Cold Windy November Night

The title says it all. It is down to 11 degrees tonight and we are getting our usual evening howling winds. Sometime in the next several days the first snow is supposed to fall, but so far nothing has happened. For some lighter stuff, a flamingo the other day at the city zoo got enough growth in his clipped wings and flew away from the flamingo pen and landed at the nearby public golf course, where he walked around the links for a while till he was cornered and put back in his pen at the zoo. A lady driving north of Ames the other morning got distracted and drove her car into the back of a rendering company truck. She was not hurt but has inspired jokes about driving her car into a dead wagon truck or a guts truck. Anyway it was a very messy stinken situation. The stock market today fell to 7,555, the lowest average since March of 03. And national unemployment is at 6%. The 3 big auto corporations sent their head honchos to Congress the other day to ask for money to stay in operation, but today they were turned down till they came up with plans to reform their companies. The media spotlight has been on the fact that the big guys all flew to DC in their very expensive private jets. O is picking his cabinet, with HRC probably getting Sec of State. The others all are Clinton relics, who may be very smart but all are DC wheeler dealers, with things they have done that should be explained. The First Lady of Iowa, Mrs. Culver, Confessed today that she had broken the law by smoking a cig in a state limo. Someone had seen her doing it, and snitched to the state health gestapo. I think this is going to be all for right now. The carmakers' crisis is what has been all over the news the last few days, and the ongoing Wall Street crashing. There are a few financial "experts" who are showing up in public claiming than things are going to get much better by late '09. We will see. You all take care in this frigid climate. Di di mau!