Not a climatically cheerful week this past week. Rain and drizzle and cold temps for midMay, and this afternoon it is very windy. Sometime true summer will get here. If Gore thinks that the planet is getting warmer he should be in Iowa right now.
Have not sent a blog into cyberspace for several days. What is on the news you have probably heard somewhere else besides here. According to the WashPost and Drudge there is a thing boiling about the one juror in the Mousaoui trial who held out 1-11 for not calling for the death penalty for M, and the juror will not be allowed to reveal why he almost hung the jury. I have visions of CNN trying to find the lone juror to get him on with L. King (an awful thought).
The big news in Iowa is that the 90-year-old Maytag plant in Newton is going to be closed by Whirlpool in July, tossing out 1,800 workers. It is a magagment vs. union blame game right now. I thing the company just had way too many people hired, to make too many washing machines the market could not get sold. OK, that is My current view of the situation.
Discovered while browsing the web last night that on May 2, one of my heroes, Louis Rukeyser had died. I watch Wall Street Week regularly for years and years, and got to think of Louis and Mary Ferrel and Marty and Lazlo and all of Lou's panelists as Friday night friends, even if I did not always understand what they were talking about. Now I have Cavuto and his gang to give me money news, and they are good, but do a lot more yelling than Lou and company. We will miss Mr. Rukeyser.
Read in a business magazine the other day that every second of the day someone new creates their own blog. Maybe that is why no one reads mine; We all have our own blogs.
So much news and so little time to absorb it all. I should feel shame in not following everything in the world that becomes a public issue, but I have fallen into that habit. There is a lot going on in Iraq I am not following the deepest details of (split infinitive), but I am contending that the news coming from the mideast is not much better than the news coverage from Vietnam 40 years ago, and they did not have all the technology to relay stuff instantly like we have now. And knowledge of what is going on in China (with the new cold war with them we are into) is pitiful. And what Putin is doing and life in current Russia is not covered at all by the MSM. Gripe, gripe, gripe.
I am way up on my tall horse, so I am going to go away for a while, till we blog again, so you take care, and I will be happier hopefully next time. Di di mau!
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