It is finished. The word count has passed 50,000, and the last line is written. Even if the middle is edited to death the last line and the first lines do not change. It turned into a novel worthy of a blog. The worn out saying, "ripped from the headlines" applies and doesn't at the same time. The names are changed to protect the innocent so to speak. Actually it is torn from my undergraduate study and reinforced by today's news and a healthy bit of imagination. It might actually interest someone besides myself someday. In the meantime, the country is falling apart under the leadership of two presidents now. It doesn't get any better than this. I do not understand the stock market rebound; we will have to see it if holds. I think it is a lousy barometer of the economic health of the nation.

On writing. This is the half-way point in the effort for a 50,000 word in 30 days, and I am writing here instead of on my novel. That is because I am stuck, kind of, and the evening is young and wring after nine o'clock seems to go the best. Can't tell why.
On politics. It looks like Obama is taking some of his best Chicago way friends with him to Washington. Valerie Jarret, a Chicago lawyer and long time Obama friend will be his top advisor. He had wanted her to fill his senate seat. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel is another Chicago way product. If he takes as much of Chicago to Washington as it looks like he is going to, then watch out, we are in for corruption, secrecy, lying, and all manner of deviousness like we have never seen.
This is not a voodoo,mystical prediction; this is just based on the corruption--i.e. internet contributions,secrecy--he managed to control leaks better than anyone in recent memory, lying--flat out denying he said what he said when he wrote it in his book, and general deviousness--to cover all the other underhanded things that went on during the campaign like lost records of college, health, state legislature, Annenburg board, University of Chicago, and sealed records like his birth certificate.
Obama got were he is by being beholden to people who have agendas and who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and he is going to have to do their bidding, and I think he will because what they want is what he wants and none of it is good for this country. Just look at Chicago. Reason magazine named it the most government controlled city in America. The Chicago way is on its way to Washington.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, McCain is meeting with Obama presumably to see how they can work together. I said during the race that there would not be a whole lot of difference between an Obama presidency and a McCain presidency and this is were it will undoubtedly begin.

The Dow did a roller coaster act. Bottom feeding, I think. Only time will tell how this will play out, but I still cannot see how it can actually climb very far. There is too much uncertainty as to what a President Obama will do with or to the economy. Poor earnings continue to be reported and that will not help the markets.
I think I have finally found a newspaper worth the cost. The Inverstors Business Daily is awesome. If I was writing for a newspaper it is exactly the way I would write it. It calls a spade, a spade. I'm sure there are other things I thought to write today, but I have forgotten them now. The word count is over 20,000. That is where my brain is.
One thing though. It should be obvious, but in his book, Blog, Hugh Hewitt said that if you want to blog you should read blogs to get a feel for them. I have finally started doing this and it is, indeed, very helpful. I think I will have to make some changes when National Novel Writing Month is over.

Word count and detox update

The word count for the novel in a month stands at 16,800 which is about a day behind but I had to take time to think. (and sleep) The political detox is not really working as the stock market continues its decline and Obama continues to make news as the not president yet. He has declined to attend the economic summit being held this weekend in Washington, D.C. becuase the country "only has one president at a time." That is very smart of him since he has already offended the sitting president by allowing leaks and misrepresentations of their private meeting. I have found a blog by a Chicago native who has much to say about Obama's Chicago ties and none of it is encouraging. This is all information that could have been in the media during the campaign, but was ignore. Several articles are from Chicago newspapers making me wonder at a city and a state that KNOWS what it means to be connected to the Chicago machine and still voted for him in overwhelming numbers. The more I read the more amazed I am. I does not seem to faze these people that they have a congresswoman whose husband is a convicted felon and yet both of them are active in state and national politics, that Obama bought his house with the help of a man who was being investigated by the FBI and everyone knew it, that his records from the Illinois house are "missing", and the list goes on. It has to. No one in Chicago seems to have clean hands and we have governors, representatives, and all manner of politicians with criminal records to prove it.

Barak Obama's First Press Conference

This is really amazing. As soon as he started talking the Dow started dropping. It was up 245 and less than 10 minutes in it is up 145. He keeps saying there can be only one president at a time. So why is he on TV? Meet with your economic advisers, get ready to be president, but stay off TV.
He keeps talking about setting aside partisanship and work together. Fine but bipartisan to democrats means we'll work with you as long as you do it our way. There is no way there going to let a republican has a word in edgewise.
He started late, not a good sign as Clinton remained chronically late. He said that a stimulus package would be his first priority if it is not done in the lame duck session. This is going to push the deficit even higher.
The market closed up 248 after Obama's press conference. He really did not say anything much. He did not actually answer the question about whether or not he would still raise taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers.

Welcome to the rabbit hole. The stock market is up about 2% after dropping like a rock 10% in two days. Obama has been meeting with his economic drones today, many left over from the Clinton administration, and will have his very first press conference today. The markets are no doubt hanging tight to see what Obama has to say. we'll have to see what happens in the last 1/2 hour which is when the market has been making a great deal of movement of late.
The word count is at 10,094. In spite of what I said, I have not gone cold turkey on the politics. There is just too much going on and we as citizens need to stay on top of it. That is everyone.
More after the press conference.

This is the day I had hoped would not come. I fact last night was a little surreal, like driving-off-a-bridge-kind-of-I-cannot-believe-this-is-happening surreal. So today I officially join the opposition. This morning's first order of business for all of us who value our freedom is to join the NRA and then buy a gun. Yes, I am serious. Obama has promise a "new kind of gun control." He is from Chicago, the murder capital of the world, where there are a no guns for law-abiding citizens only for crooks. At least go to the NRA.com and order a free copy of their 2nd amendment book.
Second order of business is to start blogging and write until they silence us, which they have promised to try to do. They (democrat liberals, that is) do not like the "new media" when it is opposing them. They think it gives us an unfair advantage, even though all the MSM (mainstream media) are solidly in their corner and are the news source for the majority of Americas.
Third thing is to pray. Most of the conservative talk shows and blogs have actually said that in the end God is in control and we need to pray. It is actually pretty astounding. God is still in control and maybe this is our last wake up call. We have had eight years of Bill Clinton, 9/11, and now Obama. The times demand our attention.
On that lighter note of detox, which you can see will never be complete, I have over 6,000 words written and I am listening to Andre Boccelli instead of talkshows. Hang in there and do not resort to self-destructive behavior.