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Monday Ketchup – 080812

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2008| 5 Comments »

Caucus Away!

You know they tried. Here is the Iowa Independent’s View. What is the next step? We don’t want to wait for no stinkin’ Rules Committee! (more…)

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Familiar and Sounds Right

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »

As a person who has had to spend a fair amount of time writing technical reports in my life, the effort of viewpoint blogging has been a new stretch. I’m used to having to present facts, or evaluations as part of my writing, and not offer my personal thoughts. In the world of blogging, just like everywhere in the media these days, facts and even evaluations are not readily available or must be researched, themselves.  A web search of keywords, as we all know, can reveal hundreds of thousands of hits. However, if we spend the time winnowing through them, we often discover the hits spring from a few recycled sources. We spend so much time looking, it’s disturbing to find expectations don’t match the message. (more…)

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Hillary’s Chat

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 8, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Although I had a dental appointment and missed it, it appears from Hillary’s website that a fine light, but strictly scripted web chat was had. Any public chat is not going to produce the words that most PUMAs would love to hear. We can’t know the details or what is really going on in “negotiations” in preparation for the Convention. (more…)

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Lose Some Gas, Gain a Cat.

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , on July 23, 2008| 1 Comment »

PUMA OR NOT?

Today a young friend came knocking on my door to tell me someone was stealing gas from my truck.  He had seen them while he was mowing a neighbors yard. I ran out in time to see the culprits take off in their car. I called the police – you know, they didn’t pull it off and would still be looking. Of course, in my neighborhood, for my friend to have my back, comes at a price. He’ll have to watch his own back for a while.

 Now, we don’t live in a bad neighborhood, but people are struggling.  It’s a suburb, where all the youngsters know each other, and memory is long and deep. Doing the right thing isn’t always the safest thing. It’s a sure bet that gas siphoning is on the rise. So, a mark on the police log won’t hurt.

Siphonous Interruptus

Siphonous Interruptus

Anyway, later in the evening I went over to spread word of the nefarious deed to another neighbor. That neighbor, in turn, had been watching over one of our resident 95 year old’s, who just went into assisted living, probably to stay.  Her son is down from Alaska, and it turns out he’s having to take his wife into a new round of Chemotherapy, so he is pretty busy.

 So as I said, I went over to talk to the neighbor (more…)

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