Political

Looks like Republican wins (ok, only one) have effectively kept the Democrats from having a filibuster-proof Senate. Too bad that the very people whom we elect to serve us have no concept of serving. It's almost more like they want to be server. I can thing of many ways they can participate in our recovery – like stop flying in private jets, or taking high salaries. Why don't they read all the stuff for Congress rather than have their staff people read and tell them what it says?

Apparently there have been cases of someone in the House or Senate voting on a bill, and not having any idea of what is actually in the package – oops, guess they get that from some of their constituents who vote the way someone tells them, rather than read and discuss the "Voter Handbook."

Keep watching the way things go in Washington, and remember that something was going to change. Can only hope for the best for Obama and his team, but I wouldn't trust a plumber to do my heart surgery. Even more leary of elected officials who have never held a real job for a money making enterprise. You know, one where part of their job is to help the company make money so it can stay in business.

With the election over, it’s time to begin putting civil things in perspective again. Obama won, and we will have to live with and work within that. As a Christian, I am instructed to work with the civil government. Only when it’s rules and regulations conflict with God’s word do I have clear choices to make.

I was both disappointed and proud of my country on Tuesday night. Disappointed that the Democrats were more in charge, and that the democrat had won the presidential race. I have my reasons for not liking them. My pride came in the way both the winners and losers handled themselves. True, there may be some kooks out there, but by and large everyone was civil.

Voting for Obama “just because he was an afro-american” did not make any sense. That was like hiring someone to run your business based not on his or her skills, but some other quality.

I’ll keep watching and reporting on what I see and how I feel. Just hope everyone keeps working to clean up the financial mess we are all in – as a country and as a world.

BTW, if all those foreign countries still need our help, why are their banks and other businesses able to come to the U.S. and buy our companies for cash. Maybe we ought to look at how much we send to other countries as “foreign aid”. It would be interesting to see the list.

Someone is not telling the truth, or something. See if your mind works like mine. They say that producing more oil in the U.S. won’t lower the price of a barrel of oil. Then why has the price of a barrel gone down over $25 since GW rescinded an off-shore drilling ban (while Congress and Arnold work on making sure it does not resume)? We have not produced any more oil – it looks like just the fact that we (the U.S.) could start drilling off-shore had some impact.

I will agree that we need to use less oil – find ways to conserve or better use a resource. That makes sense. When others think they have us over the barrel (no pun intended), they will continue to bully us.

The thinking here is that we need to do our own investigations rather than believe everything the politicians we elect or the major news sources.

Then too, there’s ANWR and ethanol and CFL and “Hybrid” vehicles. Questions flood my mind, but my thoughts can be put on hold – have you spent the time investigating how your energy can be saved? After all, we are the caretakers of what HE gave us (whether we want to be or not).