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I heard a Republican state that the very people who said Obama was not qualified to be President, was now saying he was a good choice. The Republicans say Obama has no experience and then McCain takes a mate who is supposed have less.
Where did either get experience to be President? Did they go to Pre-President school? Did they pass some exam? Was it a class in college, How To Be President 101. Where do you get the experience? How do you get experience to be a cop? By working as one. And didn't the Republicans that ran against McCain also question his ability to be President, as Hillary did about Obama and his ability. Sure they did, and now they are saying John, is the best choice for the country, just as the Democrats say Obama is the best choice. But, isn't that how they do? Talk about the person you are running against, make up stuff, tell half truths, dig up unimportant stuff about the family and friends, anything to win.
I know a fella who thinks that everyone in his party is the best person for the job. He believes that everyone in his party has done a wonderful job, no matter what the economy is doing. He even blames a certain candidate for the price of gas going up. I think the price of gas going up has to do with speculators, but that is another story. But this is a guy who is not smart enough to make his own choice. He needs some one TV or the radio to tell him how to vote and who to vote for.
I support no party. I sort through the b.s. and then vote for the person that I think will do the best job, no matter what party he or she belongs to. I could vote a Democrat for President and then a Republican for Governor or visa versa. It makes no difference to me what party they belong, just take care of the people and the country. After all, they are in office to serve the people, not the people serve them. So, make up your own mind, and if you aren't registered to vote, do so....it's your right.
What's up at the convenience stores? What's with the price hike in gas from one day to the next? Why they porking us so hard? They raise the price whenever they hear the price of oil has gone up. There is a fellow in my town who owns several stations (the picture isn't one of them). He says he is only making about three cents a gallon. He raises the price as he gets a shipment of gas and the price reflects that shipment. Of course that is a lie. He must be getting a shipment every other day or so. Truth is, when the news reports that the price per barrell of oil has gone up, the local stations here raise their price that night, the next day or the next. Is that reflective of a shipment? No, that is trying to make more money off what you have in the ground, right now. This guy has spiked his gas as much as ten cents on the news of oil cost from one day to the next, and a few days later lowers it two or three cents. Are we being boned at the pumps? Hell yes, what do you think? Can the politicians help fix this mess? Would you want to if you had stock in a big oil company? I wouldn't be quick to fix it. Price goes up, mo money, mo money for me. It's a big con game and we can't do anything about it.
The Davis Memorial at Mt.Hope Cemetery, in Hiawatha Kansas, was erected by John M. Davis as a memory to his wife Sarah E. Davis. She passed away in 1930. John had Italian marble, life size statues of he and Sarah made and erected around the grave site. The statues are at various stages of their lives.
In the 1930's during the depression, this was no small feat and costly at 200,000 dollars. By today's standard it would be well over a million dollars. A 52 ton canopy (weighing over 50 tons) was first erected on stone pillars around the her grave and in 1932 the first marble statues arrived. There are 11 total marble and granite statues.
This memorial has been featured in Newsweek, Life, People magazine and on Ripleey's Believe It or Not. The brochere says the sites has 20-30,000 visitors a year. I found the site very interesting and the fact he spent 200 thousand dollars during the depression instead of helping others is something else. That money could have fed a lot of people. But it is waht it is and now it's an attraction. If you are in the area, stop by and check it out for yourself.
Whose memoirs would you most like to read?
I would like to read the memoirs of Jesus Christ and follow that with the memoirs from God. That would explain all and say all. You wouldn't need to read anything else after that. How cool would it be to read their works and find things that aren't told in the Bible. Like what kind of friends Jesus had growing up, what he thought about his early years, was Mary at the last supper like some suggest, what was God doing all the years before creation, where did God come from, what was his childhood like, did he have one, who is his daddy? In all seriousness, I want to now the little things, the untold stories.
This is what I'm waiting on. Summer.... for things to turn green, birds to sing, walks through the park, ride the bike trails, heat, sunshine. It's rainy today, but at least the snow and ice is over and done with......I hope.
Book, magazine, catalog, nutritional information, billboard, website, newspaper... What are you currently reading and would you recommend it to others?
Anything by John Grisham. I just started reading "The Appeal" now.
Let's say you are out and about, at night, by yourself. You find a trash bag full of cash, lots of cash, over a million dollars in cash. No one sees you pick it up, no one knows you have it. What do you do? Turn it in to the police? Spend it? Tell Friends? If you tell friends, you might as well turn it in, because friends will talk. Whoever lost isn't going to report it lost, so what do you do?
What is a "charmed life"?
What is a"charmed life?" That would be getting all the good breaks, passing on bet and then finding out if you had made the bet, you'd be walking home in your boxers, should have turned right but went left and missed the 10 car pile up, played the wrong lotto numbers and hit the jack pot. That sort of stuff.
