It's the Great Pumpkin...No I mean the Great Debate, Charlie Brown.

In watching the debate last night my observations were minimal. I tend to nod off with some subjects. Economics, taxes, health care and aligning with terrorists is of concern to me. I thought the strongest moment in the debate was when McCain stated "I am not President Bush". Round of applause.

I was waiting for the Ayers connection to arise and McCain brought it up but did not hit below the belt with it. He is not that type of man. The subject was brought up and we all know the story. We watched Obama squirm in his seat. I have listened to reporters this am speak of Obama's great composure. Yeah, Obama has great composure in not coming across the table and throttling McCain. That is what I saw. A man grinding his teeth and smirking at comments. He showed comtempt for McCain when looking at him. If you think any of us couldn't see that, then you are dumber than you think we are!

This is what turns me off on Obama. He does not show a true face. While McCain brought up the Ayers issue he did not grind it to the ground. The man is capable of that much, he was a POW in Vietnam, REMEMBER. He knows composure and restrain much more than any of us could possibly understand. He also has years upon years of experience working in the government. He knows the military and foreign affairs. He can fix the economic crisis. One thing we can be sure of he will not run a government that is corrupt. Can we say that about Obama. Is that the change we want? Corruption? Vega, over and out, Ground Floor.

Gas Prices Plummet so Does my Retirement

We are seeing gas prices are $2.99. Wow, that is fantastic. Do you think it could be possible to see the price reach $2.50 a gallon. That would be unbelievable. But at the same time I hesitate to look at my retirement fund. At least half of it is probably gone. EEK. I can't think about it.

I can't not think about it. I was going to do something with that money one day! I was going on vacations or buy a beautiful RV. Drive around the country and visit friends and grandchildren. Is this what they mean by you can't take it with you when you go? Now I am wondering if I should invest so heavily at all. What is the point? To go through something like this again. I might not recover any of this money. Though they are saying if you can stay in for five years, just hold on.

Yet this is the chance that investors take, isn't it? We are risking for the bigger dollar. Sometimes we do not come out ahead. That is the nature of the game. We cannot take all of our toys and stomp away mad. We have to stay in the game and keep on playing. Come on people, don't give up. Gas prices are going down, the sun keeps coming up and you still keep breathing. It is a glorious day. Vega over and out, on the Ground Floor.

JUNK.

Why do we collect JUNK? I guess I should preface this by saying why do I collect JUNK? I am moving furniture around and redecorating two rooms for reasons I just can't go into now. In the course of this redecoration I come across a pile of items that I think, why did I keep this? Why is this still around? Why is this in my home collecting dust?

It took me more time sorting through things than it did to move the furniture and pictures and other little knick knacky items. I am a collector though. I would like to believe I collect things of some worth though not pieces of paper with idle thoughts or numbers I long since forgot what they were to or for.

Why don't I filter this stuff out as I am taking it out my purse? I don't know, it comes out of the purse to another place on the desk to another place in a drawer to another place in a chest until I need the chest for something. Then I realize I am collecting little bits of myself that I have quite forgotten and will never remember again.

I believe this is why I remain on the ground floor. Vega, over and out.

As a Blogger I am SUNK.

Okay I stink as a blogger. I can't figure out all these pings, pongs and pac-mans. No wait, that was in my time, not now. Anyway I am going to write away as if you out there in internet land are reading this.

Gas prices are dropping in this part of the world, Deep South. We watch them fall, but everyone is also saying November, December is right around the corner. People will start travellling and what will happen then? The gas prices will go up again! What a big surprize that will be. Airline tickets will go through the roof. I am sure they make all their money in these up-coming months.

I don't pay a lot of attention to the stock market, though I should. My 401k is heavily invested in the stock market and I live on the edge with only half invested in government securities. Still it is money I never see and seems unreal to me. Some day I do hope to have it in one big chunk, but it may become like Social Security and something I have invested in for naught.

