First, many here, including Lesley, are forgetting , or never knew that Hillary Clinton went on, without Sinbad , but with two sharpshooters, to 2 or 3 outposts in the hills from the base in Tuzla. Mode of travel was helicopter, both landings were corkscrew. Along with Liz, I cannot enlarge one of those little videos, but spent years as an academic doing research, and I was able to find contemporaneous reports on the net about the extent of her visit to the troops in Bosnia. Before anyone on here says again that she lied, get some real facts. Getting the facts: geez, dontcha think that is something that should also have been done about the Ohio woman who died for lack of adequate, timely medical care. We are not seeing or hearing any public correction about that accusation of lying, are we? We all owe her an apology, or two, or three.

The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don’t know what I’m doing, someone else does. Anon.

I too moved to Iowa, but from urban Iowa w/ gambling and its associated crime waves, and McMansion housing, to rural Iowa…a small town where I live in the center of town, one-half block from the courthouse, and 200 feet from the grocery, 50 feet from the best restaurant in two counties, and next door to a small bar that aerves the best! fried chicken and fish on Fridays. The grocery sells $2.50 sirloin sandwiches and $1 hotdogs and $1.50 brats every Thursday and Friday w/ all profits to the Dollars for Scholars fund from Easter thru Halloween. What neighbors…but they like me because I had a 110 yr old building restored-downstairs is storefront, my apt upstairs. Grow vegetables in big clay (on sale) pots or five-gallon buckets, enough produce to freeze/can for me for winter or give away, bake own bread for pleasure at less than $1 per loaf, buy groceries only on sale, make my own laundry soap for less than 1 cent per load, and buy freshly butchered chickens, lamb and pork, pure cream and milk and laid-this-morning eggs from newly met Amish friends who farm 10 miles out of town…am trying to wear out clothes bought in the last 20 years…etc. I agree with the couple who moved to Iowa. It’s really a DIY state, with helpful, friendly folks who will teach one without making you feel stupid. Sometimes I miss concerts and plays, but will figure out a way to feed that hunger later. Come live here…houses from $40-130,000 and internet access. We govern ourselves and thereby feel more invested in what happens…a real sense of community, including newcomers and strangers. Plus daily UPS and FedX delivery with occasional DHL…What more do you want? What do you mean…8 and1/2 minute average visit to this site (quote from Charlie Rose’s show last night…without writing, I am going to assume at least 30-40 minutes!

Love the album…notice how these women smile so naturally, as do most women, when they are aound each other. There is a beautiful Ann Richards video montage at Hillary Cinton’s campaign site…quite moving.