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Over the edge

After rushing through a trillion dollar spending bill, then passing the biggest tax increase in history (the cap and trade disaster), the congress now wants to take over our nations healthcare, the cost of which the CBO says will be at least another trillion or more. I've had it. I have to stand up for the future of this country and the well being of our grandkids. Somehow I will get active and do all I can to stop this insanity. Medicare and Medicaid have unfunded entitlements upwards of 100 trillion dollars. The Social Security trust fund is full of IOU's from the government because instead of saving the money collected it was "borrowed" and spent too. It makes Madoff ponzi scheme look penny ante in comparison. Now we are printing, borrowing and spending so much money even the Chinese laughed at treasury secretary Gutenburg ...ooops...I mean Geithner when he said we were fiscally sound.
Give me a break.

Honduras

The Honduran constitution allows its democratically elected president to serve only one four year term. It does so to prevent the possibility of a power hungry dictator (i.e. Chavez did in Venezuela) from taking control. BUT, the current Honduran president Zelaya decided once was not enough so he set out to illegally change the constitution (with the help of his good friend Hugo Chavez). FORTUNATELY, the national congress said no way, the supreme court said that what he was doing was illegal and the attorney general told him if he tried to do it he would be arrested. Zelaya pushed forward anyway and ordered the supreme military commander to carry out the logistics of the referendum to change the consitution. The commander refused and Zelaya fired him. The supreme court ordered the military commander reinstated, but the power hungry Zelaya refused. Finally, the military stood its ground, the attorney general ordered Zelaya arrested and he was exiled to Costa Rica. The rule of law prevailed. This is NOT a military coup. The Honduras constitution was upheld. The congress appointed a temporary president until the elections this November.
You'd think we would stand up and cheer. Not Obama. He says Zelaya should be reinstated...well he and Castro and Hugo Chavez, that is. They all want Zelaya back in power. Need I say more about what is happening in Washington?

Ellie Belly

In our continuing pursuit to repopulate the empty nest, we now have two dogs. Ellie was originally with Neil and Kendra (as was our other dog Cima) but she turned out not to be very well suited to field trial training. She belonged to their vet friend Kristie and the idea was for Neil to raise and train her. Once it was clear that Ellie was a little too sensitive to take the kind of correction and discipline necessary to be successful in training they gave her to us. She really has a sweet disposition and we are glad to have her. Funny, Doug and Emily have two dogs, Emily's parents have two dogs, we have two dogs, and the dog people, Neil and Kendra, now have none.