I have an old foundation under my old house made, in part, of porous old brick. I keep promising to get some mortar and fill in all the cracks. It’s still on my list.
Field mice come into the crawl space under the house in the fall through these tiny openings, some of which they have expanded over the years. In and of itself that would not be a big problem. I learned to share in kindergarten. The real problem is when they get bold and enter my space! After all, they don’t pay rent and we are never formally introduced so why should I be housing AND feeding these little bastards?
I set out old fashioned traps with old cheese as bait in one of my cellars. These types of traps, wood base with a metal snap held back by a small rod lightly connected to the cheese platform, have been around forever. Clearly there is no wisdom passed down the generations in the mice world. In fact, even with one lying “trapped”, other mice will stop by for a taste of cheese at another trap nearby. Talk about cold!
I hate removing these deceased mice. I wear an old pair of gloves so as to not catch some exotic disease known only to doctors on Indian reservations in the southwest. I used to bag them and discard them at the dump with my trash until I watched a neighborhood hawk eating one she had caught in the yard.
Now I discard them in the yard by the cellar door and, by golly, the little corpses are gone within minutes. Talk about recycling!
Its all a sham. Nothing but tax deductible PR crap. Make the people love you. Take their money. Convince them that you're making the world a better place. Take more of their money. Be nothing but a greedy sell-out hypocrite pig with a fake commercial personality and a fake cause to pose for. Concentrate even more of the world's wealth and resources and lead the ignorant masses to believe that you're doing the opposite. I can't stop them and I can't punish them but I can tell you that their bogus promises to make the world a better place will not be kept. Any 'humanitarian' progress made in one area will always be lost in another with a net loss for the majority. There will be more poverty. More starvation. More conflict. Meanwhile the rich will keep getting richer and richer and richer. They will always dumb us down and divert our attention from one area to another. Just like they have been for at least 25 years. Ethipoia (still bad), Darfur (even worse), Malawi (still bad). As they concentrate more and more of the world's wealth and resources, they will cause more inflation, more poverty, more starvation, and more conflict on a global scale. In order to divert our attention, they will adopt another cause to pose for. and another. and another. and another. Each time, putting their fake humanitarian stamp on it and jet-setting the world in the name of 'humanity'. Actually charging their private jet rides and 5 star hotel accomodations to their own bogus 'foundations'. Pleading with us to buy more of their products and support more of their 'good will'. Taking more of our money and throwing a few crumbs back to the poor along the way. With another photo-op and worldwide publicity for each and every crumb. Like I said, its all a sham. Nothing but a giant marketing gimmick and a cheap excuse to keep getting richer and richer and richer. These people are actually causing the same problems they pretend to care about. It is the greatest scam of all time. I will not forgive them for it. I will expose as many as possible for the hypocrite pigs that they are. Thats my cause. Its the ugly truth. Someone has to tell it.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of this heated debate can be read at RaisingMalawi.org (Madonna's foundation). The blog articles for World Aids Day, Madonna Shock, and Child Rights are there on the homepage. The debate continues.