Montana in the Little League World Series

Great to see the kids from Montana advancing as far as the have.  A team from the state with a population of 1 million going up against a city with a population of over one million.  Rooting for the team from Montana of Course.

Whopee it's started again....

Actually it started after the end of the last one, but why do we have to start the presidential election process so early.  Buy the time the actual elections roll around I am sick of all the candidates.  None of them seem to be qualified any more.  It reminds a situation where to much bullshit ruins the crops. 

I must have been growing up in the wrong era.  We had a class called social studies when I was in high school and we learned how our government worked. (Supposedly)  We learned about the constitution and the way bills progress through.  Now a days I don't think the congressmen we elect even know how it is supposed to work.  I hear remarks about creating constitutional amendment, congressmen talk about it like all they have to do is pass a bill.  Guess they really haven't read how the process really works. 

A large number of members of congress have not served in the military.  How the hell do they know what it means to be in the service.  Guess war movies still deal with it for them. 

Enough rambling, let just get the campaign started so I can liste4n to every one change their position two or three times during the campaign.  No one ever has solutions just rhetoric.  And god knows there's a lot of that.

Tired of the BS

I see the folks back in DC are up to the normal for them.  Bicker and point.  Seems to be the mark of the true politician. 

lynden

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Compromise, where did it go?

Polarization, that the name of the game. I'm right your wrong. What ever happened to it might be a good idea to look at both sides to solve a problem. Just because I may not like something doesn't mean that there is some merit to the plan. Come on people let's work and think about the common good.

I know retirees that refuse to vote for school bonds to support education just because their kids are educated and the grand kids live some where else. Logic, why should I support public education. Not that it matters if kids don't get the skills necessary to pay taxes in the future. Why should I care. I can complain about other things.

Taxes and Jobs

If no one has a job, how do they pay taxes?

Ever Wonder

The older I get the "wiser" my elders have become. Even though some have passed on, I still marvel at the wisdom they had about Vietnam. For instance when I was younger and in the military I thought we should get involved in Vietnam. To me it was like playing football in high school. Why should you spend all the time practicing if you are not going to use it. Once we became involved and I matured a little more and observed the politics of war I started to realize that war is for the politicians not the generals. The last General I can think of that fought and won a war was U.S. Grant. He negotiated the terms of peace and respected his enemy. Since then it seems that all wars that ended by negotiations of the politicians has sooner or later resulted in a follow on war somewhere else, because no one really thought through the history or social conditions that may have precipitated the out break. I recall when recently we invaded Iraq I was starting to question in my own mind the reason we were doing it. Sure all the information indicated they had WMD's but I still felt there were better ways to deal with it. Granted Saddam was an a..hole, but there were better ways to handle that than with a big budget war. $3.50 worth of ammunition and a well disguised CIA agent could have done that task. How many times has Afghanistan been invaded with the same out come. Looks like we are going to follow history and get out with out accomplishing much except leaving a bunch of cronies in charge which sooner or later will be out of office at the hands of local feudal tribes. That's the way they like it, who are we to try and change it. So as the vets of this war will learn, there will be another one in the next generation to test the warriors. Man cannot practice football and never play the game. Thus is is with war.