Pump Wars
While our troops patrol Iraqi gas stations in Baghdad, it looks like we are now going to need to send them back home so they can guard the pumps at home. If gasoline continues to rise in price above the $4 per gallon mark (and it appears that it probably will), it may very well take proactive intervention from either police or military forces to keep law and order at the pumps. If not, people may eventually be forced into vigilante style methods of self protection when topping off the tank; complete with body armor, hand guns, and rocket launchers affixed to the sides of armor plated SUVs and pick up trucks. All kidding aside, if crime levels are already starting to escalate across the country at the $4 level, what can we expect if the prices climb even higher?
I can honestly say that in all of my 46 years of living in this country, I cannot recall a more bleak, desperate sense of foreboding and uncertainty that currently hangs in the atmosphere today. I don't think we have anyone to blame but ourselves for our current predicament and lack of any kind of a game plan to move us forward in the right direction. Leave the oil in the ground and let's move forward with new fuel technologies that will provide cleaner and more abundant resources that will leave us free of the dependence on foreign oil. Oil is probably still the cheapest option available, but if the prices continue to rise at their current rates, that may no longer be true and the wheels of industry are not going to be well greased on oil that is grossly too expensive. Meanwhile, I'm going to break out my Mad Max outfit and rig my car for defensive deployment conditions.
My Dog Skeeter
Ok fine, so maybe he did get just a little bit of help on some of these, but, it should be noted that he had no assistance when he once dined on "D-con du jour" and was promptly transported to a nearby animal hospital where they induced vomiting and administered other medications. He thought it was dessert, but was not allowed to enjoy it the second time around.
MESSAGE TO ALL PET OWNERS: Many dogs and other domestic animals are lost each day due to the ingesting of rat poison. Many people have rat poison in the garage, or around the house, but may not realize just how extremely dangerous a risk this poses to your pets. Quite often, dogs will eat the poison and several days may elapse before the owner is aware that the pet has ingested the poison - this is usually a death sentence for the dog as it causes hemophilia in the animal and they bleed to death internally. We caught Skeeter in the act of eating the poison so we were lucky. Lucky in that we saved his life, but it cost us around $500 for this one short sighted incident. I highly recommend that if you are a pet owner that you remove any and all rat poison traps on your premises. Apparently, the stuff is pretty tasty and if your pet gets into it without your knowledge, they could die a horrible death in just a matter of a few days.
"I Am Iron Man"
