DOOLEY Observed: More thoughts............

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."-- Thomas Jefferson

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." .... jbd

"When once a job you have begun, do no stop till it is done. Whether the task be great or small, do it well, or not at all." .... Anon

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

Television is one daylong commercial interrupted periodically by inept attempts to fill the airspace in between them.

If you can't start a fire, perhaps your wood is wet ....

When you elect clowns, expect a circus ..............

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

More thoughts............

I just listened to the late news, is there a message being sent here, by someone, and we are not listening to it, or aware of it. England is having floods, Atlanta, Georgia is facing "catastrophic" ice storms, Charleston, South Carolina has "ice warnings," New York is going to get a whole lot more snow.

Columbus, Ohio news did a segment where people are buying underground "shelters" they can climb down in, and the state or someone is helping them purchase them. I thought California was having a dry spell, but saw where there are mudslides out there. It is presently 8 below where we are, right now, and going to get worse before morning.

The good news was a warming trend going in to the rest of the week, which will melt the snow and probably cause some problems that way.

I think I saw where it is warm in Russia at the site of the Olympics. I remember in 1960, Squaw Valley, California, site of the Winter Olympics that year, they had to truck in snow. I remember local TV was interviewing one of the engineers who was working on the Olympic facility. They were preparing a large area, with ice and snow, to park hundreds of cars. Someone asked him what might be the result of the warm weather prevailed. His answer, "Well, we will have the pleasure of seeing hundreds of automobiles floating down the Truckee River."

I wonder if the weather will ever get back to normal, it generally does, I guess. Old people worry a lot, I know I do, gloom and doom, the "old days." I must admit, I have had a tune running through my head for many days now, a song by Vestal Goodman, "Till the Storm Passes By." .... "Hold me fast, let me stand, in the hollow of your hand, keep me safe, til the storm passes by ......"

Civil Emergency Message in Southern South Carolina

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