I am just plain tired of it being cold.  The temperatures in Chicago have been 20 degrees or more below normal.  I haven’t been able to walk at lunch.  I know, just whining, but it really puts a damper on activities.  I really don’t like bringing Glenn out in -5 degree (air temperature) weather. 

In other news, man, groceries and gas are getting expensive.  They just keep creeping up.  Between groceries and gas over $3.15 a gallon in February, inflation is pretty bad.  I shudder to think what gas will cost like when the ‘summer’ blend starts selling.  I think we will see over $4.00 a gallon this year.  I find it very tricky that the Fed does not include Food or Fuel in the core inflation rate.  Hello, most of your disposable income is spent on those two items.  I am not buying a car or refrigerator every week.  Very dishonest if you ask me.

Speaking of dishonest, I wonder how much longer we will occupy Iraq and Afghanistan?  If McCain gets into power, we are looking at 100 to 150 years.  Just what we needed. Some people say military spending boosts the economy, but as Dwight Eisenhower said:

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way
of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

And this is a Republican talking here, and more importantly, a general.  Not just any general, the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe in WWII.  The man who planned and executed D day for goodness sake.  He probably commanded the largest army in the history of humanity, yet he still warned against wasting money on war. He warned us about this in 1953.  Is is more true now then ever.