A good question.

So I’ve discovered the mind boggling time wasting potential that is “facebook”. This site is an incredible loss of productivity for the country as a whole. That said, I will plead the 5th when it comes to how much “at work” time I’ve spent there. The question at hand is whether or not to post this URL at that site. Do I continue to enjoy the mental masturbation experience of no one reading my blog, or do I expose myself to the masses. Granted most of the masses could hopefully be a little kinder since most would actually have met me at one point or another. It would hopefully drive me to at least post a little more often if nothing else. Ahh the perils of the internets.

Oh yeah, its my birthday, Yea me!! I’m in a caged telco closet waiting for VZ to call back. Oh yeah and I got up at 5:15 this am after a crappy night’s sleep. w00t!!


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A New Dawn

Hyperbole abounds. Barack Obama was elected president last week in a reasonable majority. The sense history, symbolism, relief, hope, and renewed optimism is palpable. I find myself motivated (almost) to volunteer somehow to pitch in and lend a hand like I havent felt in years, if ever. Almost being the key word. I want to be involved, to take part in what I hope will be the start of something bigger than the age of greed that I/we have suffered through since 1980. If nothing else, the trainwreck that has been the 43rd president, had almost guaranteed the election for this man. There's been alot of press about what can be done to return the United States to its proper place in the international community. Executive orders, reversing signing statements, closing Git-mo and Abu Graib and Kandahar. There's honest policy work being done to try to relieve the stresses on the middle class.

I think the nation as a whole is holding its collective breath until Jan 20th.
Got Hope? isnt a question so much anymore as a statement.

All that and I've discovered Facebook! what an incredible way to waste huge chunks of time.


T minus 67 days

Got Hope?

Its no longer a question. I've got hope. We've got hope. Now the question is quickly becoming can we go forward and leave the partisan bickering, for the sake of partisanship behind. Can we go forward and put "country first"?? Can we do it with honor and grace?? Can we progress past the tactics of smear and fear. This isnt an us vs them situation. We all live in this country together. Lets try to make it a better place for *everyone*.

T minus 69 days

Last Hours

Its come down to the last hours. Will we “keep hope alive”?? Or will fear and paranoia rule the day? Will Chicago erupt in mass rioting no matter which way the election goes? Will someone find a way to interfere enough to actually throw the results into question? Will people accept their duly elected president if they can not accept the loss of their own candidate. Hard sayin’ there’s a lot of talk about rioting if Obama is elected. I can kind of understand it only in so far that I know occasionally sports fans get out of hand and riot in the streets after their team wins whatever championship. UMD had this problem a few years back after the basketball team took the final four. Is our racism really so deep and ingrained that normally rational people honestly think that black America cant be happy and joyous without tearing shit up?? What’s wrong with you people??? I don’t get it. I didn’t riot after Clinton got elected. He was the first time the presidential candidate I voted for won. Hell he was one of the first candidates of any office that I voted for who won. (Problem with being a liberal in a red state.).

Somehow this smells a bit like Y2K all over again.

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