Checking my thoughts

I wrote and sent the following email in September, I re-read it and thought about what it said, I feel the same way now that I did then, though in some spots there is still a little glimmer of hope.

Careful Blog postings…

I try to be careful with almost everything I do, and while I'm not completely successful, I have managed to stay alive for the better part of a half century. I started a posting about my daughters driving skills, it's still sitting there started and I'm thinking it's better left that way…started.

The Time is Right

Oprah is shutting down her show…reported on the 20^th I think (I don't watch her show so don't know for sure). Anyway she says she just knows in her bones, and in her soul that it's the right time. Well maybe there are other reasons…

Has E-mail lost its sting?

I got a list of Senator's names, addresses, and represented states last night with every intention of using them to voice my opinion to every Senator in our country and I'm still going to do that however there is a problem with it. This problem doesn't stem from me, nor does it stem from the source of the list. This problem stems from the media. We as a nation know who Daniel Akaka (D-HI) is, we know who Olympia Snowe (R-ME) is, or John Barrasso (R-WY) is and why is that?

Nevada Streaming Video Debate

Last evening, 11-21-2009, starting at about 4 in the afternoon, 6 Republican candidates for the Senate seat now held by Harry Reid 'debated' the issues. I really think there were really only a few moments of actual debate in the entire evening but there were things in the evening that made watching and participating worthwhile. Almost all candidates have signed or say they will sign, the no new taxes pledge, though being politicians, I am distrustful of anything they say.

A 'Rare' Saturday session

Well as we have all seen by now, the healthcare bill gets to go to the floor of the Senate for a full debate. The bill is over two thousand pages long and probably just a cut and paste of the House bill with additional confusing crap added. This bill was passed onto the floor in a reportedly 'rare' Saturday session…wait isn't that what the house did, 'a rare Saturday session'. Well why was a 'rare' Saturday session needed? Why was an 8 pm Saturday evening vote needed? Why couldn't it be brought to a vote on Monday during regular session? I know and I bet you do to if you think about it…

Why are we even worried about congress passing cap and trade?

Working my way through the maze of things that are costing our country its sovereignty I ran across this little tidbit http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN08291298 , and I thought all we had to do was to stop this crap in congress. I don't know if the EPA will act on cap and trade but if they do, according to this article it will generate a nice little boost in revenue for the government without the need to pass another law… Guess who pays that little revenue stream for the government…