Lee,
Romney appeals to people who tend to buy the sizzle, not the steak. In
truth, Romney isn't all bad, but he can't be trusted to follow through. He did
do some things fairly well here in Massachusetts, but all in all, he was more
appearance than substance. Its the corporate image thing. Sell what the public
is buying.
I will say on his behalf, and on behalf of the Massachusetts electorate,
he is a veritable genius compared to our sitting president. But then, who isn't?
I regret Monica and I missed those rock elms. Rats!
Bob
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From: Lee Frelich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bob:
On your trip from St.Cloud to Pipestone, you passed within 10 miles of the
Kandiyohi rock elm forest. I was just out there today. I am more convinced
than ever that the three tracts of elm are really remnants from 9000 years ago.
They didn't burn during the mid-Holocene warm period 7,500 to 5,000 bp because
they are on peninsulae in lakes, and they didn't get replaced by sugar maple as
the climate cooled during the last few thousand years because sugar maple never
got that far west. So that left a few stands of the ancient elm forest intact.
Lee
PS--I can see why you didn't like Romney. His speech last night was the dumbest
I have ever seen. This is the last night of the RNC--and the daily riots that
it has brought to town. Tomorrow the 45,000 delegates, reporters, secret
service agents and politicians depart and Minneapolis rejoins the free world.
At 09:44 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote:
ENTS,
A little late and rushed, but here it is.
June 26th,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The morning of June 26th Monica and I arose, packed up, and left
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
/>Saint Cloud, Minnesota, heading in a southwesterly direction. Our selected
road was State Route 34. The countryside along 34 is agrarian, pleasant, but
not inspiring. Its primary attraction for me is that it is relatively
uncluttered. The farms are large and the intervening towns are small. Central
Minnesota is part of the stable heartland.
As we sped through the green countryside, I tried to visualize the
earlier era of settlement when life was not as convenient. What drew
Scandinavian farmers to Minnesota? Plenty of fertile land, I presume was the
main attraction.
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