ALAN HESS -> ALL wrote:
 AH> Hello, all,

 AH> Just wanted everyone to know I'm still wasting oxygen.  :-)  Pressure
 AH> sores pretty much healed (sitting time still limited), but pain problems
 AH> and spine issues still worsening (doctors are no help.  Spent a few
 AH> days in hospital last month - might as well have stayed home.)  I
 AH> likely won't be typing much after this post, but I'll try to read.

It's good to see you posting again. Take care of yourself because no one
else will. Certainly not the doctor. ;-)

 AH> I browsed some of my old haunts, and see nothing has changed but the
 AH> president and some Congresscritters.  Names, flames, and some issues in
 AH> between.  The shoe is back on the other foot after eight years, so the
 AH> right again has a president to scrutinize and criticize, and the left
 AH> has him to defend.  I'm sick of politicians - IMO, they're more
 AH> concerned with pandering to their bases than actually helping
 AH> America, or their state, but it's Obama's turn, so I'm watching him.
 AH> We're now on a streak of Dem politicians being caught dirty, or accused
 AH> of being dirty.  Also Cabinet nominees who forgot to pay
 AH> some taxes.  The circus continues.

Obama showed just how self-serving politicians can be when he told his
party followers in Congress that they had to pass the so-called stimulus
package or it would cost them re-election and they'd fall from power.

Like you said, politics is sickening.

Ed

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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools." --Herbert Spencer

"The republican is the only form of government which is not
eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
-- Thomas Jefferson

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