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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Or why I never got into the stock market. Around here we still have gas, but places are running out. The Kangaroo, the biggest station around, ran out Thursday. Kroger, who'd also been selling it at reasonable prices ran out yesterday. Kangaroo had been asking people to only get 10 gallons (not a problem, since mine only holds 10.5g if the-out-of gas light has been on all day). Kroger, a little less trusting of human nature, just blocked off two of their eight pumps so that selling it went more slowly. At least that was my take on the blocked off pumps, which did not say out of gas.

Prices around here range from $4.99 to $3.59 (actually the lowest I've seen was $3.49 at the Kangaroo, but you see what happened to them) in a random sort of way, it seems. And fluctuate wildly.

So it's like the stock market, with the added thrill of actually NEEDING the gas. Do you buy at $3.89 right by the house, or hope that it's less over by the store you're going to? Thomas and I paid $4.05 – which was very cheap on Thursday, after Kangaroo closed down and gas stations realized they could charge what they want. It was late in the evening, but I had an early doctor's appointment the next day, and he had been driving all day on empty, light glowing. So we bought the 10.5 gallons @ $4.05. Next day, on the way to the doctor it had dropped to $3.99. Then $3.89 by evening on Friday, and then they were out by the time Thomas went to get the pizza Saturday evening. I'm wondering about others, like Min in Nashville, in cities, running out, and how high is the little bit of gas available? And is it fluctuating as wildly?

Oh, and what's all this about being dependent on foreign oil, if one hurricane, in the USA, can cause all this?

Would it be much worse, much faster if it were one of our middle eastern suppliers? And it makes me revisit my thoughts on the war in Kuwait, where every one was screaming, "it's just about the oil!" You know, even if that was the only reason, if it was to keep what's happening now from happening then, on a much larger scale, I say get out there and protect our oil interests.

War does not determine who is right.
War determines who is left.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier

The cats and I are in a war for the door frames all over the house. They think the frames are giant scratching posts, and I, of course, think they are beautiful decorative pieces of wood that should be left in smooth, pretty form.

I've found that if you put Press & Seal on the door frame, they won't scratch there. And it's self sticky so it stays on, but it doesn't have that sticky gunk that adhesive papers have. And it can be quickly jerked off with no marks in case of company. And it comes in rolls, so you can pick the size.

Maybe I should write a testimonial to the company and let them know. Maybe they'll market as cat repellent. Ha!

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