I love the fall. I love moderating temperatures, the leaves turning color, and football. Especially football. My mother has had a year long battle with cancer which she is winning. It requires a lot of maintenance  and vigilance but at some point, mom would just like her life to return to normal. She's been a good soldier, battle weary, but still doing the things that are important. So this week, mom asked one of her doctors how many more visits she was going to have to make to the hospital. The doctor said anywhere from 5, to maybe 7 visits. He then patted her on the leg and said, "Predicting is hard, especially about the future." He turned and walked out of the room. I giggled about that all day. I even looked that phrase up- it sounded so Yogi Berra. But I think the credit actually should go to an old time physicist, Niels Bohr. Predicting, as it turns out, is really not that difficult at all. Doing it accurately, well that's a whole different story. He

Our 90 day war, financed as usual, without a credit app.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/exclusive-senate-s-war-resolution-gives-obama-90-days-to-strike-syria.html This morning I just finished reading an excellent piece of writing on the Syrian war effort. It wasn't written by some obedient media lackey. It was written by a real person with critical thinking skills and... It was written by a patriot, Norma Brown. Norma Brown shares the sentiments of most of us on this Syrian war bullshit.  I am going to link that piece here via my good friend Jim's blog, Asylum Watch. Oddly, Norma entitled it "Dying For Peace"  http://conservativesonfire.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/dying-for-peace-an-essay-by-norma-brown/ Norma's piece caused me to reflect on something I had witnessed long ago. It's a true story from my childhood which was well documented by hundreds of people and passed down to us as children and in turn accepted as fact. The facts supp