BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Saturday, May 22, 2010

WHY NOT? REPUBLICANS DO IT!

I found this article very interesting.

Is it Smart to Sleep With Your Pets?


From the human perspective, experts have found that pets definitely disrupt their bed mate's sleep patterns. In a widely cited study in 2002, John Shepard, M.D. found that more than half of the 300 patients he surveyed at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center reported that their sleep was disturbed by their cats or dogs. Not surprising when you consider that dogs hog the mattress, snore, wake you up at 3 a.m. to have their tummies scratched, attack your toes under the sheets, leave your bed full of hair or -- worse yet -- slobber.
 I've never had this problem with my pets. 

I suppose it's because I hog the mattress.  I snore.  I like (for lack of a better way to put it) my tummy scratched.  I contribute to the bed full of hair.  And yes....I slobber...a lot, but only when I'm asleep!

Animals aren't stupid.  No one's worth losing that much sleep over.

My pets do jump in bed with me when I turn in at night. Most (never more than three pets at a time) eventually leave once I stop petting/talking to them, some stay till I fall asleep; but can count on all to them to be there when I awake, patiently waiting for another day, ours, to be started.



The also know, getting me out of bed any sooner than I'm ready is a waste of time. So what's left for them to do....except patiently wait.

Encyclopedia
anthropomorphism
the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, as when one senses malice in a computer or hears human voices in the wind. Derived from the Greek anthropos ("human") and morphe ("form"), the term was first used to refer to the attribution of human physical or mental features to deities. By the mid-19th century, however, it had acquired the second, broader meaning of a phenomenon occurring not only in religion but in all areas of human thought and action, including daily life, the arts, and even sciences. Anthropomorphism may occur consciously or unconsciously. Most scholars since the time of the English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) have agreed that the tendency to anthropomorphize hinders the understanding of the world, but it is deep-seated and persistent


We make the mistake of over interpreting the actions of our pets as a show of affection toward us, when most likely just boredom or just hungry, and neither one gets satisfied, (any desires the pet may have), until the master is ready.

However....I have had my sleep pattern disturbed enormously by sharing my bed with people.  Find it interesting, no matter how much sleep I lost,  my day starts out with a lot more energy, than when I start off a day with a full nights rest, having slept alone. 

The trick seems to be.....don't share your bed with people (or animals) you don't like (or don't like you)! 

What kind of people (or animal) would do that anyway?

Sounds like every ones happy; no ones complaining. 

Makes me wonder about the experts who wrote this article?

Are they REPUBLICANS?

Don't think the right questions, the tough ones, are being asked here......?


It's been my observation, republicans always want to create a problem somewhere, even when times are good.....as long as it's not their problem!

Maybe it's about time they chose something different to share their bed with!  Maybe less sleep for them will do us all some good!!!  


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