Battle Over Strawberry the Pig

Elkhart Lake, WI is trying to make Strawberry the pig go away. The emotional support pig belongs to Christi Sadiq and is trying her hardest to keep the support pig.

The city of Elkhart doesn't believe the pig belongs in the city. But if the woman really needs the pig then she should have the option to keep the pig.

The problem is that the city doesn't seem to believe that the pig is used for emotional support or they wouldn't make Ms. Sadiq get rid of her pig.

What do you think? Do you think it is fair to make Ms. Sadiq get rid of their support animal?

Nike Rules

Nike likes to use cheap labor to make their products. It isn't like they exploit these workers. 

This is what they call the new economy. United States companies use cheap labor to make expensive products.

There is nothing we can do about it.

Wait, just hold on! Don't burn your expensive shoes.

Why did you buy the shoes in the first place? I'm guessing for the logo. 

Nike makes a lot of things I don't buy. I hate their running shoes and running clothes, so I don't buy them. I did buy New Balance shoes and clothes because they made some of their running shoes in the United States and that seemed like a good thing. They made better quality shoes.

But my point is that Nike is the master of marketing. We could all learn how to market our products from Nike.

You hardly hear a peep from labor unions telling us to boycott Nike. That seems wrong. The NFL Players Union doesn't say boo about Nike exploiting their workforce. Seems kinda of odd to me.

Nike uses an exathelete to celebrate their 30th anniversary of thier great marketing slogan. 

So what if they want to use an athlete that took a knee during the National Anthem. There are some people that think it is disrespectful. Good for them. There are a lot of people that do more disrespectful things in this country.

Taking a knee to make a point is a nonviolent form of protest. That is a form of protest that did not harm anyone except the person taking a knee.

Colin didn't abuse anyone but he did cause NFL owners to answer questions about issues they couldn't answer and probably won't answer.

For his protest, the NFL shut their gilded doors on the young athlete.

I know the Packers could have used him last year. But they didn't take that chance. There were a lot of teams that could have used Colin Kaepernick. 

The NFL is a violent game and apparently, there is no room for any nonviolence protest on their field.

Isn't it sad that we are mad at Nike for making a political statement about a league that they give money to and yet they don't feel like a hypocrite for exploiting their workers and Colin Kaepernick?

Burn your shoes if you must, but stop and think about what is going with your thought process when you get mad at a man that did something to draw attention to the treatment of black people in this country.

What are you really mad at or who are you really mad at?

Playing Politics

It was a sad sight when a dad will use his dead daughter to make a political statement or maybe he was just being used by an anti-gun senator.

Don't get me wrong, but you can't change the past. You can try to blame the Bush White House for the sins of the world and some are doing that right now. It isn't like Republicans don't play that game because they like to blame Obama and Clinton for everything evil in this world. 

But let us get back to the gun issues that plague our nation and the desire to rid the world of guns. No guns aren't evil, but they become deadly when used by people with a desire to inflict harm on people. 

We have unstable people getting weapons that they shouldn't. What is up with that?

Yes, you can blame guns but that won't change the fact mentally unstable people do bad things.

We could pass laws to stop unstable people from having guns. They seem to work, but not in a way that will prevent people from killing. 

Pause, wait, there is someone knocking at the door. Why it is the NRA and their desire to arm everyone with guns. We haven't found a way to stop them from making it easier to get a gun. It seems like we really don't care enough to stop the NRA.

I know it isn't completely their fault but they do have a really good propaganda program in place that gets results.

We need to work together to solve this problem. We can't play political games like the one Democrats played yesterday with the dad trying to blame a judge for the Parkland shooting that killed his daughter.

Gun violence is the poster child of the violence game but we probably need to accept the fact that guns only pose a threat when used by a person bent on inflicting quick harm.  

The dad has every right to be mad, but there was a systematic failure that led up to his daughter's death.

We just don't seem ready to fix the system that allows for crazy people to fall between the cracks.