Thoughts from a morning walk

It’s getting warmish out there, so I cut the walk off short this morning. Got to get going earlier.

I love my walks, since I tune in to NPR stations around the country on the old iPhone, listening to Minnesota, Vermont and San Francisco today. You can really get a nice wideangle view of what the country is thinking and talking about on a local and national level. Be sure to download the NPR app, if you have an iPhone.

Having lost a signal at one point, I stopped under a shady tree to find another. I heard somebody speak, and it was a man standing in his open garage, smoking a cigarette. He was worried that I might be a census taker. I reassured him that I wasn’t a census taker, was essentially harmless in that I was looking for a new radio station on my transistor radio, and that the census ended, uh, some time back.

I was listening to some economists on Talk of the Nation, broadcast out of Vermont Public Radio,

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Friday Fish Wrap: January 29, 2010

We need more of this. A whole lot more. In the following video, you can watch President Obama got at it with his Republican opponents, in what feels more like the free for all type of debate we’ve watched in the Houses of Parliament.

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You can read the entire transcript here.

It’s time for Obama to stand up there and take his lumps and fight for whatever might be left of a Liberal - and no, that isn’t a dirty word - agenda. If I wanted him to take the easy road - to the center, AKA right - I would have voted for the other guy.

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