Voting, Political Parties and Civil Unrest Post Election
Man has this campaign been crazy. Lots of crazy accusations and lots of mudslinging. It’s funny, however, because for me personally, I don’t really watch or listen to that kind of crap - it’s tantamount to allowing someone to tell me how to vote - instead, like any other important decision, I review and study the facts as they relate to issues important to me. I do so by attempting to study factual studies, actual voting records and historical data. What I have found odd is that there are tons of places out there promoting their ‘fair and balanced’ opinions as fact.
The owner of a blog that I read daily from back home wrote the other day that 58% of a pool of 608 Texans planned to vote for John McCain while (and really, I have no idea why this is even important) 23% of those who were polled believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim. I’m sorry, but aside from that being untrue, it sure seems kind of silly, right?
In another venue, which I frequent, I’ve read messages where people are being warned about potential civil unrest in the days following the election.
It’s sad to me, as an American, to see our political elections turn this way. There are hundreds of countries all over the world where simple elections for office turn into bloodbaths. How sad that there is real fear, here in our own country, of this happening on November 4th?
For a number of reasons, I have changed my methodology of thinking this election - I have split from ‘party ticket voting’ and investigated the issues which are important to me and while there are a few things that I agree with the Republicans on - there are far more issues that are important to me that land me squarely on the Democratic side of the ballot.
Also, I’ve said it before and I will say it again, having lived under the ‘rule’ of both of these Senators in their respective districts, I find that Obama, more often than not, does what he says he’ll do - and when he does it (and even if he doesn’t do it) I find that his decisions are more in line with my thoughts and ideas than those of John McCain.
My decision to vote for Obama this Tuesday has landed me square in the cross hairs of some family and friends but that’s ok. I can’t pretend to know what issues are important to them, at their core. For me, my experience as a Military wife, a middle-class family and woman lead me in a different direction - but I’d like to think, when it’s all said and done, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office - we’ll come together in the spirit of country and do the best we can with whatever leadership is in place.
You can’t please all the people all the time, but you can please some of the people some of the time - I’m a Democrat. I’m voting for Obama - please stop sending me the hate mongering, racist propaganda - there, I said it 
One day, you look at them and they’re grown…
I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, old…but I feel old sometimes and there is nothing like having a teenager in the house to solidify that feeling. A few weeks ago, I was driving through the subdivision when I noticed some kids on their bikes - I said out loud, “Hey, there’s some kids you can play with!” and then I turned to look at Jerrett (my almost 6 foot tall, almost 14 year old son) and he said, “Mom, they’re like 8″.
They’re like 8.
I noticed, right in that minute, that Jerrett is not only getting older - but he’s getting bigger. I remember when he used to be dwarfed by the front seat and I worried about him riding up there, because of the airbag - but now…he’s as big as I am.
He’ll be 14 in twelve days…that’s two years away from driving, four years away from moving out and 10 years away from dating…ha…I know, a mom can hope.
Sometimes, I look around at my peers and I’m so thankful that I had Jerrett young, because my being young allows me to relate to him on a much deeper level - but, now I feel old. OLD.
Along those same lines - guess what I got today? Reading glasses. They’re fashionably cute, of course - but it doesn’t dismiss the fact that I have READING GLASSES. My only saving grace is the fact that I do not have that chain thing going around my neck…yet that is.
In other news, I saw my Hematologist today and he told me that I don’t have to continue the weekly treatments because my labs came back and I am on the low side of normal - I did go ahead and get my treatment today and I go back in six weeks for port maintenance with the possibility of getting a treatment, depending on my levels. In the mean time, I have to go in for labs every few days so that they can monitor the rate in which I metabolize the iron storage I’ve built up. Good news for sure.
I can say, today, I totally feel like I am on the down hill side of 2008. It’s always this time of year that I start to stress out about the whole topic we don’t discuss here…it starts with our anniversary, Jerrett’s birthday, my birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, John’s birthday then Marni’s birthday. It’s just a lot to soak up - and each year, it gets a bit more intense.
Anyway, I am going to go take my half blind, arthritic arse to the bedroom and read. Now that I have glasses, maybe I’ll enjoy it again. That is, if I can get over the whole having reading glasses thing…grrr
We’re out of milk and I refuse to go to the store…
Refuse!
For the second day in a row, my right shoulder has felt like I played a rough game of tackle the man with the football with Emmit Smith and/or some other equally large man with football prowess.
I swear I can feel the ‘hose’ they ran up my jugular when I look to the left. That, in itself, weirds me out beyond words. A helpful co-worker advised me not to look to the left…a difficult feat when you’re attempting to drive without getting killed.
The girlfriend who was instructed (rather specifically I might add) to NEVER call here again, called about 6 minutes ago. I really hope I was not this annoying when I was her age, but I have a sneaking suspicion I was. Again, my apologies go out to Vivian and Valerie. I am going to try harder not to make a point to apologize to my ex-boyfriend’s from my teen years mothers in the future. (No matter how hard I tried, I could not make that sentence look right and/or ok…if you have a suggestion, hit the comments).
I found a really great deal on a 22′ Viewsonic Widescreen Monitor - to bad I’m not in the market.
The most annoying sound to ever come out of the TV is the sound of the background music to Viva Piñata. A sound I hear way to much.
It just took me like 7 minutes to get the ñ to work. That’s a lot of work for an ñ. Note: Firefox = Grrr
Oh, score! Guess what? The AC company we had come out a month ago never cashed the check I gave them, so I called them to find out what the heck was going on…their answer, “I dunno, let me look and call you back.” So they didn’t call me back so I called again (I’m starting to wonder how they stay in business, seriously) and they said, “Well, we can’t find it, just put a stop payment on it and forget it, I have no idea what happened to it!” Can you see why I wonder how they stay in business? I mean, aside from this being Phoenix and it being hotter than heck here most of the year? To add, their website is ‘turned off’. Strange. And Score!
Anyway, I am gonna go veg in front of the TV and relax. My shoulder is really bothering me a lot. No, I’m still not going to the store!
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