Well, as I write this, it's around 8.40 in the morning, and one of the bands of tropical storm Hannah is sitting over Glens Falls, and from time to time is weeing rain down on us--mostly it seems to be just regular rain showers, though. The main storm is just moving out of North Carolina, and hasn't hit New York state full force yet. On the heels of Hanna, Florida is bracing for Hurricane Ike.
In 47 years, I can't ever remember my country having these storms back to back to back like this...gives one pause it does....and, oil prices will not climb, as well as a lot of other things..and Bush has rashly promised--coincidentally, on the first day of the republican's convention-- a "billion dollars" to help out people effected by hurricane Gustav....without bothering to consult the National Weather Service, to see what else was in store...now, one wonders if that billion dollars is REALLY gonna' go just to the victims of Gustav, and if it does, then what are the victims of these other storms going to get, now that the republican convention is over with?
I nearly gagged when I saw that people in Michigan--the state with this country's highest unemployment rate---cheered McCain's and Palin's speeches regarding joblessness. McCain says he will put forth job retraining programmes and cut taxes.....so, like then, if he "cuts taxes," WHERE'S the cash for the job re-training programmes coming from? And, will this so-called job training be for well-paid jobs...like these unemployed auto factory workers are used to, or for low to moderate wage jobs...and what about all the people these job re-trainees are now going to be competeing with....realistically, someone's STILL going to lose, under McCain and Palin's plan.
Well, I've yet to have my breakfast, so must gt on---was so sound asleep this morning, that I yelled out, startled, when my alarm went off! I hate the one radio station I get in on my clock radio, it's lame. The give you CNN (US CNN--which is like crap news, btw, not like CNN Europe, you lot have much higher standards than Americans--better educated, too, and don't you think not), this station will go into the news/adverts..then after the news is over..just picks up the broadcast where it left off--I mean, in the middle of a song, or in the middle of the DJ's conversation...what's with THAT? Can't they coordinate their news/adverts right? Glens Falls radio SUCKS. The only reason these people here put up with it, is the same reason they put up with bad bus service and lousy restaurants....they don't know any better, so they are obtuse when it comes to what's good and what's crap.
So, anyway, here's comes another band of heavy showers--an umbrealla day for me...I hate using them...miss my old beaver felt cowboy hats--hands free, and they shed water like crazy, keeping the rain out of your face and your head dry.
Cheers!
