Moving and randomness
Okay, so we've spent the last week packing and carting boxes and random crap from our old rental to our new rental on the other side of town. We lived on the southeast side of town, and now we're out on the northwest, nearer the airport.
The joke around here is that Chch is a '20 minute city', meaning that you can get from anywhere to anywhere else in the city in 20 minutes. Well, it takes exactly 20 minutes to get from our old place to our new place. That assumes, of course, that there's normal traffic and the traffic lights cooperate.
However ... Chch is a city of 400,000 people and has no highways and only 1 by-pass within the city. So the main roads within the city can get pretty backed up between 5:00 and 6:00.
On another note ... Edwards! Grr ... I didn't think he'd win, but I thought he'd at least fight to the end. I guess he's angling for another VP slot. However, I'm still sticking to my prediction that if Hillary is the nominee, Wes Clark will be her pick for VP. My conviction is made even stronger by the fact that McCain could be the R pick.
I guess at this point it's about choosing the lesser of two evils. Obama is probably the lesser evil, though still decidedly evil. After the last 7 years, we need a little more divisiveness and a lot less capitulation. That's what worries me about Obama. He's put himself out there as someone too willing to play nice. %^&* that. We need someone to kick some ass and stand up to the 30%'ers who think they have legitimacy in the political process. Bipartisanship brought us ... the PATRIOT ACT, FISA abuses, warrantless wiretaps, suspension of habeas corpus, the Iraq War ... etc. etc. Is that really what we need more of? I think not.
The joke around here is that Chch is a '20 minute city', meaning that you can get from anywhere to anywhere else in the city in 20 minutes. Well, it takes exactly 20 minutes to get from our old place to our new place. That assumes, of course, that there's normal traffic and the traffic lights cooperate.
However ... Chch is a city of 400,000 people and has no highways and only 1 by-pass within the city. So the main roads within the city can get pretty backed up between 5:00 and 6:00.
On another note ... Edwards! Grr ... I didn't think he'd win, but I thought he'd at least fight to the end. I guess he's angling for another VP slot. However, I'm still sticking to my prediction that if Hillary is the nominee, Wes Clark will be her pick for VP. My conviction is made even stronger by the fact that McCain could be the R pick.
I guess at this point it's about choosing the lesser of two evils. Obama is probably the lesser evil, though still decidedly evil. After the last 7 years, we need a little more divisiveness and a lot less capitulation. That's what worries me about Obama. He's put himself out there as someone too willing to play nice. %^&* that. We need someone to kick some ass and stand up to the 30%'ers who think they have legitimacy in the political process. Bipartisanship brought us ... the PATRIOT ACT, FISA abuses, warrantless wiretaps, suspension of habeas corpus, the Iraq War ... etc. etc. Is that really what we need more of? I think not.
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