I’m thankful that there was no line at the post office to drop my Form 4868 in the mail. Later, there will be. I remember one year it was a party at the main post office in town. Coffee, donuts — it almost made being a taxpayer fun. Almost.

You know what makes being a taxpayer fun? Nothing. Yeah, I know that.

No, being in control of your taxes is fun. Ever heard of the Fair Tax? It’s a tax you get to be the boss of. It’s the one thing I love Mike Huckabee for.

OK, I’ll step down from the soapbox now and just say that today totally sucks. Totally totally sucks. Grrr.

I never thought I’d forgive U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) for his repeated attempts to scuttle the New Hampshire Primary.

But since he’s 100% right in saying that Iraq should fund its own reconstruction, I think it’s time to make peace.

This whole situation in Ecuador has me most puzzled.

Maybe I’m just naïve, but shouldn’t there be MORE diplomatic relations in the world and not LESS?

Reading this story about alleged plagiarism made me realize that if Barack Obama murdered somebody and I heard it from the Hillary Clinton campaign, it would look worse for HER than it would for HIM.

She and all of her people, they are all tattletales and would be far better served talking about HER than about HIM.

Now if HE said that SHE killed somebody… no, I didn’t hear that from him, not at all.

Rudy, is this true?

Giuliani firm tied to monitoring developer

I found this amusing and had to share it. I don’t know where it came from, but I heard it yesterday listening to C-SPAN. I googled it and happened to find it here…

demographics of newspapers

1.The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2.The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3.The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4.USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5.The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country — if they could find the time — and if they didn’t have to leave Southern California to do it.
6.The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it , thank you very much.
7.The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8.The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who is
running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9.The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another
country but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
12. The Oregonian is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.

If you go to the mailbox one day and find a check there…

Don’t forget WHOSE economy you’re supposed to be stimulating. Please take that money and buy American!

This message brought to you by the economy. Thank you. :)

We used to get it all the time, the January thaw… you’d be all excited to have this snow on the ground and then… POOF, it was gone!

And then you got to be grownup, wishing for the snow to go away, waiting for that brief new year’s respite from the white fluffies and then… SIGH, nothing.

Well this year, just in time for EVERYBODY to get out and vote — OK, only sixty percent of us, thank you very much! — we got up in to the 40’s 50’s 60’s — hmm, maybe it was some kind of meteorological prophecy!

The whole week has been nice… and then last night the rain came, just as they said it would.

But just minutes ago… ::rumble::rumble:: HUH? ::rumble::rumble:: WHAT?

I’m pretty much expecitng to see frogs falling from the sky. Yes, it’s the 11th of January and we’ve got a thunderstorm going on out there. And I was going to head out early, but not until it’s a little saner weatherwise.

So what, is God angry that Hillary won? Or that Huckabee lost? LOL, I voted for McCain — strike me down! LOL ::zap::

Listening to BBC overnight and C-SPAN this morning, I was reminded of another frequently asked question that I forgot…

Q. What about the negative campaigning? Call it “comparative” if you like, but we know mud-slinging when we see it. Maybe it’s effective at a national level, and the story I half-heard on BBC overnight (I was trying to fall asleep, but I’m coming down with a bit of a cold) implied that negative ads can be effective. But talk to people here in New Hampshire and it’s a whole nuther story. Even the subtle way Clinton has been trying to tear down Obama reflects so badly on her, not at all on him. And Romney’s attacks on McCain? Disgraceful! We know better than to think that the immigration plan had anything to do with amnesty. Garbage like that, on top of his own hypocrisy and flip-flopping, it’s no wonder people say that Romney is the devil. But what do I know? I just live here. :)

Tomorrow is Election Day — Primary Day, actually… and someone was asking me recently, well I thought I’d answer some frequenly asked questions right here…

Q. Are you sick of it all yet? The phone calls? Yes and no. I could live without the automated ones, but honestly, when I get a call from a real campaign volunteer, I’m quite nice to them and wish them luck.

Q. Is it true, there are so many candidates that you step out of the door and trip over them? Pretty much , especially this year. Usually there are only so many from only one of the parties. This year we’ve got the red people and the blue people begging for our votes. And with most, yes, most of us being neither party (”undeclared”), they really are all after us!

Q. Who do you people think you are, that you should have so much power? We never asked for any power. Our primary was here first and became traditional. While other states were still content to rely on their smoke-filled rooms, New Hampshire’s independent democratic spirit was alive and well, thank you very much! Also, because we are such a small state, we seem well-suited to having the candidates here and able to get around most of our state in just one day.

Q. But you people are so… so… homogeneous! We are who we are. And who cares if we don’t look like America. We think like America. And think and think and think. I’ve talked to more people today who haven’t completely made up their minds.

Q. And what makes you all think you’re so smart? Years of experience, I guess. And we’re not saying we’re so smart. But we look them in the eye and we ask questions and we demand answers.

Q. Do they really show up in your living room? Not so much today, but the last time I saw Joe Biden was in someone’s living room. And a year ago, that was the only place you could see most of them.

Q. Will they mow your lawn and wash your car to get your vote? No. Believe it or not, there are a few myths about the first-in-the-nation primary. :)

I haven’t heard a word from the Biden campaign all night. Haven’t seen a single quote from the candidate himself. But if news reports are accurate, and with just four days until I cast a ballot (which one?) it appears I am now, suddenly, an undecided voter. Does this mean I have to start answering my phone again?