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shadowkatGood news - the sinus headache is not as bad as it was. The decongestant appears to be working a bit. It's a weak one. I can't take pseudophrenine (which is used to make crystal meth, by the way) because of the tremor.
Discussed election with the Momster, who proceeded to rant, albeit briefly about the Republican hen-penny's in her neighborhood. She lives in South Carolina, you can't get redder than South Carolina (it like Kansas will vote for Romney unless someone gets hit by lightening). Well, unless you live in Kansas, I suppose. The hen-penny's (rather love this term) are screaming that the world will end if Obama is elected for a second term. (I pointed out that actually there are hen-penny's are both sides of this race. She agreed with me on that point. The hen-penny's on the left believe the world will end if Romney gets elected. People? Life will go on in either event. We still have the Congressional juggernaught to stand in the way.)
Hen-penny is a character similar to Chicken Little, who in the folk-tale, was constantly proclaiming that the sky is falling or the end of days is upon us. Truth is - people have been doing this since 2000 BC. Most of the Old Testament and the New One is people worrying about the end of days. Heck most of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm seem to be about that.
We are forever worrying about the sky falling. It's amazing we get anything done.
I have decided to ignore the election until tomorrow morning for the sake of my sanity and well, blood pressure. Just taking a glimspe of the current results sent it sky-rocketing.
I voted. I can't control what other people do. My state will most likely carry Obama. But even though NY may or may not have a bigger population than say a state like Ohio or Arizona, the election is decided not on popular vote but on the electoral collage points. We are basically voting for electoral collage reps. We don't live in a democracy, we live in a "republic". People don't seem to understand this - because it is confusing.
In short, I'm taking my old man's advice from earlier this summer - try not to worry too much about the uncontrollables or the uncontrollable variables. You do the best you can with what you are given.
Discussed election with the Momster, who proceeded to rant, albeit briefly about the Republican hen-penny's in her neighborhood. She lives in South Carolina, you can't get redder than South Carolina (it like Kansas will vote for Romney unless someone gets hit by lightening). Well, unless you live in Kansas, I suppose. The hen-penny's (rather love this term) are screaming that the world will end if Obama is elected for a second term. (I pointed out that actually there are hen-penny's are both sides of this race. She agreed with me on that point. The hen-penny's on the left believe the world will end if Romney gets elected. People? Life will go on in either event. We still have the Congressional juggernaught to stand in the way.)
Hen-penny is a character similar to Chicken Little, who in the folk-tale, was constantly proclaiming that the sky is falling or the end of days is upon us. Truth is - people have been doing this since 2000 BC. Most of the Old Testament and the New One is people worrying about the end of days. Heck most of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm seem to be about that.
We are forever worrying about the sky falling. It's amazing we get anything done.
I have decided to ignore the election until tomorrow morning for the sake of my sanity and well, blood pressure. Just taking a glimspe of the current results sent it sky-rocketing.
I voted. I can't control what other people do. My state will most likely carry Obama. But even though NY may or may not have a bigger population than say a state like Ohio or Arizona, the election is decided not on popular vote but on the electoral collage points. We are basically voting for electoral collage reps. We don't live in a democracy, we live in a "republic". People don't seem to understand this - because it is confusing.
In short, I'm taking my old man's advice from earlier this summer - try not to worry too much about the uncontrollables or the uncontrollable variables. You do the best you can with what you are given.
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Date: 2012-11-07 02:33 am (UTC)