A great poem to look up (which I wish I could find) is “Skunk” by Robinson Jeffers. This poem is all about history and how we don’t learn from it…

I have seen those replies on other blogs, and don’t appreciate a 2500 word screed over 8 replies making their point.

I did keep a copy and will send it to you on request, and will probably post some of it this weekend if I have time.

more later.

No surprise that your sentiments reflect mine; we are all a product of our environment, and that said I believe our President Elect is a good man.

I do worry about the entitlement generation we have become; and now it’s clear our social security “pension” will likely not be available when I retire in 10 years or so. California is already talking about writing IOUs for Income Tax refunds – that won’t buy anything.

From what I’ve read – and I’m no economist; these are our problems…

1) we’ve learned that companies can be too big to fail – therefore they should be deemed too big to exist.

No company should be too big to fail if it has failed practices.

2) we’ve created a culture of entitlement and this administration in front of us will be a facilitator of that entitlement. They will “couch” it in terms of larger government but re-read item #1.

I am working with some families with acreage to put in a vegetable garden, and saving as much money as I can, and thinking about what I can do on my own more rather than rely on others… I can only pray the worse will be inflation where I can get a good return on CDs like we did with the Peanut man in the 70’s.

Just don’t know. I seriously think this will get much worse before it gets better.

Thanks for the post – I need to start blogging again, but like you – I’ve been in a funk, and trying to catch up on my real job.

Hope he gets 100 against MINN next week, then a decent BOWL representation.

Go Greene!

How long do you think it’ll be before people start to realize what/who America voted for?

and if we can win out – it could be a good bowl game in Iowa’s future.

I wonder how people will travel with the economy.

-pf

Good point about the incumbent not showing own internal polling numbers.

And nice endorsement which can only further help your gal! Having Grassly’s help in the final few days should help getting the vote out at least.

Any other backlash from the woman in the State Rep party who had a “conflict of interest” ?

I know how hard you have worked and hope your gal gets it done!

Honestly, I don’t know how people could send back those to Congress who have not done anything for them at home.

this entire time seems surreal to me. A foreboding washes over me every day.

algore while serving as a journalist in Vietnam could have well had his head blown off as seen in this archived picture that had wide distribution during his presidential run in 2000. That is a picture of algore.

We had a good day in town last week meeting with some democrats…

one vote at a time.

Need to write letters to my family in the district next.

Iowa is Blue. don’t see that changing.

don’t know what to think of the polls. I do think there are Dems that are going to NOT vote for Obama – that could skew things. How much? We need to get close first.