Anatomy of a Lie

Liars are easy to expose. Sometimes it's just because the lie is absolutely ridiculous: "Someone spilled a case of hot sauce so I couldn't move so that's why I made you wait 30 minutes for me to check out at Costco."  Wow.  You poor thing.  Surrounded by a sea of hot sauce, or too stupid to figure out how to turn the cart around and go the other way?  Or, just a bad liar?

This is about a different lie.  When I returned home after getting out of the hospital I wondered why some of my neighbors looked shocked when they saw me. There was a lie behind the shock, but I'll go to the back story first.

A few years earlier I was awakened from a nap by violent pounding on my door.  A former friend was there, in a panic, with the explanation that she was sure that I had fallen and hit my head.  A real out-of-the-blue fantasy that one, since I had never had a history of falling.  Of course, if she had any little bit of courtesy she would have called first before coming over, but even little bits of courtesy weren't in her usual routine.

Fast forward to after I came home.  Like I said, neighbors were giving me odd, startled looks.  Finaly one neighbor without a "filter" told me that everyone had been told that I had suffered head trauma and died.

See the pattern of the "tragic heroine"?  I suspect that she told this lie when someone wondered why she was toting the things of mine that she wanted to keep out of my house. However, it's easy to determine where the "head trauma" lie came from.

Clue for compulsive liars:  Don't stick with the same themes. 

"No mas patalones!"

You Know Who You Are!

Yet Again, More PeTA Nonsense

If you're going to file petitions in a court, it would be a good thing to not start out by lying in the document. 

More Lies from PeTA, with documentation!

Thinking of You

Often.  Every time the "no mas pantalones" commercial comes on TV. 

Positive Thinking

A new Facebook page started by a friend, come check it out: Creative Thinking to Help Animals.

Trolls, stalkers, haters and peta-bots please stay away, unless you're willing to let go of the irrational hatred for No Kill and contribute positive ideas for ending the killing of shelter animals.

My sweet dog Georgie-

labeled unadoptable because she barked at people

in the shelter.

Focus on What's Important!

The new mantra of my No Kill friends and allies:

FOCUS ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT

What is important? Supporting existing No Kill communities, working to create more; of course.  Rescuing animals in danger of being killed in shelters, fostering, donating, sharing pleas; absolutely.

But what about engaging in battles with the opponents?  The ones who claim that No Kill can't happen, and deny that there are communities with open admission shelters who are saving 90%  or more of the animals entering the shelters?  The ones who repeat the lies about supporters of No Kill-we support puppy mills, we are in bed with Berman and the CCF, we oppose spay/neuter?  I'm often tempted to ignore the lies and name calling, because I think that very few people read the crap that they post all over the internet.  Then I think that there might be one person who could read these lies, and be swayed by them, and join the few voices who claim that killing shelter animals is good and necessary.  So for me fighting the forces of evil like peta, and "Harve" and Randykins is also important.  I might be able to save one person from joining the dark side.

Advice for Haters

If you get a FB "time out" for posting harassing photos or other things and you create a new fake profile to get around the ban, you might want to use different bad grammar with the fake profiles.  Unless you're too stupid to realize how badly you mangle the language.