Pink Floyd’s benchmark album, “The Dark Side of the Moon” is 40 years old this week.

And though placed there, in my opinion, it isn’t their finest album.

Romney tells Obama to ‘start packing’ in interview with Diane Sawyer

Acting very much like the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney sent a curt message to President Barack Obama today: “Start packing.”

The message, delivered with a chuckle, came in an exclusive interview with “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer who asked the presumptive GOP nominee if he had something to say to the president.

Romney said Obama’s “policies have not helped the American people. They have not helped get jobs, they have not helped raise incomes and they’ve added trillions of dollars of debt.”

That said and written, please allow me to interject this:

I will vote for Mitt Romney for president.

I would vote for my mongrel dog, Lilly, for president — over Mr Obama. She too is black. But as opposed to Mr Obama, she possesses admirable traits such as humility, loyalty, intelligence, perception, introspection and common sense.

I love my dog, Lilly.

I don’t love Mr Obama, who possesses more plottingly-evil artifices than my dog.

That said, Bottom Line:

I WILL vote for Romney over Obama.

Plain and simple.

BZ

Just when you were thinking that perhaps France “got it” (and the rest of Europe), it appears that the Hard Left — in the form of Socialists and Communists — are gaining ground on Nicolas Sarkozy, current President.

A powerful revival of France’s radical left, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former socialist minister, and with a resurgent Communist party at its core, looks poised to be one of the most striking outcomes of next Sunday’s first round of voting in the country’s presidential election.

Mr Mélenchon, who has emerged from relative obscurity to become the most dynamic figure in the campaign, reinforced his dramatic rise at the weekend, drawing tens of thousands of red flag waving supporters from across the country to a rally at the Prado beach in the Mediterranean port of Marseilles on Saturday.

“We are writing a page in the history of the left. We are the renaissance of the left,” he declared to roars from the crowd, chanting “Resistance! Resistance!”

I’ve got a message for the French: if you want to cut off your very own heads and completely doom what was once known as French Culture, then by all means, vote for the Hardest of Leftists. You’ll soon find your country broke, your culture gone, riots in the streets, Shariah Law instituted and your precious Leftist Government broken and burned. “More Free Cheese, less work!” will make a nice populist bleat as well.

France, you get what you deserve and, now, you appear to deserve all of the above.

On the other hand, that doesn’t bode well, nationally, for November — does it?

BZ

One of my hobbies involves photography. Another involves video. I am interested in my local mountain and railroad history as well. I combined these interests in my hobby blog involving railroading in California and over the Sierra Nevada mountains: the Milepost 154 Train Blog.

Please see my latest post, which documents a visit inside the cab of a General Electric P42DC passenger locomotive pulling the California Zephyr.

Peruse the blog, check out the older posts and enjoy the photographs and videos!

BZ