War!

Three of the five babies.

Bumpkin continues to wage war against the humans for control of the world.  "I'm not doing this for myself.  I don't need to be fighting a war against all the Earth's humans, I'd rather surf the web, watch TV, or go out with boy groundhogs, but humans are destroying this planet with their ways.  People pollute, they're greedy, violent, sadistic, selfish, and brutal.  Us animals have lived under your thumbs for too long.  It's our turn.  Animals must be given control of the world or I will take it: no matter how many human lives must be lost.  I shall punctuate my remarks by launching a fireball that  will destroy a vessel within a fleet of Japanese whalers that is attempting to kill whales," said Bumpkin.
She used her powers to open the screen, another fireball of destruction emerged from her left front paw, which promptly flew out of the window, grew in size while hovering outside the window, then abruptly headed off, at great speed, toward its target.
"That's it.  Interview over," declared Bumpkin.
"Yes, ma'am," said local TV broadcaster Lia Lando.
The crew began to pack up their junk.  This interview had been shot in my apartment.  So much for keeping a low profile.  I think the only way I'll get my security deposit back is if Bumpkin uses her powers to help me.
"Will you get out of here already?" Bumpkin queried.
"Sure, we're just packing up our stuff.  It takes a little while," said Lia.
"No it doesn't," said Bumpkin.  The crew's equipment began to fly out of the window and land on the grass outside the building.  In a matter of seconds, all their stuff was out of my apartment.  "Now get lost," she commanded.  They all left.  Lia Lando is the most beautiful woman I've ever had over; that's for sure.  I doubt a more beautiful woman will ever grace this unit again.
"Bumpkin, my apartment is going to be a huge target now.  What are we gonna do?"
"I don't know how many times I have to say this.  The harder they come, the harder they'll fall.  You are fortunate enough to be the safest human on Earth, as long as you don't test my patience too much, because you have my protection, cause you're on my team and...What do you even do around here?"
"Well, for one thing, you and your sisters have been living in my apartment for several months now.  Also, you told me I'm the best groundhog masseuse of all time."
"That's right," replied Bumpkin.  "It's time to justify your existence."
"Yes, ma'am," I said, as I made my way over to her and began to rub her tiny shoulders.
"Turn on the news," she said.
"Sure Mistress Bumpkin," I replied.  I stopped massaging her just long enough to turn the TV on.
"Once again, if you're just joining us, we have breaking news of a Japanese whaling vessel exploding in the middle of a whale hunt.  The vessel has been completely destroyed," said a pretty female newscaster. 
Sorry no photo.  Something must be wrong with blogger today.  I've tried over and over again, and they won't let me post a photo today.  I'll fix it when I can.  Cheerio!

 

Gasland

We need to protect the environment: for us and the animals.

Gasland is the name of a documentary I saw recently.  I had an idea of what it was about, but watching it was an eye-opening experience.  It's about hydrofracking, which is called fracking for short.  It's unbelievable that this process is allowed to happen.  Apparently, during George W. Bush's administration, natural gas companies were exempted from having to pay attention to things like the clean water act or the clean air act.  This meant they were allowed to frack.
Fracking is a method that involves pumping a lot of water, that has been contaminated with hundreds of chemicals, some of them known carcinogens, into the ground for the purpose of getting to the natural gas. Unfortunately, it seems like they frequently don't clean up after themselves very well.  Fracking has led to a lot of pollution here in the states.  People who live near fracking sites are very unlucky.  Many of them have to deal with their water supply being completely contaminated with dangerous chemicals and natural gas.  Some of these people are able to hold a flame up to their faucets, turn on the tap, and literally light the water on fire.  It seems like plenty of these people can't use their tap water for anything: definitely not drinking.  They have to go out and buy all their water; some have huge tanks. 
There were also reports of workers dumping one of the results of fracking, toxic waste water, into streams.  It was very sad to see a few streams that were obviously heavily polluted.  Someone said that all the fish died in at least one of these streams.  Additionally, animals died because they drank the polluted water.
Many people who live near these fracking sites have become very sick.  One of the guys thinks that it gave him cancer.  That's what we can expect when companies are allowed to pump carcinogens into the ground that can get into the water supply.  It's a shame that, for some people, money is more important than life.  They don't care what they do to other people, animals, and the environment.  None of that matters to them as much as cash does.