I’m running down Route 14, which is along movie western shore of Seneca Lake. No major towns along 14 that you’ve ever heard of except for perhaps Watkins Glen, site of many races. NASCAR comes here a couple times a year.
The really big attraction for the neighborhood is the wineries. There are perhaps a hundred ten different small wineries around the lake. Better than half of them are along the Western shore that I’m running along now, along with one hot dog stand that amusingly calls itself a “Finger Lakes Weinery.”
It’s about 230 quarter to 3 in the morning. And this road tends to get a little more lonely at this hour. Certainly it’s a beautiful vista as you drive along the western shore, and look across to the Eastern Shore and the land behind. It’s a big wide valley this. this is a trip that I make perhaps twice a week.
At this hour you’re not going to see you very much in terms of traffic unless you count the deer. The skunks. The possums. The occasional Fox.
There’s usually a fair about of truck traffic on this little two lane. Not only are the small towns along here being served, but route 14 also serves as among other things , a nice little short cut to the east side of Rochester from New York’s southern tier expressway, route 17, or as it is coming to be known interstate 86.
There’s also a fair number of Amish along this stretch. They have their farms and their lives. There is a manufacturing facility that many of them are employed at about half way down 14 here. They manufacture things like sheds and such, which is pretty well ideal for the Amish craftsmen .
It’s always amazed me, the Amish coexisting with the wineries in the neighborhood. Of course then to there are a large number of Amish along Route 15 in Perry County, PA, along the shores of the Susquehanna. And that particular stretch of road has more in the way of chicle joints, x-rated book stores, swap clubs, and so on that I have seen anywhere outside of Times Square in the seventies.
That just seems all the more intriguing as we watch the reaction of Muslims to far smaller cultural impositions on what they consider their territory.
I had a nice extended weekend I with my wife and two boys. And now I’m back out doing my job which is essentially to drive around in circles. Welcome to my world.
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McPhillips makes the point the other day that the Clinton’s historically have always been rather smart about security. They know what they need to keep under wraps, and what to allow to leak for their own benefit.
As an example, when Whitewater and Foster at all arrived on the scene, we see published the shots of Hillary in a pink dress baking cookies. Remember that?
Information management and more specifically image management has always been do their thing.
With that in mind, Martin points out that it seems rather strange, the Clintons putting up their own mail server, and not understanding is that it will be a free-for-all in terms of obtaining classified information from said server.
I tend to agree. Given what we know of their history, how could they not know what was going on? At the very least, she knew it was against the rules.
Now, granted that we have the image of a woman who is for all intents and purposes claiming that she can’t handle more than one account mail account on her Blackberry, so incredibly electronically inept is she. But I have to tell you that when I heard her making that claim, all I could see was that damned pink dress.
Now we find out that the Clintons have this shell corporation based in Delaware apparently created for the sole purpose of issuing payments to Bill. This is exactly the kind of thing that Hillary excoriated Mitt Romney for, back about the same time that she was raising serious questions about the whole Barack Obama birth certificate thing.
It must be said that any person or group that valued honesty and integrity at least, would have rejected a Hillary Clinton out of hand. Is that she is the Democrat frontrunner for the nomination for President of the United States is a suggestion that the Democrat Party is not such a group.
I am still optimistic enough about our country and our society to consider that there are enough people who can still vote for honesty and integrity where they find it, and against the lack of it.
On that basis we could easily aver that Hillary Clinton doesn’t stand a chance of being elected president.
Then, too, consider the idea that it takes Bernie Sanders to make Hillary Clinton look like a moderate. And frankly, I don’t know which of the two scares me more. But I will tell you what scares me more than either one of them. That there are a large number of Americans who actually support either one of them.
Large enough to get one of them elected? That comes down to who it is the GOP manages to nominate.
As I have said previously many times, it comes down to the GOP actually nominating a conservative ticket. Genuine constitutional conservatism with a very healthy streak of honesty and integrity. Such an ticket would draw out the individuals who haven’t been voting, for lack of somebody to vote for. After 8 years of obama, as a threat of the Clinton’s returning the power, such a ticket would make Reagan’s to landslides look miniscule by comparison I should think.
Thing is, I wonder if the GOP is up to that game.