It's been awhile since I've had a chance to post anything on here. The flood waters have subsided a lot, but the water is still relatively high compared to our "average" floods. We still don't have phone service at our house, and haven't for over 2 weeks. That has made it very difficult to keep up with any kind of electronic communications.

When I am in town, like I am now, I go to a location where I can pick up a signal and basically open my email, and delete messages that I am pretty sure I'm not going to be reading in order to keep my inbox from overflowing and messages bouncing.

I then take care of the most immediate correspondence, and that's pretty much it.

I had to chuckle today when Trump announced that he wasn't going to run for president. The guy is a real flake. "Trump is a Chump" comes to mind as a non-campaign slogan.

I did watch the Sunday News shows Sunday. The most interesting tidbit in all of the shows was a statement by I believe McLaughlin on the McLaughlin group that said that it was reported that Pakistan has sold the tail to the "stealth" helicopter which crashed at Bin Laden's. The tail is supposedly where all the secret, high tech stealth technology was located. I haven't heard that tidbit reported on any of the mainstream news.

Ironically (or not), a Chinese military big shot is coming to the US to meet with our military - first time in 7 years since we started selling arms to Tiawan. My guess is that this meeting was probably part of a much larger deal (which will probably never be made public) that the US struck with China to keep them from vetoing the Libya resolution in the security council.