Talk about hearty, Valley Forge-appreciating farm friends! Not one of our tour guests cancelled yesterday, and hundreds of students, teachers, and parents endured living history in the snow for more than three hours. The morning began with predictions of very little precipitation, and then a knot of moisture hung over our corner of the San Bernardino Mountains more or less all morning--delivering a misty ice-fall that never really disbursed much ground cover. (One of the weather sites has a neat "total precipitation" map that lets you see how much has fallen in your area; all morning there were green and yellow pixels indicating snow on the "current" map, but never enough to change the colors on the "total" map.)
I actually called Nancy Pelosi's office today, to see if it's true that she's leading a delegation to Europe tonight--so she's got to hurry up and get 800 billion dollars spent, pronto.
I'm not a fan of the titan bankers in Wall Street, who wield more federal power than they deserve, but I got a kick out of the Banking Committee grilling the big bankers the other day. Congress wants the bankers to abandon their perks--private jets, expensive retreats, lavish bonuses, etc.--and no one would disagree that belt-tightening is in order if they benefit by federal loans. But Congress has been running a trillion dollar Ponzi scheme for years, with the Social Security fund--not to mention giving themselves automatic raises, lavish pensions, franking priviliges, weight rooms, and lots of world-wide travel. In the face of an economic catastrophe, Speaker Pelosi is planning on a trip to Rome. (Her district office didn't know, or wouldn't admit to knowing, her schedule.)
Get me back to the 18th century. It's too crazy around here...
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