SOME NEEDS

We are in camp in Northern Michigan.
We have wireless internet in camp and a laptop.

Times have surely changed in the fifty years I have been camping.
The times have changed and so have we.

And it is cold.

Last night it was frostie, near mid thirties.
Tonight is sposed to be about the same.

Wife is asleep.
English bulldog, Sophie Matilda, is asleep.

I am at the dining table. A Northern sky is ‘shining’ without; a glass of JD is at hand; it is late and I am finally able to get a few ideas together and put them into some sort of order.

Today we arranged to pick up our boat form winter storage.
We greeted dear friends from ‘downstate’.

We mowed lawns and grocery shopped and savored the air and the environment of The North. The French would say…I think…the milieu.

Upper case French is deliberate. I am giving it/them the benefit of the doubt that they will behave as a sensible nation/people. We’ll see.

Anyway, we are ensconced in our Northern Camp, in the dead of a Northern Night, writing on a brand-new laptop accessing the miracle of wireless computer communication.

How sweet it is.

Back to the theme.

Needs.

An annotated (modestly) list:

We need to vote for McCain. He and the two dems are flawed. He is the less flawed. He will do the least damage to the Republic. He may not do any damage.

b.o. and hillary are, forgive me, losers. Of the two, b.o. is the least desireable. He is the loosest cannon, the most unpredictable. She is more predictable, safer, but an embarrassment, a leader who is most ecomomical with the truth, a leader who is not a safeguarder [a word?] of our traditions, our culture, our truths.
And, do not ever forget as we move toward the fall, that we need McCain to appoint responsible Justices to the US Supreme Court.

We also need to keep bill out of the White House. We do not need bill in there again.

We also need to cross the ‘tipping point’ of the energy debate.

As we drove North a few days ago, we were involved with gas at ca. $3.85/gallon.

Today we saw gas at $4.00+ a gallon.

When the cost reaches $6 or $7 or, God forbid, even higher amounts, a tipping point will be reached.

The greens and the national dems and other moronic, misinformed ‘leaders’ of our Republic will be put off to the side. The algores will find that their counsels will no longer command the attention they now do.

We need to drill, off our coasts, in the oil fields of Alaska and wherever else there is oil.

We need to exploit the oil sands, those deposits where oil is held within the soil.

We need to exploit our vast reserves of coal.

We need to put massive efforts into wind power; nuclear power; and all other kinds of power that will make ‘hat-in-hand’ trips to arab chiefs a thing of the past.

We do NOT need to tell Americans that the world will not long tolerate Americans running AC and driving family-sized cars.
What a pile of bs.

I could go on, but the big need can be summed up by saying we have to toss the greens. They have had their time. They need to go. It is time.

We need to act as tho we are in a war, a struggle, with really big-time enemies.

Because we are in just such a struggle.

b.o. and hillary cannot do the job. Maybe McCain cannot either, but he is the best bet, our only best bet.

He is not Ronald Reagan, God bless him.

And it is my belief that the barbarians just maybe will be a little afraid of him.
They will NOT be afraid of b.o.
hillary probably will not scare a barbarian either.

The barbarians will not fear b.o. or hillary anywhere nearly as much as McCain.

b.o. does not see Iran or Syria as threats. He feels they are ‘small’ countries.

He does not understand the delicacy of the relationships between the nations of all the various regions of the world.
He has advisors who do, but the barbarians will key off the man, or the woman.

These are serious times, and many of us are not sufficiently aware.

It is late.

More later.

Northern Michigan is a Godsend.