December's Child

I feel like December's Child as the days of the 12th month slowly trickle by and I wait it out. It's as if psychologically the anticipation is building for 2009 and we are in a holding pattern now.

Yesterday at the Wal Mart on 150 the lady in the bakery had one thing right. Something needs to be done about the auto industry. We taxpayers do not wish to prop up a failing industry, if in fact it does not deserve to be helped, but at the same time, we should not let the entire domestic industry fail. Something should be done, but what??? How are we citizens supposed to know the right thing to do? But we should do the right thing, whatever that is.

Senator Shelby seems gallant to some, standing in the breach, refusing to go along with a "bailout." But how much of his stand is pure politics as he, in effect, stands for the foreign industry in Alabama and against Detroit? Seldom is a politician's position purely without political considerations.

Cold rain is falling over Shelby County early on this Tuesday morning. It seems like we've had far more rain than usual this month.

Christmas will come and go soon. A new year beckons.