Crunch time
October, November & December of this year, in other words "4Q2005", have been uncharacteristically busy, especially December, at least for the strategic planning and market research activities in the medical technology industry. There was a certain limbo created by uncertainty in the elections, I think, into which fell a lot of business decisions in 3Q. Suddenly, following the elections, business got back to a sort of normal, which in 4Q2004 meant a surge in planning activity for 2005. This has been good, almost but quite good enough to make up for the misery of the dismal late-summer and fall.
Of course, the elections. I will state categorically that I believe most of what falls between the west coast and the east coast of the U.S. is simple-minded, narrow-minded ignorance. How in the name of any deity can people believe that what this country really needs is 4 more years of George Bush, or even marginally, that the country really would be better off with this simple-minded, narroow-minded, arrogant ignoramus than with John Kerry. Is it because of Bush's success in the war on terror? His masterful handling of the U.S. economy? His ability to be a uniter and not a divider? Mind you, even though I'm in the democratic stronghold of California, I am surrounded (particularly in Orange County) by Republicans. Many that I know are good, honest people, but horribly ill-informed. One staunchly democratic neighbor of mine (we communicate by hand signals and secret liberal code) shared an instance in which a Republican acquaintance, who assumed that my neigher was also ignorant and simple-minded, was aghast to learn that my neigher was in fact liberal, progressive and intelligent and that she voted for Kerry. The Republican asked, "Did you SEE the debates?", as if it was so painfully obvious. THIS is what I have to put up with, part of what all Democrats will have to suffer through until 2008 (what a painfully long way away that seems).
Four more years of:
... being lambasted for arguing that Iraq is a mess and not what it was purported by Bush to be.
... terror at the thought of how many more terrorists Bush has created with his cowboy crusades.
... agony of this huge, burgeoning deficit that Bush seems to think never needs to be paid for.
... misery at the lack of intellectual consideration of complex issues while stunningly simple-minded idiots summarily dismiss any thought that the world is not black and white.
... erosion of the line between Church and State.
I could go on, but I can't. It's just too painful.
Of course, the elections. I will state categorically that I believe most of what falls between the west coast and the east coast of the U.S. is simple-minded, narrow-minded ignorance. How in the name of any deity can people believe that what this country really needs is 4 more years of George Bush, or even marginally, that the country really would be better off with this simple-minded, narroow-minded, arrogant ignoramus than with John Kerry. Is it because of Bush's success in the war on terror? His masterful handling of the U.S. economy? His ability to be a uniter and not a divider? Mind you, even though I'm in the democratic stronghold of California, I am surrounded (particularly in Orange County) by Republicans. Many that I know are good, honest people, but horribly ill-informed. One staunchly democratic neighbor of mine (we communicate by hand signals and secret liberal code) shared an instance in which a Republican acquaintance, who assumed that my neigher was also ignorant and simple-minded, was aghast to learn that my neigher was in fact liberal, progressive and intelligent and that she voted for Kerry. The Republican asked, "Did you SEE the debates?", as if it was so painfully obvious. THIS is what I have to put up with, part of what all Democrats will have to suffer through until 2008 (what a painfully long way away that seems).
Four more years of:
... being lambasted for arguing that Iraq is a mess and not what it was purported by Bush to be.
... terror at the thought of how many more terrorists Bush has created with his cowboy crusades.
... agony of this huge, burgeoning deficit that Bush seems to think never needs to be paid for.
... misery at the lack of intellectual consideration of complex issues while stunningly simple-minded idiots summarily dismiss any thought that the world is not black and white.
... erosion of the line between Church and State.
I could go on, but I can't. It's just too painful.
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