I'm getting in that Fall mood again!

A deep loss to our family....

Tonight, we lost a dear member of our family. Kornball. She was 13 years old and loved by us all.

About a week ago we came home and found her acting oddly. She was having trouble walking, she was vomiting and urinating on the floor. She was sleeping all day and would hardly eat or drink anything. The other day we took her to the vet and after they ran blood tests it was determined that she was suffering from kidney failure and liver disease. She was in too much pain, and experiencing no quality of life as she always had.

This evening, my wife and I, our son and his girlfriend took Kornball into the vets office where she was put to sleep. The procedure was quick and painless. Kornball was lying on the table very sedately, she was given the injection and within about 30 seconds and without any fuss she laid her head down as if falling asleep. About a minute later, and many tears later, the Doctor said that her heart had stopped. This was one of the hardest things for us to do, but it would have been far harder to watch "someone" that we loved so much suffer as she was for much longer. I know that right now she's once again able to jump and dash around like she did for so many years. I'm tearing up again as I type this, so I'm going to end this now.

Kornball, we loved you for so long, and we still do.

Iraqi PM says America "leave when you want to..."

I say "Fantastic!" If the legal Iraqi leader that "we" put in power says American forces can leave Iraq anytime we want to, then I say we leave! We're obviously not wanted there, I don't want us to be there, and most Americans don't want to be there.

What more is there for Bush to get the hint that it's time to abandon the ship, a ship that never really had a Captain at the wheel and never really had a course set for it.

Read the whole STORY at CNN

It makes you wonder....

It makes you wonder what good we could possibly be doing in Iraq, when you hear things like this. After a particularly deadly weekend in Iraq, this statement was made to the people of Iraq by their government:

...Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives...

Yes, but who are they to defend themselves against with those weapons? Fellow Iraqi's who are fighting to get America out of Iraq? Fellow Iraqi's who are killing each other based on their religious affiliation? Or Americans?

And how are American soldiers to know which Iraqi's walking around with AK-47's are on our side...if any Iraqi's are on our side at all any more. U.S. servicemen already are finding it next to impossible to know who is fighting on whose side anymore.

It's high time we got our butt's out of Iraq and Afghanistan as well. We've created enough devestation and new enemies to last our children's children through their lifetimes. The death-toll for Americans in Iraq has now reached 3600+. Do any more young men and women need to die so a select few people can get filthy rich off this war?

Has Apple shot itself in the foot with it's I-phone?

Apparently, that cool new I-phone that so many people have bought up in record numbers has an ugly achille's heel that no one knew about!

The battery for the phone is 'soldered' into the unit. If your battery goes bad, unlike most cell phones, you won't be able to just go out and buy a replacement one. You'll have to send your I-phone back to Apple so they can put a battery in for you, and get this...it's going to cost you $79 and an additional $6.95 for shipping and handling. Also, it will take 3 business days before you get the phone back! But wait, don't worry, while you don't have your phone, Apple will 'give' you a loaner I-phone for only $29!

Do those numbers make your cool new phone that cost you $499 - $599 seem like a good deal. Not to mention the $60 a month service fee. It figures that something that's supposed to revoluntionize the cell phone industry would have some sort of shady gimmick designed to suck more money out of it's consumers. I can't tell you how happy I am that I can't afford an I-phone. I'll just stick with my little pre-paid T-mobile phone, thank you very much Mr. Jobs!

Bush commutes Libby's prison sentance

Well, who didn't see this one coming. President Bush has commuted the prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was found guilty of obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case, and was to sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Once again, Bush shows how little regard he has for the legal system in the United States. I guess we should all care so little about justice.

Maybe the next time Paris Hilton goes to jail, Bush will commute her sentence as well!

The face of tomorrow's terrorist...

Here you go, take a look at tomorrow's terrorist today. This is an Afghan child where a U.S. air-strike killed 62 "insurgents" and 45 civilians.

That sounds about right doesn't it. I mean as long as we killed 62 insurgents, it's all right to kill 45 innocent civilians, isn't it? I mean, here in America, the police are allowed to just shoot indiscriminately into a crowd of people hoping that they'll kill a person suspected of committing a crime, aren't they? That seems to be the way our military is handling rooting out terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. As long as you kill more of the "bad guys", than civilians then you must be doing something right. Maybe this little guy in the picture here won't grow up hating America for what we're doing in his country. Maybe he'll see all the good that George W. Bush and our military forces are doing there. Maybe he won't strap a bomb to his back and run into a crowded intersection screaming at the top of his lungs that, "this is for killing my family, you blood-sucking Americans!"

Maybe we've done enough harm around the world to get our "payback" after 9/11?