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Happy Halloween!
The past week I've been sitting around not doing much other than fighting a
cold and dreading the upcoming days. First the weekend (which is, for the
most part, over) because of Halloween; kids hyped up on sugar and all that
entails, and the oohs and ahhs of November 2^nd turning to running and
screaming on the 3^rd and wondering what the October Surprise [1] would be,
and when it would be.
Imagine my surprise when it was Osama bin Laden throwing his endorsement to
Kerry [2], and without the usual Islamic apocalyptic rhetoric he usually
uses. And here I thought Bush would have announced his capture [3], not have
him endorsing Kerry.
I've stopped looking at the polls [4]—they change way too often and when the
difference between the candidates is below the margin of error, then what's
the point? Especially when the error margin can swing upto 100 electoral
votes one way or the other.
Stop! Stop the polling! Stop! Stop. Stop hurting America. Just say, “We won't
know until Nov. 3^rd.” Heck, we don't really need to know until 12:01 pm,
January 20^th but enough of politics … it's also the day before National
Novel Writing Month [5] and sadly once again, I shall attempt a novel. Who
knows, maybe one year I'll actually finish one.
[1]
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/oct-sur.html
[2]
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200410301440.asp
[3]
http://www.mrbarrett.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=977
[4]
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
[5]
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
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