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Empenadas, sweet as a berry
Sweet as a cousins
You like them so much
You taste them with sugar sweet
Everyone doesn’t like salt, cuz it’s salt
Salty and your cousins
But it tastes like sugar, even if you don’t like
Some people don’t like milk
And some people are allergic to milk
Some people really like milk, even they know that they’re allergic
When you do something sweet
It’s just what the Empinada’s do
Everything’s so so Sweet!
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How thoughtful it was of Maia, to capture the very essence, the complicated tapestry of her siblings wishes with her missive.
The Easter Bunny however, only trades in the dark art of chocolate and is not used to these types of requests, especially so late (Saturday night). But he did leave a note, asking for size and color preferences. He'll drop them off on Wendesday,(Daddy's day off).
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Priceless.
Take a look at this "blast from the past". Here we
see vintage footage of Adolf Hitler and his beloved dog, Blondie.
Take a look at this cowering fearful animal. Note, the tail, ears and head positions. Pretty remarkable, in an animal bred over centuries for it's innate ability to aggressively protect his Apha master. But now reduced to a quivering mass of cowering fear. I'm operating on the assumption that Hitler's treatment of Blondie was not that different of his with Ava, or the Jews.
And for the record, I'm not saying that spanking your children makes you Hitler, however doing so may instill some of those great uber qualities in them. Hitler, Stalin, Hussein all shared the commonality of severe childhood physical abuse.
The evidence is quite clear that if you hit your kid, you may teach him to be a coward and a victim. You may teach him (falsely), that he can love and trust those that cause him pain, suffering, humiliation and misery. Or you could get really lucky and teach him to inflict all of that upon others. (Won't that look great on your facebook page?)
By hitting your children, you've effectively removed from your child, the impulse of survival and self defense, and replaced it with one suitable for victimization. Ready, willing and able in a world filled with the most vile of predatorial, physical and sexual abusers. Ever heard of "Stockholm Syndrome"? It happens when a victim emotionally bonds with an abuser. I wonder how they (hostages)learned to do that?
My main point is that any degree of corporal punishment needs to be seriously considered in relation to how your child's brain develops. All data points to all bad.
Here's a great link about spanking. If you've happened upon this page, I hope you'll read it and give it careful consideration.
Dogs are not children, indeed. But frontal lobes are frontal lobes and develop in remarkably similar ways among the warm blooded.
You're kids aren't much different.
Here's some effective alternatives.
So what does this have to do with toyota and stuck accelerator pedals? Perhaps everything and maybe nothing. Poorly designed floor mats, improperly designed gas pedals and defective accelerator control servos could well be to blame. But in cars built with fly by wire accelerator technology (such as those affected by the Toyota recall), the car's computer takes driver input from the gas pedal (as data) sends it to the computer and the computer then tells the car's accelerator what to do.
The problem with the Toyota recall, is that it is so eerily reminiscent of the Ford/Firestone Explorer fiasco. Manufacturer blames the parts supplier and vice versa. We see this pattern emerge again as Toyota blames CTS (parts supplier that makes the pedal assembly).
How long will it be before we find out this was a computer hardware or software issue?
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