ISIS has a rival in cruelty

This sick world has at least one rival of ISIS for insane cruelty.  That rival is the Mexican Drug cartels, who push their death of poison into the United States.

With often the connivance of elected officials and law officers, the cartels take over communities and murder all opposition, even school children.

Report on Lowe reunion

The Lowe reunion Saturday had good attendance, mostly from members of the fourth  generation if we continue to call it descendants of T. T. Lowe.  I think wife Jen and brother Jon, and me, were the only members of the third generation -- that is grandchildren of T. T. -- who attended.

Margaret died during the year, leaving Mike (Winston) the last member of Aunt Eunice's nine children still living.  Mike has been unable to attend for  several years but two daughters were there and reported he has gotten better.

I was happy to see some who had traveled long distances to be there.  

Visit the doctor week

This is figured to be another visit to the doctor week.  This afternoon with a l:30 appointment I saw Dr. Brewer for three to five minutes.  I think that is the first time he has seen me this year, but the did what the visits are for -- renewed by prescription for pain medicine.

I will see Dr. Singh, my cardiologist, at 10 Wednesday morning as a followup to a visit a little more than two weeks ago.  Several tests were done at that visit and I expect to hear the results.  I have already heard from the test of my esophagus and it was  okay.

America is losing because of Obama

President Obama continues to act in the way he thinks will help him politically while the United Sates is in grave danger from terrorists and Ebola.

ISIS displays another beheading --  this time an aid worker -- next time an American war veteran  if their threats can be believed.

We were pleased that an air campaign was begun against ISIS although knowing ground troops will be required if we hope to defeat the terrorists.  But the air campaign is a farce.  We could be making 200   sorties each day instead of that number per month.   We could be a lot more effective but Obama has too many restrictions on who and what the planes may attack. The air campaign is just for show.

While he makes threats of overwhelming the country with illegal aliens, he does nothing to take every possible action against an epidemic of  Ebola. Romney says Obama should apologize to America.  I had rather he resign.

The truth -- economy worsens

How bad it must feel to be searching hard for a job and hear Obama claim the economy is booming and the unemployment rate is 5.9 per cent?

Misuse of statistics result in lies.  The statistic that matters is whether you have a job or not, and 92.6 million do not.  They are not in the labor force, the greatest number since 1938.  Obama and his administration  continue to push the wrong policies, including stupid "climate change" rules.

Get DHS out of Secret Service

Get Homeland Security out of the Secret Service.  Or get the Secret Service out of Homeland Security.  Any mix of two screwed up departments  is bad.

Some 25 years ago my family was visiting in Washington D.C.  My nephew, in the Secret Service assigned to the vice president, was able to help us avoid a few long lines.  A few years later my nephew resigned from the  Service.  His dad, my brother, could not understand why his son would do this.  His answer was "you can't understand how bad and fouled up the Service gas become."

As ineffective as the Service may have become, putting in under Homeland Security was a bad move.

Lowe reunion Saturday

Descendants of T. T. Lowe will hold their annual reunion Saturday, October 4, at Lakeview Methodist Church in Minden.  This is a very low-key affair featuring food, hymn singing, lots of hugs and some tall tales.

Some families have other reunions, but this particular annual event began more than 25 years ago.  The only second generation member then was Minnie Berry Lowe and she died a few years after the first reunion. We have had a number of deaths of third generation Lowes and spouses since that time.