My wife and myself are coming to the painful realization that our current living circumstance is not tenable. Financially we are hanging by a very dangerous thread and are on the virge of callapse. We made the decision a few weeks ago after receiving a letter from one of our mortgage companies that we need to downsize our financial footprint. Ie. Our monthly costs of operation are way too high. We need to move back to our land in the country.

Every office has one or more of these people. These are the whiners, the constant drip in the boss's ear. They appear to be attentive to their jobs, but you find them butting into most conversations and listening in to the others. They are the ones that are constantly seeking "fairness" in the work place. They usually have an agenda of some sort for their personal career goals. They will go to the boss with every little thing, especially if they want the person's job that they are complaining about.

Several days ago Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed several young soldiers on a military base in Texas.  This  was initially presented by our media as apossible act of "terrorism".

Now let's examine that idea in a more logical framework:

We are in MULTIPLE foreign nations.  We are engaged in a declared WAR against the umbrella tag of TERRORISM.  Within this declared war are several identified targets and some unidentified targets.    This has resulted in the over throw of at least two governements, not that they were good governments, that we had at least some part in establishing in the past.  We then established new governments.  We have specifically targeted military installations and training camps, military personnel, and political entities  during this process.  We have specifically avoided the targeting of religious institutions despite knowledge that these locations are where the military personnel are seeking refuge, support, and encouragement.