DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN?

August 14, 2005

Sometimes I think fate just likes to mess with us. Could she (fate is a she isn’t she?) be testing what we’ve learned? If so, I’d have to say that we’ve gone to school on her in this instance- this instance being a hurricane in Florida.

You see it was 1992 and Bush was struggling with an economy that Clinton said was bad. Hurricane Andrew slams into Florida and all hell breaks loose. FEMA is slow to get in to help people, and the economy takes a 0.05% GDP hit, just when it didn’t need that.

Well, here we are twelve years later and Bush (a different one) is battling JFK, and what some think is a sluggish economy. However, things are different. FEMA is on the ground within hours. Help is immediate and there are two Bush’s helping people: the governor and the president.

Now we’ll have to wait and see if it makes a difference in the election- this time around.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN?

February 12, 2005

Everyone is innocent in America until proven guilty, or until you use the old Clinton strategy of “Shuck & Jive” (since he’s the black president). So, what’s the issue here Ern?

I’m talking about Kerry’s response to the his alleged affair. Listen, I’d deny it loudly and blatantly if I were him. When Kerry married into the Heinz fortune, his wife demanded a pre-nuptial agreement, and she made one interesting statement. She simply said that if JFK (recognize those initials?) was unfaithful to her, she would not just divorce him, she’d MAIM him.

So, I’m for ABSOLUTE DENIAL of any affair if I were John: however, that’s not what we got yesterday. JFK said he’d issue one statement and one only, and on the Imus radio show he said, “There is nothing to report, so there is nothing to talk about.” Say what?

Let me get out my Bill Clinton dictionary and see what the definition of IS, is. And, let me interpret JFK’s statement. What he actually said was that there was NO PROOF and until there was, he wasn’t going to talk- nothing to talk about.

Now, that might work for Bill because Hill was so forgiving; however, I don’t think that’s good enough for Teresa Heinz Kerry. Is this Deja Vu all over again, but with different characters? I am sure there are hundreds of reporters and investigators searching out that answer at this very moment.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN!

May 30, 2004

I have a lot of memories of Topeka, Kansas. After all, it’s one of the places that I discovered the world. My family moved to Topeka when I was fourteen. I was a country boy and I heard my first curse word that first summer of 1957. Many more things would be learned quickly.

High school introduced me to the real NFL (National Forensics League) and it was from earning top honors as a debater that I got a scholarship to college. I moved into a house at 1716 Washburn and with a band of buds, we took on college life at Washburn University. Four years later with a BA degree in hand I headed off to Kansas University to work on a Master’s in political Science.

It was in those college years though that I heard the name Karl, as in Menninger. I did some studying at that campus surrounded in the trees off 6th Street. It was the premier psychiatric hospital in America if not the world. I read everything Dr. Karl wrote. I had some interesting experiences with some of the patients (no, I was not a patient).

Two days ago, it became official. The Menninger Foundation has packed up 80 of it’s best and have set up shop in Houston, partnering with Baylor. Some of the most renowned and famous people of the last century have been patients or doctors at Menninger. Houston attorney Jack O’Quinn being one of the latest (patients).

Somehow as I read Friday’s news of the move to Houston, I revisited so many things that not even an eight hundred page book could contain. And it was like a moment in time when life stood still- again!

PS. You can read all about it under the “Houston News Posts”.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary