bob, i meant to thank you for that once before –my BnL in the earth-moving bidness over in souf Louisiana loves it & wants one –now my sister’s peestoff –ya can’t win. i don’t think i have enuff flatland to get much good of it. but it is a cool mo sheen alright.

Jim –i still can’t get thru to that senate phone number –the nation appears to be waking up at long last. If you listened to O’s speech tonite you’d have blowed a gasket. “We want EVERYbody’s ideas,: he said, “…but DO NOT bring me the tired, stale, old ideas from the past that GOT us here in the FIRST place!”

IOW, he’ll listen if you agree with him, and his party’s monstrous machinations to explode the global financial system, well, that didn’t happen. Reminds me of John Kerry asserting that there was no violence in SE Asia after his party forced USA to quit on allies in the field.