To Kill a Dog

This is not like the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. 

This was an incident narrated by Ms. Kristi Noem, the South Dakota Governor. She is in the short-listed candidates to be the Vice-Presidential nominee for Donald Trump. She wanted to show the American voters that she is tough enough to face “difficult, messy and ugly” tasks. So Kristi narrated the following incident. 

Kristi Noem had a dog named Cricket. She said her 14 month old was very difficult to handle, train and discipline. According to her, Cricket behaved like “a trained assassin” with an “aggressive personality”. Attacked family chicken and killed many of them. She thought her kids are in danger. 

What did she do about it? She took her dog, Cricket, to a gravel pit and shot her dead. 

She is getting lot of criticism from the American public. America as a whole is a dog loving nation. Her act did not go well with the America public. This may endanger her chance of being a Vice Presidential candidate for Donald Trump. 

I have heard about dog owners shooting their hunting dogs accidentally. Never knew someone shooting their own dog deliberately and bragging about it. 

My point is if Kristi Noem wanted to get rid of her dog, she could have given it for adoption. Or, if she wanted to get rid of her dog forever, should could have put her to sleep in a more humane way. 

What do you think?

I Love You

I read this somewhere. I thought I would share this with you. 

In a relationship seminar for women, the leader asked “who loves her husband”. Almost all the participants raised their hands. The leader then asked the participants to send an SMS message to their husbands with the text “I love you, darling”.

Some of the replies they got: 

1. Who are you? 

2. Mother my children, are you ill? 

3. I love you 

4. What you did do to the car? 

5. What do you want? 

6. ??? 

7. Be direct, how much do you need? 

8. Do I dream? 

9. If you do not tell me to whom you wanted to send this, I will kill you! 

10. I told you to stop drinking 

11. Regardless of what you want, the answer is no!

Self-Immolation

A supporter of Donlad Trump set himself on fire across the courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial. 

Actually, the practice of self-immolation was started in India many centuries ago thru sati. This was a practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. This practice was stopped by Lord William Bentinck in 1829. He was the first Governor General of British-ruled India. 

In modern history, the first self-immolation was conducted by Thich Quang Duc during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese monk set himself on fire in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. A few others in USA self-immolated as a means protest during the Vietnam War. 

Many Tibetans set themselves on fire in protest of Chinese rule in Tibet. 

Self-immolation was not just to protest war. During the 1960s several people in Tamil Nadu self-immolated in protest of the implementation of Hindi as a national language. 

Some psychologists call self-immolation is a form of suicide and due to mental illness. 

Do these people achieve their goal by doing self-immolation. I know, at least in one instant, they did not. And here are the details. 

Vaiko was an upcoming leader in the DMK party. Karunanidhi thought Vaiko may become a competition for his son Stalin. So Vaiko was thrown out of the DMK party. He formed his own new party called MDMK. Many people who followed Vaiko came out of DMK and joined Vaiko’s new party. 5 followers of Vaiko who could not bear him being thrown out of DMK self-immolated and died. 

Vaiko kept the photos of these 5 guys in the living room of his home. But what is happening today! The same Vaiko begged Stalin for a single seat for his son during the recent Lok Sabha election. Those 5 guys would be spinning in their graves.