Just for the record...who we are

February 14, 2009

The last post, about the dreadful state-o'-the economy, ended with a probama remark, that a few have found offensive. If you haven't read it, it said Go Obama!, and that has cost us some business. It is good to vote with your dollars, and if I go out on a limb and root for the president to help us out of this, and by doing that offend somebody and lose a sale (he bought another bag, not ours), then that is just a consequence.

It's a consequence I was too dumb or naive to predict, but in retrospect it seems obvious and wish I hadn't done that, but I think any patriot would root for whoever's in charge. Whomever won. I'd be rooting for Joe the Plumber if he'd won, no pun intended. (That is one fine pun, if such a thing exists.)

There are about a dozen of us here, and we often remark at what a diverse gang we are. Our ages run from 20 to 62. Our religious and political affiliations are a microcosm of the country's. We eat different foods, and yet it works.

When you call or correspond, you will talk with somebody who is living on the same spec of dust (in the cosmos) as you; who wants peace and prosperity and security for all, just like you; who loves both food and bikes, just like you; and who has the same fears and insecurities as you do. (On that last one, it's only a probably---but the others, you can be sure of.)

I just wanted to clear the air. Blogs are dangerous, and I will be more careful.

Grant