Finally the leaves are showing color. The oranges and yellows are brilliant. Some of the trees are still green. I went to the Skyline Drive a week and a half ago and the leaves were simply uneventful. Now it looks like there is hope.
Where are the good leaf watching spots? There is an Episcopalian Church over in Clark County, on the way to Berryville that is one of the prettiest places on earth in the fall. The reds and oranges are brilliant. Maybe I should head on over!
U.S. Unemployment Rate Rises to 7.3% in Shutdown-Skewed October; 204,000 Jobs Added
Thanks, House Republicans, We needed for unemployment to go up. NOT!!!
Great on new jobs added.
Don’t miss Killing Kennedy this weekend. Rob Lowe stars as JFK. (what a hunk)
It airs Sunday night, starting at 8 I think, on NatGeo. Some of the filming was done in Richmond.
http://www.richmond.com/arts-entertainment/article_00cdedfc-47d9-11e3-a447-001a4bcf6878.html
I haven’t stopped by in a while, doesn’t look like much has changed. At least I can add one thing to that Venn diagram besides air and water. I recently drove up though the back roads to Berryville, stopped by the old church, and said a prayer by the graveyard, then continued up to Harper’s Ferry. Simply. Spectacular. The air, the water, the trees, and mountains were beautiful. It is hard to take in the enormity of it all. I am sure we can agree on that!
Hi Rick B.
Did you go to the Old Episcopal Church on the road to Millbrook? That is the prettiest church and church yard! I went earlier in the week and trekked on to Berryville myself.
Have you see those skunk cows that are on the right headed from Berryville to Boyse? I have no idea what kind of cattle they are. They have the cutest little teenage bulls who will come right up to the fence to “talk” to you.
Hmmm….Harper’s Ferry. Maybe I will go back tomorrow. I went up to Delaplane today and the leaves had really changed since I was there earlier in the week. The front that came through did a number on the leaves.
“In fire there is heat, in people there is good. We call good God.”
BUT, there is bad in us also and we call that God as well.
Yep. Ethical dilemma and evil. And then it all begins….there are those that chose to walk away from good. Ethics, moral philosophy, normative/descriptive morality. Virtue vs law…. the principle of double effect is a handy guide for intent….as I age I’m interested all over again. Wish I could find a few of those professors 🙂
One proof is balance.
The church is the old chapel that dates from 1790, but there has been a church there since 1738. I believe it’s the same as you mention. My wife and I were there early this week, it must have been the peak time. The richness of the air and earth were palatable. As if time had paused and you have stepped into reality, if only for a moment. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it is not easy to describe in words. Real beauty never is. @Moon-howler
The church is on the left on the road to Millbrook and it has gorgeous old trees in the front churchyard. It is a stone church and I don’t know the date although I might have at one time. Its a beautiful little hamlet over there in Clark County. I might have to drive over to Harpers Ferry over the weekend.
Another gorgeous ride is up Leeds Manor Road just past Delaplane before you get to Sky Meadow State Park.
I participated in a food drive over the last week. It reinforced (to me) that great need exists in our community and and the overall economy is not doing well. Virginia needs to be open and welcoming to small business and entrepreneurs.
Kelly, do we live in the same district? (based on my voting habits)?
Sequestration has hurt Virginia. I know one person who lost his job because of it. I am sure there are many more.
Happy Birthday Marines!
http://unitedconservatives.blogspot.com/2013/11/happy-238th-jarheads.html
I was just thinking about you, Cargo. I was up at one of your favorite spots, providing the right show was in town.
Not enough pick up trucks out there today to be your fave though.
@Moon-howler
One of my favorite spots?
Now I NEED to know!
Not enough pick up trucks?
Let me in on the story.
Hint: expo center
Heh…Had to look it up to make sure. Now I understand.
Heck, I can’t even make to local ones. Can’t afford to go.
Well, I did think about you the minute I turned in to get my iced coffee. I looked around and knew it wasn’t THE gun show. Like I said, not enough trucks with racks.
That was nice of you. Thanks.
Interesting story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/10/dave-wilson-houston_n_4251625.html
Who is in the wrong here? The guy who didn’t disclose his race or the people who voted for him because they thought he was a particular race?
The health-care law’s success story: Slowing down medical costs
By David Cutler, Published: November 8
The anger over the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s federal health insurance exchange — and over the conflicting explanations about whether people can keep their coverage — has been bipartisan and well-deserved. The administration needs to make personnel and management changes to get enrollment back on track. But the focus on insurance coverage obscures other parts of the ACA that are working well, even better than expected. It is increasingly clear that the cost is bending, and the ACA is a significant part of the reason..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-health-care-laws-success-story-slowing-down-medical-costs/2013/11/08/e08cc52a-47c1-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html
The ACA is bringing down health care costs.
