Great Orators of the Democratic Party

"One man with courage makes a majority."--Andrew Jackson

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."--Franklin Roosevelt

"The buck stops here."--Harry Truman

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."--John Kennedy

"We scheduled this on a Thursday so we wouldn't interfere with your weekend trip to Canada to buy prescription drugs, folks."--John Kerry

Political Commercials

Being a "battleground" state, I will be seeing a lot of political commercials. With time, I might comment about the stupidity of some of the commericals and how the different parties are proposing items that are going to continue to grow exponentially the size of our federal government and reducing the State Rights.

Hurricane Charley and us

For all of our family and friends, we were not affected here by Hurricane Charley (even though the forecast Thursday and Friday was for the eye to go just north and west of us). We feel very lucky that we didn't get the destruction that the people south of us received.