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Saying for the Day
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein

Picture of the Day
Betty's Grand Nephew visiting from Spain

I don’t watch much television. Usually I watch during my morning breathing treatment and my evening treatment. The treatment is so boring I need to do something and the mask keeps me from reading.
What I have noticed is that I’ve seen so many anti McCain commercials in that little time that I know them by heart. There are four or five commercials every day in just the time I watch. There are no anti Obama commercials.
I am beginning to believe that Obama is trying to buy the election. If you say the same thing over and over after a while people will begin to believe it.
Over and over we hear that McCain has sold out women, the poor, old people, and the middle class. He is a carbon copy of the President who caused this economic mess.
But its not just on TV I am getting three mail adds for Obama to every McCain add and the Obama adds are bigger and fancier and say the same thing: McCain has sold out women, the poor, old people, and the middle class. He is a carbon copy of the President who caused this economic mess.
Over and over Obama is using his economic advantage to buy the election.
And little by little I think I might throw my vote away and vote for McCain. Why not? I have a track record of voting for losers. Why should this election be any different?
It’s not that I think McCain is any better. He doesn’t have the money to match Obama. His commercials are probably on at a time with larger audiences than those available at my breathing time. He is no Saint.
But I have always had this sense of fair play. It just seems to me unfair for somebody to buy an election even if they can. It just doesn’t seem fair.
So it is possible I will vote for McCain. I will feel funny , of course because I fought for the poor and needy, I headed up the Upper Peninsula Senior Council, I called a woman assistant Pastor when there were few woman Pastors in the UP, and I’m part of the bottom end of the middle class ( okay the upper end of the lower class) . I’ll be pulling the lever for a guy who according to all those images Obama has placed in my head is against it all.
But sometimes you just have to be fair.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Poor Nancy she is so upset. She is dealing with the ghost groupies who just want to sit and watch the poltergeist juggle pumpkins, she has Melli angry at her, she is thinking of taking a week or two off and just closing up the shop.
Herman said his vision of the cow on the Masonic building will come true no matter what that outsider Melli says. He is sure there never was a cow on the grocery store roof. Just wait and see.
Meanwhile Mrs. Pemberthy who is very old says she remembers some kind of story about a cow on the roof of what is now the grocery store. That was before Bowen took it over. But she doesn’t have any details.
Melli , who is here for the big wedding got the one local ticket to the piano concert at the museum. She said the ghost plays a very good concert and those shoes can really dance. She is thinking she would like to go again.
Amanda and Jarod are busy getting everything ready for the big wedding and the celebration afterward. The wedding will be at Last Lutheran Church and the reception at the Veteran's building on the Lake of the Loons. If they are lucky they might even get a picture with the whale in the background. Some of Amanda’s friends are doing a little grumbling about it being a non-alcohol reception. According to them you just don’t have a reception like that in Pigeon Falls.

Wrap Up

A very, very good day. I worked in the morning at redoing my link list. Then I visited all the links. There are a lot of them. It will be a day or two before the new list is posted. In the afternoon we went and got a flue shot. I'm not wild about getting shots but this is one that is really necessary.We didn't get to the train at all. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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