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.
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Captain America Dead
Brought into existence in 1941 to do battle with Adolf Hitler, the Marvel hero has officially been killed off. Gunned down on the steps of a court house where he was to appear to answer charges brought against him for his involvment in the underground movement that was resisting the "Superhuman Registration Act", a law which required all super heros to register their true identity with the federal government. Captain America was without his shield and sporting dress slacks and his spandex flag shirt when he took a bullet to the chest on the steps of the court house. All the allegories are there to current events and current laws and there is no mistaking their meaning. Captain America has always been, well, somewhat politicized through out his entire existence and it appears he holds true to character not only when America is doing well, but when she is struggling as well. He was a character who possessed no real super powers - he was just an honest, good hearted person who obviously was addicted to steroids, but who wanted to do what was right, and fought injustices everywhere. True, he is only a fictional character, and this isn't the first time he's been "removed" from the scene. Apparantley he was buried inside a glacier for quite some time before he was revivied back in the 1960's only to find his beloved America in the grips of the cultural wars with those nasty hippies and flower children smoking pot and proclaiming free love. I've no doubt that he will be back again some day, but probably not until America has found her way out of the current darkness in which she is currently stumbling. Let's all hope so. We need the Captain now to help her find her way.
Double Speak
(Cartoon by: Adam Zyglis with The Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY)
This cartoon strikes at a significant fact that no one else seems to be talking about. How is it that when the newly elected Democratic Congress calls for a plan to bring home the troops and put an end to the senseless violence and evaporation of this country's money supply that the current administration cries and warns the world that we would be sending a message of "defeatism" to the world and encouraging terrorists everywhere to come here and attack us? Yet, when the very same proposal is put forth by this country's biggest ally in the Iraq war, Great Birtian, then all of a sudden the current administration spins it as a positive sign of victory! How can it be both victory and defeat based on who is delivering the message? Will someone who can understand the enigmatic thought processes of our current administration even care to explain this to the rest of us?
On a related side note, I read today that NASA is pulling the plug on it's project to track killer asteroids that are larger than 460 feet in diameter and pose a significant threat to striking earth. Back in 2005 the Congress tasked NASA with setting up a program to track these asteroids and to propose a plan on how to deflect any asteroid that may be deemed to be on a crash course with our planet. Unfortunately, NASA has had to "punt" this responsibility for lack of funds. The cost to implement and track such a system is estimated at a whopping $1 billion to be complete by 2020. Now let's see; 2020 by my calculations is about 13 years from now. $1 billion divided by 13 comes out to around $71 million per year. The cost of the Iraq war is currently running at $2 billion per week with a projected cost of over $1 trillion by the time we leave. Does anyone care to explain to the rest of us the logic in this type of fiscal misappropriation of funds? These are exactly the types of double standards that we see justified daily by the current administration and it is driving me crazy. Am I missing something here? Am I comparing apples to oranges? If I am - then I vote for the apples.
The Saga Continues - Part 3
Coming Soon...
Artist unknown - I found this at this website just by accident and couldn't stop laughing. Hilarious. Note: this is an anti-Bush website (duh!)
