Michelle Bachmann, give me a break. First of all, relax, there’s no way this woman will win the nomination. The bigger issue is why is there so much interest or importance put into what 10,000 voters in Iowa think. Is Iowa and these 10,000 voters in the straw poll supposed to represent all of America? Now there’s nothing wrong with Iowa but I hardly think that a bunch of farmers (not stereotyping but you know what I mean), living in the midwest should have this much of a say in who will be nominated for President. Oh well, that’s our system, now onto the day.
It’s 4am and I couldn’t sleep much last night. The morning paper isn’t here yet and it’s still dark outside. Yesterday I ran up to Boulder to pick up the vegetables as you know. I stopped by my Mom’s and shared some with her and was home by 10am. The boys were intent on going fishing so we loaded up the truck and headed for the hills. After a 30 minute drive or so we were up at Mt Evans and soon after had poles in the water. It didn’t take long for the boys to start pulling them in. Within a couple of hours we had 4 nice trout and were headed home. Each boy took two fish to different neighbors for their dinner. We then had each guy jump in the shower to get the fish smell off their bodies. The oldest took his fish to the O’Connells. They’ve lived in the same house since I was a kid and I went to school with one of their daughters. They’re always real nice to the boys and Mr. O’Connell invited the oldest in to show him what he was working on in his basement. Turns out he does a lot of wood carving and also builds remote control airplanes. This of course was very exciting to our guy who couldn’t wait to tell me. Apparently he also has a lot of cool guns, I’ll have to see if he has any he wants to get rid of!
The rest of the day was spent with about 6 kids (ours included) riding their bikes, scooters and anything else they could find with wheels, up and down the street. All of us parents stood around outside watching for cars and ushering the gang to the sidewalk whenever a car was coming up or down the street. Mom whipped up some tortilla soup in the Vitamix for dinner and we then watched a movie about Custer and the battle at the Little Bighorn together. Soon it was time for bed and everyone hit the hay after a long day of fun.
Today we’re supposed to take out friends (who took the boys tubing and water skiing last week) to our pool for a couple of hours so their 2 year old can go swimming. Wouldn’t you know it, today is the one day it’s supposed to rain. We’ll have to wait and see because our pool will shut down at the first sight of lightening.
They’re showing the teen curfew in Philadelphia on the news right now. Not sure how much of an impact it’ll have. Also yesterday the authorities cut off cell phone service to a whole section of California to prevent people from communicating where to get together to protest something. The bigger issue here is not why the government (local authorities) did this but that they can! To me it’s amazing that our rights can be infringed upon so quickly under the guise of it being in our best interest. Now I’m not for teenagers running wild in flash mobs in Philly but to create a law with the stroke of a pen saying no one under 18 can be out after 9pm is pretty scary. Authorities shutting off cell phone service to a whole area in California to prevent a peaceful protest is much worse. This violates our right to free speech, doesn’t it? The ACLU is already all over this one. Scary times we live in these days, watch out for more and more restrictions or changes to our lives, they’re coming, mark my words. We’ll be told all these new laws or restrictions to our freedom are for our own good. You can look back through history and find times where this has all happened before. I’m not going to dive into all the particular situations throughout history where “things have been done for the peoples own good” (Germany in the 1940’s, hmmmm), but I’m sure you’re all smart enough to know, these type of things are usually just the opposite and in the long run, not for our own good at all. You can’t penalize everyone for the bad acts of a few. Personally I’m more concerned with our government doing things in the future that relate to our economy or banking systems like limiting the amount of your own money you can take out of the bank at one time if things get much worse. It’s happened before and can happen again.
I had to laugh as yesterday Obama went on tv asking for you and me to call our congressmen, really? I mean, wait a minute, you’re the President and you want ME to call these guys? Do you think they’re going to listen to me more than you? I mean, come on Mr. President, Â you CAN get them on the phone can’t you? They WILL take your call, right? You’re the President, you’re supposed to be the leader, why don’t YOU call them? He did say one thing I agree with and that was that “we deserve better”. Well, finally I agree with something he said, and since we do deserve better, why doesn’t he just quit? I mean the buck stops with him, right, after all he’s the President. Here we go again with him blaming everyone else, congress, the tea party, the weather, broccoli, anything he can think of except him. Sorry to any of you Dems out there but this guy is so out of touch it’s laughable. He’s in way over his head.
Ok this is what you get when I get up at 4am. The misses isn’t down here to keep me out of politics. It’s now 5:15 and still dark. I’d head to the gym but I have some kind of stress fracture in my left foot that’s been killing me since I worked out two days ago. The misses and I really want to get on some kind of program to gain a lot of muscle. You see, when you get older, you start to lose muscle as you age. In fact, your muscles peak around your late 20’s and then head downhill. It’s important as you get older to keep as much muscle as you can. I’m sure all of you older than I can confirm this.
I’m going to go see if the paper is here yet and feed the dogs. It’ll be at least another hour and a half before anyone is up. I guess I’ll clean up the kitchen too. Hope everyone has a great Sunday. One more week of summer for the kiddos and then it’s back to school. Can you tell Mom and I are counting the days? Take care and God Bless,