Boring, honest, science, facts = less money. No emotion means no click bait.

Amusing, emotional, anger driven or high jinks =Yes, please! Profit time!

After a quick search, most trending topics of 2022: digital twin, fasting tea, cat toothpaste and drunk elephant. There you have it folks, your well informed electorate, primed for propaganda.

Nobody is Steppin on Your Snake Bro

 Dear Dingo:

If you live anywhere near a red state or listen to Tucker C. on Faux news, you get the sense that folks feel big bad government is out to take away liberty and will 'tread on you'. Why ?

Answer:

Faux news has (in their spiteful brilliance) confused the uneducated masses into believing billionaire tech CEO's and the government are somehow a functional, integrated machine.

Fucker Carlson stated that the 'Government' is going to track you through EV technology. First off, you are being tracked--your IPhone, your ridiculous Facebook posts, all tracked. But the truth is  rather boring-- no diabolical plot to take away your hoarded cooking oil, or shut down the energy grid (what on earth would be the point?) but only to ensure that pale nerds like Zuckerberg have enough $$ to afford massive amounts of sunblock and hoverboards for their Hawaii vacations.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, cares what Joe Blow is doing in his trailer in Wichita. (Unless he's selling arms to the Sandinistas or kiddie diddling). Ordinary folk are a pretty useless commodity--used only to be manipulated into voting against themselves by Russian bots at election time. Yet Joe Blow is the first dude to hoist his"Don't tread on me" flag from the back of his big ass pick up. 

Why?  Because he wants to feel important enough to actually be treaded on. 🐍😏

Chicken Poop for the Soul

And now a word about chicken poop🐔

 I have been the keeper of numerous chicken ladies (and some lads) for quite a few years now. The first few years, I did the unthinkable--disposing of the chicken manure into a forgotten pile. 

Now older and wiser am I! Using a dog pooper scooper, I collect my hens messes and call them blesses. Added these chicken poop balls to an assortment of plants---steel containers filled with bamboo, potted birch and cypress trees. Has not been any dreaded fertilizer burn-- just add a few clumps every few months! You will never have seen such verdant green.

The excess poop--is now collected in a large flower pot. And the wind delivered to me a vagrant dill seed. Planting itself happily in its found vat of crap, and blossoming into a gigantic dill plant. The healthy herb had plenty of manure, enough  to share with a pumpkin plant neighbor --another purveyor of the finest poop.

 

Never doubt that a shit show will grow great things!

Murder is Not a Mental Health Condition

 Dear Dingo:

Who is correct on the gun debate?

Answer:

You're all nuts--Take that talking point about mental health. Well perhaps some homicidal tendencies can be attributed to a mental disorder. But how about gang warfare, actual warfare, domestic violence, exterminating Natives or Nazi's doing Nazi stuff? Murder, murder, murder.

 Is the entire Russian army in Ukraine mentally ill? No. 

Humans are murderous. If one delves into the origins of Christianity (and the ironically murderous Crusades) the primary purpose was to stop those damn Europeans from slaughtering one another! Thus: Though shall not kill... Or off to hell you go!

But kids these days just don't buy into fear of eternal fire and hanging with a bright red goat man.

Yet they are allowed to buy semi automatic weapons. I don't believe the authors of the constitution ever imagined mounds of weapons available at your neighborhood big box store.

So what are you going to do? You can't just force people to believe in eternal damnation for their evil acts. But you can look at ways to keep society safer. The USA does not trust kids to drink beer until 21. Beer! But they trust them to buy semi-automatic weapons? That's just weird.