WHEW!

It is 73 degrees, and 5:33 am. Patrick and Junior are downstairs asleep and Boarder is in Rm#4.

Here is Junior's record thus far, in terms of awards at the Car Shows for the 2002 Pontiac Trans Am:

1. May 17 2008 Cruise-In Syracuse, IN ................. 2nd In Class(1985-Present)
2. June 14 2008 Paradise Park Wabash, IN ......... None
3. June 20 2008 Heritage Days Huntington, IN ... None
4. June 21 2008 Laketonian Days Laketon, IN .... Top Choice
5. June 27 2008 Cruisin Matter Marion, IN ............ Top 50
6. June 28 2008 Cruisin Matter Marion, IN ............. Best in Class(2000-Present)
7. June 28 2008 Pioneer Days Lagro, IN. (Not eligible for Judging)

8.July 5 2008 Lakeside Warsaw, IN.................... Top 75

9. July 6 2008 Festival Warren, IN........................(Not judged)

Bits and Pieces:

The whole world is not out to get you, even if it seems that way. In actuality the whole world could care less what happens to you.

FROM THE PATRIOT POST:

CAMPAIGN WATCH

“Being shot down may not qualify one to be president, as retired Gen. Wesley Clark infamously said recently.

But what men do under fire might tell us about the character we may discover in a president.

Clark’s precise words, aimed at undermining John McCain’s executive experience, were: ‘I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.’ In fairness, Clark also praised McCain’s heroism, saying that he honored his service as a prisoner of war and even that ‘he was a hero to me.’

Predictably, Republicans were outraged and Democrats were outraged at the GOP’s outrage.

For his part, Barack Obama performed the political minuet of condemn ‘n’ distance. He condemned the remarks and distanced himself from his surrogate/general...

Clark misses the point of McCain’s story. McCain isn’t a hero because he was tortured. He’s a hero because he declined an offer by his captors to be released, refusing to leave his fellow Americans behind. It may not take much effort to get shot down, but it must take a considerable act of will to consign oneself to more deprivation and torture. It must take a level of courage unknown to most to place concern for others above one’s own interest. Surely self-sacrifice, courage and loyalty figure somewhere in the calculus for selecting a president.

We can make no similar analysis of Obama, since he hasn’t fought in any wars in his lifetime. But we have been given a glimpse at how Obama responds to external pressures and where he draws the line on loyalty and self-sacrifice. When it comes to family and friends, it seems Obama is first a survivalist...

Clark is right that getting shot down doesn’t qualify one to be commander in chief. But it is relevant to wonder with whom one would rather share a foxhole.” —Kathleen Parker

More later.

gogators