THOUGHTS ON A COLD NORTHERN NIGHT

‘Tis late once again as we sit down to keyboard.
And the wind is howling – as Conan Doyle wrote in one of his Sherlockian Tales, “The wind is howling like a baby crying in the chimney [words to that effect].”

40 mph!

Would be tough crossing the Mackinac Bridge tonite w/o being delayed.

We have secured light outdoor things lest they be carried off.

At 59 pounds Sophie is heavy enough – not to worry.

Our several villages were busy this day and yesterday. Lots of folks came North for Labor Day and now are denied the use of the lakes – the weather being too bad.

And we too braved the rain and wind and did our errands.

How sweet it is!

And even North we are aware of some of the ‘chatter’ in the world.
Especially when we have finished our ‘summer reading’ and serious texts for the moment cannot hold our attention.

We activate our various sources and our windows on the world open up.

His Justice Department is going after Arizona for trying to enforce Federal and state law.
Go b.o.
Why would you want a state to help enforce laws and suppress crime.

Casualties are up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We have drawn down prematurely in the latter and have not yet had time to suppress the barbarians in the former.

b.o. is such a leader.

And unemployment is above 9%.
Go b.o.

And the economic options remaining for b.o. are virtually, politically non-existent.
Go b.o.

He is on vacation again.

And he has deigned to involve himself ‘more directly’ in the various Mid-East crises.

Can he believe that he can win this one? His econ policies have failed. His energy policies are a joke. He dealings with the barbarians of the world would be a laughing matter if they were not so serious. He has led his national party in two years toward what we at The Study hope will be a winnowing out for them with tremendous wins for the Republican Party.

We hope and pray that salvation does not come to the myriad problems until after the November elections.
We do not pray for any disasters.

The elections are not that far away.

Let things continue to worsen, short of horror, and then, with the restoration of sanity to US national leadership, let the repairs begin.

If repairs begin to succeed under b.o.’s leadership, he will be given the credit for them by his ignorant supporters and others who may not know any better.

And that would be a shame.