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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
> Oh, and just by the way, did anyone notice that the only president we
> have said publicly that he knew his high-level officials were figuring
> out how much torture was acceptable. We used to consider torture a war
> crime, not so long ago. Now we ignore it and wonder about the
> infelicities of a candidate's speech.

I think we are so eager to jump on the candidates' imperfections  
because we are so frustrated with the last seven years of ignorance,  
arrogance and incompetence.

I was reading about the Olympics this morning. Someone made the  
accurate observation that while we decry what China is doing with  
Tibet, we have a well-known history of having dispossessed the myriad  
peoples who were here for centuries. Folks, truth is, we Americans  
have done about all the bad stuff that we criticize other countries  
for doing. The rest of the world will remember Abu Ghraib for far  
longer than we can try to push it out of our minds. The rest of the  
world will remember the preemptive invasion of sovereign Iraq long  
after the last US military person has left.

My hope is for a president with intelligence, who can speak  
coherently, who sees the advantage of talking to rivals, who has  
insight on important issues but openly asks for input on all sides,  
who tries hard to represent all of America, not just the top few  
percent of income earners. The last seven years have put us in a  
helluva hole and we have a whole lot of shoring and digging to do.
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On Apr 13, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
>
> > > Sent a photo to Don. Perhaps he can make it available
> > http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/cherry%20tree%
> > 20sculpture.jpg
>
> I was going to pipe in with the suggestion to keep the lamp heat in
> by closing the bottom of the "tent" well, but it looks like you
> awreddy did that.
>
> Roy

Well, that is a really big tarp but it does not go down to the ground,  
where earth heat lies. You may have noticed an electric line--that is  
the power that goes out to the outhouse, for reading light and summer  
fan. Well, that line helped me get the tarp up and over but it also  
prevented me from sealing all the openings. Tonight I am going to put  
two bulbs inside.