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Nandina...

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Overcast today but nice. Airing out the house all day long. Some pics of our Nandina.... the first hint of a still distant fall.

The Two Stooges

A horrible foreign policy mess. A worse financial crisis at home. These are times that require not just good leadership, they demand greatness. Do we have greatness on the ballot in 2008? One of the consequences of the democratic process in a republican form of government is that greatness gradually fades and mediocrity rises to the top in the name of "the common man." Great examples of this recently were provided by both Governor Palin and Senator Biden. Palin has mis-stated (I'm being polite) her past actions in her "executive" position over and over again. Biden, of course, has a history of plagiarism in addition to a long history of stupid public utterances. Governor Palin sat down with Katy Couric of CBS for a rare interview (the McCain campaign wisely keeps her as much as tolerable from holding an actual press conference like McCain, Obama, and Biden all routinely conduct). She exposed herself as almost unbeliveably shallow on several important issues. K

Last Two Songs from Zuma

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This Weekend... Friday afternoon our daughter had a middle school softball game. She played well getting a base hit and hitting a nice line drive to right center. She consistently puts the ball in play. She made a long running catch in left to end an inning with runners in scoring position. She made the catch in front of her knees, something I taught her back in June. Fantastic play. Her team lost the game 5 – 2, however. Friday evening I watched Shields and Brooks then went out on the porch to enjoy the birds in our acre and a half front yard. A few cars passed. Jennifer and I talked. It got dark. The last few Katydid’s sang in the trees in spite of their numbered days. We listened to some Coldplay until Jennifer mentioned two songs by Neil Young she had been thinking about. They happen to be the last two songs from Zuma . We listened to Cortez the Killer and Through My Sails . Later, we watched the Braves game on Peachtree TV then I read Proust until I got sleepy. My daughter had a

It's NOT the Lipstick - Stupid

I voted for John McCain in the primary earlier this year, mainly to do damage to any momentum Mitt Romney might attain in the nomination process. Romney comes off as genuine as a wax museum figure to me. I remain undecided today as to who I will vote for in the November election. I am tempted to take Ron Paul's advice and vote for some third party candidate. But today the McCain campaign pissed me off. By disingenuiously attempting to frame a very common political expression as a personal attack by Barack Obama on Sarah Palin, McCain lost points with me and, I hope, every thinking American. I found Obama's response to be appropriate today as he spoke in Virginia... "Some of you may have -- I'm assuming you guys have heard this, watching the news. I'm talking about John McCain's economic politics, I say, "This is more of the same, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig." "And suddenly they say, "Oh, you must be talking about

Tin Soldiers and Nixon coming...

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Well, I told several people that Hillary would be the Democratic nominee and probably our next president. I was wrong. It is an amazing election year - by any measure. I may be wrong about this as well but when the hell did that stop me... Whoever wins Ohio is the next president of the United States. Or Pennsylvania. Or maybe it's going to be Florida that makes the difference again. Boy! This is looking pretty close since the Palin bounce outbounced the Obama bounce. The latest polling data is here. And here's a "real time" polling summary...