Second One Down.. One More to Go !!

Tomorrow we are off to No. Virginia .. NOVA .. to attend the eldest daughter's graduation from graduate school.  FINALLY !!!  This will be a fun weekend and then that leaves ONE MORE child to graduate. And the last child will graduate from law school the first weekend in June. 

Then ALL... ALL the children will be out of school and I can begin to think I did my job as a father.  The daughters are not "on the pole" .. as Chris Rock said was the true test of being a father.   And the son is not in jail.. the second true test .. according to Chris Rock.

I am going to attempt to provide more insight.. and maybe even some pictures of our new place in Ludington.. as we spend more time across the state.  For those who do NOT know where Ludington, MI is.... look at your right hand, palm up. See where the horizontal crease (the Heart Line, I believe) right below your fingers goes off to the left. Where it ends on the edge of the hand.. that is Ludington !!!

Later... keep it on the road !!

Time to Speak Up !

I know I have not blogged for a while.. since May 2008. A lot has happened... I had to go back to work - part time - because the damn economy is just getting worse.  BUT.. I think it is for the best.

The damn economy was over inflated anyways. We did not learn during the DOT COM bubble.. so we built another bubble with CHEAP cash and drove the DOW up to over 14,000 HA !! All the experts told us it could not last..  SO..we are deflating the over inflated economy.. and learning to live a more normal existence.. such as

• Producing only 12 million cars a year instead of 16 million. Where in god's name are all these cars. 
• Keeping that car for ten years instead of 2 -3 years.
• Reducing the extra workers we hired because we could afford it, even though we did NOT do any analyses to see if we NEEDED more people.
• Reducing house prices since most people are greedy and want their house.. NOT home.. to increase in value. The value is the family that is living in it !!!
• Buying food grown more locally, not from countries 5 days travel away where fruits and vegetables are picked before they are ripe.
• Lowering the labor wages for people who are overpaid on a global market place. 
• Learning to live on a livable age, not an over inflated wage. 

Maybe we will see some stability when things get deflated and everyone can start to open their eyes and see that CONSUMPTION is not a way to live.

All Great Countries CRASH !

After reading a very insightful post on a young lawyers BLOG, I am reminded that throughout history that great countries grow, prosper BUT.. eventually CRASH ! I am no expert in history, but I do believe that history does repeat itself.

If Barack Obama is not nominated as the Democratic Presidential candidate.. and he does not win the national election because he is black.. or someone does something stoopid to hurt him.. then I agree with the Blogger I just read.. it is the beginning of the end. This Country is a great country BUT we have become so full of ourselves that we forget others and how others can help.

The United States has prospered so well that people from all over the world want to live here. We have everything, including high infant mortality rates; uninsured children; hungry children; poor people. The same conditions that Rome had .. and the difference between the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS is increasing. People making $10M to hit a baseball when children go to bed hungry ! CEO's making $200M per year, with four houses, 5 cars, and some people are working two jobs JUST to feed their families.

The revolution is coming.. as I have said for years.. and the 2008 Presidential Election may be the match the lights to explosives.