What Goes Around Comes Around

I had some "quiet" time this morning, waiting for my wife to get ready. I looked up a balance on a credit card in anticipation of getting gas later on today, and started looking at my poor, held together with duct tape billfold. Been through a lot with that billfold.

I looked in the "secret" compartment side, and it was empty, made me think back to my younger days.

I think I was in high school, back in the 40's when I really started carrying a billfold. I remember stashing a $5 in the back for emergency money.

Then later on, in college, I think I kept a $10 in there, and in the Navy, that got up to a $20. In my Nevada days, it grew to $100, and even in my later Nevada years, kept a "bankroll" hidden of around $500.

Then I moved back to Ohio, and for many years, I kept that $100 buried in the back. Have always kept at least $100 for emergencies, until the last few years when it dwindled down to a $50, then a $20 a $10, and then to a $5.

There is nothing in that empty space now, just good memories.

I remember one time someone was interviewing Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, billionaires, and asked how much money they had in their pockets.  They each only had a few hundred on them, and that was because they were going to play poker later on that night, they generally didn't carry that much, so, I guess proportionately, I shouldn't have any.

That old billfold compartment has seen good times and bad, ups and downs.

I've forgotten, the hundred dollar bill, that has two zeros, right?

This foto says a lot ............... look and read

I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The President's body language is most revealing.

Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama, heedless of the infirm ities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate?
And who is so self-involved and arrogant that he is oblivious?

In my own dealings with the wealthy and powerful, I have always found that the way to quickly capture the moral essence of a person is to watch how they treat those who are less powerful. Do they understand that the others are also human beings with feelings? Especially when they think nobody is looking.

I think this photo constitutes another major Obama blunder. This picture becomes a
metaphor for ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government has other priorities.

One of the major subtexts of the health care debate involves the public's fear of indifferent, powerful bureaucrats ruling t heir lives. It is one thing to wait in line at the DMV to find out which other line you should wait in, in order to begin the process of waiting for multiple bureaucrats to go through the motions of processing your request. I have spent the entire afternoons going through this process.

But when we get to Health Care, waiting often means enduring pain and dysfunction longer than necessary, sometimes a worsening of the condition, and sometimes death.

That's why I think this image will have genuine resonance. It captures something that older Americans in particular can relate to. The President presses ahead with a program that will tell them to take painkillers instead of getting that artificial hip.

At every stage of the entire Gates affair, Obama has provided a revealing tell. The "acted stupidly" blunder revealed that he automatically blames the police and thinks they really are stupid to begin with. It didn't trigger a single alarm bell in his mind as he figured out what to say.

Then, the non-apology apology revealed an arrogant man who cannot do what honest people do: admit it when they make a mistake.

Now at stage three, the beer photo op looked OK. It didn't turn into a disaster.

But then in a small moment that nobody in the White House had the brains to understand, Obama goes and sends a body language message like this.

I think he is going to get deeper and deeper into trouble. He is no longer repeating the familiar scripts dreamed up for the campaign. He was a master performer.

But when he goes improv, as a president must do, he lets his true character show.
This helps widen the level of doubt that Obama is the same guy a majority voted for.
Those doubts can only grow.


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Another article from Justin O. Smith

lotta talkin at pineys store bout thet policeman and thet professor up ther at the harvard university
aat first when we heard it was a gates fella we thut that ol bill gates from thet micrasoft place had done sumthin rong and had bought that harvard university for himself to put in a place to make more of them computers n things
arley told us the guys neighbors called the police cause someone wassa braking the door down n they didnt know who it was
so the police cum n arley sez the guy got reel nasty with them and said nuthin cept they was racists
the only racists we got down here are them folks thet enter the ol potato sac race when we do the carnival at the county seet
anyway the guy got nasty wit them and they thru the cuffs on him
one thin too thet hattie sed the policeman that did it teaches them other policemen a class in sumthin like racial profileing or something like thet so it dont seem like thet policeman wuld be the kinda guy to do something like thet harvard professor sed he did
then we find out thet the harvard professor has a whole passel of degress n is a frend of bama
i guess it was why the bama president felt he shuld say something on the national tv bout his friend even thou he didnt know nuthin bout it
we cided thet ifn anythin stupid was done it was done by the bama president guy sho didint have no business butten in when he did
maybe thet haarvard professor with all his degrees was just uppity bout somethin else