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Bemused By The News
Tue Nov 02 2004

No opinions here, just some observations from this mornings news.

Ralph Nader being heckled by people claiming he is trying to get Bush re-elected. Watching the hecklers being removed from the scene, some of who claimed to have voted for Nader in the last election and now blame him for Al Gore losing the election.

The whole Ohio ballot stuffing scenario. Republicans sending in people to be sure it isn’t going on, and Democrats proclaiming that this is harassing the voters. They wouldn’t need to be there if there wasn’t the one case in particular in which a town suddenly had more registered voters than the actual population of adults in the town. I guess that is one of those cases where they were trying to enforce the slogan “Vote early and vote often”.

All the predictions of lawsuits no matter which candidate wins. If the race is close, how long will the whole mess be tied up in courts with the losing side bringing various “foul play” charges against the winning side?

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I for one will be very glad when this whole election season is over. I’m sick of getting 35 pieces of mail a day, and all but one piece being political pamphlets of one sort or another. Just a note to any member of Chris Gregoire’s campaign, sending me one or two Vote For Me pieces of mail a day is more likely to inspire me to vote for the person who isn’t causing my recycle bin to overflow. I’m not kidding or exaggerating when I say I’ve gotten up to 3 pieces of mail EVERY DAY telling me all the reasons I should vote for her. This has been going on since the primaries. There are days I think my mailman must be getting a hernia from carrying all that extra mail weight just from her campaign office.

The one news piece today I liked hearing about was the Portland Oregon dentist story. It seems a dentist in Portland Oregon is paying kids a dollar a pound for Halloween candy. He pays them and gives them a toothbrush, and turns around, boxes up the candy and is sending it to our military members currently deployed to the Middle East, along with more toothbrushes for our men and women in uniform.

Is that cool or what?

4 Comments
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Nov 02 2004
    Well me, I want cookies.

    Even after all that talk about ice cream.

    What does this mean? :-)

    PS I just heard on Michael Medved that ALL the "pre votes" that were found on the voting machines before the polls opened in Philadelphia were for Kerry....

    Golly Gee Batman!
  • From:
    Causingchaos (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Nov 02 2004
    My gp is an MD. Right now I'm seeing a nurse practitioner as a gynocologist she handles most of my issues. I see my gp when things seem to be going wrong. They have as baseline urine on me becuase I'm prone to infections. They also have a baseline on some blood draws.

    My concern when I have abdominal pain is that it's something to do with my urinary tract and that whole system. I've damaged my kidneys and liver over the years.

    I read Leonard Peltier's name and before I read the rest of your entry was thinking, "Isn't he still in jail?"

    Nader's people are turning against him on all levels. The green party wouldn't even endorse him this year.

    I'm sick of all the political talk. I'm sick of the mailings and I'm sick of people showing up to my house wanting to talk to me about who my vote is for.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 03 2004
    I'm with you. I'll be glad when the whole thing is done with. And we can do it again in another 4 years.

    I do wish that we could be done with the mud slinging and innuendos, and just get on with a gentlemanly campaign. Suppose there'll ever be a ladylike campaign?

    Shalom
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Nov 03 2004
    Another nice thing about having the election over will be my phone not ringing five times a night with prerecorded vote for me messages.

    And the dentist in Portland gets my vote as the nicest story I have heard all day; totaly cool. :)