Hero Dogs and other 'stuff' ...

Read a great news story on Yahoo today.  Seems that three stray dogs had adopted some soldiers stationed at a remote site in Afghanistan.  One night, as a suicide bomber was trying to sneak into the barracks, the dogs started barking and raising a ruckus.  Got the bomber so rattled that he set off his device before reaching the sleeping soldiers.  Wonder if it was the barking or the dog quietly chewing through his leg that confused him?

One of the dogs was killed but the other two survived and are now being reunited with the soldiers they saved here in the states.  As an animal lover it's really heartwarming to see the support that perfect strangers gave the soldiers in helping them to rescue the two surviving dogs.

Read the story at this site .

On another note I see that GM (you're a 51% owner so pay attention here) is releasing a new electric car called the Volt for the 2011 model year.  Non-polluting, clean energy ... and $41,000 a copy.  When will the insensitive clods in Detroit figure out that what we need is not a luxury top-of-the-line electric car ... we simply need an affordable two person electric commuter with a 50 mile range and a top speed of 50 mph which can be recharged overnight by plugging it in to a 110v home outlet?  I mean, for $41K I can buy a really, really nice gas powered machine ... given the limited range why would I opt for the Volt?  Oh, and 'affordable' by my definition is $8000 or less - something that almost anyone could afford.

Ahh, if I only had a couple of million $$$ to start a company to build those ...

I also read that Tony Hayward the (now former) CEO for BP is being sent to Russia.  Good riddance!  He was so pompous and conceited (reference his famous "I'd like my life back" comment) that he deserves to go away even though he's getting a king's ransom as a golden handshake.  Wonder if Putin needs him to personally manage an oil rig in Siberia?

Hopefully the new BP CEO, an American from the Gulf region, will be a bit more sensitive and considerate of the feelings of those in that area who never will get their lives back because of BP's stupidity and arrogance under the Hayward administration.










I leave you with a final thought from a friend of ours who is a lifelong horse person:  

"If the world were truly rational it would be the men who rode sidesaddle."

My wife is almost on the floor over this one.

'Nuff said.