DEBT LIMIT

Time is quickly passing and we will reach the point where the "full faith and credit" promised by all government securities will no longer be true. After 70 years of faith in the US structure, I have lost it. Now is the time to signal to anyone who wants your support in the next election to let them know that they won't have it unless they are willing to compromise to work out a bill. The "tea party fanatics" who believe they are doing the will of their pricipals will see the damage when the stock market falls to the lowest point since the 30's.

Undocumented Immigrants

If our elected leaders would set aside their political motives and get to solving some of the real problems facing us, we might be more optomistic about the state of U. S. affairs.

It was a lousy Thanksgiving for the Miechkota family in International
Falls, Minn.

About 700 Canadian citizens were deported back to Canada during 2006, said
Tim Counts, public affairs officer for the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) office in Bloomington, Minn. The office assumed a portion of
the Immigration and Naturalization Service's duties after that office was
dissolved in 2003.

Read the entire item from the Grand Forks Herald.

We Used to Go to Winnepeg

Wow. Who would have thought that traveling from Canada to North Dakota to shop would be like heading to Mexico to look for bargains.