What's a girl to do?

The latest critical flap over Hillary has to do with her incredible success as a Senator from New York. It seems that Hillary managed to bring some 500 million plus dollars for projects in New York State. This is far more than any of the other Senators in her neck of the woods managed to get. Somehow her critics think this is bad. Hold aside for a moment what you think about a political system that operates in this way and try to see what this is all about. As I understand it (although I don't necessarily approve of it) this is precisely what a Senator is supposed to do for their state - bring in money for projects. The critics will cry "pork," and no doubt some of these projects might be pork. But I am naive enough to believe that they are not all pork. There must be projects that states do, in fact, need funding for. I don't know the particulars of Hillary's success but I find it amusing that her critics assume she has done something wrong (pork). Maybe she has, and maybe she hasn't, but she has been extraordinarily successful at what it is I understand she is supposed to be doing for her state. Some of her neighboring Senators only managed to pull in a couple of hundred million for their states (and no doubt their pork was as clean as a hog's belly). Hillary just can't do anything right. McCain, of course, who constantly rails about pork, boasts now that he got absolutely nothing (zero) for his state of Arizona. I guess that means Arizona is in such great shape they don't need any federal money for anything. If that is true, good for them. I don't think Hillary actually got a hundred million or so for a bridge to nowhere as did our illustrious Senator from Alaska but, then, she's a relative beginner.

Rudy Giuliani for President, hahahahahahahsha. Tell me it's just a bad joke. It's all beginning to surface now, Rudy's either lack of good judgment or his tolerance of crime and questionable cronies. His ex chief of police, Bernie, now indicted on some 16 counts, lying, tax evasion, mail fraud, etc., etc., etc. Bernie, of course, started out as Giuliani's driver and with Rudy's help went all the way up the scale to chief of police and nominated for the head of Homeland Security (where he lied about his record). Not surprisingly, it turns out that Bernie is only one of several other of Giuliani's cronies who have proven themselves to be just as crooked as he is. Bernie seems to be merely the tip of an iceberg of corruption. What will the good people of Iowa have to say about this "disgustin' development?" You have to give Rudy some credit, of course, for a little Italian crook he's certainly got chutzpah. Voters in Iowa can still take their pick of the Mormon, the ex Baptist minister, or the lazy movie star. Hahahahaha! Good luck boys.

The earth is littered now with the amber needles falling from the larch. The deer have become so brave they scarcely run away when they see me. The wild turkeys peck at their images in the windows so diligently I fear for the future. Our resident skunk digs little holes so routinely every night the ground looks like a miniature battlefield. At first light the sound of shotguns testifies to autumn and the annual migrations of the ducks and geese. Hunters are posing for their pictures with their deer, bear, elk and moose. Life and death continue.

LKBIQ:
"Democracy is no harlot to be picked up on the street by a man with a tommy gun."
Sir Winston Churchill