Odds, Ends and Observations

Think about it, the Bachmann/ Perry or the Perry/ Bachmann ticket is a winner. These two candidates can keep the country abreast of the recent happenings in early American history and voters will stay up-to-date on the newest discoveries of the evangelical scientists and technologists.

After listening to Governor Rick Perry, who took the second "S" from Texas?

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If you think the Grand Prix in downtown Baltimore was exciting, get a seat on US 83 between Mt. Carmel Road to the Beltway starting at 6 am and lasting until 9 am. And you will see drivers taking a larger gambles while advancing one car length. And all the vehicles are not the same. There are tractors with one or two trailers changing lanes like sports cars, SUVs racing down the inside lanes and compact cars trying run pick-up trucks off the road. 

To make it even more exciting, drivers take these chances while talking on cell phones, texting, putting on makeup, reading newspapers, finding directions on maps, shaving, drinking coffee, eating breakfast and combing hair.

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If you're tired of TV ads, try reading; when the book gets exciting, nobody asks, "Isn't it time you talked to your doctor about Viagra?" Here's a good read, The Devil and The White City by Erik Dawson.

When all the news stations take two or three days off to report hurricanes and floods and there are reporters standing in waist deep water and leaning into the wind to tell viewers up and down the East Coast that it's raining and windy, is the rest of world standing still? 

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Are there enough TVs in automobiles to justify TV news stations reporting traffic tie-ups?

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There's too much flap about President Obama. Let me see, could our problems have started with the two wars Bush and Cheney put this country in--remember, "Mission Accomplished"?  Did the USA have a deficit when George W. Bush took office?

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Torture is good!

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When was the last recession or depression when the banks were not involved or at fault?

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A time existed when American cities, Baltimore included, were judged by their public education systems (remember when every Baltimore County family wanted their child in City College or Poly?), by their newspapers (there was a time when the Morning Sun had correspondents in every major city in the world), by their museums, colleges, and cultural activities. But now, the quality of a city is judged by it's publicly financed stadia and it's NFL team. Los Angeles searching for an NFL team, bet it comes up with a publicly funded stadium. And of course LA has no other problems to address excepting the  lack of an NFL team.