DON'T LOOK OVER *MY* SHOULDER! - Just A Minute for Tuesday 11-18-08

Howdy Again…

 

Brrr… got so cold outside last night my dog Emma’s ears needed defrosting. (I warm ‘em up with my hands. ‘Global warming’ where are you when needed?) So far I’ve not convinced the last 15 percent of the leaves to let go – so we can get on with cleaning the gutters, grinding up the mulch for the lawn and flower beds and getting ready for the *really cold* weather the Old Farmer’s Almanac says is on the way. 

 

The Snow Belt up around Buffalo to Cleveland, has had its first real visit from the snow “dumper” – ten inches they report in some places. Are you glad you don’t live *there*? We had a consulting client in Sun City, Arizona a few years back and I really got amused at some of the desert landscaping out that way. (They say a two-inch rain means the drops are two inches apart.) But one neighbor was really imaginative in the winter. He manufactured a wooden-cutout snowman, holding a gold-painted snow-shovel in one hand and a sign in the other that said: HO HO HO – NO SNOW!  It stood near his front sidewalk.           

 

Like the old poem says: “Why do things seem sweeter, when we possess them not.”

 

The Union Bosses are pushing once again for the “Card Check” to be imposed on the big three automakers, who they also want to bail out with our tax dollars. That effort used to be called The Check-off back in 1963 when we were living and working in Spartanburg – it was the same deal only then at least the unions had to get a majority of the workers to sign a card without having to have a formal vote – essentially it’s the same deal today – and just as un-democratic. But the Democrat party is so much in debt to the Union Bosses they support it -- never mind the deleterious effect it has on new businesses coming in and creating jobs.

 

Ah well… we’re going to have a wonderful time.  The Democrats are going to give us a short course in why we vote the way we do. Did I say short…? Well it could be four years – but if we study hard and, do our homework, we could cut it back to two.

 

Cordially,

Jack

 

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