Jen and I arrived back in Winchester today. I wasn’t as excited as I usually am for some reason. Probably because I’m more or less unemployed and I don’t know when that will change. Hopefully something comes up before too long.
Other than my hesitance, it’s really good to be back. Today was a fantastic fall day in Ohio…leaves on the ground, sunny sky, and a perfect 72 degrees. Some of my nieces were running around the yard along with their little brother (my only nephew *sniff, sniff*). It was fun to see them enjoying life.
Here are a few pics from the day with my experimental shooting technique…
Erin
Hannah
Will
Peter Schramm of No Left Turns posted a message over at NRO Battlegrounders. His article was dead on to what I think about the Ohio election. I’ve never thought that Ohio was a “battleground state” but MSM seems to think so. Here it is in his words (you can read the whole thing here):
“Bush is doing much better in Ohio than the MSM gives him credit for; the MSM are spinning. And this explains why Bush was able to stay away from the state for ten days; he has a chance to take Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and still hold Ohio. . . .First, Ohio is very much of a GOP state, it is not a swing state; the Democratic party is hardly to be found; and there is no interesting state-wide Demo candidate running for any position that in any way will help Kerry; Voinovich will be re-elected with about 63% of the vote. Second, the social-moral issues (gay marriage, abortion) and security concerns have a huge impact in Ohio, especially among women and African-Americans. This is even reflected in nation-wide polls. Kerry cannot break even with Bush with female voters; he needs to get at least 10% more of them than Bush and Bush will pick up about 13% of the black vote. Third, only fools will think that the roughly 800,000 newly registered voters are all going for Kerry; they will end up breaking about 50-50; pay attention to the large number of voters the GOP has registered, these guys have not been napping for the last five months; there are new voters in rural counties too, they’re not all up in Cuyahoga County. Fourth, Bush will get a much larger percentage of Independents than some folks think. Fifth, there is no enthusiasm for Kerry, even among his supporters. Nobody likes this guy, and his wife seems to justify the worst tendencies of the French Revolution; it is impossible for people to envision her in the White House as first lady.”
Outsourcing is a hot topic in this years election. What a lot of people don’t realize is that outsourcing is GOOD for the economy. I’ve been looking for an article about this and today I found one on CNET (particularly with regards to technology). Here’s an excerpt:
“For every dollar spent on outsourcing, the U.S. economy receives $1.12 to $1.14 in return, according to estimates by international consultancy McKinsey. Even if the highest offshore labor estimates hold true–such as Forrester Research’s widely published prediction that 3.3 million service industry jobs will move to other countries in the next 15 years–that number would represent only 2 percent of total U.S. employment today, according to Gary Endelman, a lawyer at BP America.
“As economists around the world have been pointing out, outsourcing makes businesses more competitive; increases their exports and their profits; and places more investable surpluses in their hands, which can be deployed to create more jobs,” Prime Minister Vajpayee said in his speech. “The world has spent the last decade trying to make sensible economics prevail over the temptation for short-term political gains.”
Economists in the United States note that far more jobs have been cut as a result of improved productivity, a weak economy and domestic corporate restructuring than have been lost to foreign outsourcing.
“In the current hysteria about offshore outsourcing, productivity unfortunately is seen in some circles as a four-letter word,” the American Electronics Association said in a March report. “The concern about offshoring is very similar to the concerns during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United States that Japan was going to become the dominant economic and high-technology power of the world. It didn’t happen.”"
You can read the full article here:
Offshoring
Sorry Mr. Kerry…three strikes and you’re OUT!
First there’s a story in the New York Sun regarding Kerry’s “alleged” plagiarism. Not that this is some huge crime, but it’s shady none-the-less.
Strike One!
Second, World Net Daily released a story earlier today which has received practically no press in comparison to the story regarding 380 tons of missing explosives. This story actually has something to do with one of the candidates and basically paints a picture of what a lot of us already knew; Kerry is probably a war criminal.
Strike TWO!
Finally, as I just mentioned the buzz has been about this 380 tons of explosives missing. Two points– first off, how much involvement did Bush actually have with this exact operation? I mean, there are at least 5 levels of command between the President and the 101st that actually was there. Blaming it on Bush is just flat out desperate. Secondly, despite the reports to the contrary , that the explosives were already gone. Kerry instead goes ahead with his ad campaign trying to paint Bush as a bad leader in war.
We already know your stance Mr. Kerry, if you were in office not only would those 380 tons of explosives be missing, but every other depot of weapons would STILL be in the hands of Saddam. Don’t even begin to say our troops did something wrong like you did back in ‘71. They deserve better than that.
You’re out.