Two weeks plus to go!! We have been two years getting to this point. Pretty well worn out on it too. Eight years ago I would have unquestionably voted for McCain. Now things have changed so dramatically I can no longer abide the man. His sucking up to Bush and his gang has turned me against him decidedly. He is like a dog that has been kicked but comes back looking for love.

The final straw, that to me showed very poor judgment, was his choice of Palin. That is utterly irresponsible. "He'd rather lose an election than lose a war" yet he is willing to jeopordize the country to spark a faultering campaign. 'nough said on that.

Of course the biggest surprise, even though it was anticipated by many, is the financial mess. The S&L debacle was bad enough but now the whole world is caught in the turmoil. Boiling the miscreants in oil would not be severe enough a punishment for the wholesale grief that has been brought upon the nation and the world. "The market can police itself because it is self corrective". Unfortunately, not when human greed and avarice, an aspect of human nature, take command. Just like the lousy war in Iraq, we are in the mess so the only question is how so we get out of it? It is to some degree satisfying to see the bloody capitalists having to resort to that terrible socialistic notion of nationalization. I wonder if it occurs to them that there is a function for government after all? If for no other reason than to bail them out when they screw up. As I've said before, "privatize the profits and socialize the debt".

It is late now and I don't have the energy to belabor all the points I'd like to make so I'll close.