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We are approaching Thanksgiving now that Veterans Day is past; and while I am glad to celebrate another Veterans Day, I am not looking forward to the business of holidays.

So many holidays have become so commercialized, and yes I am a shop proprietor and all but even I would like to see folks come in just for the love or need of a thing and not always because it is a "holiday" or some such thing.

So when I ask what is up with this recession, I am really saying that I am seeing, hearing, and receiving mixed signals and would really appreciate not being lied to about what the national, state, county and city economy is currently capable of and our government leaders are doing that is both going to be timely and realistic to expect in terms of results and short, intermediate and long term goals we can see being met.

There wasn't a lot to do for entertainment when I was a kid growing in Millville. So sometimes, if we got the milking done early enough, my old buddy Stinky Wilmont and I would scrape together 75 cents and catch a ride with my cousin up to the Sun Valley Speedway in Anderson. I wasn't really a big racing fan, but I was as anxious to go somewhere then as I am to stay at home now.

Earmarks are making a comeback.  Actually, they never went away.  Earmarks are known under several names.  Some people call them “pork barrel spending.”  Others call them “pet projects,” but mostly these days they are known as earmarks.  Whatever you call them, they are spending designations which are inserted into an appropriations bill, by an individual Congressperson or Senator.  The ear