Watch out...

Bush has initiated a new step in the U.S. governments strategy to make American citizens become indentured servants.

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After causing conditions that would cause Americans to buy, buy, buy using risky, variable rate mortgages, then causing a huge slump in the housing market, Bush is now suggesting a move for the government to step in and "help" indebted borrowers. Effectively making them indentured servants!

What the citizens of this country really need is for the neo-conservative's trying to manipulate the economy and citizens of the United States to step down and let the chips fall where they may. The United States economy and infra-structure have become a wasteland thanks to these handful of Americans who think they have all the answers.

Still around....

Yes, I'm still around...though I've been pretty quiet on the blogging front. I came down with a nasty batch of bronchitis, which finally drove me to the doctor who gave me a prescription for antibiotics which has finally knocked it back and I'm starting to feel like a human being again!

Every website I went to while sick kept telling me that for the symptoms I had antibiotics would do nothing to help. That doctors only prescribe them to patients to get them to shut up. Well, they're all wrong! If you start feeling sick (i.e. sore throat, runny nose, tired, coughing, body aches), just do like I did and see the doctor and get antibiotics. There's some sort of global conspiracy to make people think antibiotics no longer work, they still do.

Growing up, anytime I got sick I was given antibiotics, usually in the form of an injection, and in a couple of days I'd be feeling better. For some reason, the "establishment", doesn't want us taking them anymore. Hell! What else are we going to take. All the over-the-counter medications that used to help like Nyquil, Theraflu and many others have been rendered useless these last few years by the government forcing them to take out all the ingredients that actually helped to make you feel better. First it was whatever they had them take out that supposedly caused "bleeding of the brain" in what, maybe 1 out of a million people!? then they more recently forced manufacturers to remove the chemical that some people were using to cook produce home-made methanphetamines. Since that was taken out of OTC drugs, I haven't noticed any reduction in the number of meth labs turning up in the news!!

Loss of second family member in a month

Having so recently lost Kornball, we've now suffered our second loss in a month with the death of Yoshi. She passed this morning at about 4:45 am. My wife and I were both with her, and our son came in to say good-bye as well. She passed quietly, but almost seemed to fight it as much as she could.

Yoshi and Kornball are together now, and both their ashes will be strewn into the same rose garden at the pet cemetery we chose. Yoshi will be missed, but not forgotten.

I told you so...

I told you many posts back that it would be sometime in 2007 that our government would start talking about re-instating the draft.

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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.