Sometimes We Just Don't Know

Saturday May 15, 2010 late

As I sit here all alone I've been thinking / about a way of life that I can't understand / it's so hard to stand up for what I believe in / but if I don't can I call myself a man?

It has not been what you could call an unusually eventful day unless you want to count the realization that our freezer (deep freeze) had quit on us and it was more than two thirds full of rapidly thawing blueberries, apples, peaches and various kinds of vegetables. We immediately began the task of finding someone who wanted to give some of them a new home. By 6:00 pm we had the most of them that were still salvagable moved out. At this time it appears that we have not only lost a freezer but up to a hundred dollars worth of food but it is springtime and we can replace the frozen food. First though we will probably need to replace the freezer because it is getting too old to spend money on to repair it.

Almost two weeks ago a tornado came within a mile of our house, doing extensive damage and knocking out power for about 37 hours. I don't really think that had anything to do with our deep freeze problem but we Just don't know.

To some people, especially on TV, it doesn't seem to matter whether or not they know what they are talking about. It seems that everyone has an opinion and to many people their opinion is the only one that matters. Case in point - our United States Attorney General said, on TV, that the Arizona Immigration Law was unconstitutional and racial profiling but when questioned he admitted that he had neither read nor had been briefed on the bill. What kind of opinion is that??

Whe the democrat's health care plan first came out I wrote dozens of e-mails to, so called, newscasters and senators trying to convince someone (anyone) that the bill was badly flawed with the most glaring flaw being the cutting out waste and fraud in Medicare and cutting payments to doctors and hospitals in order to shore up Medicare then taking that same, so called, savings and applying it to some other lame brained government program. No one even bothered to answer my e-mails but most of them acted surprised when others started talking about that flaw much later.

One of our semi-local newspapers used to have a column which was titled "Pet Peeves". Maybe we should bring it back. I think I could write a book on mine. Until Later, William