Scary Thought: American Empire

America is desperately trying to mold itself into the image of the Britain of old, where the sun never set on the empire. This time it appears the country will start with Iraq and then march on to any country that it deems contributing to the continual dominance of the world's only super power. Those areas of the world that are seen as unnecessary to America's rise will initially go ignored. Places such as Darfur in the Sudan, where disease and war continue to reduce those populations. But it is these countries where resistance to American hemegony will take root and it will be in these countries where America will bring its next wars. It is already being seen in Iraq, where the USA is building sprawling military complexes, complexes whereby the US military will hunker down and maintain a huge presence for the foreseeable future, to ensure the free flowing of oil to the country. It was never about WMDs, that has proven false, it was never about deposing a dictator, it was always about the oil, and the buildup of the US military in a region that is full of it.
Countries that rely on oil today will suffer, as the US gains a hold and controls the flow of that oil. Countries that have already switched to alternative fuels, such as Alcool in Brazil will not have to worry about the future rationing of oil that will be controlled not by OPEC, but the USA. Venezuela is next. Bring them home? Hell no, Not with Bush III waiting on deck and the Mexican Bush in the dugout.

Soccer Travails

Jeremy dislocated his wrist at the growth plate last weekend during a soccer tournament in San Bernardino. It was during a big tournament sponsored by the LA Galaxy amd he did it during the first of three games. I suspect it got fractured during a sideways bicycle kick stunt that he pulled off during the game, falling on his wrist, because just a few minutes later, he fell on it and that is when it popped. Tina, the soccer mom who drove us to the game, drove us to the hospital emergency room where we waited for the doctor to snap it back into place. They had to put Jeremy under to perform the operation, and he wasn't too happy about it. I was there for the whole thing and I was a bit scared as well, based on what the nurse told me could happen. Thankfully nothing did, but it was really hard to watch him watch the meds go into his vein and then him slowing going under. The entire procedure to fix his wrist took probably 30 seconds, it was just the waking up part that took long, a whole 15 minutes for him to wake up.

Now he has a cast on his arm. I don't want to see him in an emergency room anymore. It is really scary, on top of the fact that there were all kinds of people in the ER as well. But he had a Dr. and nurse who knew what they weer doing so that was good, and it was a pretty common occurrence. Its the fact that they ahd to put him under with powerful drugs that concerned me the most for a seemingly simple procedure. The only reason why they put him under though because the pain would have been unbearable for him. His season is over though until the Fall. He wants to play in summer tournaments, but I think I'll convince him to wait til the Fall. Also, he won't play in any tournament when his team doesn't have a m,inimum of three reserves, because during the first half of the only game he played in, he was breathing hard, I never saw him run so much, while the other team subbed out three players at a time, so they always had fresh players on the field.