in which cat gets really mad!

So I got up early this morning to let the dogs out and feed them, and while I waited for Jinx (world's slowest dog food eater) to eat his breakfast before I went back up to bed I started looking through the Sunday paper. I only get the paper on weekends and this is a relatively new thing, about 6 weeks now, and so far my paper old man (because he is, he's some old dude, and not a boy) had missed THREE out of the SIX Sundays I should be getting my paper. Seriously. So I was happy to have a paper to read this morning. Though that didn't last long.This Sunday paper has only made me think one thing.What the hell is wrong with people??Well, what do we have here? OK, the parents of a US Olympic athlete were stabbed, one fatally and one seriously injured by a man in China, who then jumped off a 45-foot tower and killed himself. This attack itself is stupid and aggravating but allow me a selfish moment here. I HATE WHEN THE EVIL PERSON COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER THEY COMMIT THEIR EVIL! Gah! Evil people are not supposed to do that. They are supposed to wax poetically on the How and the Why after they do something and then and only then should they meet their demise. I hate not knowing why someone did something this fucked up. (Sorry, that is the only word I can use to accurately describe something like this). There was no poetic waxing, only suicide. Coward.We have a young Canadian soldier who was killed at a standoff over in Afghanistan. He leaves behind his 25-year old fiancee, who is 8 month pregnant! The death was a result of a confusing gun fight. This death is just totally unnecessary because WE SHOULDN'T EVEN BE OVER THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! I don't talk about political stuff and stuff like this because quite frankly I couldn't care less, it's all stupid and nothing is ever actually done for the good of, you know, US PEOPLE, but come on now. We are losing Canadian (and American) soldiers for NO REASON people! There is no reason we should be OVER THERE.And you know what? Dropping a BOMB on a city of people does NOT constitute PEACEKEEPING. Hello? Russia? Georgia? Did you understand that? You know what Peacekeeping would  be?

Person A: I am going to punch you!Person B: I am going to punch you and kick you!Comforting Motherly-type Person: Now, now, children. Let's not fight. Let's go have some freshly baked cookies and milk and then play with puppies!Persons A & B: Oh, ok! That sounds like fun! We're not going to punch anyone anymore!

THAT is Peacekeeping! Cookies and puppies! NOT BOMBING THE CRAP OUT OF A CITY!Jeez.Let's not forget the local pet store that currently has 4 frolicsome kittens hanging around. Kittens who a month ago were found on the side of a lake totally dehydrated and almost dead. Great. Hey, you know what world? If you don't want your pets to have babies? GET THEM SPAYED OR NEUTERED! It's not that hard. It's not rocket science. And it will keep you from becoming murderers. And yes, if you leave kittens, puppies, any animal really, out to die? You are a murderer and you deserve to have karma bite you in the ass.But then again, if we don't care about people in Georgia, why should we care about kittens, right? I mean kittens and people we think are less than us are really just the same. Disposable.And to the 24-year old, Montreal student who was just deported from Beijing back to Montreal for protesting at the Olympics? Dude, you're just stupid. Give it up already. And I think I am also bitter that at 24 you have enough money to get to Beijing. I can't even make it until Friday with enough money in my bank account that I think Jinx is going to have to eat some cereal this week since we can't afford dog food. And you're off to Beijing. Wondering though, if you only bought a one-way ticket on the assumption the government would cover your flight home. I hope they make you pay, you moron. Way to make Montreal and Canada look bad.I am now wondering why I get this paper? Maybe I should be happy that Old Paper Guy has decided to leave me hanging three out of six Sundays? (Though one of those Sundays, after I phoned the paper to say WHERE THE HELL IS MY PAPER? I got a copy. The other two? "We are unable to deliver your paper today". Really? Because I could walk the 15 mins to the store and get my own, only I don't want to do that because I am in my jammies and I have paid you to BRING IT TO MY DOOR!)Argh. Sigh. I am now full of anger and sadness and I am so sick of people today being so bloody self-involved that they can't even obey basic traffic laws or use common courtesy. I won't be surprised if soon the population will stop booming because no one will think anyone else is good enough for them to procreate with and not even notice there are other people in the world besides them. I think every new child will be artificially made, since the men will be all "Well, I am too good to just give my sperm away, I should be paid for it! And if someone wants a baby by me THEY should PAY for it, because I am a God and Awesome and all sorts of other crap like that!" And the women will be all "Well, we don't want ugly or retarded babies, so we will pick and choose and create the Perfect Baby and the Baby shall be called Perfect Baby and all will be right with the world."Humans make me sick.