It’s just Nina and me at home now. The Utah contingent left about 8:30 this morning. Jared headed north to Denver about an hour later. We’re getting things ready so we can go to Church. We’ve got the afternoon schedule this year. Because this is the fifth Sunday, I didn’t have any meetings this morning (always a blessing). It’s kind of quiet…. a “lack of sound” not heard for several days.

Driving up to Denver on Friday afternoon for a shift at the Temple I passed a car with a large Dennis Kucinich for President sticker in the back window. How in the world does anyone in Colorado know anything about Dennis Kucinich, let alone know that they want to vote for him eleven months from now? I have vivid memories of Mr. Kucinich in the late 1970’s when we were living near Cleveland. We moved back from Germany shortly after Mr. Kucinich became mayor of Cleveland. He immediately set about bankrupting the city! Within a year the city had defaulted on several million dollars in debt and had become the laughing stock of country. He shared the headlines with the Cuyahoga School Board Chairman (I think his name was Gallagher) who provided “comic relief” by mooning other folks while driving down the freeway. Kucinich was soundly defeated when he came up for reelection. I thought that was the end of a pretty bizarre political career, but I guess some folks get addicted to politics. He was elected to the State Legislature for a single term in the late 90’s and then, rather than run for reelection, ran for Congress and was elected. He is so liberal as to be dangerous in the extreme. If a person has any money at all, Kucinich believes it belongs to the government for redistribution. He would have no military at all. In an earlier era he would have been branded a communist. And with that and more, someone in Colorado thinks that Kucinich should be elected President. I guess political machines can spin anything, but this just leaves me dumbfounded! What is normal, anyway?