On Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Posted on July 5 at 2:26 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
How appropriate, John, to launch this new blog on the July 4th weekend! It was interesting to read the Sunday Gazette Destinations section where the real story behind the Gettysburg address was printed.
TUSEN TAKK for your eternal vigilance!
s/ a Fomenter
On Is it 'a gold mine' or a fairgrounds?
Posted on March 25 at 4:04 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
It's unseemly to watch some County Board members drool at the prospect of selling out the County Farm for $50K per acre. Entrepreneurs would totally overdevelop that area to recover their investments, leading to traffic snarls, air pollution and stress on water supplies. How about letting everybody win with a 3-step process - 1) mine and sell the aggregate that sits under the Farm, 2) preserve 100 acres for the fairgrounds, and only then 3) allow "green" builders to responsibly develop the rest?
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On VICTORY! What has happened?
Posted on January 5 at 2:20 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Maybe Barack Obama is like Pope John XXIII, who promoted a revolutionary change in direction -- the Second Vatican Council. Obama, with rhetoric and charisma, harnessed 2008 forces that were ripe for exploitation -- an army of new, young "audacity of hope" voters and a legion of independents dismayed by the Bush Administration -- to amass big Democratic voting blocs in Congress. Now, in a narrow window of opportunity, Obama is rapidly spending (or squandering, depending on your point of view) all this political capital on important projects like rescuing the economy and health care reform. If he pulls them off, he'll have his place in history alongside FDR. But he already looks like a one-term president. The fickle young voters and disillusioned independents will be gone as early as the mid-term elections, and for sure, by 2012.