In the last week, Perlmutter received 3 tweets urging him to vote yes on the bill. In contrast he received 144 tweets demanding a no vote. Of course, several Twitter users, (myself included) sent him multiple tweets. After a final filtering of the data I found that 3 Twitter users are for the current bill and 68 are against it.

So There you have it Ed, 4.4% support you and only 95.6% are against you. I recommend you polish your resume!

Mr. Udall,

Your support of a government takeover of 1/6 of the American economy is a thinly veiled attempt to permanently establish the Democrat party in power. Why are you more devoted to your party than your nation?

I am no big Republican supporter since they are not freedom lovers when it comes to social issues. My beliefs spring from the central idea that the individual is the foundation of the nation. That the government’s job is to insure that all individual freedom is preserved. That you can not make one man more free by making another man less free.

Mr. Udall, you are a smart man, you should know that government and government programs are not what made this nation great. Please, think about the health care issue and realize it is another program that will never go away and always cost more than we think is should like social security, medicare, and about a thousand others. Don’t you get tired of always trying to figure out how to save these bloated and inefficient programs? Lets put the individual in charge of themselves (novel idea huh?), no one is better suited to have ones own interest in mind than the individual himself.

I would not presume to know what is best for you Mr. Udall. If you are careless with your assets, so be it, you can live with the consequences. If you want to be thrifty with your assets, more power to you. I want you to be totally free to succeed or fail as you wish. Isn’t that a great feeling, no restrictions or boundaries to what you can do? Why do you think you know best how I should live my life? Why do you think my rights should be subjugated to another mans by taxing me to pay for the health care of someone else?

Sincerely,

Allyen E. Wilson III

This is the healthcare system we are told we should emulate. Where will we send our critical cases when Obama-care is enacted. I guess they will be expected to act “honorably” and just die to save us the inconvenience and expense.

Meanwhile, I walked most of the day with camera in hand. I visited the market where there are a few hundred individual stalls selling fish, vegetables, fruit and meat. Each stall only sells one class of food item. Even the fruit stalls did not sell vegetables and vice-versa. There were about six stalls that only sold dates!

The fish stalls were quite lively with many of the Pakistani vendors clamouring to have me take their picture. I had limited conversations with several of them where the general flow went like this.

Vendor, “Where are you from”
Me, “America”
Vendor, “America good, Bush bad, too much fighting”Â

They all had a strong interest in visiting America and one fellow wanted me to take him home with me!

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The dried fish stalls had a very pungent odor, not necessarily offensive but very strong.

The fresh meat shops seemed to only have lamb. I did not see any other cut available.

Did I mention that the fish vendors were very friendly?

After my morning at the market, I spent a windy and hot afternoon at the pool. I talked with British family about what to do in London that is off the normal tourist beat. We came up with a couple of ideas and I will let you know if anything pans out when we get there.

After Stacy’s workshop was finished for the day we had a cold, refreshing, adult beverage by the pool as the sun was going down. We headed off to the Jumeirah mall for some shopping and dinner. The taxi ride was quite long and took right past the worlds tallest building, the Burj Dubai that will eventually be 30% taller than the next closest competitor. It is an impressive site to say the least.

The Jumeirah mall also offers a good view of Burj Al Arab Hotel, the world’s only seven star hotel. It is certainly a beautiful structure. I have heard that they let people who cannot afford to stay there tour the hotel for 50 Dirham, or about $13. Not too bad considering a single nights stay in the smallest room is $1,500.

Stacy and I had a good Lebanese meal where she had a hearts of palm salad that was terrific. I had the kafta which the waiter repeatedly reminded us was raw lamb. It took a while to convince him I knew what I was ordering. The kafta was very good simply scooped up with a piece of pita bread. The seasoning of garlic, onion, and cumin was very good.

In general, the shops in the Jumeirah mall were not very interesting except for two. The exotic home furnishings shop was terrific. We fell in love with a Persian rug but are not the kind of people to drop $4,000 on the small version of the one we wanted. The other shop we liked offered hand made clothing from Kashmir. Stacy did buy a stunning jacket kind of thing with incredible hand embroidery of a flower motif. Maybe a picture will be forthcoming as Stacy can not wait to wear it.