Another Israel Joke: Cats

Ok, so I just heard a bunch of the neighborhood stray cats get in another argument/fight…which is basically them making their most annoying meowing noise that goes like (mimic cat noise for aud.) and it made think: what are some options for taking care of this semi-important problem of this massive legion of unnecessary-yet-occasionally-adorable stray cats in the Land of Milk and Honey?...

   option #1: kill all of them in the most humane and cleanest way; perhaps with some kind of poison and then post-mortum clean-up crew so none of them rot in the are already ostensibly dirty, smelly areas/neighborhoods in which they predominantly habituate.

   option #2: kill all of them in the quickest, not-necessarily cleanest, but most-cost effective way e.g. genitically modified super cat-predators, like mega-dogs or super-wolves or something of that ilk. And then have the necessary clean-up crew for that type of method

(oh and by the way, any option where you kill the cats, I say you either a) turn them into food for another animal – i.e the dogs or wolves b) just incinerate the dirty annoying superfluous little creatures, etc)

   option #3: try to catch them first and then kill them if they respond with too opposition # and/or after catching them, after a certain period kill any cats in the catching center/animal shelter that it can’t afford to support and take care of and haven’t been able to get adopted.

   option #4: take catapults or those t-shirt launcher-guns they have at professional basketball games and just fuckin jettison them back into Egypt from whence they came! – At least, I’m pretty sure that’s where they came from, cuz, you know, like, that’s sort of what they told us in elementary school social studies….or launch ‘em into the sea if, you know, the Eyptians aren’t cool with that (which I’m guessing they wouldn’t be, but it’s definitely worth a shot).

Hope you enjoyed this little farcical rant. And for any of you are offended, just know that these are just ideas I’m tossin around here. You know, the blog doesn’t necessarily condone killing animals, but I figure if I eat chicken, cow, pig, lamb, fish, etc and therefore implicitly condone some forms of animal slaughter, why not throw the strays into the mix? 

First post, more to come, and all shall rock...

So my very first legit blog is here! Don't even know who's gonna read it! Ok since people have millisecond attention spans now, I'll get to something interesting....

Lets see. Hmm, a lil about me and what I'm up to now. I'm 22 and from San Rafael, CA, near SF on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge. (funny how EVERYONE knows about the SF side, but most ppl don't stop to discover what;s on the OTHER side). I am obsessed with the Lakers, I like to cook, write (mostly poetry, but I can write almost anything at least decently and some things expertly), and I love to crack jokes as often as possible. Of course there's much more about me but more will come in the posts to follow.

Right now, I'm a first year Com. major at Israel's only private university: it's called the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) and it's situated in the city of Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv. I will probably be mentioning this place a lot is this what comprises most of my life atm. There are so many things I could tell you all about this place (the country and culture and what not's) that you will almost never find out from mainstream media. Since I have a strong, but not always active interest in politics, I guess I'll share some of my own clever and astute [I think] observations about the idiosyncrasies of this unique little-big country.

I think one of my best and most interesting observations is that you could definitely classify Israel as a 2nd world country. I don't even know if there is such a thing recognized in academia/the academic world, or anywhere else, but if there is then Israel would be it! Basically, you have here many of the attributes of a developed, Western-style country, and yet there is a lot that's third-world and less civilized about the infrastructure and culture. Things most definitely do not work here like they do in California! I say this because you have an odd juxtaposition of things like ubiquitous cell phone and computer use and ownership, and yet legally, the government owns all the land (anyone can have all the legal rights of ownership of land, build whatever they want within those rights, but it's under a 99-year lease from the govt. No joke!) For comparison, the country is only 61 years old, so if you just built a house in Tel Aviv or bought acreage for a farm in the Arava (southern Israeli desert) this year, you're good to go till at least when your grandkids are around, most likely. There is a level of socialized medicine here, but there is also no cash-back option from in-store cash registers. Also, there are TONS of unfinished buildings littered throughout the country (and a few bombed out ones from the last couple wars). Not like, the majority, but enough to notice. Things like that I would say are what make this place not quite fully post-industrial and not quite stone-age either, but a hazy shade of gray betwixt the two. Well, gotta get up for class in the morning, so peace out ya'll.

S.G.S. Williams