Aw, Puckernuts

Mood: I got a headache, honeys.

They're doing a recount here! I can't believe it! Even Alaska as big and remote as it is had their returns done and certified before us! And they're 2 hours behind us in NM (1 a.m. Friday is 11 p.m. Thursday or AKST; GMT−9; Zone V)!

:::bangs head on desk:::

Aw, Puckernuts

Well, counting is done here in NM and Ms. Clinton holds a 1123 vote lead over Obama. Finally all 184 precincts have reported in. Still, it wasn't a runaway vote. I'm going to wait to see how Obama fares in the remaining Democratic caucuses and primaries.

And I see Romney has joined the throngs of American drop-outs.

Voting Thanks

Wow! I am so, so impressed with the voter turn out in my state for the Democratic caucus. There have been some delays in the vote counting and it isn't all in for us - but it's a real squeaker so far, let me tell you! Both Clinton and Obama have 48% of the vote, with Clinton having a slight lead.

The current breakdown as of 11:37 a.m. today is: Clinton with 65,845 votes, Obama with 65,728 with 181 of 184 districts reporting. That's a 117 vote difference, folks! Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich also got some votes even though they'd already dropped out of the race. The ballots had already been printed, so their names hadn't been removed.

So we need to hear from 3 districts as well as have absentee ballots counted to get the final tally. It is so exciting to have an election this close! We did have some problems with polling places running out of ballots which resulted in long waits in places. Amazing! That doesn't happen much because of how few people (based on our census of people eligible to vote) actually vote anymore. So running out and needing new ballots printed was actually great news to hear.

The school on our street hosted a polling station -- but not the one for me and Jim (that would've been too convenient). Wouldn't you know the dividing line was the side of the street we're on? We had to drive to our polling place and through traffic already thronging our street with people looking for places to park and a line snaking out of the building by 12:05. We got to our polling place early. The parking lots were full and people were starting to park on the street. The line inside was moving fairly quickly so we had our votes cast shortly before 12:30 p.m. Once home, we estimated a couple thousand people made it to our street's polling station to vote there just based on the amount of traffic. The flow of people continued as we headed over to Willow and Kenn's to watch the returns on CNN about half an hour before the polls closed.

My feelings were of joy and pride to see that people are believing how much this upcoming Presidential election matters for all of us and acting on that belief.

I want to thank everyone who went out and voted yesterday. You rock! And that includes everyone in the other states as well -- Democrats and Republicans!

Early Notes On Votes

Well, DH went out early to vote only to find the polls didn't open til' noon here. After cooling our heels for a few hours back at de casa, him reading and me knitting, we went back to our polling place and found a full parking lot, so we parked on the street. Inside, the line was already long and getting longer as people from three different precincts were showing up.

The school on our street is a polling place for a few other districts (our street is the dividing line and we're on the side where we have to travel a little to go vote) and the traffic on the street is misery for all the cars on it. Much worse than the after school pick up. Today I'm glad of it, because I know those people are going to vote and it makes me feel good and proud!

Oh... and I did vote for Obama!

Super Tuesday

Oh wow! Tomorrow is gonna be an even bigger day that yesterday was! I plan to be at the polls early! The race between Obama and Clinton will be a tight one, I think. My crystal ball is all clouded up, but I have a hunch though that Obama is going to have a strong, early lead.

My Fellow Americans: Go Forth And VOTE !

It Takes Cowards....

It takes some real cowards to dress mentally retarded women up with bombs and send them into market places and then detonate the bombs by remote control. Let's add this to the examples of moral & ideological bankruptcy characterizing Islamist extremism. I don't think there will be any virgins in heaven for the men who came up with that scheme! I wish I could throw my sandals in their faces! Yes, I know it's insulting.

