Jobs going away - or - workers going away.

I just read that the job market is so bad, that the immigration into this country has slowed WAY down.

I further read that many that are here trying to work are leaving for better prospects the other side of the border.

I will be interesting to see how the Canadians feel about coming to spend their cold months in the Southwest this winter since the economy is forecast to be so bad.

Maybe spring training will be canceled if not enough Canucks come to watch.

Never has a Loony or a Dubloony looked so good.

So now, those of you who routinely say 'Adios' or 'Eh' will need to sharpen up on your English.

Fare is paid.
CABBY

Vote, right?

I did.
Not telling for whom.
Glad it is over.
I ignore for the next few weeks all of the 'spinning'.

This has been a L-O-N-G ride.

Please get out of the cab.

See you again in four years.

Wonder what that will be like?

Will we still be captured by two of the same?

Fare has been picked up by the lack of the truth.
CABBY

100 Years Ago

Let me see, uhm.

Was it only 100 years ago that the Roosevelt administration was replaced with a new President?

Yes, I guess it was.

The 27th President was about to take over.

Who was it? What was his background?

Here he is:
Post Presidential 10th Chief Justice of the U.S.
Family member of a political dynasty.
Republican.
World peace advocate verging on pacifism.
World known for his foreign postings in his career.
Trust busting, improvements to both the I.C.C. and U.S.P.S. were all part of his presidential work. All were seriously effected by his administration.

Yale

So, do you give up?

William Howard Taft 1857 1930 age 52 when sworn in.

I most recall reading of Taft and his allegedly being the cause of Roosevelt starting the 'Bull Moose' party (The Progressive Party).

So now you know. So do you think the politics of the country are at all similar today?

Didn't McCain wrest the party form the Republicans? Didn't Obama wrest the party from the Clinton's?
Didn't McCain come from a self made dynasty in politics? Isn't Obama a self made dynasty in politics?

What are we in for?

Fare has been paid. This trip has been almost as horrifyingly remembered as:

On a cold mid spring day, a lady tried to pet a calf moose in the walkway to a classroom building on the campus of the University of Alaska in Anchorage. She was stomped to death by the cow moose. They put down the mother moose.

Are we about to have such a perplexing experience?
CABBY

My apology to Nancy Pelosi

I have allowed myself to make a judgment about the Speaker of The House of Representatives.

I am not proud of that judgment. I made an incorrect judgment.

I apologize to The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of The House.

I regret taking that stand. I apologize to any one else I may have taken that judgment to in conversation.

Thank you for taking this trip which reminds me of a location in Anchorage I used to take fares to.

Up on the upper 'hillside' area of Anchorage, there was a restaurant called "Stuck Again".
This restaurants' reputation and the price of a meal there were legendary. It was a favored destination for well heeled visitors to the city.

In the winter it was virtually impossible for the average car to climb the hill to the restaurant. I frequently would wait at the bottom of the hill and drive multiple diners to the parking lot and then return later to drive back to the wide spot at the bottom of the hill to the cars that diners had parked while eating dinner. I often ran this trip in relays, fares up and fares down.

The fare each way was $20.00. The distance was about 5 miles.

At the bottom of the parking lot just outside the restaurant was a ridge that was the start of a straight drive about 200 yards up the hill and an elevation rise of about 75 icy slick and shiny feet.

I would simply reverse the car in the driveway and slowly back up the hill to deliver my fares to the sanded icy walkway entrance to the restaurant.

I delivered some very famous people there over the winters. If I were star struck, those could be some other stories.

So the likeness to this story, is that I have reversed myself once again.

Fare is paid.
CABBY

Anticipation and responsibility

Well, I did it. I stuck my neck out to about 40 of my e mail contacts. About current events - how silly am I?

I am anticipating a straight accurate discussion tonight on Charlie Rose tonight.

I told these friends about an interview on PBS tonight across the country.

Let's see what wrath I may have wrought.

I am hoping to get some sense of what Warren Buffett has to say to my friends.

I will be okay, a mess or not have any measurable difference on the other side of this program tonight.

I just hope I have not misled my friends.

CABBY