Today, Pat gets his surgery. We have to be there at noon, with the operation scheduled for 2:00. Hope all goes well.
Yesterday continued cold, rainy, and dreary. I changed our beds, did three washes, made apple crisp, and generally kept busy. Made meatballs, freezing some by themselves and some with sauce. A. called and wished us luck with the operation.
Why Nader? Because he's a pacifist, as far as I can see. Certainly, he's far, far more "pacific" than Obama and Biden, let alone the warmongers, McPalin. We get never erase the blood on our hands, but we can at least try not to encourage even more and more conquest.
This is for those who think war fuels the economy (from anti-war.com):
"Somewhere, George Orwell isn't smiling. He'd no doubt be appalled, and a little nonplused, by the accuracy of his speculations in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, you'll recall, the deliberate impoverishment of the ordinary "proles" and the Outer Party types was a matter of INGSOC policy, a theme underscored by the general shabbiness of Orwell's dystopia, what with the constant shortages and the way thing always seemed to be literally and physically falling apart. Particularly striking is the Orwellian presentiment that the world of the future is bound to be poorer and, simultaneously, engaged in constant warfare."
It's up to $3 trillion now, so besides the human costs...