Isabel was not as bad as we expected for us in Southern maryland. We had feared the worst with all that talk about 100 mile/hour winds. Some people are without power, traffic lights are out and some trees are down. We are thinking of getting a house, though, close to the Chesapeake, so we are going to be one of those people who have to board up, etc when the storms come in.

The Bills rock and will kick Miami's butt on Sunday. I say this is the Super Bowl team. I am going to be in Buffalo for the game. can you say chicken wings and pizza?

Wes Clark has said that he probably would have support the Iraq war resolution. there are many possibilities here. If Hillary is going to be his running mate, her ticket to the presidency in 2012, then he has to give her cover for her support of the Iraq resolution. The other idea is that Clark has seen that he is way in over his head with the whole field of issues, so he is now running for VP. If he was for the war, then that would be cover for Dean during a general election. If he is with Kerry, then that would be a very, very, strong ticket--no weakness. Also, the Democratic party powers that be may be isolated Dean as the aberrant weak-on-security candidate with no foreign policy experience, which will eventually catch up to him. Kerry is already closing in on the NH polls and Kerry leads nationwide.