Anyone ever been to Austin? it’s probably the prettiest city in Texas. (of all the ones I’ve been to) As you know I land there at 1 this afternoon and will be back in the air by 4pm. Today the misses is off and vows to tackle the mess known as our house. It’s amazing how fast this place can look like a cyclone hit it. I’d rather be going to Texas than having her job!
Yesterday I dropped the boys at school and as soon as I got home the oldest one was calling on the phone. Turns out it was picture day and he needed me to bring him a shirt with a collar. Both boys had worn t-shirts so I grabbed a collared shirt for each and headed back to school. After school, the little guy went home with his classmate Scott to play at his house until 4:30 when I would be picking him up. The oldest one and I headed home where he jumped right on his homework while I finished up some work. About 4pm the misses arrived home, seems she got off work an hour early. She made some brown rice noodle vegetable mixture for dinner that was really good. It’s hard to get the boys to eat veggies but she’s always trying.
After a few days of no politics, it’s hard to stay away. Our President is still on his campaign tour, (get used to it as he will be for the next 14 months)running around the country trying to set up a narrative he thinks will save his job in 2012. I wonder who’s running the country, Joe Biden? God help us. Looks like the public is not buying his re-hashed “American Jobs Act”. Nice name huh, he thinks by naming it something new as good sounding as that, everyone will forget that this is the same thing (stimulus) he’s already tried that has already failed. He says he’s trying to create jobs, how about just working on keeping the jobs we have? Bank of America says they’re laying of 30,000 people and this is just one example of big companies out there letting people go. Let’s see, yesterday a republican won the special election in the overwhelming democratic district in New York which had been held by a democrat for over 90 years! What else, oh yea, the number of people living in poverty is now above 15% or over 46 million people. By the way, living in poverty means a family of four lives on $22,000 a year or less. How could anyone live on that? Less than $2000 a month for four people! If that number was let’s say, $40,000 or $3250 a month, (which I don’t know how any family of four could live on), over half the country would be included in that group! We’re in real trouble here and all Obama wants to do is borrow more money now and pay it back over the next 10 years. This guy needs to be stopped. I wouldn’t be surprised if another democrat challenges him for the 2012 nomination. Hillary could probably win but the democrats will never admit Obama failed. Thankfully they’re this stubborn as she might be tough to beat. Also on a side note, a republican also won the special election in Nevada yesterday. I think most of us independents no longer believe or trust the President. This spells real trouble for him because he cannot win without us. His base (those who still blame George Bush for everything) won’t be enough to get him re-elected. Looks like this “hope and change” thing might just come back to bite him in the you know what! I now agree, the country needs “hope and change” more than ever, problem is it’s Obama we need to change to give us hope.
Ok enough, I’m sure I’m not “changing” anyone’s opinion. If you still like Obama, there’s no changing your mind now. It’s now 4:45 and I think I’ll run to the gym for a quick workout or maybe I’ll just hit the elliptical machine downstairs.
Hope everyone is doing well, the weather is changing, at least here in Colorado as you can feel the crispness in the air in the morning. Take care, God Bless and stay safe, also no matter what challenges you’re facing in life, keep a positive attitude, that’s half of it, I promise!