DAILY CHRONICLE #2 VOL 11

HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE

NUMBER 2 VOL 11

JUNE 2^ND 2008

WEATHER; HOT, HIGH HUMIDITY, 73/98 DEGREES

 

GOT UP AND WENT TO BONHAM, THE AUDIOLOGIST NEGLECTED TO ORDER MY NEW AIDS BUT, THEY HAD TO MAKE NEW MOLDS OF THE EARS ANYHOW! THE A/C WOULDN’T COME ON WHEN WE STARTED THE ACCLAIM SO WE WENT WITH THAT OLD SYSTEM, 4 WDs AT 70 THAT’S,  4 WINDOWS DOWN AT 70 MPH! IT WASN’T TO BAD GOING BUT COMING BACK WAS A LITTLE WORSE!

 

KELLY CHECKED IT OUT AND FOUND A LEAKY SCHRADER VALVE CORE IN THE LOW SIDE OF THE SYSTEM! HE USED MIKES ELECTRONIC LEAK DETECTOR TO FIND IT! TO THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW, A SCHRADER VALVE CORE IS LIKE A BIG TIRE VALVE, YOU KNOW, THE LITTLE THING YOU PUSH TO LET THE AIR OUT OF A TIRE, WELL THE ONES IN THE A/C ARE THREE TIMES AS BIG AS THOSE IN A TIRE! ANYHOW, IT LOOKS LIKE WELL HAVE A/C FOR OUR TRIP TO DALLAS VA IN THE MORNING!

 

LOU WATT CALLED TODAY WONDERING HOW I WAS DOING, I TOLD HIM, FINE EXCEPT FOR MY WALKING, IT’S GTTING SLOWER BUT, LIKE HE SAID, THEY CALL IT OLD AGE!

HE’S DOING FINE, WE TALKED ABOUT HIS HOUSE WHICH HE HASN’T SOLD YET, HIS ASSUMPTION ON THE HOUSING MARKET MAKES MORE SENSE THAN WHAT I’VE HEARD FROM THE SO CALLED EXPERTS!

HE SAYS PEOPLE AREN’T LOOKING TO BUY IN EXCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES ANYMORE, NOW THEY’RE MOVING MORE TO THE IN TOWN COMMUNITIES TO BE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THINGS THE MUST HAVE ON A DAILY BASIS, THEY AREN’T JUMPING IN THE OLD “HOOPIE” TO GO GET A COKE ANY MORE!

THEY GO ONCE A WEEK AND DO WHAT WE USED TO DO IN THE MILITARY, A “ROUND ROBIN”, YOU END UP WHERE YOU STARTED AFTER DOING ALL THE IMPORTANT THING YOU HAVE TO DO AND YOU PLAN IT SO YOU JUST DO IT ONCE A WEEKM INSTEAD OF EVERY DAY OR EVERY OTHER DAY!

 

I ASKED HIM IF THE WRITERS STRIKE GOT HIM MORE RESIDUALS AND HE TOLD ME HE HAS NEVER GOTTEN RESIDUALS OF ANY KIND, HE JUST GOT WELL PAID FOR THE JOB HE DID!

 

I’M STILL A DIE HARD, I THINK THE SUPERDELIGATES ARE GOING TO GO WITH THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND GIVE HILLARY THE NOMINATION! BARACK AND THAT WIFE OF HIS SCARE ME, THEY BOTH HAVE TO MANY SKELETONS TO SUIT ME! AND JUST NOW HE RESIGNS FROM HIS CHURCH, IF THAT’S NOT A POLITICAL MOVE I’VE NEVER SEEN ONE, YOU DON’T RESIGN FROM YOU CHURCH, YOU DISAVOW THE PASTOR BUT NOT THE MANY FRIENDS YOU SPENT TWENTY YEARS CULTIVATING! NO, I’M SORRY BUT THE OBAMA FAMILY DON’T BELONG IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH THEIR TRACK RECORD, I JUST HOPE THE VOTERS CAN SEE THROUGH ALL THE HIGH MINDED SPEACHES HE’S MADE AND REMEMBER THEY’RE JUST SO MANY WORDS WITH NO ROOTS JUST LIKE HIM, NO ROOTS!

IF YOU REMEMBER HARRY TRUMAN WENT TO BED THINKING HE HAD LOST THE ELECTION AND WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING PRESIDENT!

 

HERE’S A LITTLE ITEM SENT TO ME AGAIN BY COLLEENS FIANCE’

 

