The title comes from a comment I made about a candidate for a local office who was turned out by her party. Noone whose name is worth remembering, I assure you, as I don’t, but it was what the cadidate said about losing and her blaming the “liberals” in the Republican Party for her defeat and the comment I then made that caught my mind’s eye: “The rats always shreik the loudest as their sinking ship engulfs them.”
That is what I feel is happening right now, a l’heure actuelle, to US politics. The neoconservative and desert blood cultists are so very vocal simply because they are aware of the pendulum’s shift and fear the other direction. Unfortunately, it makes for interesting times until full dead center begins the task momentum has set out for it. This blog is an attempt to chronicle some of the mad goings on in Washington and around the world from a small corner of the Southeastern United States, safe from harm with five faithful canines by my side.
Like Will Rogers, the only things I know are what I read in the newspapers, but with an addendum, those are The Guardian and The Independent with an occasional foray into the penumbra of “main stream” corporate news…and of course, with my ever faithful Uberhund by my side, I will not let my readers down.
October 1, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I am curious what went through the county offices that got the south entrance to Winchester Hills closed, when they needed it for the second entrance to the highway for the ledges. There were many things done incorrectly and unethically that got the sale of that property through for the Ledges. County ordinances state that you cannot change the plot of any existing subdivision without 100% vote of landowners. I own a lot in Winchester Hills and I didn’t vote, so this was done illegally. Also with the closure of our south entrance it has put an extra burden on all the landowners having to go through the Ledges to leave our homes to go to St. George. I feel that something else could have been done without taking away from those of us who have been here lond before the almighty Ledges showed up. A stop light could have been installed and that would have solved the traffic problem. There are several in between St. George and Hurricane and I don’t see why it couldn’t have been done in this instance. I truly feel like we got the short end of this deal and the land owners that sold to the ledges benefited at our expense. I have ried to talk to other county people and they are all on vacation. This is not only a personal thing but also an emergency issue. My father died in my home last year, and I can;’t help but feel that part of it was due to the response of the ambulance and the bogus change in our entrance. please help do something to change this to the right way it should be. Alot of tax dollars come from this area of the county and I feel that some of it should be used on us as residents.