Goodness.......I just remembered that I live on a farm and should show you how the corn looks right now! This first photo shows Corn Street on a plunge downward with Wall Street and the world financial markets! Whoa.......hold onto your hat!! I was relieved to hear that AIG CEO's are able to hold onto their million dollar bonuses even though everyday people lose their savings and pensions. Insurance company execs, too, will continue to rake in the dough while few of us peons can afford health care. Nobody has a remedy for these problems, so carry on, big guys, the world is your oyster!
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Here's another cornfield......uh, sorry that scraggly red vine got in the way! I don't know how that happened.
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And, how about posting some farm news links, too. (OK......good idea, Jeannelle.....do it.)
You betcha......here we go:
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Ho-hum. Farm news is calming.......what is more normal than hearing the droning voice of a radio announcer giving the daily market report. No impassioned Right or Left talk. I think farmers should take over the government.......then it would be very boring, but peaceful.
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One of our U.S. senators from Iowa is Chuck Grassley......a FARMER! Can you believe it?! And, he's from New Hartford, not far from here. Probably farmers are too sensible to run for president,......although Jimmy Carter was supposedly a peanut farmer. Our other U.S. senator is Tom Harkin, Democrat. They've both held their Senate seats for many years, and I don't think I'm too far off base in saying they are both well-respected throughout Iowa.
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I'm done listening to or watching or reading any election coverage. It will be nothing but rotten from here on out. October Surprises on-the-house coming up for everyone.......grab your shields.......here comes the MUD and CRUD!! Go for it, Guys & Gal......show the world how unkind and misleading U.S. politicians can be! And, be beacons of smarminess! The world is watching......and, it is worried.
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I'm not ashamed of the U.S., but I am ashamed of what our presidential elections are like, especially in the final weeks before Election Day. To what can this time period be compared? A mud-wrestling match, probably. You'd better get a good look at the candidates before the match begins, because soon they'll be completely covered. Sometimes I think We-the-People should vote only for members of Congress and then THEY in turn can vote and choose a president and vice-president. I admit, too, that I feel consternation over the fact that a presidential candidate is free to reach into the woodwork and foist a virtual unknown on us as his running mate.
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Yesterday, I heard a C & W radio DJ spout......."We're gonna go to church and then we're gonna go to war!" Honestly......I don't think I've ever heard church and war used like that in the same sentence. It must have been an attempt at an ironic joke........No one who's pro-life would be in favor of waging a war which might kill innocent people in the crossfire! Maybe he was commenting on a song.......is there a C & W song on that theme? I'm not normally a C & W listener, so I don't know........I was in a store when I heard it.
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Hey......if I could......I'd nominate Iowa's Senators Grassley and Harkin for president and vice-president......their choice. They have experience and integrity. No "skeletons" in their closets, that I know of.......No Troopergate, no Ayers, no Muthee, No Wright, no Black Liberation beliefs, no End-Times beliefs, no divorce, no pregnant teenage daughter about to be forced into a too-early marriage........get my drift?? We could do without this circus sideshow stuff. We need leaders with plain old honesty, decency, and courage to do what's right. What is wrong with us, United States of America? How did we get to where we are with this 2008 election?
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Last night I was at a football game........no one seems too worried about the financial "crisis".......I heard one guy say his pension has lost about $5000 so far, but he expects that money will return eventually. As we all know, its best not to discuss politics, so you don't hear too many people around here doing that.
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Here's an article from our most recent Lutheran Witness magazine: Priests in Voting Booths by Uwe Siemon-Netto. If you have time, please read it; the article cuts through all the sideshows and discusses what the most serious issue may be in this election.
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I'm going to turn OFF the comments for this post so "rhymsie" won't chastise me again for breaking my promise to not blog about politics anymore.
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Gulp.........have a happy Saturday!!
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