Last evening as I sat with grandson in arms gooing and oogleing, my wife made the comment that it was going to get cold again this weekend. Now my wife thinks cold on the weekends is a personal affront to her happy enjoyment of her non-income producing time. Keeping in mind that I didn’t recall [...]

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I was thinking back to my start at blogging and how it was the first time I was ever able to “do” morning pages. In the past few months I seem to have lost that direction(?). I have begun to spend more time wandering the random web than polishing my dreaming stones…I need to get [...]

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I watched and listened to this as it was given on Tuesday. It wasn’t until today that I actually read it…I find myself even more encouraged than I was with the first hearing. I foresee the American people will be inspired to greatness once again. Maybe, just maybe, our leaders will be inspired by our [...]

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Already in free fall, the price of oil could soon push much lower as the effects of a global recession take hold.
Crude fell $3.12, or 6.7%, to settle at $43.67 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday. Many oil-industry insiders and traders now say prices could slump much lower, into the $30s, [...]

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For the first time in the back half of the year it really does feel like autumn this morning…We are even feeling like the mountains I long for…

Alvin, TX

55.0 °F / 12.8 °C
Clear

Boone, NC

51.7 °F / 10.9 °C
Drizzle

Floyd, VA

53.4 °F / 11.9 °C
Overcast

What a way to wake up. Considering [...]

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Pardon the parsity of the recent posts. I find myself in that strange world of being in between. After thirty-five years at the same company (yes, most of my co-workers weren’t even born when I started), I find my skills and knowledge not as welcome as they were. Management changes have left me “out of [...]

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From the papers and email…
Paul C. Light – Can’t-Do Government – washingtonpost.com
The next president will inherit what Alexander Hamilton called a “government ill executed.”
Now that’s a legacy, George…
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$6.64 for gas? That’s what $200 crude will bring, Rice U. finds | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
If oil reaches $200 a barrel as some analysts have said it [...]

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Paul Krugman has an informative column up today…
Contrary to popular belief, the stock market crash of 1929 wasn’t the defining moment of the Great Depression. What turned an ordinary recession into a civilization-threatening slump was the wave of bank runs that swept across America in 1930 and 1931.
This banking crisis of the 1930s showed [...]

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