I’m not sure what the human equivalent of this would be. This is Ms. Kili in total bliss after spilling all the cat toys (yes, many filled with catnip) out of the basket and onto the floor, where she then proceeded to sprawl out with toys all around and under her, and then roll around happily. This is, it seems, just about as good as it gets.
That’s why Kili is introducing today’s Feline Friday.
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“Blissed out cold!”
Ian, this is not about the dogs and you don’t have to publish it. It’s about the Schnitzer Steel and Keith Rollman as lobbyist and his website. (I just don’t have the time or the computer memory to scroll down that far on your site….)
By the looks of his website, Rollman is positioning himself as a “green” PR guy . Well, that’s how far the political correctness of environmentalism has become the orthodoxy, and the need for ‘greenwashing’ by corporations.
But it could signify something else. The rail project is officially launched, but support for it is in the intensive care unit. Not only is it on life support, but the hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone into advertising and PR for it no longer exist. The City is basically broke.
So what’s the next big corporate welfare project, not being pursued by a City facing imminent bankruptcy, but by the State? The Big Wind! The rats are fleeing a sinking ship (rail) and the sharks are being drawn to the smell of blood (Big Wind).
But that’s not just PR guys, it’s also politicians. As Civil Beat quizzically asked, why in the world is Councilwoman Tulsi Gabbard running for the US House right after getting on the City Council? Because she can see the writing on the wall. The City is going down. She does not want to end up like her secret role model Linda Lingle, stuck on a losing team with nothing but the end of her political career in sight.
Now, there are ethical issues involved in public relations. I assume that PR people rationalize their profession the way lawyers do, that they may represent unsavory clients now and then, but that is just a part of the process of the law, which is a noble calling. Likewise, advertising men might justify their profession as essential to introducing new products into a consumer economy that is fueled by innovation, although it is a wasteful process in some ways.
Now, think of a PR guy in California working for a metals company that wants its competition to have its subsidy revoked. In the great scheme of things in the massive California economy (the seventh largest economy in the world, if California were an independent country), this issue would be a drop in the ocean, and it would not matter which way it went. No problem.
But what if it were a relatively small island economy, with one and a half million people?
And what if the issues involved not $1 million, and not even $1 billion, but potentially tens of billions of dollars?
And what if the governments pushing for these projects are basically broke already?
And what if these grandiose projects basically won’t work at all, and will inevitably collapse?
And what if all the corporate and government money flowing around that is dedicated to PR stifled any sort of rational discussion of policy, and warped the nature of the political culture — in some ways, negating it as a democracy in any serious sense?