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We are sitting in the dark and have had no power since 7:00. I have been told that 9 power poles were knocked down by a possible tornado.

As I sit here typing this, the power returned. Three hours down and one hour sitting in the dark reading my iPad. If I had started this earlier, would the power have returned earlier? Makes you wonder.

We went on a ride yesterday in the Jeep. Drove up the Pecos River Canyon and stopped to visit Huie at the Tererro General Store. Erin was her usual engaging self and asked him about all the animal mounts in his store, especially the mountain lion mounted on a rock in a rest position. Huie thought she was a cutie.

• It was hard to ride!
• It was hard to drive!
• It was hard to walk!

• Erin comes home today.
• She stayed with the others because Sunday was Father’s Day.
• Banking for Nina and I after breakfast at Charlie’s.
• I’ll take the bike to breakfast since Nina’s taking her car to to some store shopping at WallyWorld.
• I may even take the long way home. That’s a 100 mile trip.
• Still not sure about that though.
• Boycott KFC!
• I gave got to stop watching the news while doing this.

Around 9:00 i headed out to a tent event at Harley Davidson in Santa Fe. Food and drink and racing and ballon tossing on motorcycles. A custom painted Fat Bob is being raffled off with the drawing being held at the Rough Rider’s Rally in Las Vegas next month. It’s a POW/MIA themed bike. I hope I win.

Yesterday I was a volunteer driver for the director of the city museum and an Ameri-Corp photographer. I took them to the ghost town (Los Fuertes), the mining ruins in Pecos, the Pecos National Monument, and the valley churches. This trip was designed to get the county’s sites into the city’s photo database to be used for tourism and other advertising venues.

They were blown away by the places shown and the scenery that the county is blessed with. Canyons and hidden corners of the county that a visitor would be hard pressed to find. I expected to receive enthusiasm for the day’s show and tell, but the photographer was just amazed. He kept saying that “This is even better than the last place!”

It was a good day to be me.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 – before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land – all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2014
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they ‘ re out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.
Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive
the message. Don ‘ t you think it ‘ s time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!