A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. 
       -W. Durant


Think about it.


So many worthy subjects, so little time. How do you regular bloggers do this? Where do you find the time to work on your blog every day? I may be too long-winded to post each day!


Something to ponder - this has been going around in an email lately, but the subject is one I've thought about more than once, I bet you have too. Where are Mr. O's friends? Where is the grade school/junior high/high school buddy who played b'ball with The O way back in the day? Where are the high school sweethearts, the prom dates who knew him when? What about his college roommates/classmates/dining hall acquaintances? Where are his former teachers, Sunday school class leaders? What about next-door neighbors, or any neighbors, when he was growing up? For that matter, where are his adult friends, other couples he and Mrs. O socialized with in Chicago? Why haven't they all come out of the woodwork to say 'yeah, I knew him when...'?? Can you think of a United States President whom we've known as little or less about? Neither can I!  Where are all those 15 minutes of fame people? Other than his Hawaii days and his overseas school days, the man has no past - as if he were hatched in a laboratory. No, this is not about the 'birther' thing. This is about what's NORMAL. We've known all about other presidents' escapades as kids or young adults in college. Clinton's saxophone and pot smoking but not inhaling days, GW's wild college and cocaine days. We knew about their grades in college, good and bad. All we know about Mr. O is he attended Columbia, was little more than an average student, somehow managed to get admitted to Harvard Law - one of the toughest law schools to get into, went on to become an editor and later president of the Harvard Law Review because of an essay writing competition - not because of his grades. What is the big deal? If his SAT/LSAT, transcripts and editorials are so stellar, why won't he let us see or read them? Oh wait, we can't read any of his editorials from HLR because he supposedly only wrote one and didn't even sign it. Considering how nosy we are as Americans and how good some of our computer enthusiasts/hackers/geeks are, why hasn't this information surfaced? I say it ain't normal!


Hmmm...yes indeedy, something to ponder...