I am bound for the Promised Land

The presidential election is just days away now, and I for one am tired of all the talk.  Let’s do this thing and get it over with.  I spent about an hour in the food court at the outlet mall at Foley, AL, on Friday sitting with Dianna’s dad who really didn’t want to shop and that is why we parked there in the food court. The big TV on the wall was tuned to CNN.  Now I am interested in politics, I am patriotic, I do care about my country and what happens in this election, especially this election, but after watching Wolf Blitzer for an hour I wanted to shoot myself in the foot.  Continue reading

Derailing Faith

The Republican National Convention was the past week and I guess some of the steam was taken out of the meeting because of our national concern with Hurricane Gustav and our concern for peoples along the gulf coast, especially those in Louisiana.  However, the Republicans quickly captured the media spotlight after Gustav turned out to be a lesser impact storm and after John McCain shocked the world by naming an unknown as his running mate. Continue reading