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The news has been disturbing lately.  Our Embassies in the Middle East have been under attack.  Staff has been killed.  Property demolished.  Confusion over who is responsible.

Know what I think?  Screw the bunch of em (Middle Eastern Countries).  What do they have that we need?........NOTHING!  It seems to me that we are unwelcome,  un-needed, and most of all despised.  Again, religious and cultural differences create an almost impossible environment for getting along.  What would we, the USA, think if a foreign country came here and attempted to instill their beliefs on us?  Wouldn't sit too well with us.  So the question is,  what on earth makes us so egotistical as to believe that we belong there trying to force our way on them?  If they want change,  they will get it one way or another.  We did.

I would vacate those countries so fast it would make their head spin.  Let them fend for themselves.  Stop Aid for them.  Stop importing any of their products(oil).  Let them kill each other.  After all that seems to be what they do best.  Stop empowering those crazy Bast---- to continue harassing us with Money and Food supplied by us.

OR!.......Send em some Bombs via airmail.  Turn the desert into Glass.

Thanks

My older brother was here for two weeks.  He rode his Motorcycle here from Florida,  some 11 or 12 hundred miles.  While here,  he went to my Marina and worked every day that I did.  He was in this business for alot of years, so his help is excellent. 

This time of year is one of my busiest times (September thru mid November).  We are busy pulling 250 or so boats out of the lake,  winterizing,  wrapping, etc..  Needless to say, experienced help is invaluable.

Here is the good part.  My brother just comes.  I don't have to ask for his help.  He just comes knowing it's the busy time.  He knows we are a small shop and always understaffed.  He works harder than any paid employee and doesn't require supervision.  We have to fight him to take any pay!

This fall was especially good.  He just came to help and didn't even know that I had just been diagnosed with more Heart problems.  Thats just the kind of man my brother is.  I think he knows how special I think he is and cannot thank him enough for his help.

Thanks

Fired

One issue in the ongoing he said / he said dialog is the debt.  THE DEBT!!!  Well, it's clear the Democrats (OBama)  didn't create it.  It is equally clear the Republicans didn't create it.  Remember,  I am confused.  Here is what I think.  Our government is made up, primarily, of two parties.  The R and the D.  At no time is our government made up of a single party.  If I am not wrong,  out of the last four years,  the D's were the majority for two, and the R's were the majority for two.  I find it incredibly hard to swallow that a single person is to blame for our staggering National Debt.  Not Mr. OBama, not Mr. Bush,  not even the Easter Bunny.  If you held office in the last twenty years,  you cannot escape bearing some blame.

The problem is not an R or D,  it is everyone who subscribes to the party system beyond election day.  Once elected,  the job is to make decisions that benefit the majority,  wheather they be R or D.  What idiot would believe that only a D or only an R knows what is best.  Stop bantying about the word bipartisan and start doing your job to benefit the most people possible.

We the people should have the power to terminate any and all politicians that fail to execute their position in a manner that has no R or D attached to it.  When we see a vote in the House or Senate that strictly follows party lines,  we should be able to execute a firing.  If you hold office and take the dumb-ass stance that being in another state will disrupt the process,  we may even want to put you on that court yard post!

Run for office because you truly want to help the general population maintain an acceptable and enjoyable life in the USA.

Honesty

So, now we have both National Conventions out of the way.  All the guest speakers had their day in the sun.  Alot of finger pointing and blame laying and a talk to a chair and its over.  Whew!!!  The excitement was nearly too much to handle.

Because I watched both conventions,  I am more confused than ever.  What exactly is the truth?  Who do we believe?  Is anyone capable of the truth? 

I am reminded of a game we used to play on the wintery playground back in the 1950's.  Some poor soul, chosen some how (I forget) was to stand up against a little building, facing it.  The rest of the players would make a snowball and on someones count, hurl it at the targeted player.  After the barrage of snowballs hit whatever,  the target player would turn around and pick someone.  If that player had hit the targeted player, it was their turn against the wall.  And so the game went.

Now the interesting part. (The game was the dumb part)  I never remember the chosen person to lie about wheather or not they had hit the targeted person.  Holy crap,  telling the truth got you pelted with snowballs!!  Thats honesty.

I think our politicians could learn a lesson here.  Sometimes telling the truth can cause a little pain.  But the satisfaction of knowing you have done the right thing is very unforgettable.  If only government played the game with the same honesty.