Moving Day

It's been a while, I know, but life just gets away from you. We've been busy. And no, it wasn't our moving day. This past weekend we helped move my aunt from my parents basement to her new apartment. Yes it was a lovely early Saturday morning of moving. . . in the Rain. But we got her moved and still managed to catch Conference. In other news, Porter is becoming a very naughty boy who cries when he doesn't get his way and laughs when he know he is doing something he shouldn't. He loves crawling stairs and playing in Mikos food. Atleast we have gotten over the no sleeping part. This morning I went to check on him because he was sleeping a lot later than usual and he was just standing up in his crib. I turned on the light, which was too bright. He tried to turn away from the light and smacked his face on the crib. Sad!

On a different note, here is my political rant for the day. Don't read on if you are not interested because it may get a little boring or you may disagree. Man what a pathetic race this is and to me, I don't believe either candidate is a good choice. And let's be honest, unless something huge happened, Obama's got this one. (in case you couldn't tell, I am for the McCain Palin ticket although they would not be my first choice, I think they are the lesser of the two evils) From a history teacher's point of view let me say this. The two most important jobs of a President are one, to declare war, and two, to appoint Supreme Court Justices. Now Judge Stevens is 88 years old and no Justice has served past 90, so the next President will nominate the next Supreme Court Justice. While McCain said he would appoint one that would adhere to the strict interpretation of the constitution, Obama wants to appoint one who is sympathetic to poor black men, unmarried pregnant women, etc. Which is all great except that the point of a supreme court justice is to be unbiased and not sympathetic to certain groups. I respect that everyone has their own political views but I wish that those that are voting for Obama would at least tell my why. Yes Obama wants to give everyone health care because so 40 some odd million people are uninsured. Let's make sure we realize all those that are included in that number. Many wealthy people chose not to be insured because they have enough money to pay for medical expenses and many chose not to be insured even when their companies offer them money to buy their own health insurance, and some want a government handout. Now don't get me wrong, I do believe that there are many people that want insurance that can't afford it and they should be helped out, I just don't think that that figure correctly reflects what we are talking about. So although McCain's plan may not be the best, I would rather give a tax credit to those that are paying for their health care than just give it to everyone. That only leads to socialized medicine(which I won't get into right now). And here's the thing, I do believe that a person's personal life is important when we are talking about the President of the United States. Your personal life is reflected in your public life. And yes, we all have our skeletons, but some of them are too serious to overlook. And I know my ideas are biased because I am supporting McCain, but I just have to get my feelings about Obama off my chest. Obama is a liar, even about little things and his relations with William Ayers really disturbs me. I could go on and on, but I will just say now why I am scared of Obama becoming president. I don't support Acorn with which Obama is closely associated. Two of Obama's top economic advisors are from Freddie Mac and Fannie May, hmmm. In Chicago, and this really bugs me as a teacher, the teachers make close to 100,000 and don't even work a full school day while only about 50% of their students even go on to college! Obama has failed to reform education in Illinois because the teachers unions are some of his closest political allies and he wants to keep it that way. With as bad as public education is getting, I don't like the idea of putting Obama in charge of reforming education in America. Okay, I could go on and on, but I will spare you all if anyone is still reading. On one final note, I am disgusted by the ads on both sides of the campaign lately, but I do have to point out one thing. McCain's camp accuses Obama of associating with known terrorists and people that hate the U.S., which he really can't deny. All the Obama camp has is accusing him of McCain's association in the savings and loan scandal 20 years ago. In 1991, the Senate ethics committee cleared John McCain (the lone Republican involved) of having acted improperly but he was criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”. . . twenty years ago. Is that all they can find? Like I said, I can go on and on, but I will spare anyone still here with me.
Oh and P.S., I am from the historical schooling that much of the blame for the stock market crash was stupid people who caused and reported panic. So how bout the press stop reporting on the "worst drop in history" and just let it work itself out. If we freak out and tell everyone to sell, then it will crash.