My Life, My Journey

Another long night of no sleep and another migraine. I need to sleep. My brain chemistry has changed in my old age and sleep eludes me. And lack of sleep triggers migraine. And migraine saps productivity. And there is so much I want to do…

The scene in Washington distresses me. I think there are a lot of serious minded people in both parties who really want to do the right thing with this legislation (whether they voted for or against), and each sub-group, including the House Republicans brings needed balance to the whole equation. I don’t blame the vote utcome on Nancy Pelosi, but her speech was an absolute hyper partisan public embarrassment, immature and and reckless. Pelosi and Reid and Frist and Hastert before them are all pathetic.  And all the finger pointing done by members of both parties after the vote, and by the candidates for president after the vote makes me wonder, “Is there an adult anywhere to be found?”

Both parties were laying reelection politics with this thing, and not just trying to do the right thing, holding back votes of vulnerable members, etc.  I do think Bush wants to do the right thing but he is too impotent and inarticulate to sell the importance of this legislation and have it make sense. Maybe in the end it is best for the thing to go down, I don’t know. The markets seem to be OK today.

I tire of Thomas Friedman, but he made a good point in his article printed in the N&R today. We need to get about the business of creating real wealth, not just wealth on paper. We need to make things. Design things. Create things. Build things. And yes, the “Green Revolution” offers the best way to do that right now. We need more engineers, biologists, chemists, and more tech savvy workers, more creative people with real skills. I don’t think our public schools are going to be able to do the job. We need an Education Revolution too.  think our community college system all over the country needs to be beefed up. Not every person needs to go to a four year college. We need more people with actual skills.

So, why did they name it Greenland? For real?

Amidst the fog of migraine and migraine meds, still I know that God is good, and I rest in His loving care. But if he would feel fit to rid me of this personal plague I’d be happy with that.

Joel