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I have some random thoughts and observations. When I started this blog I wasn't going to talk politics which is something that I am passionate about. Well the way things are now in our country it is time for all of us to speak up. We all need to make our voices heard.

• Seems that the media have stated that Hillary Clinton gets the votes of older working whites. I was wondering about that and after seeing the Daily Show it somewhat confirmed what I thought. Basically, at least for some in W. VA, that particular group of people stated that they could not vote for Obama because he is black and there is nothing but problems from the blacks. Another person stated the lie that he was a Muslim. Two thoughts there. First he is not. I am familiar with the church that he attends because I was a member of the same denomination and it is definitely a Christian church. Second, why should we care if he was Muslim. For some reason some people think that is a radical religion, well I have seen some Christian churches that are pretty radical also. You cannot use a broad brush to paint everyone the same because of a lunatic fringe. Last but not least another person stated that they could not vote for him because his middle name is Hussein. I find these reasons that of people that are bigoted and uneducated and am sad for them.

• I understand fuel prices in Europe have not seen the increases that the US has. Many people think that the price of oil is rapidly rising. This really is not the case. What is happening is that the value of the dollar is rapidly sinking. A country cannot run up the type of debt that we have and borrow money from other countries, in our case China, and expect our currency to hold it's value.

• I am a fiscal conservative that runs a business writing software for jewelry stores. For the past 2 years I have seen stores business drop if they are in middle class towns. I have seen our situation coming now for a number of years. You cannot spend like a "drunken sailor" as our government has and expect nothing to happen financially. Here is a response made to a Posting on the New York Times Opinion page to an editorial called House of Gloom (May 15 2008) written by Tobin Harshaw. I feel somewhat the same.

  • "... The Republican Party does not represent conservatives.
    
    Conservatives support Constitutionally-limited government, fiscal prudence, respect for individual rights, the rule of law, the separation of powers, and peaceful international relations.
    
    The Republican Party currently supports unlimited government, runs catastrophic deficits, disdains individual rights, sees law as a tool for the powerful to crush the powerless, espouses an omnipotent and un-American “unitary executive,” and seeks to enrich its patrons with unlimited wars of aggression around the globe. It is conservative only in its rhetoric.
    
    At least the Democrats are relatively honest about their philosophy of government.
    
    I worked on Capitol Hill during the 1980s and I still revere President Reagan.
    
    I’m supporting Barack Obama in 2008." — Posted on a blog by Miles




• Right now the Republicans are trying to tell the nation that the Democrats are now the problem in congress. They state that they cannot get anything done. They are correct in this. Why is this happening though, the Dems are in power right? To get a bill through the Senate anymore you need to have 60 votes. The Democrats don't have that many in the Senate therefore the Republicans often block legislation just so they can make the statement that the Democrats are not getting things done. What a bunch of lies. Yes I said lies. Watch C-Span sometime, what is actually said in the House and Senate is not what is stated outside of those chambers.

• You may think that I am a Democrat. Well I didn't use to be. I really consider myself a Blue Dog Democrat which is what a Republican years ago was. I long for a day when we have statesmen in government and not politicians only interested in remaining in power. Trouble is unless we citizens demand that it will not happen.

• As for health care and what we are told in the news and ads about going to a single payer system such as Canada's is crap. Have you talked to any Canadians, I have.

Well enough of this. At one time I was not going to go into this type of thing on my blog but I have had enough. Our country is in trouble and that means that all of us need to think about what type of government we want. We are allowed a peaceful revolution every two years, four years and six years. I think that it is time that we actually GO VOTE and using the old phrase "throw the bast%%$s out". The middle class is the backbone of this country, as such we need to get our backbone and country back from those that are rich and standing on top of us.

Ran across this on another blog.

The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. You’ll want to be the first at your corporation to make a contribution to this great man’s legacy. The Library will include:

• The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
• The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can’t remember anything.
• The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don’t have to even show up.
• The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don’t let you in.
• The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don’t let you out.
• The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).
• The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
• The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.
• Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - where you can buy (or just steal) an election.
• The Airport Men’s Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
• Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted to a 7/8 scale model of the President’s ego.
• To highlight the President’s accomplishments, the museum will have an electron microscope to help you locate them.

When asked, President Bush said that he didn’t care so much about the individual exhibits as long as his museum was better than his father’s.

I am not sure if he is incompetent, a liar or both. I do know that generations of Americans and the world will be paying for the arrogance of this administration. This short entry about the library illustrates what is wrong with this administration. I didn't write it but, as other blogs have done, share it here. There is a reason that I am no longer a Republican. I didn't leave the party it left me and put into place something that they should be ashamed about.

I don't plan on getting into politics in this blog, but I have come across something in my travels that has me puzzled. Just west of Highway 59 and CR-32 in Summerdale AL is a FEMA storage lot, in it are hundreds of stored trailers. Are these not needed elsewhere?