It's 2007

O little town of Bethlehem a wall now stops the weary from getting to the Inn and the stables are bare because of terrorists.  Saddam Hussein's hanging live from Baghdad "plummeting  through the gallows trapdoor and dangling in death."  This past week there have been almost daily deaths of Michigan soldiers to add to the over 3000 total in Iraq.  Gerald R. Ford our 38th president and oldest at 93 died  Dec. 26.   He is to be buried in Grand Rapids today.  He was the only president from Michigan and was never elected Vice president, was appointed after Spiro Agnew's resignation. He assumed  the presidency after Nixon's Watergate impeachment avoidance and lost to Jimmy Carter when he ran for election.   Now on with 2007 it starts here with temperatures near 50 with little snow or cold weather.  Jobs now offer less security than ever and people have more debt than during the Great Depression.   Should we be optimistic or should responsibility and respectability become our personal and corporate guides?   Jon has been home for 3 weeks from school and  has been working at Sears and hoping he did well on his exams. He is worried about keeping his scholarship as he needs to maintain a 3 point average.   President Bush described Gerald Ford  as a rock of stability may we all take a lesson.