Difference from Denver

Here's a little different take on Obama and the Democrats in Denver, the campaign will be more of a coronation than a contest; and the real tests await in places as disparate as the Arctic and Georgia [eastern Europe] and Atlanta, Ga. - USA and needing water. The contest in the press and media will likely look like a horse race: Obama ahead, McCain closing fast, Obama pulling away at the end. But in reality the young voters will be with Obama, allowed to be under counted in the polls until honesty[ what little there is] requires correcting the polls near the election so that the results will not show the high priced polling companies were wrong.
Fuel prices will spike if weather turns bad but the trend has been down like the US economy. Despite words from all over of good economy, most of us can see closed businesses and dimmer expectations all around us. Infrastructure in the US has some serious issues and water supplies may join bridge safety as a warning sign that some things have been neglected too long. The good news is that people have seen more than eight years of official inaction from the national government where Republicans shut down so many ideas of progress, is that they are leaving soon, but it seems not soon enough... so expectations will be low for Obama but the opportunities to contribute to the improvement of a nation...are enormous. Starting with the Internet, on to health care, rebuilding and improving infrastructure [and jobs that would have to stay in the US] ; race relations- just stop pitting black-white-Hispanic against each other - It may not be a rising tide, but when the waters have been flat and shrinking for so long- and we are not allowed in the Yacht club - even a little wind blown wave is welcome.

Biden Our Time

Senator Biden has always seemed many things to me, as a politician, he emerged as a leader willing to stand for things that money- interests opposed...the hallmark of leadership in the Unites States now and historically... and he has learned to withstand the harsh winds that blow in Washington politics, the ones that tend to put into one's face...you are not worthy... until the people with money say that you are worthy....

Obama -Biden is not a dream ticket, it has no woman, no southern white man, no one with executive experience, not enough experience to convince anyone that they could handle a crisis. Well too bad.. we are already in a crisis [ oil, a contrived war to create another oil power, an economy that does not value the American dream, American worker, the American family] and this ...Obama-Biden is the team that will win.

Now, there will be someone to answer the phone at Three AM more inportant someone to try to use government between Nine and Five to analyze and solve public problems...

the Bush people were leaderless and engaged in sham government...alternately blaming the people, hiding the truth, hiding their own inability...but ALWAYS USING GOVERNMENT TO CHANNEL PROFITS TO PRIVATE SECTOR FRIENDS AND POLITICAL ALLIES by peace or war made no differance...at this they have excelled.

And it is this narrow partisan drive to arrange government so as to funnel monies that will be lost. Lost in transition to a more open government; this will be missed for the next four years, and hopefully...much...much longer.

The Dead Sea Strolls

There is something wrong with a picture of the coasts of the US, covered with areas of dead water...hypoxia waters ...fancy words for not enough air for fish to breathe... and the solution is to blow bubbles... yes someone has thought of aerating the Chesapeake Bay or the the Mississippi Delta, seems a big storm or two...like Katrina and the one that came soon after solved it there...stirred up the waters to a normal balance for a while...but heavy rains also produce more runoffs from fertilizers and the cars we drive... and speaking of agriculture... now we have to drive the food we grow too, ethanol from corn, oil as the base for the fertilizers ...hmmm...then there is this whole tendency to hide the truth, the big storms won't save us, and are not supposed to... not from automobile exhaust and exhausted soils with too much fertilizer, and fertilzer runs into streams, rivers to the seas; and what about the price of food, going even higher if we deplete seafood and fish by using overpriced fossil fuel to fertilize land to make fuel... because fossil fuels are too pricey...hmmm. You know, this would all be really funny; if it weren't happening...yesterday....