Bah!

Not sure what else to say...  I'm disappointed in the results, no one I voted for won, and I'm clueless about what I can do to improve things.  I half want to gather friends around me and bury myself in other activities while ignoring the rest of the world (something I suspect the 40%-of-registered-voters who didn't vote of doing) and I half want to get into politics so at least I'll feel like I'm doing something positive.  Hopefully I'll find a realistic middle ground.

I visited the CNN website around 10 PM last night.  It wasn't looking good at the time, but PA looked like it was going to be going for Kerry and replacing senator Specter.  This morning the only difference was that our incumbent senator was now ahead.  I'm not too surprised by that, he's a moderate Republican, respected and popular.  I only hope Hoeffel will try again in two years when Santorum's term is up. 

I was briefly distracted this morning by discovering a buck in our back yard.
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Left the house and got to the top of the hill when I realized I had a flat tire.  Spent another 20 minutes or so re-inflating my tire, going back home to see if I could find a tire gage (didn't), throwing some fix a flat into the tire, and then driving to work.  The buck was still there through all this.

Bah!

Not sure what else to say...  I'm disappointed in the results, no one I voted for won, and I'm clueless about what I can do to improve things.  I half want to gather friends around me and bury myself in other activities while ignoring the rest of the world (something I suspect the 40%-of-registered-voters who didn't vote of doing) and I half want to get into politics so at least I'll feel like I'm doing something positive.  Hopefully I'll find a realistic middle ground.

I visited the CNN website around 10 PM last night.  It wasn't looking good at the time, but PA looked like it was going to be going for Kerry and replacing senator Specter.  This morning the only difference was that our incumbent senator was now ahead.  I'm not too surprised by that, he's a moderate Republican, respected and popular.  I only hope Hoeffel will try again in two years when Santorum's term is up. 

I was briefly distracted this morning by discovering a buck in our back yard.
( Photos behind cut... (53K) )

 

Left the house and got to the top of the hill when I realized I had a flat tire.  Spent another 20 minutes or so re-inflating my tire, going back home to see if I could find a tire gage (didn't), throwing some fix a flat into the tire, and then driving to work.  The buck was still there through all this.

A quote

Borrowed from girlmod:
"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it -- that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
November 1972

A quote

Borrowed from girlmod:
"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it -- that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
November 1972