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[Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>]

Lynda wrote:

> And I found a whole bunch of tall tales in it.  For example,  when speaking 
> of his mother, "who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and 
> earned her degree."  His mother didn't raise him.  His grandparents did. 
> She had a college degree long before his sister was ever born.
> 
> Or "my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to 
> middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions 
> because 
> she was a woman."  Well, I guess being the Vice President in a bank is now 
> "middle management" and getting there in the 60s is getting passed over 
> because she was a woman?

That's too funny.  I haven't read the book, so I didn't know the details, but 
all of this is typical political spin, afaiak.


> 
> Or "Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty 
> years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them."  Well, Joe 
> Biden's been there for all 30 of them.


That was EXACTLY my first thought when he said that!  LOL!


Akka, who's playing catch up on email--sick all day yesterday





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My first thought:  McCain just gave it away...WHY?
DH's first thought: Ah c'mon, we've seen the first 3 episodes of Commander in 
Chief (which, by the way, was a great series with Geena Davis as a VP who 
takes charge after her Prez bites the bullet-interestingly, Davis and Palin 
resemble each other...)

I had already decided not to vote for McCan't, but I was hoping he would make 
a great choice, because without a great choice, it is game over.  I wanted a 
good show-a good race.
IMO, he made a good choice, but not a great one.  
Palin seems okay, I guess, I think most of the lower 48 feels a subconscious 
disconnect with Alaska because it is so different, and the choice follows the 
theme of different, but not, IMO, in a positive 'change' way, but just in a 
neutral 'different' change way.  I just can't take that next step to go from 
neutral to positive.

Here are my thoughts:
McCain doesn't really want to be president.  He waffled around on the idea in 
years past, waffled on it this time, before finally deciding to join the 
fray. I think his success in this election has surprised even him.  Someone 
in his campaign actually said that a few weeks ago-that early on MC didn't 
think he could win, now he thinks he can- or something to that effect..  I 
think he is still waffling...only now, he can't back out.  His goal is now to 
lose with dignity in a way that won't be a mark on his career in politics.  
Picking Palin as his VP is the path to that end.  I predict he will retire 
from politics with this failed venture.

Akka



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On Aug 30, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> As it is, I am not counting on SS being there when I reach whatever
> age it
> is changed to. I don't currently have much faith in the US
> Government being
> solvent in 21 years, much less having 'extra' to give out in the
> form of SS
> payments that I'm entitled to collect. I have a very small smidgen
> of hope
> that things will turn around.


In the seventies my world-wise cronies and I talked exactly that same
talk, even fully sober. Today, I personally believe that Social
Security needs only small adjustments to make it through the baby
boomer high-demand years.

Such thinking recycles. We Americans evolve and devolve between
optimism and pessimism.

Part of the optimism is nostalgia colored by bad or selective memory.

Much of the pessimism is because we have allowed ourselves to become
conditioned to dependency.

Those who live according to sound homesteading principles have far
fewer worries than those dependent on government services, food
supplies trucked in from far away, and utilities beyond their control.