Starryflights,
Dude, if your going to call Obamacare a success, you should at least wait until the website is fixed and people can sign up for it. There are some parts of Obamacare that are good, but isn’t the goal of it to provide health insurance to more people, right? Way more people have lost health insurance because of Obamacare than have gained it. Hopefully it’ll get better at some point, but so far it’s clearly a failure.
Or does Obama normally apologize for something that’s a success?
@Starryflights
The ACA has not taken effect yet.
Please explain.
The article is spin. The programs mentioned lowered access. Doctors are retiring. Hospitals are refusing medicare. They are desperate for a “success” story. They claim that the economy is growing but healthcare costs have not “come back.” That’s the first spin. The economy is not recovering.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/blog/diagnosis/health-spending-projections-from-the-cms
If hospitals refuse Medicare patients then then need to expect to lose much federal funding. Afraid I am not buying that one. Also, what does Medicare have to do with the ACA other than Medicare D?
@Cargosquid
Hospitals are refusing medicare. – four Pinocchio’s.
Doctors are retiring. – so are auto mechanics and lawyers.
The economy is not recovering. – all the indicators say the economy is recovering, although at a much slower rate than one would want.
Hat Tip, Pat
@Pat.Herve
Sorry, meant Doctors are not accepting medicare patients.
And they are retiring early.
That Medicare statement has nothing to do with ACA and everything to do with what goes on every year at this time. By November many practices have already taken their required percent of Medicare patients. I ran into that problem when I moved my mother up here. My husband’s doctor took her because she was family. This is not a good time for Medicare people to try to find a new GP. I don’t know if this phenomena exists with specialists or not. I also don’t know how it affects Medicaid patients.
I don’t believe doctors are retiring early in droves. Who would want to go to someone who decided he or she wasn’t going to make enough money so they retired. I would have to see some stats from a neutral source on that one.
And the numbers are in…In October less than 50,000 people signed up on the Healthcare.gov website. Plus another 50,000 from the state exchanges gives you about 100,000 people enrolled in October.
The goal for Healthcare.gov alone was 500,000 in October.
More than 1,000,000 people lost healthcare just in California because of Obamacare. It’s several million across the country.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/healthcare-gov-enrollment-falls-far-005500123.html
They need to stick this turkey back in the oven, cuz it’s not done. They need to delay the individual mandate for a year while they get the web site fixed at least.
It won’t take a year to get the website back working. There are teams working 24/7 on the website. They need to extend the mandate and call some of these greedy insurance companies in and kick some major ass.
Don’t think those greedy bastards aren’t trying to make a buck on the backs of the American people. I think the word I am searching for is gouge!!!
Why do you think “greedy insurance” companies have anything to do with people being dropped? The ACA is forcing insurance companies to drop “non compliant” policies. Remember my deli story? How is it the fault of the insurance companies that they can no longer legally offer the policies that people used to have and want?
As for it taking a year to get the website “back” working? They had three years to get it working and couldn’t. (It’s not “back” working since the thing has never worked.) We don’t know how long it will take to fix the website, but it should hopefully take less than a year. Let’s say six months. That gives people six months to sign up and switch. Why are you so interested in forcing people to switch sooner?
And to be clear, for the handful of people who WANT insurance from healthcare.gov, they can still sign up anytime. (if the website is working of course) But we should delay FORCING people to buy insurance through the broken website until it’s been fixed for a while.
I mean it would only make sense to a government bureaucrat to have millions of people loose insurance and be told that they MUST buy it from a website that doesn’t work.
One year delay seems reasonable. It also more time to see how Obamacare ramps up with people on it. If there are more problems (like too many people chasing too few doctors in certain plans) we can delay it more.
Again, why are you so eager to force people to make people get something they don’t want and can’t even buy?
Tone Furby, tone.
Why are YOU encouraging people to be irresponsible and not have health coverage?
Are you one of those fools who think that insurance companies are your friend?
I don’t recall saying a word about people being dropped. I was actually thinking more about having affordable coverage to replace the insurance that was dropped. I also think that some of the non-compliance is just all a big show so they can up their rates. What proof do the people who are ‘dropped’ have that their policy was non-compliant or had changed so they weren’t grandfathered in?
I want it to work because there are lots of components and too many people fall through the cracks and end up with no coverage or lousy coverage. Those people end up making all of our rates go up.
No altruism here. Strictly selfish. I guess that is a step better than being so ideologically motivated that you hope for failure just to get at Obama.
There is also the problem of Sebelius not having the working funds. Thanks, Congress.
I have never seen people so hell bent on seeing something fail.
The companies doing the websites have not had the job for 3 years. They have had the job since late spring, if I am not mistaken.
I do know that teams are working non-stop now to have things running as they should be running.
I am clearly rooting for success. You?
Do you have any proof that Sebelius “doesn’t have working funds” because of republicans? I’m not doubting you, but from everything I have read I don’t see that to be the case.
I vote for funding them for any amount they ask for. Get this thing up, running and working ASAP! Our only other option is its slow demise.