What other cheery news do I have? I have a new job that I was offered in the nick of time as my office now is on the verge of imploding. While it would be fun to watch, it would not be fun to experience. Holiday weekend coming up, everyone should enjoy, we in the south always enjoy our weekends but the northerners better appreciate these last days without snow.

This is Vega, over and out. Please still respond if you know how to ping.

Blogger SINKING, cries for help.

Ok, I don't get it. How do you get all these pings and Technorati going? How do you get anyone even the least bit interested in your blog to look at it and then make a comment. I thought for sure I had at least one blog of some interest to this vast internet community but nary a soul has left a remark.

I can't understand the ping thing. I can't get Technorati to accept my blog so there is something amiss here within my settings. MAYBE. I would add more to my blog like pics and content but I am like why bother. NO ONE IS OUT THERE. I think this whole internet thing is a sham. There isn't a large group of world wide people out there on the web searching and surfing. There is, however, stupid me, thinking someone might actually read this crap and respond.

Seriously if there is anyone brave or bored enough to get this far please leave a response on what in heck do I do to get this thing up and going. This is Vega on the sub ground floor digging a hole for herself.

Bail Out America Not Big Business

The bail out failed to pass. I am actually happy about it. 700 billion to help out businesses that ran their business into the ground. That makes perfect sense. They will only do it again. Or do so under another business' name. Come on already, if we have that kind of money available to us, spread the wealth around Washington, we have people out here struggling to make ends meet just to buy gas to go to work.

This is what bothers me the most. Washington, DC, is out of touch with the REAL world. They have no concept of what middle class and lower, America is doing or how we are getting by. Why do they think homes are being foreclosed on right and left, because the companies were poorly run??? HELLO, MC FLY......people are not and cannot pay their bills. In part because the stupid mortgage companies let them have loans in excess of their income ratio but also because the home owner probably started living large when they got the larger home.

So instead of fretting over the people who have lost their homes, we have decided to bail out the companies that screwed these people. The companies that probably knew at the onset that they were playing with fire but figured they could turn the foreclosed house around and around and make lots of money off one house. Similiar to the Buy Here, Pay Here, Auto Lots. They sell the same auto to different people a number of times. Repossessing it when the loan goes into default. But I think with the car business there are more avenues to get rid of a car, like auctions and the junk yard. There is only one way to make money on a house, sell the house or it sits empty.

So I will say it again, pass all those billions out to those of us that NEED the money. Those of us that could use a home, a car, a retirement fund, a college fund. groceries in the pantry or a bed to sleep on. I am sorry their business failed. A lot of us have had to start over, now it's their turn.

It's just my idea with what to do with the money, coming from the Ground Floor, it's Vega, hoping someone will save me if it starts to flood in here.

McCain Stomps Obama

Last night in the presidential debate McCain spoke of foreign policy and foreign leaders rattling off numbers, countries and names as if the events had just happened the day before. He made it clearly obvious that he was not only aware of what is going on outside of the United States, he was aware of what has been going on for years. He quoted meetings and summits and years of those times and who was in attendance. He related the current state of the countries we are most concerned of in the Middle East and what we should be working toward for our military troops in the war. He related a touching story of wearing a fallen soldier's bracelet for the soldier's mother.

Obama says he has a bracelet too. That was his counter. In fact that is all Obama could do is counter because he does not know half of what McCain knows. It was obvious that Obama was getting angry and was controlling his temper while standing at his podium getting verbally tossed from side to side of the room. Because McCain beat the heck out of him with his vast knowledge of the world, life and the military. When it came Obama's turn to make a statement, his were well rehearsed and memorized. Through the television you could feel him hitting the key points and making emphasis on the right notes, raising his voice at just the right time.

Quietly McCain would rebut, with something profound like, "Senator Obama", showing all due respect to the man, is mistaken about .......strategies, or a number of other things that Obama seemed to not quite understand but was talking about. Personally I felt bad for Obama. He was mad at not getting his point across and getting his cheers. He did not have his supporters filling him full of himself when they should tell him the truth. The American people have just seen who of the two people running for president actually knows what they are talking about.