I could not pass this up…… it was an email sent to me by my brother:
“143 Days Experience”
You couldn’t get a job at McDonalds and become district manager after 143 days of experience.
You couldn’t become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience being a surgeon.
You couldn’t get a job as a teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience.
You couldn’t join the military and become a colonel after 143 days of experience.
You couldn’t get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.
You couldn’t get a job as Director of Nursing after 143 days experience as an RN.
BUT…
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he had logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander in Chief, Leader of the Free World …… 143 days.
We all have to start somewhere. The Senate is a good start, but after 143 days, that’s all it is: a start. AND, strangely, a large sector of the American public is okay with this and campaigning for him. We wouldn’t accept this in our own line of work, yet some are okay with this for the President of the United States of America? Come on, folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol !!!!!!!!!
Not much happening on the political front now. The big bubble brought on by the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin is shrinking now. Looks like the big “O” and JM are neck and neck, depending upon who one listens to last. And it seems that Sarah has a few matters in her closet yet to be resolved. I am wondering if the Dems are waiting and waiting for the right moment to truck them out? Could it be obstruction of justice? We will see.
The weather has dominated the fiction channels for the past few days (cannot call them “news” channels since you really cannot separate fact from fiction most of the time). I really feel for the people who have taken the horrific impact of Ike on the Gulf Coast. Frankly, I had no idea of the population density in that part of Texas before. Sometimes it feels pretty safe to live in the upper mid-West. We have to contend with tornadoes which can level about anything, but never on such a wide scale as something like Ike or Katrina. Thank God the storm surge was not as high as predicted. It was bad enough.
Even with heroic efforts by the first responders and the hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers and just good neighbors, it looks like the task of returning Texas and parts of Louisiana to anything even close to what it was before is going to take, literally, years. And what do people do for work or food or heat or clothes or schools in the meantime?