Yes, you read that correctly. Los Angeles is preparing to build an overpass for wildlife, and idea LONG overdue. Today’s world is very different than just a few decades ago, expecially in the arena of animal rights. Today more than ever people seem to be more worried about their environmental impact, people killing endangered animals, and trying to eat more vegetables than animals. One area of serious neglect is traffic ways. Everyday in America, 190 million motor vehicles hit the road, and one million animals get hit by motor vehicles. That’s counting cars, buses, motorbikes, and trucks, but not ATVs, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles. The figure includes mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, but not insects and bugs, who somehow never count. (The insect thing is something I dont understand, vegans are all about 0 harm to animals, but kill millions on millions of bugs rodents, etc in planting, tilling, spraying, harvesting crops….) For every dead animal counted, three or four more die unnoticed. Even at 55 m.p.h., we smell the remains of far more dead skunks than we see. The walking wounded die far from the road, so only instantly killed animals are seen and get counted.

By contrast 33,000 human animals are killed each YEAR. Im very glad to be part of a city that can see the amazingly preferential treatment human beings get over every other animal on the planet. Its selfish, its self serving, and its time to change the way we look at ourselves. We are part of the Earth, not its owners.

Full story can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caltrans-proposes-wildlife-overpass-on-101-freeway-20150902-story.html

The conceptual drawing that would make a land bridge over 10 lanes of LA traffic.

A few minutes ago the nation got to see what happens when someone in a  country that has separation of church and state. People try to govern by their religion, and it gets shut the hell down.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/kim-davis-found-in-contempt-and-taken-into-federal-custody-by-us-marshals/

Raw story did a great write up, and I think my favorite quote is “Her attorney from the conservative Liberty Counsel argued Wednesday that Bunning should not punish her for disobeying his order because issuing a marriage license to a same-sex couple would “irreparably and irreversibly violate her conscience.”  “It is not as if Kim Davis the individual stops existing while Kim Davis is performing her duties as Rowan County clerk,” argued attorney Jonathan Christman.

EXACTLY. I dont stop being me when I have someone ask me to say grace at thanksgiving. I can deal as a secular, decent human being. I can set aside my preferences to do whats acceptable. You be you, but do what you are paid to do. Kim, if you arent happy there, do something else. Here’s an idea that seems to fit with your moral compass: http://westky.backpage.com/FemaleEscorts/

I do honestly hope this all sinks in to her, but alas, I think this will only embolden and reenforce her and other’s bigotry.

Here is a comment I received when discussing the hypocrisy and general ass-holery of Km Davis: “My point is, is that you refer to Christians when talking about Ms Davis. I don’t agree with what she is doing either. She is Democrat, but I don’t try to imply all democrats are like her either.”

My problem with this comment is that the problem we have (and any freedom of religion people should have) is that this stance she is taking is ALL about her being a Christian, and standing on her Christian ‘morals’. I say morals in quotes because I would question that what shes doing (along with most christian laws) is not moral at all. I do not bring her Democratic position to the table any more than I do the fact that she wears glasses, is a woman or is white. Those things are irrelevant to her actions. So yes Sir, we do indeed refer to her as a Christian in this case. I am also no implying that ALL Christians do this or think this way, but a lot of them do.

As a secondary point, Kim is being unethical in addition to being immoral. She is fleecing the taxpayers while refusing to do her job. She continues to draw a pay check and has already stated that she will be able to create a lucrative KickStarter campaign for her legal defense should she need it. Sickening.