Posted By Russ Emerson on January 20, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Steve H. Graham:
America didn’t want a leader who believed in tried and true ideas (not that John McCain fit this description well). America wanted a flashy rock star. And that’s what we got. We got a young man who thinks the young have all the answers and that the old are stupid. He’s wrong, and unless he changes his philosophy, we are going to reap a harvest of misery from the implementation of his bad, discredited leftist ideas.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on January 19, 2009 at 5:45 pm
In the past few days we’ve had nightly low temperatures in the single digits, but there’s been no precipitation.
That’s due to change tonight, as we’re expecting a snowfall starting tonight and running into the morning. I’ve heard we’re to expect a whopping great two to four inches. That should be enough to hide the disgraceful state of my lawn.
Today being Monday, the first day of my “weekend,” I headed out to do a couple of my regular tasks — gas and groceries. Since I telecommute, I only have to gas up the pickup about every six to eight weeks, but this was the week.
You’d have thought the apocalypse was upon us, instead of a winter storm. The local gas station was a madhouse. The grocery store parking lot was, well, another madhouse. As I sat in the pickup lane (I order online — and today I was really grateful for that service) I couldn’t help but notice some of the cartloads of items people were wheeling out, presumably in preparation for the 2-4″ whiteout. One fellow, for instance, had a cart full of nothing but bottled water.
Another small family unit had a full load of… frozen food. Perhaps you’ll pardon me for pointing out that frozen food is precisely the wrong thing to stock up on in anticipation of a power outage. The cart was full to overflowing, so that the two kids had been drafted into carrying 12-packs of toilet paper.
I swear, you’d think people here had never seen snow before. Which is sort of funny, considering the number of yankees who’ve relocated here to North Carolina in recent years.
I’ll be staying off the roads tomorrow. If you think the shopping habits are bizarre, you should see the driving. Egads. At least I have sense enough to know I can’t drive well on snow or ice.
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