A bright, blue sky, sunny morning, but cold, ice on the car windows. Watching the sunshine gradually working its way down the car windows, clearing all that ice away. I think they are still predicting snow on Sunday. Winter is reluctant to let go. Not sure where it was, but they were playing soccer in a snowstorm, looked like a football game in Green Bay. They occasionally had to plow the snow off the field.
Another March Madness and I am knocked out after the first round. One of the reasons I enjoy this time of year. Teams that you have never heard of get the opportunity to beat the teams that you have heard of. Predictions of high paid "experts" are shown to be wrong. All the pre-game rhetoric by some of the best, are shot down by the end of the game. Powerhouses, stumble, office pool participants with dollar signs in their eyes, are saddened. The hardest part is deciding which game to watch, they are, and then, HD or regular. I have found out that if you watch it in HD, you lose part of the picture, the part with the graphics, so no HD.
I had a revelation this morning. Barack Obama is the greatest "politician" of all time. Just think what the man has done, with nothing, well, a wife and two children, the perfect family picture. I'm sure that his "groomers" insisted on that. Just think of all the things "that he could not do," that he did. He has spent more money than anyone before. He has initiated controversial issues, and won. He has emerged victorious over opponents that he could not beat. He has won elections that he could not win. He has had legislation passed, that could and would not pass, but it did. He doesn't think twice about spending a billion dollars to take a trip in his billion dollar airplane and all of its accompanying expenses. Before he is done, he may see our election process changed, or eliminated altogether. He may have come in as a politician, but who knows what or when he will go out, and what his title may be. Just look what the man has done, is still doing, and may continue doing it for as long as he wants.
And in other "austerity" moves ....... vice president Joe Biden took a trip. Joe Biden knows how to run up a tab. The vice president traveled to Paris for one night, last month, and racked up a hotel bill of more than $500,000. Some details behind his expensive stay were released recently, with Biden's grand total reaching $585,000. The massive tab was due to the more than 100 rooms rented out for the VP and his entourage, at the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand. He received one phone call of note: "Hello, yes, this is Joe, I'm in Paris, what, no, they are all here with me, that's why no one is there. I think he's in Israel or some such place. I thought they had that all worked out. Do not let those kids in the White House, it costs to darn much!"