But how contemptuous of life is it to use the weakest amongst us as tools for death? These people, mentally disabled as they are not normally a part of any culture's ideologues, theologians, firebrands or haters. I can't believe that the simplest of us us (regardless of culture) are capable of giving fully informed, knowledgeable consent as to all the ramifications of going as a living bomb into a market place: consenting to cause terror to the survivors, to bring death to a community's most common life activities because one tribe hates another and asserts the ascendancy of their sect's beliefs over the others. I doubt these women could fully know that they would leave behind grieving parents, widows, widowers who may not thank them for their loved one's deaths in their heart of hearts much less form the desire for that kind of havoc and destruction.

It's cowards who use these unknowing ones as their tools. What right thinking person anywhere in the world would say it was anything less than appalling? What? Me want to value and emulate that level of wanton uncaring? Not a chance! Not my soul!

Super Bowl Sunday

All right. I'm getting real excited now. Sunday is coming hard up on us. My prediction is that the Patriots are gonna win by at least 3 points. It's gonna be a hair puller in a few places, but overall my Pats are going to prevail and have the conclusion to a truly perfect season.

My blustery buddy in San Francisco and fellow blogger from another place, Kofla are rooting for the Giants. But my blustery buddy really floored me last night saying if it had been a match-up between the Cowboys and Patriots, he'd be 'reluctantly' rooting for the Cowboys (since he is the worlds biggest A.B.C. fan).

GO PATRIOTS!!!

Dropping Out

On the Democratic side of the race, it has been reported that Edwards is ending his run for the White House. No word on who he plans to endorse yet. On the Republican side, Guiliani will be ending his run after yesterday's stinging results in Florida where McCain ran away with a 100,000 vote lead over Romney.

Further reports on the race have feminists howling over Sen. Edward Kennedy's endorsement of Obama. NOW is claiming he has "betrayed" us women by not endorsing Hillary. I don't know about that. Kennedy isn't a fool and he's got long experience with Hillary and Bill already. If I recall correctly, they were cordial relations but not close. I don't think Kennedy owed Hillary his endorsement just to support the feminist cause.

Honestly, Bill....

.... I never did give a rats ass about that blowjob thing. I promise. I voted for ya both times. Happily and on purpose even. I liked you just fine as president for the most part.

Bill, I know you're a charming son of the South. You're also being Hillary's gallant defender these days, but hon... ya gotta listen to me: "It's time to shut up about Obama. Really. This is her fight now with Obama and she's gotta hold her own in this, defend herself and you gotta step back on this, just like she had to when the stuff hit the fan over Monica!" ya hear?

I'm just saying this cos I like ya and yeah... you're still hot and it'd just suck to see you screw Hillary's run with the Lancelot routine. Be sweet, huh hon?

Oughta Hear, Oughta See

....the tone of casual dismissal in Pervez Musharrif's voice when he says it's not amongst his government's priorities in Pakistan to look for Bin Laden; declaiming it was a tribal issue. It's really disingenuous. If I ever pulled an disinegnuous tone like that in front of my Mom, she would've slapped me silly & then proceed to "expand my conscientiousness" about what I owed to humanity.

...and see the new documentary on PBS, "The Jewish Americans segment "Home". It's a really well done work and asks some interesting philosophical question that are looking forward to the future.

I hear Suharto is taking his time on his deathbed over there in Indonesia. He was a bastard in a lot of ways. Does anyone here ever think what would happen if a purge occurred in our own governments? What would the implications be for us average jacks & jills? What do you think?

Mmm... Fred Thompson dropped out of the Presidential race on the Republican party side. Not enough money, not enough votes and a lot dour seeming. Governor Richardson on the Democratic side dropped out last week after New Hampshire. He's let us New Mexican's know he's "back." Oh and he's growing a beard now. Da gov'ner is not one of those guys who looks good with 3, 4 days worth of stubble. But hey, it's good to be home. The campaign trail is a bit rough on a fella.

Ran across two separate stories about stupid criminals shooting themselves in their asses while committing their petty crimes. A third guy, a robber shot himself in his foot with a .45. I really wanna cheer them on... maybe they'll get it right and hit an artery or at least do a self-vasectomy! They should. Shouldn't they?