Backyard Salmonella

For several years now it has been “trendy” to keep chickens in your backyard. To have fresh eggs each day!  Me I just go to the grocery store and buy eggs, where I know they have been “inspected” for such things as “salmonella” and they have been packed under federal guide lines. (And of course I buy those cage free eggs), which are more expensive, why???  (But that is another story)

I recently read there is an outbreak of “salmonella” with those backyard chicken farmers. The CDC estimates Salmonella causes about 1.2 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 450 deaths in the United States every year.

Those “backyard chicken farmers” usually are not aware of the danger of salmonella as in properly handling the eggs and the caring for the chickens, and it has been reported that some of these chicken farmers actually pick up their chickens and hug them and even kiss them, ok I am all about animal rights but that is just gross! Some of these chickens are also allowed into their owner’s homes and they walk around where food is being prepared, again gross!

So why do I write about backyard chicken farmers???? I will relate this activity to those who are “backyard apparition chasers”… there have been many alleged sightings of the angels, the Virgin Mary and other Biblical figures in the backyards of some people. Such sightings have also been “on walls, on trees, on window glass and even on toast!” And people “flock to them” (a chicken joke??? i.e. “flock”) …

So here is my CDC warning, no wait my ADS warning (apparitions don’t save) to all those “apparition backyard flocks” …. I have a lot of issues with the Catholic Church and the way the hierarchy has conducted itself, yet I know within the church is the True Presence of Jesus Christ, the God/man who does save …

So please my fine feathered friends, do not contaminant yourselves with spiritual salmonella,  fly out of those backyard apparitions and perch inside the church and in front of the Tabernacle … where you will be given the “seeds” of salvation, via the grace of the Savior himself … and you can even “Tweet” about it,  I do!       

get off the hills

stay away from the glass

and come in here to pray before the second person of the Blessed Trinity in the Tabernacle 

Jesus needs a "safe space"

I try to go to daily Mass and during the week this is usually with retired people. Retired people who seem to need, to have their cell phones with them during the 30 minute Mass, and not turn them off while at Mass …  So during the Mass I will hear the occasional “train horn” coming from one man (his phone ringer sound) at one end of the church,  I will hear “chimes” coming from another senior’s phone, and across the church I will hear the ping of an incoming text message on another senior’s cell phone … and I think what is so important that they need to have their cell phones with them in church (just leave it in the car) … is it for “help as in I have fallen and cannot get up” ??? …

 Well there are other people in the church, if they fall we will see it and help them get up (not to mention when they fall “spiritually”, Jesus helps them get up again) … is it because they are setting up a date for lunch or perhaps a bingo game later that day??? Or maybe their friend Harriet or Harry just has to talk to them about her / his latest doctor’s appointment, something many seniors like to talk about, in church their doctors and aliments … or just gossip in general … and to add to this, since most of them do not hear well … their phone audio is on high so when that train horn ringer goes off, I have to suppress not jumping up and shouting “all abroad!” It is that rude and obnoxious! 

Church and Mass is supposed to be a “safe space”, for Jesus Christ when he appears on the altar at the time of consecration and when he remains with us in the Tabernacle, these cell phones are disturbing “Jesus’ safe space”… I might have to ask the Pastor if I can bring a “comfort dog” into church for the Mass and then have the dog lay down, by the Tabernacle, you know the kind of dog you see at the airport and such, when a person is in a high stress environment and the person needs reassurance and comfort and the dog gives it to them. For it is obvious that many at Mass are not paying attention to Mass (especially at consecration) they are checking their phones …

You know we live in a society that we all must be sensitive to others and what might trigger a horrible and scary memory for someone … and I think poor Jesus Christ at each Mass, he is remembering his pain and suffering on the Cross and what he did to save us all … and what are his people doing at this time … checking their phone! WOW … poor guy … bring in the comfort dog!  

What irony those same people who are checking their cell phones are the same ones that pray for comfort and help from God and they ask God to be attentive to their prayers … when they cannot even shut off their cell phone inside of church and be attentive during Mass … 

   

LinkedIn

Hey are you LinkedIn?  I have an account there as well as one on Facebook, twitter, snap chat, instant gram etc. …. All of that means I am “social” and savvy right?  I am current and up to date as to how society communicates … who speaks face to face anymore, or actually uses a phone (to speak that is not text) … cut me a break,  who does that!!! And hey who has to think anymore … you need information just ask Google or Siri, you will get your answer in a hot minute, no need for brain power anymore. No need for social skills anymore, no need to fact check anymore and no need to think anymore … your mobile device will do all of that for you… isn’t that what the tech companies’ software and A.I. is for,  “to create your thoughts”,  formulate your opinions …  who out there in the ether of the internet,  is an independent thinker????

 Who could survive a long term power failure that shuts down all your devices…?  Do you know how to grow your own food instead of auguring,  which is “organic or GMO”, do you know how to give and use basic first aid, use herbs and plants in the environment if you did not have medicine.  Do you know how to build shelter, start a fire for warmth???  How about milk a cow, churn butter or collect honey from bees (don’t look it up on your phone now, remember this is a pretend power failure) … are you only as “smart” as your smart phone (when it is turned on?) 

Here I will be blunt … social media in society is a giant clusterfuck (US Army code "CF”) … it has turned everyone upside down and they speak from their “ass” … you know that anal sphincter made for defecation … now everyone has a “ass in life”, it is just nature, as in “shit happens” (but do we have to share of our personal crap, and throw it at each other online)   … really???  Do we truly need to be “assholes online and hurt each other”… does it make us feel better about ourselves to tear someone down??? … can we really only feel big, by making someone feel small??? Are we all that insecure and our need to be heard so big that we need to scream and fight, with each other…? 

Wow if ever we needed a Savior it is now!!!!!!!!!! To save us from ourselves … so I urge all of you to start a “faith book” account (no internet connection needed, it works during a power failure) actually is its own power source! And I encourage you all to “Face Time” with God, say a prayer it automatically connects you to God’s personal account … and you can buy one of those “old devices” the Bible and read it and be a iPray device in life and put down your iPhone …

Cultural appropriation

Yep it is come to that in society, wear a garment, choose a hairstyle  not of your native culture and you are “appropriating” a culture not your own … decorate your space, or business with a cultural flare not your own and yep … you got it …you are “ripping off another’s culture” …hmmm this is from the society that says, “we are all equal, people are all the same, let there be no borders,  build bridges”….  a tragic oxymoron if ever I saw one… we are all the same,  but do not wear anything from my culture or build that bridge if it looks like my culture, because you are not in it !!! ????

Where have I seen that kind of behavior before … oh I got it in feral cats and in dogs… they go around pissing off their “space” to claim it as their own and marking their territory … classic animal behavior … but  we are “human beings” a step above animal behavior, aren’t we???  Must we piss off our territory and piss everyone off in the process of doing so???   

But wait I know a guy, whose culture he hopes you do appropriate,  the name of this guy is Jesus Christ … His culture is one of tolerance, mercy, love and forgiveness … yep, go ahead put on His cultural garment of faith, He takes no offense, in fact He delights in seeing you wear it!