You come back, ya heah?

I’m glad you wrote that one-liner.

There is a great read in a book by J. Frank Dobie entitled “Voice of the Coyote”. It is his and others’ stories of actual observations of coyote behavior. Some are almost unbelievable. It is easy to see why the coyote is known as “Trickster”.

It’s been a while since I read it, but the one tale that stuck with me was about the teamwork of 2 coyotes in luring a mud hen. They spotted her on a pond too near the shore. One walked out in plain sight and began his clown performance – flips in the air, circles, rolling, leaping, etc.. The other flattened out in the reeds and inched forward. The mud hen was so distracted by the clown she did not notice the Lurker. She swam closer to shore to watch the show. Clown did his best acts — Lurker pounced. End of show. Clown filled up first and lower rank Lurker got the leavins.

Not so different from some of the tricks of the last 8 years, huh?

As for ideologues, been there done that off and on about this and that. Life has a way of knocking that out of one. I’m 74 now and don’t look for a Moses out there to lead me to some Promised Land. If Obama gives the best that’s in him when dealing with the mess he has been dealt, that’s good enough for me. I’d rather he had made some different choices, but as you say – we’ll see.

I am and will always be a hard liner about one thing: I want our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Rule of Law fully restored. No Patriot Act, no FISA, no wiretapping, no renditions, no torture, and lawful prosecution for all who have broken the Laws in place 01/01/2000—-oops, back to election day, 1999.

if it’s the latter, then i agree completely. i don’t know enough about janet napalitano – which is why i don’t say much of anything about that choice. but i do know enough about summers et al’s record to make a judgement there.

thanks for the clairification (if i now have it right). appreciate it.