About Dogs and Cats and their Buddies.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page. 

WRAPPER in a supermarket etcetera is in charge of wrapping items for shipment, be it food, fabric, gifts, or other types of items. RAPPER is a person who performs rap music. Yes, a person can be a Wrapper Rapper or Rapper Wrapper. 🛍🎀👨‍🎤

WHEN should you change your Facebook relationship status? Consult your partner before changing FB relationship settings. It is always a good idea to talk to your partner and ask if you should change your status to "In a Relationship" if you're dating or "Single" if you've decided to go your separate ways. Okay? That advice came from relationship experts, who are mostly cats and dogs. 👩‍🦰📱👨‍🦰

GIFT-GIVING has its roots in pagan rituals. Indigenous peoples also exchange/d gifts long before Christians met them. When Christianity adapted these rituals into Christmas, the justification was redirected to the Three Wise Dudes, who gave gifts to the infant Jesus. But if you are the kind who gets depressed with receiving gifts because it is consumerism or Christianity (though you’d love an iPhone 15 or a new car), this Christmas you will get a box of underwear from Goodwill. 🎁🎁🎁

WHY do cats knock things over? Cats are natural born hunters, and their prey instinct is a big contributor to this behavior. Let's take that paperweight sitting on your desk. If that paperweight was a mouse, your cat needs to investigate it. She needs to bat it around to test it out and make sure it's something of interest to eat. Fizz The Wiz is different though. She simply studies, investigates and ponders stuff in the house. Then she googles info and starts writing stuff. 🐈🪶🐈‍⬛

CATS are incredibly intelligent creatures with complex brains that allow them to process information quickly, remember things for short periods, recognize faces and sounds, and problem-solve when necessary. Yup! Cats. Impressive species with extraordinary intelligence. You dig? They know trigonometry, calculus, and could explain what is objectivist epistemology or catnip axiology. Fizz The Wiz can argue with anyone matters that pertain to state and government. No BS. 🐱🥸🐱

WHETHER it's Christmas, a birthday or just because, unwrapping presents is fun for dogs. The additional mental work for your pet is a good balance to the physical workout when you are romping in the park or going for a walk. Dogs are also good at “unwrapping” or unmasking people off their cover, mask or fakery.  🐕🎁🐕

A GROUP of university researchers from Cambridge and Stanford found that insights gleaned from Facebook data alone may be able to predict a person's personality and preferences better than their friends and colleagues or their partners. So in case you suspect your partner to be cheating on you, smoking in the backyard when you’re asleep, or a friend who eats lots of donuts and Doritos? Ask Facebook first before you confront and unfriend your partner. 📱💻🤪

PEOPLE decorate their houses with lights to symbolize the Christmas star that was supposed to have led the Three Wise Men to the manger where Jesus was born on Christmas Day. The outdoor displays have become a symbol of the Christmas season. My friend Jujul has stopped decorating Christmas lights. He said he ain’t a Christian no more. His wife though told me he is just lazy to untangle the lights from the attic that got knotted or stuck together. 🎅🎉🎁

ACCORDING to dog experts (who are actually cats), dogs don't view themselves as big or small, they just see themselves as dogs. Problem is, the smaller breeds are often poorly socialized. People treat them as toys like a cellphone. As Fizz tells me time and again, dogs and cats are usually misread by hoomans. Fizz The Wiz: “Hoomans always think that dogs that are small are Filipinos just like you Pasckie dude. And dogs that are big are from Texas.” Uh huh. 🐕🐩🐕‍🦺

SMART scientists (who are cats) define bird song or “tweet” as a structured, complex vocalization serving either or both of two purposes. To defend territories and to attract mates. Most bird song is by males, though females do also sing territorially or for pair bonding. When hoomans tweet, that’d be for different purposes. <>To attract more hoomans to their “territory” so there’ll be more hoomans to piss, and <>to lose a future date, lose a partner, and lose friends in general. LOL! 🐦🦜📲

Compilation of short MORNING THOUGHTS.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

Ukraine (1). Gasoline prices are up, global. People reason: “Ukraine!” That’s it. All because of Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline: (1) Ukraine’s gas lords want more transit tax since Russian gas exports pass through its territory before they reach Europe. (2) Russia wants to double its gas supply to Europe, Moscow’s top buyer. (3). U.S. gas exports are ranked only #6, worldwide. Sanction Russia, then they take over the E.U. market. Meantime, the public suffers.☮️☮️☮️

Ukraine (2). As a rationale to costly gas prices, there ought to be a war. So Kiev adheres to NATO. As the world, aching to resume economies per Covid dislocation, awaits to start buying fuel. Russia’s gas rivals in the global market bring this to political discourse, when it is all economics. Russia allegedly “weaponizes” its oil/gas. Win-win for Big Energy, as it was win-win for Big Pharma per obvious. Cost of medicines for other serious diseases spiked. Reason: Pandemic.

