Obama Youth

Should we get our youth to sing the politics of their parents? Remember your history. This happened in the late 1930's. Are there similarities?

Even the VP Choice Knows Barak is unqualified.

Does Joe know something we don't know? Click to watch this video.

Obama is unqualified

Tsunami

Here is one of the wave pools at a waterpark we went to. The waves were claimed to be 9' but I think some were taller. Judge for yourself. It was at Mt. Olympus in Wisconsin Dells.

Fun in the Dells

Here are a few pictures of our family in the Dell's of Wisconsin. We had a fun time, was nice to get away for the week. I think I was waterlogged though.

Reply to Previous Post

This is in reply to Tess Rineharts' question in the previous post on Lake Delton.

If you look on the final picture, they are in the process of driving steel plates into the ground just like they did in the levees in New Orleans. The ground that broke away was so saturated with the rainfall, a gap 200x300 was washed away. They will placing rip-rap along the shore reinforced by the steel plates. The Duck driver on our tour said the repair will be done around April, after which the ground can settle during the winter and he said the lake should be filled then. Amazingly, the refill will only take 2 weeks. As you can tell by the first 2 photos, there is a small creek running through the dry lake bed now. These small pictures do not do the view justice. You need to click on them to see a better view.

My View of Lake Delton

Just got back from the Dells. Viewing the lake in pictures does not give the magnitude of the damage. Here are a few more pictures that I took.

Thought Your Job Was Crappy

You think nursing is tough now…..
Military hospital, France 1945: the flatus nurse does her rounds.

At precisely 7 AM the flatus nurse would commence her round.
Patients would assume the position and one by one, amidst much grunting and proclaiming, produce their best gaseous emission.
The junior nurse on duty would then assess each patients vaporous deliveries for pungency and aromatic fortitude. Both of these qualities were duly documented in a large bound book, kept on the Matrons desk in a small adjoining office.

Accidental production of a solid would result in swift reprimand from the Matron. A visitation far more foul than even the resulting pungent atmosphere pervading the ward.
:: Nurse I. Miller 1945 ::

Inexperience

Here is a small blurb I saw online the other day. I guess experience speaks for itself.

Obama’s Inexperience Tough to Ignore

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:56 AM By: Ronald Kessler

A close look at Barack Obama's career reveals it has been even more mediocre than generally recognized. Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked as a community organizer and a lawyer in Chicago. In his memoir, Obama says being a community organizer taught him how to motivate the powerless and work the government to help them. His chief example is an effort to remove asbestos from Altgeld Gardens, an all-black public housing project on Chicago’s South Side. But those who were involved in the effort say Obama played a minor role in working the problem and never accomplished his goal. A pre-existing group at Altgeld Gardens and a local newspaper, the Chicago Reporter, were working on the problem before Obama came on the scene, yet Obama does not mention them in his book, “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” “Just because someone writes it, doesn't make it true,” says Altgeld resident Hazel Johnson, who had been pushing for a cleanup of the cancer-producing substance years before Obama showed up. Rep. Bobby L. Rush, D-Ill., says it was Johnson's work, along with asbestos testing by the Chicago Reporter, that got Chicago officials interested in the issue. Rush, who launched an inquiry into the situation when he was a member of the Chicago City Council, says he is “offended” that Obama did not mention Johnson in his account. “Was [Obama] involved in stuff? Absolutely,” says Robert Ginsburg, an activist who worked with Johnson and Obama on the problem. “But there was stuff happening before him, and after him.” After three years working as an organizer, Obama could say he helped obtain grants for a jobs program and got asbestos removed from some pipes in the project. But as the Los Angeles Times has noted, the “large-scale change that was needed at the 1,998-unit project was beyond his reach.” To this day, most of the asbestos remains in the apartments. Fruitless though his efforts were, Obama devoted more than 100 pages to his experiences at Altgeld Gardens and surrounding areas. Michelle Obama has said his work as a community organizer helped him decide “how he would impact the world,” assisting people to improve their lives. Yet, in a revealing passage in his book, Obama wrote, “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly.” Instead, he said, “I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.” Thus, Obama admitted that he accomplished little but that he was able to cover that up with fancy talk about change. After going to Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, where he briefly headed a voter registration drive and then became a lawyer. While Obama’s campaign has touted him as a civil rights lawyer, “Over the nine years that Obama’s law license was active in Illinois, he never handled a trial and mostly worked in teams of lawyers who drew up briefs and contracts in a variety of cases,” according to David Mendell’s “Obama: From Promise To Power.” A review of the cases Obama worked on during his brief legal career “shows he played the strong, silent type in court, introducing himself and his client, then stepping aside to let other lawyers do the talking,” the Chicago Sun-Times has reported. “A search of all the cases in Cook County Circuit Court in which Obama made an appearance since he graduated from Harvard in 1991 shows: zero,” the article said. Instead, his practice was “confined mainly to federal court in Chicago, where he made formal appearances in only five district court cases and another five in cases before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a total of 10 cases in his legal career,” the paper said. If Obama had virtually no impact as either a community organizer or as a lawyer, he was even more invisible in the state Senate and later in the U.S. Senate. In both bodies, Obama had a reputation for voting “present,” thus avoiding controversial decisions that could be used against him later. In the U.S. Senate, he has missed more than one in five votes. Only one of the measures Obama has sponsored as a U.S. senator was enacted: a bill to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Contrary to Obama’s portrayal of himself as a unifier, on every bipartisan effort in the Senate to forge compromises on tough issues, Obama has been missing in action. In sum, it would be difficult to imagine a more mediocre record. Most candidates for dog catcher have contributed more to society. Yet with the help of adoring reporters, Obama has managed to parlay extraordinary speaking and political skills into a presidential campaign built on sand. The idea that America might entrust its security and future to someone who has never demonstrated an ability to get anything of significance done is scary. Look for John McCain to begin exploiting this vulnerability after Labor Day.