This is my friend Roma, an American. She voted weeks ago, I can't imagine who she voted for.I'm loving the Guardian's front page, because it has a map of the USA with States filled in according to who has won them. You can roll your mouse over the State and see what the results are. Cool.
Moving on.
Somewhere over the past couple of days, a news item about a murderer here in BC (I think), said that he claimed he was influenced by the TV series 'Dexter'. Really.
A friend told me that for the first time in recorded history, Miami had had a month without a murder. The Dexter effect maybe?
Elections here are getting out of hand, we now have a whole slew of small potato elections. There was a leaflet yesterday in with the post, with a set of candidates. So far as I could work out, you had the choice of Chen, Chen, Chen, or Cheng. Mmmmm.
We have no letter box, so thrust in the gap between the door and the jamb yesterday was a leaflet for something. It had four pages and was entirely in Chinese, not a single word of English. Oh well, yes, there was, quite literally a single word, in small print, 'Watchtower'. One word, but so eloquent.
So, oddly, most of my Guardian map seems to be coloured red (for a strong win) or pink (for a bare win) and yet Obama seems to be sweeping the board.
This'll make sense once I have a drink.
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I wouldn't have imagined that the Witnesses would have been the religion of choice when there are billions and billions of you.
Isn't there only room in heaven for 144 000 of 'em?
Word Verification... outwag
Hmmmm, didn't think of that!
I'm convinced the word verification is developing AI, they always seem to be words recently and more and more that could have some meaning. I think there's a book in there.
the map thing is because the larger populated states are smaller geographically. The ones with populations of fifteen are huge geographically (Alaska, Montana). So, they take up a lot of red.
There was a map of county results from the 2004 election, and it was incredible how much red there was.
But, as it turns out, blue voters live in red states, and vice versa. It's prejudice to call them red and blue. It must stop!
Ah, true enough.
It's confusing for us Europeans anyway because we have blue for Conservative and red for Socialists.
I think Denny Crane and Alan Shore had the last word in any case.
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