Take it easy, sit by the fire and cook a steak tonight.

Snow is no problem to drive on. Ice is out of control.

We wanted to be here for the first snow at our new house.

Matt made a comment, correcting me: 'No Dick,' he said, 'you're going from the fire to the frying pan.'

[On Sunday, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to support the Mitchell report's recommendation of a cease-fire.] We need to find some way to try and cap that violence and get some kind of process started, ... It is conceivable that when the Mitchell Plan is released this week that that may provide some basis on which to proceed.

This forces family businesses to sometimes sell off under fire-sale conditions to come up with cash. Sometimes it causes them to go into a decade or more of very, very deep debt, which takes away their capital and their ability to grow as they had been growing, to provide more jobs and employment opportunities. Sometimes they end up having to slice off parts of the business or farm to come up with the cash.