Monitors, Montana, and Madness

Goose, a five foot long water monitor lizard who was illegally owned, escaped on July 18th (YEA Goose!) and went on the run along the Massachusetts/Connecticut line. 
He's been rescued and will be going to live in Beverly, Massachusetts at RRS Oasis a non-profit animal sanctuary for abused and confiscated animals. His habitat will be designed and created just for him.

…Oasis was created to address a growing crisis, exotic reptiles being mistreated, abandoned, or illegally kept. Through fundraising, donations, and community support, we provide medical care, proper habitats, and, when possible, rehabilitation and release back into the wild.

I only mention it but water monitor lizards home environments are forests, swamps, wetlands, and mangrove swamps. They’re native to Southeast Asia – New England weather and temps are a LOT different. Keeping a monitor lizard as a house pet in chilly, NOT swampy Massachusetts (cranberry bogs don’t count) so you look cool and creepy-hip to your buds is just egotistical animal cruelty. 

Also, monitor lizards are meat eaters and WILL have your beloved puppy, Spot and/or cat, Fluffy for dinner or an afternoon snack. Hell's, bells, they'll even eat dead humans. Granted, that’s terribly convenient if you have the need to get rid of a body (and who hasn't?).

~~~
The hunt is still on for the Montana bar shooter who allegedly murdered four people in a bar next to his home in the small town of Anaconda, Montana on Friday morning. A bit more is now known about Michael Brown, aside from the fact that he’s a 45-year-old white man, not trans, not a drag queen, not an immigrant, not a raging feminist or any of the other right wing bogeymen du jour.

Brown was an Iraq Army veteran though and we all know what President Bonespurs and his crew think of military veterans. 

Image of Brown captured as he fled

Brown's niece, Clare Boyle, told the AP that her uncle struggled with mental health issues. 

"This isn’t just a drunk/high man going wild," she wrote in a Facebook post cited by the AP. 

"It’s a sick man who doesn’t know who he is sometimes and frequently doesn’t know where or when he is either."

Shane Charles knows the suspect from growing up together in Anaconda. He's the owner of Carmel’s Sports Bar and Grill, one block away from the Owl Bar. 

"Mike was a great guy when he was on his meds. He did have some mental health problems," Charles said in an interview with NBC News. When Brown isn’t taking medication, Charles said, he struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and this fact is common knowledge in their small town. 

Brown served in the Army from 2001 to 2005 and was in the Montana National Guard from 2006 to 2009, U.S. Army spokesperson Steve Warren said. He was deployed in Iraq from 2004 to 2005, Warren said. (source) 

Everyone knew about his mental health issues and PTSD – it was obvious – but he was able to buy a gun. Someone sold him that gun. This is the American mentality.

Now imagine, you’ve just had some sort of horrible break from sanity – you’re back, aware, and panicked. You steal a truck to get away – away from the reality of your awful, bloody crime. Only then do you realize you’re wearing nothing but your boxer shorts and, while it’s August, you’re in Montana. How long will you survive, especially at night in the mountains, in just your underpants?

War, huh (good God y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again

War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
Edwin Starr – War 
~~~
It seems there’s some debate between the two wackaloon Kentucky Senators over hemp and THC and THC in Doritos or something. I honestly can’t follow it. Also, I thought Mitch McConnell had relieved this planet of his plague-ish existence already. I guess not. This comes as a surprise. I guess, like Freddy Krueger, he just keeps coming back.

Best I can tell, Moscow Mitch is trying to say that there’s devil's lettuce atoms (AKA THC) in our Doritos or in the  Doritos packaging and this is BAD (the get-you-mellow atoms in the bag material leach into the chips? Dunno – this is all too much Reefer Madness for me). 

At the same time the old man yelling at clouds is trying to be a hero to hemp farmers.

“Hemp is used in food, clothing, paper, plastic and many of our consumer products. Its versatility gave farmers hope for a new and profitable cash crop,” he said. “Unfortunately, some companies looking to make a quick buck have been exploiting a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill by taking legal amounts of THC from hemp and turning it into intoxicating substances.” (source) 

And weed is demonic and worse than alcohol…how? Have we not already done these arguments and discussions to death? 

Mitch, take your worn out clown shoes and go home. You’re irrelevant.