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Where is Christ?
Posted by Kip Ward | 12.15.2008 / 9:01 PM EST
We have a guy in our town and I’m not certain what his name is but I recognize him when I see him.
He’s the guy that came to my hotel last week and taped a Merry Christmas sign on my front window. It had a cartoon of Santa driving a sleigh full of gifts. […]
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Hobson’s Economy
Posted by Kip Ward | 12.09.2008 / 4:41 PM EST
Capitalism, oh how things have gone nuts. I’ve spent my life as a capitalist; eaten, breathed, and for better or worse loved it. Anyone who seriously studies capitalism should be in awe of the simplicity and efficiency of the free enterprise system. It’s a system that recognizes humankind’s infinite greed and selfishness, and then uses […]
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What’s left
Posted by Kip Ward | 11.14.2008 / 1:23 PM EST
Well the Republican Party is licking its wounds and the wounds are deep. Theories abound regarding what went wrong. The number one theory, among Republicans, so far is that the Republican Party strayed from its conservative base. That of course is a view seen through the hubris of the conservatives who see themselves as the […]
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Viewpoint
Posted by Kip Ward | 10.24.2008 / 8:21 PM EDT
Well I guess it is now out in the open; we are heading into a recession. Around here, that is not news at all. We noticed the first “sniffles” last December. And it looks like this is going to feel more like the flue than a cold.
This flue will resolve itself when the problems […]
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Stinging Remarks
Posted by Kip Ward | 10.12.2008 / 8:58 PM EDT
If one can believe the polls, with the third and final debate on the horizon, McCain has some serious catching up to do and the clock is running down. In a televised stump speech McCain has promised to address Obama’s association with William Ayers at the final debate. And this is where McCain completely loses […]
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Sinking Boats
Posted by Kip Ward | 10.03.2008 / 4:10 PM EDT
Well the bailout passed, and I’m full of emotions and not one of them is positive. Let me go through them. But before I do, I’m dubious of the “facts” as they were presented.
Are the credit markets really frozen? I just got a loan last month and one of the carpenters that are working […]
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Super John
Posted by Kip Ward | 09.27.2008 / 5:19 PM EDT
What a week, and it just keeps getting wilder. In the eighties there was a Showtime series about a supposedly professional stuntman by the name of Super Dave Osborne. Dave was a likeable guy who was pretty full of himself, and he loved the drama. Each week he would perform a new outrageous stunt, which […]
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Going South for the Winter
Posted by Kip Ward | 09.15.2008 / 4:50 PM EDT
I think things started going south with Clinton. I don’t know all the reasons why the conservatives hated him so much, but hate him they did. The Republicans hated Bill Clinton more than they loved their own country.
It’s proper for the party that is absent power to be critical of the party holding power. […]
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Puppy Love
Posted by Kip Ward | 09.09.2008 / 8:04 PM EDT
Obama Who? Oh ya, isn’t he that guy who’s running against Sarah Palin? And who’s that creepy old guy who keeps following her around anyway?
Far fetched? Not so far fetched around here. After the DNC, our town was awash in Obamaism. I have never seen a boat that was that big get blown out […]
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A Bird in the Hand
Posted by Kip Ward | 08.29.2008 / 2:06 PM EDT
I don’t even know where to start. What could he have been thinking? At a birthday party last night there was lots of political chat. The big topic of the night was Vice Presidents.
Normally VP selections don’t carry a lot of weight, because normally VPs don’t do a heck of a lot. That is unless […]
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The Sixty-four Thousand Dollar Question
Posted by Kip Ward | 08.18.2008 / 4:11 PM EDT
Yesterday I wrote about the Civil Forum at Saddleback Church. In case you missed it, Rick Warren hosted the forum and the questions for the candidates were for the most part difficult and many were personal. Many questions, predictably, were about morals and integrity. So I’m guessing that these two items are of special interest […]
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BrokenWindows
Posted by Kip Ward | 08.17.2008 / 1:54 PM EDT
Every few days my author friend and I go to play racquetball. We are both over fifty and frankly both a little chubby. I was circling the parking lot at the club in an attempt to get the closest spot to the door. After all, I wouldn’t want to walk too far to go exercise. […]
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Sea of Change
Posted by Kip Ward | 08.08.2008 / 2:45 PM EDT
The North West is about as far away from the South as you can get. In Chehalis, Washington where I grew up, I never saw an African American, or a Hispanic for that matter. The closest our family ever got to an African American was watching Lawrence Welk on TV, or Sammy Davis Jr. at […]
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Incey Wincey Spider
Posted by Kip Ward | 07.19.2008 / 4:05 PM EDT
The Charter Fishing boats are doing pretty well. Most people going out are fishing the ocean’s bottom for sea bass and lingcod and they are limiting out. I hear that there is plenty of Dungeness crab to be had as well. At seventy-five dollars for a five-hour trip, it’s a bargain.
Around here the place […]
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La Raza
Posted by Kip Ward | 07.15.2008 / 4:39 PM EDT
John and Barack spoke this week to the National Council of La Raza. They were important speeches; after all the Latino vote may very well make the difference. I’m not as worldly as I would like to be, and honestly, I’m having trouble understanding what exactly the Latino vote is.
I hired my first Hispanic […]
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