When we were little, nine kids and mom and dad, also said “grace after meal.” Each child said the prayer on rotation. Many nonbelievers say saying a prayer as a ritual is a form of “control.” I don’t call it that way though. If so, then daily household chores or doing school homework were “control,” too? How do we raise/guide children then? New Moralism tells us that anything in conformity with rules, ritual, or cultural truths are “control.” Makes me think, what isn’t? ☮️✝️☯️

Ukraine (1). Why would the U.S. be concerned about Ukraine but not Puerto Rico? The U.S. owned P.R. since 1899 yet Washington hasn’t really improved life on the island. Puerto Rico is poorer than Mississippi. Meanwhile, this “Russia invades Ukraine” story is a deadly showtime that only points to the “global oil/gas pricing” board. Moscow doesn’t need to “conquer” Kiev. Russia is already Ukraine’s top trading partner. They are economic co-dependents per natural gas trade. ☮️☮️☮️

Ukraine (2). 3.5 million Ukrainians work in Russia; 2.6 million live there. And 8.3 million Russians live in Ukraine. Why don’t we just leave them alone? Our newest neighbors in Candler: Ukrainian wife and Russian husband, with three little kids. Should they divorce, too? Can’t the U.S. instead fix Puerto Rico or aid countries in Africa? Why can’t we simply sell natural gas in Europe, which buys its energy supply from Russia? Ain’t that the story behind all these? ☮️☮️☮️

Many expect Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine to please the “He is evil!” tag? Like when China moves ships in/around the South China Sea, hecklers howl “Xi is a bully!” What is wrong with this fascination with doom? Mere fact that Russia hasn’t invaded Ukraine (yet), a-la U.S. of Iraq 2003, is because they are talking. Talkin’ oil/natural gas market pricing. But “war-like” engagements, with “contained” collateral damage, seem “obligatory.” So expectation is served. Weird world! ☮️⛽️☮️

Common fervor in Social Media is gloom. Negativity. Sadly. The New Cool is anti this and anti that. Nonconformity with convention, tradition, or mindset that are old-school. Awesome to be a bitch, kickass to be bad. You get 50 “likes” in 1 minute if you whine about your ex, mom, or politics that isn’t yours. Freedom of speech: Cuss and curse. Talk about joyful days, what?!? Funky drama? Keep talkin’! Sun in winter? Who cares? Tearful wine as a dark moon grieves is better. 😔😟🥳

Posting stuff on Facebook is writing per se. My ritual. Long time ago, on a typewriter, consumed and all, when an interpolator peered at a writer’s back and/or got interrupted by silliness, we got pissed. But a nice aside was cool if those add to what we were writing. New info, other insight. Pretty much like posting on FB. Comments that are grown-up, civil, and useful are most welcome. I responded politely. But smartass one-liners that only distract my writing? Ignored or out you go.✍️😾✍️

Many "over- react" to music because of politics. Music, sounds that convey beauty of form; song, words and music. Art. I am detached from the artist as an individual; I am attached to the art. If music/songs don't appeal to me it's because they don't. Art is personal appreciation; politics is collective. If the artist seeks to project political advocacy, cool! But I react to the work. Not the gesture. Art is the device; not the kneel. When they mix, we get mixed up. 🎼🦵🎼

I am a “short attention span” dude. Not good at listening to sermons, lectures, speeches. Religious, political, or a wait staff telling me the day’s best offering. I don’t dig talk shows, talk radio, talking. I get bored easily. Funny, that I worked as a speechwriter, lecturer, AM radio anchor. I always do multiple things, simultaneously. My mind is hyperactive. Mostly, I’d rather read instructions or be told one time what to do—and then leave me alone, I will accomplish all those. 🔭🧹🧺