[Kzyxtalk] [MCN-Announce]- A local dog died in a hot car yesterday here on the Mendocino Coast

[Marianne McGee]

Right on with all counts!

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> On May 1, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/1/2017 11:55 AM, Laurie York wrote:
>> Dear Coastal Residents, A local friend reported that a family left 
> their dog in the car yesterday and it died a horrible death from extreme 
> heat inside the car. The family was devastated. They didn’t realize that 
> 70 degrees outside could be a serious problem inside the car. I’m 
> wanting to help remind folks to keep car windows rolled down so your 
> pets are safe when left in a vehicle or better yet, leave them at home.
> 
> 
> Also, don't just crack the window an inch-and-a-half, nor open just one 
> window. Unless it's two or three windows, and they're down far enough so 
> the dog can jump out and run into the street, or at least far enough so 
> it can bite your arm when you go to get into your car parked next to 
> that car, and not just give you a heart attack by exploding into 
> frenzied barking and banging its nose and teeth against the window, it 
> will get dangerously hot in there.
> 
> As for leaving it at home, the poor pupperino tied up in the yard next 
> door to Juanita's apartment block, that barked like a broken record all 
> day and sometimes all night, has finally died of loneliness, or they let 
> it in the house or something; either way, thank Christ.
> 
> I know I said long ago that most people who are considering producing a 
> baby would be happier getting a puppy --and it's so much less wasteful 
> of the planet's resources and the commitment is much more plausible, 
> besides that you can sell it or give it away on a whim, or even kill it 
> (humanely) if it displeaseth Your Majesty. Just don't get a dog if 
> you're only going to torture it all its life by stupid neglect.
> 
> Speaking of which, they're having another MCPB corp. board meeting 
> tonight at 6, this time in an expensive intoxicant establishment, and 
> that's tonight, four hours away, and their website's link to a meeting 
> agenda goes nowhere, as usual. Also nothing has changed regarding paying 
> the airpeople before paying the so-called manager. Do you think it's 
> fair that one guy in the office is paid $60,000 more than all the 
> airpeople for all their work on all their shows all year put together? 
> Because it's not. At little commercial stations it's /against the law/ 
> to not pay airpeople, and commercial stations don't get any six-figure 
> tax-derived grants to make up for managerial shortcomings. At KMFB, Bob 
> Woelfel always made sure to pay everyone before he paid himself. At KNYO 
> Bob Young does all the work the three or four muppets in the office at 
> KZYX need to do --for which they're paid $250,000 (!)-- and he does it 
> in a lazy afternoon per month, and it's fine with us not being paid 
> because /he/ does it for nothing but the love of radio. There are plenty 
> of radio stations that are not ridden by parasites. In what other 
> business than so-called public radio is it okay with the world that a 
> handful of poobahs /take all the money for themselves/ and the ones who 
> do the real work of that business get little or nothing but the 
> privilege to work? When it's found out that a charity or church or 
> sweatshop or trafficked-immigrant whorehouse is run that way, 
> justifiable outrage ensues. Why does Mendocino County Public 
> Broadcasting Corp. keep getting a pass on this?
> 
> Yesterday I saw this interesting video and immediately thought, /This is 
> something like what would happen if you put KZYX in water. Except that 
> it wouldn't die like the grasshopper --if you call that living-- rather 
> it would blossom and flower./
> http://boingboing.net/2017/04/30/baptizing-praying-mantises-for.html
> 
> 
> --
> Marco McClean
> memo at mcn.org
> http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
> 
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