[1]Florence, NJ– Eric is a hurting unit, today. I fell off the truck day before yesterday, while doing a roadside repair, and I’m felling all of it, the day after. Other than that, I’m actually doing fairly well, I think. Like any new job, there are days when I think I’ve got a handle on the minutiae involved with this job, and there are times when it overwhelms me totally. Today I pretty much felt in control for the first time in many days.
Since I last wrote, I went to Springfield, MA, to Worcester,MA to Newburgh, NY to here. IN a few minutes, I’ll be leaving for some very familiar ground, in Carlisle, PA. I do have one stop in Harrisburg, but that’s no biggie.
I told you a few days ago that my connectivity is a bit spotty on the cell network and it remains so, and so my ability to post daily is a little limited. I’ll post when I can find a link, and when I can’t I’ll still write daily and post it when I can.
Politics and such:
Looking around, today, I see Glenn saying: [2]
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, politicized science at the FDA would inhibit women’s contraceptive choices. And they were right! [3]
Look, gang… even leaving aside the moral issues of the act of abortion itself, when you have a party in power that considers abortion to be healthcare, and when that same party in power that considers itself the lord and master of all that is healthcare…. does anyone not expect such matters to become political fodder?
Glenn also posts a comment from Roger Kimball [4], which I will echo here:
“The goal of the idea the Times calls ‘pernicious’ is to restore fiscal sanity to America. Along the way, public sector unions should be decertified and once again made illegal, as they were until the late 1960s when the spendocrats got put in charge. There is nothing hidden about this agenda, or rather call it a goal, an ambition, a consummation devoutly to be wished for. I only hope that its lack of hiddenness becomes ever more obvious so that the people who pay the bills understand what a racket has been going on in their state and local legislatures, to say nothing of the monstrousness that is Washington.”
Absolutely…. and the thing is it’s not just the federal government huge as that aspect is. Most of the dollars are being thrown around at the state level. The unions are killing us, people. It’s time the mask was removed.
I’ve commented on the Egypt situation in the last few days. Here’s an excellent post [5] from Bruce McQuain on that subject I comment to your reading.