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Not much going on today. September is always a "not much going on" type of time in my life. Lots of family and old friends have birthdays this month, but still it is more of a time of transition for me. Football season has begun, and the cooler mornings are a sure sign of impending autumn. Darkness comes much earlier now, some leaves are beginning the annual change from green to brown, and there are tiny crickets all over the place. Squirrels are growing longer hair on their tails, which they use for a blanket. Back in the day, a lot of years we would get frosts by late September.
The early morning and late evening walkers that move up and down my street are wearing jackets and long pants. The resident robins have been gone for several weeks, but we are getting some transients in migration. The days are quiet now except for an occasional wren calling or a blue jay fussing over something he considers very important. Much of the summer haze is now gone from the sky, and there are very few lightning bugs left.
For me, the first day of September represents the first day of autumn, even though the sun is still three weeks from equinox.
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The jobless rate for the US is at a five-year high of 6.1%. Obama-slamma-bydamna better jump all over this piece of news. He is going to need all the bad news he can find to beat McCain and Palin. Palin: Isn't she cutest of the cute!?
Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, the chairman of the Ways and Means tax-writing committee doesn't pay taxes on some of his property. He apparently is also a New York City slum lord. I don't come close to liking his looks! His appearance is like one of the old-time Tammany Hall thieves.
Democratic Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad received lower interest rates on some mortgages from a good old boy at Countrywide Mortgage. You and I cannot get those kind of interest rates. Dodd is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
This is exactly the crap Democrats campaigned against in 2006, and the very thing the voters entrusted them to fix. In reality, there isn't a dimes worth of difference in Democrats and Republicans making themselves wealthy at the expense of the middle-class public.
John McCain et al. are claiming the days of special interests will be over in Washington
Wake up, America!
2 comments:
I wish fall was remotely close here. Still quite a aways way.
Charles Rangel is a self serving fill in the blank. It would seem there is corruption, bribery or something in his career.
As for hockey mom, I'll let her cross check me.
I would take a major economic meltdown for anything to change. I see nothing else that will make people stand up and fight for what is right.
When people only vote for somebody because of their stance on abortion or guns it shows we are a stupid electorate.
We can not get people to stand up for education. They always bitch it costs to much. A undecated nation it going to cost us a whole bunch of problems. I guess we are already so stupid we cannot even see that.
We get what we deserve.
By having something like Bush as president says something about the "education" the people in this country have. I am not a mid-east scholar, but it was obvious that the Iraq invasion was a tremendous mistake, at least to anyone that remotely uses their education to keep up with world affairs. We think the government is right and knows what it is doing, and that it is in our best interests.
Education is always the first priority, but close behind comes the nation's infrastructure. We have paid more into Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan's infrastructure than will be put into our own in the next 10 years.
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