WHAT A DIFFERENT 60 YEARS MAKES THIS MAY ANGER YOU, HURT YOU OR SADDEN YOU, ONE THING FOR SURE IT'LL GET YOUR ATTENTION. I KNOW EVERYONE HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION ON THE WAR AND OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT. BUT, THIS ARTICLE MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, AND I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE 2 MINUTES AND READ IT AND GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE "SITUATION" EXPRESSED ANY BETTER IN WORDS! WHEN ELECTING THE NEXT PRESIDENT, "THE ONLY DECISION YOU HAVE TO MAKE IS WHO YOU WANT SITTING IN THAT SEAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN - NOT IF -WHEN WE GET HIT AGAIN AND MILLIONS OF AMERICAN LIVES ARE PUT AT RISK!" THIS IS FROM : "YOU AIN'T GONNA LIKE LOSING." AUTHOR UNKNOWN. PRESIDENT BUSH DID MAKE A BAD MISTAKE IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM. BUT THE MISTAKE WAS NOT HIS DECISION TO GO TO WAR IN IRAQ. BUSH'S MISTAKE CAME IN HIS BELIEF THAT THIS COUNTRY IS THE SAME ONE HIS FATHER FOUGHT FOR IN WWII. IT IS NOT. BACK THEN, THEY HAD JUST COME OUT OF A VICIOUS DEPRESSION. THE COUNTRY WAS STEELED BY THE HARDSHIP OF THAT DEPRESSION, BUT THEY STILL BELIEVED FERVENTLY IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY KNEW THAT THE PEOPLE HAD ELECTED THEIR LEADERS, SO IT WAS THE PEOPLE'S DUTY TO BACK THOSE LEADERS. THEREFORE, WHEN THE WAR BROKE OUT THE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER, RALLIED BEHIND, AND STUCK WITH THEIR LEADERS, WHETHER THEY HAD VOTED FOR THEM OR NOT OR WHETHER THE WAR WAS GOING BADLY OR NOT. AND WAR WAS JUST AS DISTASTEFUL AND THE ANGUISH JUST AS GREAT THEN AS IT IS TODAY. OFTEN THERE WERE MORE CASUALTIES IN ONE DAY IN WWII THAN WE HAVE HAD IN THE ENTIRE IRAQ WAR. BUT THAT DID NOT MATTER. THE PEOPLE STUCK WITH THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR PATRIOTIC DUTY. AMERICANS PUT ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES IN WWII AND WORKED TOGETHER TO WIN THAT WAR. EVERYONE FROM EVERY STRATA OF SOCIET Y, FROM YOUNG TO OLD PITCHED IN. SMALL CHILDREN PULLED LITTLE WAGONS AROUND TO GATHER SCRAP METAL FOR THE WAR EFFORT. GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS SAVED THEIR PENNIES TO BUY STAMPS FOR WAR BONDS TO HELP THE EFFORT. MEN WHO WERE TOO OLD OR MEDICALLY 4F LIED ABOUT THEIR AGE OR CONDITION TRYING THEIR BEST TO JOIN THE MILITARY. WOMEN DOUBLED THEIR WORK TO KEEP THINGS GOING AT HOME. HARSH RATIONING OF EVERYTHING FROM GASOLINE TO SOAP, TO BUTTER WAS IMPOSED, YET THERE WAS VERY LITTLE COMPLAINING. YOU NEVER HEARD PROMINENT PEOPLE ON THE RADIO BELITTLING THE PRESIDENT. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH IN THOSE DAYS THERE WERE NO FAT CAT ACTORS AND ENTERTAINERS WHO RAN OFF TO VISIT AND FAWN OVER DICTATORS OF HOSTILE COUNTRIES AND COMPLAIN TO THEM ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT. INSTEAD, THEY MADE UPBEAT FILMS AND ENTERTAINED OUR TROOPS TO HELP THE TROOPS' MORALE. AND A BUNCH EVEN ENLISTED. AND, IMAGINE THIS: TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS ACTUALLY STARTED THE DAY OFF WITH A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, AND WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR TROOPS! BACK THEN, NO NEWSPAPER WOULD HAVE DARED POINT OUT CERTAIN WEAK SPOTS IN OUR CITIES WHERE BOMBS COULD BE SET OFF TO CAUSE THE MAXIMUM DAMAGE. NO NEWSPAPER WOULD HAVE DARED COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT WE WERE DOING TO CATCH SPIES. A NEWSPAPER WOULD HAVE BEEN LAUGHED OUT OF EXISTENCE IF IT HAD COMPLAINED THAT GERMAN OR JAPANESE SOLDIERS WERE BEING 'TORTURED' BY BEING FORCED TO WEAR WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR, OR SUBJECTED TO INTERROGATION BY A WOMAN, OR BEING SCARED BY A DOG OR DID NOT HAVE AIR CONDITIONING. THERE WERE A LOT OF THINGS DIFFERENT BACK THEN. WE WERE NOT SUBJECTED TO A CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT OF PORNOGRAPHY, PERVERSION AND PROMISCUITY IN MOVIES OR ON RADIO. WE DID NOT HAVE LEGIONS OF CRACK HEADS, DOPE PUSHERS AND ARMED GANGS ROAMING OUR STREETS.. NO, PRESIDENT BUSH DID NOT MAKE A MISTAKE IN HIS HANDLING OF TERRORISM. HE MADE THE MISTAKE OF BELIEVING THAT WE STILL HAD THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE OF OUR FATHERS. HE BELIEVED THAT THIS WA S STILL THE COUNTRY THAT OUR FATHERS FOUGHT SO DEARLY TO PRESERVE. IT IS NOT THE SAME COUNTRY. IT IS NOW A CROSS BETWEEN SODOM AND GOMORRA AND THE LAND OF OZ. WE DID UNITE FOR A SHORT WHILE AFTER 9/11, BUT OUR ATTITUDE CHANGED WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY WOULD REQUIRE SOME SACRIFICES WE ARE IN GREAT DANGER. THE TERRORISTS ARE FANATIC MUSLIMS. THEY BELIEVE THAT IT IS OKAY, EVEN THEIR DUTY, TO KILL ANYONE WHO WILL NOT CONVERT TO ISLAM. IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT ONE THIRD OR OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLION MUSLIMS ARE SYMPATHETIC TO THE TERRORISTS CAUSE... HITLER AND TOJO COMBINED DID NOT HAVE NEARLY THAT MANY POTENTIAL RECRUITS. SO... WE EITHER WIN IT - OR LOSE IT - AND YOU AIN'T GONNA LIKE LOSING. AMERICA IS NOT AT WAR. THE MILITARY IS AT WAR. AMERICA IS AT THE MALL. MY HEROES WEAR COMBAT BOOTS! THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE. HOWARD