After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were disheartened to learn that it was, in fact, only Tuesday.
“Tuesday?” San Diego resident Doris Wagner said. “How in the hell is it still Tuesday?”
Tuesday’s arrival stunned a nation still recovering from the nightmarish slog that was Monday, leaving some to wonder if the week was ever going to end, and others to ask what was taking Saturday so goddamn long.
“Ugh,” said Wagner, echoing a national sense of frustration over it not even being Wednesday at the very least.
Is your pet chipped? They should be. Do you know who made the chip?
Pet RFID chips are so small that there’s really only room on them for a serial number. When your lost pet is brought to a shelter or a vet’s office, they can scan the chip, read that number, and then type it into a program that draws from a series of linked databases to find your name and phone number. That’s how they find you, and tell you that Silly Lilly von Wigglesbottom has gone wandering, and she’s safe and sound, and would you come get her, please?
Texas-based Save This Life, which provided chips to vets and shelters all across the US, has all at once and abruptly gone dark; their database is just gone. Their customers were not given warning and so did not know to change their registration to another company. A lot of animals have basically become anonymous now.
If you don’t know what company you’ve been using, call your vet’s office and ask what pet chip number they have on file. If the chip number starts with 991 or 900164, it’s probably a Safe This Life chip.
If it turns out yours is one of the affected cases, the chip itself will still be fine! There’s no need to add another, or anything like that. You’ll just need to transfer the number to another company, and your vet should be able to recommend the one that they like the best.
We all knew this would happen and that it was happening. He signaled it when talking about how much he admires Andrew Jackson. Only the willfully naive could have imagined Trump would behave complied.
So what’s the next step? Who will enforce the law when that job is the responsibility of the executive branch?
The Constitution relies on impeachment. But with a Congress controlled by Republicans who want a king, where do we go?
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