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Without the comic relief of Rick Santorum, the GOP race for the presidential nomination is no longer going to be amusing. It will just become abrasively irritating. They really have nothing to campaign on other than "We hate Obama, so vote for us." Warning: Pay attention closely, not just to what those candidates are saying, but to the implied subtext. Electing any of them will result in more shakeups and changes than Obama promised in 2008, and far more than have actually come about. (Frankly, other than a badly written reform of health care policy that is in fact no reform at all and will achieve next to nothing, Obama has yet to deliver a thing that he promised.) The GOP candidates are making bigger promises yet, promises that would force the destruction of the Obama health care plan, yes. They would also likely try to privatize social security, cut taxes on the wealthy even further, eliminate more social programs, and feed even more money to the military industrial complex than Dubya did. Is that really what you want?

In other news, tiny bears, rather cartoonish and menacing, are now complete and ready to be installed in the railroad scenery. Still need a fox and a couple of coyotes if I can get them done. It's cold outside, has been all day and was so last night. We appear to be making up for the warm March by freezing our tails off in April.