Tuesday (Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....)

• Well, it's Tuesday morning 'n me 'n da boyz went strolling along Crestline on our daily S&P tour...
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• It’s a beautiful sunny morning, somewhat bucolic,  quiet ’n peaceful here in Olde Fair Oaks, even after perusing the news earlier 'n the news is almost never, ever bucolic....
• I think I’m prob'ly addicted to the morning papers (along with my coffee) but sometimes I wish I could just forget all about what’s happening in this country ’n the world….
• Anyway, there wuz lots of news about the California economy…on the one hand, we have our politicians telling us how well we’re doing, how we’re gonna have a budget surplus this year ’n we’ll be able to ‘spread the wealth’ around just like if we wuz all rich….’cept, we ain’t….because on some of the other pages of this liberal newspaper, wuz the news that Toyota is moving their headquarters from California to Texas…no mystery there, Texas has no state income tax 'n really low corporate taxes...
• I'm not wondering why they moved…no big deal, I guess, it’s only a little over 5,000 jobs here in California (Let ‘em go, we don’t need or want them, said my liberal friend)...’course, in Texas, it’s going to mean tens of thousands of jobs..has to do with more capital investment, I’m told…gotta wonder why Toyota didn’t want to make that investment here….
• Also in the pages of that liberal newspaper wuz an article telling how great California schools are doing 'n if we just give 'em more money out of this new budget, they'll do even better....except, it also contained some of the actual figures ’n it seems that while California spends almost as much money per student as New York (which spends the most money 'n has the lowest graduation rate) ’n Texas that spends far less 'n has a far higher high school graduation rate, especially among (gasp) black ’n latino students…tsk, tsk…'course, liberals do tend to overlook 'factual' facts in favor of those manufactured facts they do so well....
• Anyway, California is, according to that same paper, making great strides…they don’t say forward or backward but, I’m thinking, that without half trying, the Brown administration can take us back to those bucolic days before WWII when California was truly a backwater ’n only a destination for destitute farmworkers….'n lest we forget, the tinsel 'n glitter of Hollywood...
• 'Way back then, back before World War II, the one known as ‘The Big One’ even tho’ in the fullness of time, it has become one or our shorter conflicts, lasting only a little over four years from 1942 thru most of 1945…
• The popularity of WWII is understandable for several reasons:  First, it took us out of the depression.  Democrats are fond of saying it was Roosevelt's New Deal that did that but it wuz the war what done it.
• Then, secondly, we clearly won.  We were bloodied, of course, but we dominated, ’n finally, our collective mem’ries are distorted by the fact that, because of human mortality, most ever’body that conducted that war has since passed on…
• It’s always been far easier to celebrate dead heroes than to actually have to look into the face of the reality of war….
• Ah, the glory days….