What a horrible, cynical company this is, with its blatant ripoff of the Obama logo and now using it in a commercial to show how relevant it is to these times?????  The public at large should express its disdain of this and other such tactics.

I inherited my uncle's American flag, a big thing that's seen lots of wear in it's day, but I was always happy to stick it up on the house on the 4th of July and such.  Had it up during the days after 9/11, but it came down--and stayed down, with the invasion of Iraq.

Today, after rummaging around for several hours, I located the old flag amongst the boxes of stuff down in the basement, and a flagpole, and happily stuck it into the porch bracket.  But it wasn't gonna survive for long--

The bush under it had grown too high.

So there I was, out there in the knee-deep Indiana snow, lopping down that criminal bush, and relishing every moment of cutting it down to size, low enough to let that old flag fly freely, unsnagged, and undamaged. 

Happy Inauguration, everyone!

At $100,000 apiece (roughly the current price), times 30,000,000 (roughly the number of cars currently owned), equals $3 trillion.  That takes care of a nice bite of foreign oil dependency and air pollution.  Create jobs building Tesla factories and related industries.

Recycle all the old cars, give the metal to the Big Three as their "bailout".

Tell the Big Three to restructure to build cars or rails for high-speed trains out of the corpses of their misguided policies.

I really don't see why Old Thinking should be rewarded, and New Thinking shouldn't.

What d'ya think????

October 11, 9:30 a.m. Central:  MSNBC live coverage of Palin's rally in Pennsylvania goes from full camera focus on Palin and the crowd behind her to blurring the crowd behind her.  Has someone there flipped the bird at the elite media, that they cannot risk showing the crowd in sharp focus?

This was sent around on a local community email network, unclear as to the original author or source, so if anyone knows the source, please post it!

Subject: I'm a little confused, so...
>
>
> > ... let me see whether I have this straight.....
> >
> > * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
> > different."
> >
> > * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers: a quintessential American story.
> >
> > * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
> >
> > * Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track: you're a maverick.
> >
> > * Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
> >
> > * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating: you're well
> > grounded.
> >
> > * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the
> > first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
> > registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a
> > Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator
> > representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the
> > state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the
> > United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while
> > sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and
> > Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real
> > leadership experience.
> >
> > * If your total resume is: local weather girl (sportscaster), 4 years on
> > the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000
> > people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then
> > you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
> >
> > * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
> > beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
> > Christian.
> >
> > * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
> > disfigured wife and married the heiress, you're a Christian.
> >
> > * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the
> > proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
> >
> > * If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no
> > other option in sex education in your state's school system while your
> > unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
> >
> > * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
> > prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
> > community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't
> > represent America's.
> >
> > * If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI
> > conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age
> > 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska
> > from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
> >
> > OK; it's all much clearer now.