Thursday, February 22, 2007

The long and the short of it

The rain has arrived once again. And also the good news that our heating system will be fixed…tomorrow morning. Of course I have to continue cutting wood and feeding the fire for the next 24 hours. But after that, it’s back to the future! I can walk over to the thermostat and tell the system to warm me up or cool me down. No more ashes and no more dirt on the rug. Well, no more than usual.

But amidst all the joy of having our heating system back, is the realization that it’s an old system (19 years) and this might just be the beginning of our problems with it. If so, our insurance policy will have been a wise choice. Just this one repair will have made the cost of the policy worthwhile.

And now the news… Clinton, Obama camps mix it up verbally

2/22/2007 4:20:45 AM

“The two front-runners in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination traded jabs Wednesday over remarks made by a Hollywood mogul and a powerful South Carolina lawmaker.”

Sad. Will we have to endure 18 months of this? The two least likely to win candidates have become the news media darlings. They are currently not valid front runners, but they definitely are the current ‘Britney Spears’ of the political world.

Richardson and Edwards are the valid candidates, but that’s just my opinion. And who am I to argue against the likes of Britney? Or Paris?

Back in the old days...(Is that a good name for a blog?) we had political party conventions where the candidates were chosen by the party faithful. It usually took the full week of the convention for this to happen, though there was a good chance it had already been decided by those in "the back room". Was it a better system? No. But it was mercifully short!

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