Thank you all for the encouraging words about blogging.  I really appreciate the encouragement.  I am not giving up.  I read a fellow-blogger's comment that he was not going to vote this year, but I say that it is necessary to vote, even if you write in a vote for me.  I can't make the claim to fame that I invented the Internet or Global Warming like Al did, but I have read the Constitution and Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence and know what the country was made of.