Got the deck stained (Solid acrylic), two coats. Glad that is done. The drive is newly covered with gravel instead of crushed stone. Looks good but I think the load was less than 5 tons. The guy came back with some extra but it is still light. Trimmed the Holly bushes yesterday and am still pooped today. Took five barrels of cuttings, plus heavy branches, to the dump today. Whew!!! We have been using those collapesable canvas ones. They are great, light and storeable.
`Glenn Greenwald has taken Kieth Olberman to task for his agreeing with Obama's vote for the FISA bill. G feels that O should fight against it because it weakens the Constitution. John Dean, on MSNBC opined that the bill still leaves the Telecoms vulnerable to criminal charges and Olberman picked up on that suggesting that O has a secret plan to nab the Telecoms later for illegally complying with Bush's request for information about calls. Apparently Bush can give the Telecoms a blanket pardon that will prevent any future action against them. Ho hum. That's politics. It won't be long, if it is not already in the blogs, that O is sleeping with H.
As the stock market goes down, California burns, the mid-west floods, and folks start coasting down hills to save gas it becomes difficult to watch a "news" program anymore. The best antidote I know of are the Lawrence Welk rerun shows. Sat. and Sun evening on PBS. They provide an hour of pure entertainment. They even recognize they have the reputation for being "corny", but that only make it better. Lawrence left the farm in N. Dakota in 1925. that is the year I was born and started his musical career. Here he is 83 years later still being appreciated.
The next best is a RedSox game.
The new era will be dominated by broadband coverage throughout the country. The post industrial era is the information era and compared to most other countries in the world the leading country in technology, the US, is the lowest percentage covered by broadband.????
Another new era is the energy deficit. As gasoline becomes more costly what many of us have been deploring, the SUV phenomenon, and the intransigence of the administration to do anything about increasing gas mileage requirements for cars and trucks, has in a very short time caused a dramatic turn around in the automobile industry. Even last year this time who would have thought that SUVs would almost be outlawed and truck sales decimated? There is a lot of fuss and feather about oil drilling here and there but all that will take a decade to make an impact. At least McCain has come out with a statement that conservation is not just a personal virtue. It is an imperative. That is a nice smack in the face to Dick Cheney, the energy guru and benefactor of the oil industry. The frantic dash to convert corn to ethanol has been debunked, but only after it has had a disastrous effect on the entire food industry and caused prices to rise inordinately. Another administration screw-up.
David Brooks wrote a paean to Bush for finally getting something right. He lauds Bush for going against all his advisers and ordering the "surge". Saying the surge has made a tremendous difference in Iraq is a stretch. The most that can be said is that the situation there is fluid.
There are many factors at play. Two significant ones are the Sunni change in Anbar, where the Al Queada wore out its welcome through its stupid bloodthirstiness and the Sunnis turned against them, and the tactic of al Sadr to call a truce, for the time being, in Sadr City. The surge occurred in the same period, that's all. Then again, a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
What has become starkly obvious is that the world situation is not going to change for the better in the near future. The "American way of life", living high off the hog while much of the rest of the world wallows in poverty and we consume 80 percent of the world energy yet are only 25 percent of the population, producing the vast amount of air pollution and not willing to control it, will need a painful revision. If we were to understand the situation we would be willing to do our part to improve things but we are not being told the facts. We are fed the "feel good". formula of " "you are worth it, even if you can't afford it".
` Another six months will be a long wait but at least the past seven years will hopefully begin to mend.
`Glenn Greenwald has taken Kieth Olberman to task for his agreeing with Obama's vote for the FISA bill. G feels that O should fight against it because it weakens the Constitution. John Dean, on MSNBC opined that the bill still leaves the Telecoms vulnerable to criminal charges and Olberman picked up on that suggesting that O has a secret plan to nab the Telecoms later for illegally complying with Bush's request for information about calls. Apparently Bush can give the Telecoms a blanket pardon that will prevent any future action against them. Ho hum. That's politics. It won't be long, if it is not already in the blogs, that O is sleeping with H.
As the stock market goes down, California burns, the mid-west floods, and folks start coasting down hills to save gas it becomes difficult to watch a "news" program anymore. The best antidote I know of are the Lawrence Welk rerun shows. Sat. and Sun evening on PBS. They provide an hour of pure entertainment. They even recognize they have the reputation for being "corny", but that only make it better. Lawrence left the farm in N. Dakota in 1925. that is the year I was born and started his musical career. Here he is 83 years later still being appreciated.
The next best is a RedSox game.
The new era will be dominated by broadband coverage throughout the country. The post industrial era is the information era and compared to most other countries in the world the leading country in technology, the US, is the lowest percentage covered by broadband.????
Another new era is the energy deficit. As gasoline becomes more costly what many of us have been deploring, the SUV phenomenon, and the intransigence of the administration to do anything about increasing gas mileage requirements for cars and trucks, has in a very short time caused a dramatic turn around in the automobile industry. Even last year this time who would have thought that SUVs would almost be outlawed and truck sales decimated? There is a lot of fuss and feather about oil drilling here and there but all that will take a decade to make an impact. At least McCain has come out with a statement that conservation is not just a personal virtue. It is an imperative. That is a nice smack in the face to Dick Cheney, the energy guru and benefactor of the oil industry. The frantic dash to convert corn to ethanol has been debunked, but only after it has had a disastrous effect on the entire food industry and caused prices to rise inordinately. Another administration screw-up.
David Brooks wrote a paean to Bush for finally getting something right. He lauds Bush for going against all his advisers and ordering the "surge". Saying the surge has made a tremendous difference in Iraq is a stretch. The most that can be said is that the situation there is fluid.
There are many factors at play. Two significant ones are the Sunni change in Anbar, where the Al Queada wore out its welcome through its stupid bloodthirstiness and the Sunnis turned against them, and the tactic of al Sadr to call a truce, for the time being, in Sadr City. The surge occurred in the same period, that's all. Then again, a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.
What has become starkly obvious is that the world situation is not going to change for the better in the near future. The "American way of life", living high off the hog while much of the rest of the world wallows in poverty and we consume 80 percent of the world energy yet are only 25 percent of the population, producing the vast amount of air pollution and not willing to control it, will need a painful revision. If we were to understand the situation we would be willing to do our part to improve things but we are not being told the facts. We are fed the "feel good". formula of " "you are worth it, even if you can't afford it".
` Another six months will be a long wait but at least the past seven years will hopefully begin to mend.
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