Calm down, this is just a mini rant!

Super Tuesday and the news isn't good..... I can't understand how only 1% of the votes are counted and they have given it to McCain. Hmmmmm.....We are pretty disturbed over all of this. We don't see a lot of difference between McCain, Clinton, or Obama. Socialists are socialists....regardless of gender, party, or race. I noticed Dr. James Dobson said he could not in good conscious vote for John McCain and I am sure he won't vote for Obama or for Clinton. So my hubby is in good company. I said I would hold my nose and vote for McCain.....Michael Reagan said his dad didn't like Gerald Ford but was a loyal Republican supporting and stumping for him. I guess Jim is more of an idealogue than a Republican and I guess I can be classified the same way....but I might still vote for McCain if he is the candidate. I do believe McCain is a patriot and would be a good military leader. I wonder who Fred Thompson would endorse. Have not heard a peep from him. He must be as mortified as Jim and I are.

Now when I say I don't like this candidate or that candidate doesn't mean I don't LIKE them as humans. I pretty much can find something to like in most folks and would probably go to dinner with any of them and have my socks charmed off. Politicians are engaging folks (.....remember I am able to find something to like in each Junior High student I meet), but I don't want this group of candidates' ideology taking this great country further away from what I believe our founders intended. (Check out The Federalists Papers).

Also, here is another point....just think of the last time you had to stand in line in the post office.... the paraigon of government efficiancy. What if you were waiting in line for an important medical treatment....something that would save your life. That is why New York State docs get so many visits from their Canadian neighbors. The socialization of the healthcare system looks so attractive especially in the light of such horribly high prices, but just because the system is messed up doesn't mean we need to jump off the bridge into abyss govt aide. Looking to the government even more than we all do....is not the answer to our problems. The Cubans I met in Havana thought that was the answer in 1958, but now they rue the day they said yes to government control of every aspect of their lives. Good grief it takes about six months to get a permit for a bicycle....and some folks are rejected from getting one....just because!

On a lighter note......I thought I would give you a doggie report. Sophie is really getting some personality. She knows her name and is becoming very assertive. We are wondering what we have gotten into. Jim said she follows him everywhere all day long and if he doesn't pay attention she will bark. I think he would sell her for half what he gave for her. He says that and then I see him whispering to her and kissing her on the top of her head. (Don't say anything to him about this...he might never speak to me again.) Potty training is great when it comes to winky tinking, but the other seems more complex and we are going to have to get a bit sterner in this area. Lucky for us her output is very solid and small and easy to dispose of....but sitll! Yuck.

The bad weather is starting......Josh flew to South Carolina this morning to visit a company who supplies electronic equipment and then off to Nashville where he will spend the night and visit another company. I looked at the weather map and then started praying this am. I put him in the Lord's hands. Just because your kid is not a kid anymore, doesn't seem to make me feel any better about him galavanting all over God's green acre. (I heard words to this effect growing up and hear them in my head from time to time.) Jim just looked at the weather channel and there was this huge red blob just about to hit Nashville and they were telling people to take cover. And now the pup is crying and having tummy troubles.....