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| YESTERDAY'S SUNSET, LOOKING WEST FROM THE BEACH |
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| MADELINE ISLAND AT DUSK |
Our little tree is finally decorated, and some cleaning and a few chores and we will be ready for Christmas eve. When I was a child we spent Christmas Eve with aunts, uncles and cousins on Milwaukee’s South Side, which was much more fun than Christmas Day. We kids always received a present then, as a precursor to those under the tree at home the next day. Of course we went to church on Christmas Morning, even my Dad, who only attended on that day and Easter Sunday. He claimed those were the only services with decent music and in retrospect I am sure he was right. Also, the sermons were seasonally upbeat, not the usual fire and brimstone, damned if you do, damned if you don’t orations that caused even the most innocent among us to squirm on the hard wooden pews.
Commentary: I received one of those group emails yesterday, covering a lot of politics. The following is an edited portion of it. I am assuming the statistics are correct, considering the source.
According to Mark Knoller of CBS, Presidential travel on Air Force One costs almost $182,000 an hour, not including use of the Marine One helicopter, the Secret Service, logistics or local police costs. Last year, 2010, President Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days, plus six vacation trips over 32 days. He made 196 helicopter trips. In total he flew in Air Force One 172 times, and spent over $200 million taxpayer dollars flying himself and his entourage around on Air Force One. That’s quite a carbon footprint for the environmentalist president, and he sure didn’t travel any less in 2011. One wonders if he gets Frequent Flier miles to claim later?
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