Classic Country

My husband's been at an art show most of the afternoon, and it's raining, so I'm listening to the music channels on cable. I worked my way through Christmas for about 30 minutes and decided it's just a little early with Thanksgiving being next week. Then I did some blues and jazz and Christian gospel. Now I've settled on Classic Country, which seems to be the 70s through about 1985 before country went to town with bling and pop. I didn't know there was a song about a 1957 Chevy. Sung by Billie Jo Spears--hadn't heard about her either. She's probably doing the retirement home circuit now--born in 1937. Also enjoying the Statlers, George Strait, Johnnie Cash and George Jones.

Do they write love songs about Toyotas?

Cash for your clunker?

Obama and his Dems can fool CNN, but not me.

"WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- The Obama administration has signaled its support for a congressional effort that aims to boost the troubled car industry by subsidizing new cars sales for consumers who scrap old ones.

Congressional Democrats, emerging from a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, said they had struck a deal on a bill to establish a one-year program to encourage the purchase of 1 million new cars and trucks that get better gas mileage."

Who's to determine what is a clunker? And when they've taken the 20 year old automobiles that burn a lot of oil, why not my 2002 Dodge van that gets 28-29 mpg on the highway, or my husband's 2000 SUV? Why not force pensioners like us and low income people into buying new cars by removing all the alternatives, or force them to use public transportation (which we don't have in Columbus, OH)? Or how about they just force them into signing up for new car loans to resuscitate the credit business which the government (Obama and the Dems) now own but don't have a clue how to manage? Or force out of business all the auto repair shops, auto repair training programs, or classic auto restoration businesses, or all the auto parts and junk lots, the scrap metal recyclers? What's another 20-30 industries destroyed when you already control the banks, the unions, the auto makers, the school loans programs, the entire education business, and can tell churches where they can display religious symbols and what they can preach from the pulpit. All in the name of "protecting" the environment and the messiah's favorite projects. Let's make the earth unsafe for people. Even the junk yard dog can be euthanized under the Obamachine plan--people shouldn't have pets anyway, right?