My new almost friend, Leeanna, who gave the full moon party recently, lent me a book about paganism. It is interesting and starts with a history of this religion and how it was pushed out by Christians. The methods used by the Christians are very much like the methods being used today by Republicans. When you can’t win legitimately, lie, cheat, miscount votes, disenfranchise voters. And before you know it, everyone is a Christian or burned at the stake.

The following Friday I invited Leeanna over for a possible afternoon swim and visit and she said she’d come around 2. Ed volunteers at the Chamber of Commerce Friday afternoons, so I thought it would be nice just to have an “us girls” visit. She took my phone number in case she couldn’t make it and didn’t show up and didn’t call. When I realized she wasn’t coming, I took a bike ride (that I do most afternoons but was going to skip it if she came over). When I went past her house, her car was gone. I guess she got a better offer.

I’ll have to have a talk with her. She’s old enough to have manners, yes?

On Thursday, I went for my physical therapy session (for neck pain). Rudy, one of my two favorite therapy people at this place, treated me. This consists of ultrasound and then massage, manual traction and then he sets me up on the machine for additional traction. The other therapist I like is Barbara. Both of them have really good hand skills. Rudy has treated me a lot. He is exceptionally smart, has a wide range of knowledge for someone I suspect is barely 30. We have lengthy conversations about many subjects. Well, just before I was ready to leave, Barbara said Rudy was leaving. I said for good? She said yes, he’s moving to South (or maybe North) Carolina. At that moment Rudy was treating another patient behind a curtain. I was ready to leave, having finished. He hadn’t said a word. He called out from behind the curtain (his secret out) that he had enjoyed chatting with me, but if Barbara hadn’t said anything, I would have shown up Tuesday and been surprised and disappointed to find him gone. Again, my dear Rudy, where are your manners?

Larry King had three reps from the McCain campaign on his show recently. He asked them was it a good idea for Sarah Palin to go on Saturday Night Live. McCain and Palin are hitting all the talk shows and comedy shows they can to show the public that they are real people that they are full of humor, oh so regular folks that you will love and want to vote for. The first said Palin had spunk so she could pull it off. The second said, she would do great because she had pluck. The third said basically the same and added it was because she had moxie. It was like watching the Mary Tyler Moore Show. These people desperately need writers from this century.

Under the radar, of course, the McCain campaign is still sending out hate literature and robocalls telling people Obama consorts with terrorists.

The people in Mc Cain’s campaign who are responsible for the robocalls and other tactics of hate, are the same ones that used these devices against McCain in 2000. What McCain said at that time was that these tactics were despicable. But since they worked, he decided to use them himself.

Speaking of patriotism, I think Palin and husband’s involvement in the secessionist movement in Alaska should be more thoroughly publicized. The leader of that group has rhetoric that defames America and its institutions. Sarah is not a member but has been a avowed supporter and guest speaker at their functions. She talks of patriotism and supports secession from the U.S. Her husband is a member. I think that before she got tapped for VP, she was supporting their efforts because, as governor, she would be a prime candidate to be president of an Alaska that is its own country. One way or another Sarah is shooting for the top job. She was going to settle for Alaska, but now she’s got a chance for the biggie.

When former admirers hear McCain sound reasonable and relaxed and focused, they say, there, that’s the real McCain. Not any more. You can’t be two people at once, and he has lost the one he used to be.

xx, Teal