Winston the Staff(ish) puppy is like a supersonic weapon of mass destruction. He gets so ridiculously excited when I first arrive, a couple of weeks ago he jumped up, ate part of my cardigan and I didn't realise until I saw three of the buttons land on the kitchen worktop.
I do my best to ignore him until he sits down and then I bribe him with a smear of peanut butter. He's a reasonably calm dog once he's had his peanut butter fix.
My daughter's Staff(ish) Bull Terrior Malcolm is clingy like that. We had a falling out last week about whether I was well enough to be pinned to the sofa. The hurt looks he gave me when I finally managed to push him off me...
I'd fret abut Cyril develping a complex, but the squirrels round here throw dud acorns at people, or sit in the middle of the lane giving the finger to your dogs when they're on leads.
It had taken up residence in the shop where she works and was eating all the fruit. I'm not sure Cyril the Squirrel was lonely in the shop, nor appreciated her walking across muddy fields after dark to rehome him in the woods.
She said he was huge, but most squirrels are taller than she is, so take that with a pinch of salt.
After all the anti-Semitism, pogroms and Holocaust, is it surprising that Jewish people long for a homeland where they can feel safe and have autonomy?
I see that as being different from Israeli policies which oppress, threaten and kill Palestinians.
Listen to half a dozen accounts of people's Holocaust experiences and Zionism, longing for a homeland, is perfectly understandable.
The issue is how that is being achieved, if you can call it an achievement in it's current state. It's not an evil Zionist regime, it's inhumane, ungodly behaviour that is out of place with the concept of a safe homeland that everyone has the right to.
Is it a good thing for a child's role model to be abusive to their partner and co-parent? What behaviours do you expect that to produce?
My daughter said to me when she was 14 years old that she preferred boys who were raised by their mothers because they interacted with her as an equal, a human being, rather than trying to dominate her. Out of the mouths of babes.
Do you really think that Saukerl of a troll(op) LeeCharming has anything sensible to say when his whole motivation is to engender discord?
If, in a white dominated society, the statistics imply that more white men and more people of colour go missing in the US than white women, but more attention is given to missing white women, then clearly it's the dominant white population that make race an issue.
As it says in the video, if the missing person was an older, Korean man there wouldn't be the same kind of public interest and coverage, whether he did the tiktok thng, or not.
Feminism: you can't have equal rights for women without having equal rights for everyone by default.
I've just watched the second video and it's answered sme of my questions.
It is a racial issue, but other factors such as Gabby's media exposure also play a part in the high profile status of this case.
I still maintain that teaching children about social, emotional and psychological issues is imperative: perhaps the male police officers might have acted differently had their education been more extensive.
I also missed some of the pertinent factors in the body cam footage I watched a few days ago, where it was presented that Gabby was the aggressor. I still felt uncomfortable about Laundrie's body language (he came across as socially inept, a trait typical of abusers), but hadn't put the pieces together in such a way that that the attending police officers might have acted differently.
Steven Johnson Syndrome can be caused by certain medications, but also occur as a result of infection. Underlying health conditions, or genetic factors may predispose the development of the syndrome.
It may be that the symptoms associated with Steven Johnson Syndrome were caused by the vaccination in this young woman's case, but it's not clear from the video when she became infected with covid.
It's not clear whether the the vaccination was the sole contributor to her developing health problems, whether covid was, or a combination of the two. It's not clear if she had any underlying health conditions, such as an auto-immune disease which could easily have been previously undetected.
She appears to have some syptoms which are not primarily associated with Steven Johnson Syndrome, but are associated with auto-immune disease (inflammation) and covid/vaccination (blood clots).
It's not clear from the video whether she has a simple 'vaccination leading to all symptoms' situation, or whether there is more than one cause and more than one cluster of symptoms.
It's important that this kind of health reaction is not ignored. It's unfair if people are not afforded informed choice with respect to covid, vaccination, or any other health issue. It's unfair if people are not taken seriously, or have medical assistance denied because their symptoms are dismissed.
It is also unfair to promote 'truths' without clear evidence. It is as dysfunctional as denying potential evidence. This video does not present unequivocal evidence that the vaccine was the sole cause of all this young woman's symptoms by any stretch of the imagination. It therefore relies upon a leap of logic if used to promote an anti-vaccination stance.
Thankyou for posting the video, it was very interesting, but I'm still none the wiser as to causal factors with respect to this young woman's symptoms, or my own.
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