voting day tomorrow!

You know what? I don't feel like explaining the intricacies of the primary. Here's WZZM's voter's guide and here's WOODTV's political page which has extensive primary coverage. Just vote, people. Spend a little time getting to know some candidates, but more importantly get out there and vote on your local millages. And for those of you in Connecticut: Vote for Lamont. Lieberman is saying just about anything to win back some votes from his 10 point deficit. He has been bad for the Democratic Party since Gore named him as the running mate in 2000. If he loses the primary he claims he'll run as an independent. This will pretty much ensure there's no way in hell he'll be able to secure the presidential nomination in 2008. I say yay to that.

After stalling for 28 days, the U.S. has finally decided to team up with France and press for the passage of a U.N. resolution calling for the "cessation of hostilities." Upon closer examination it appears this resolution will please just about no one. Israel isn't required to withdrawal from Lebanon, Lebanon isn't required to return the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, and no one really is required to disarm. Lebanon and Hezbollah have already said that they won't abide by resolution so Condi's little statement: "we'll see who's for peace and who isn't" is embarrassingly transparent. And guess who's on vacation?

Let's hear it for some top-notch diplomacy.

In typical U.S-consumers-freakout-fashion, the headlines on the news and online are all about BP and the oilfield shutting down. It'd be hilarious if it didn't mean that everything-from groceries to clothes to airline tickets-were going to be more expensive as a result. And what exactly do I find so funny? First, the oilfield is being shut down due to suspected "severe corrosion." Given that BP is already in a little bit of trouble for the largest oil spill ever recorded on the North Slope (200,000 gallons), it seems to me that they should be applauded for at least attempting to prevent another such environmental disaster not demonized for denying the U.S. their oil fix. And second, you think maybe instead of wringing our hands and shaking our fists and bemoaning our high prices and then continuing to fill our gas tanks and buy goods at higher prices and buying big old fuel inefficient vehicles we could alter the way we do things in this country? Despite not actually owning a vehicle, I definitely benefit from others so I'm not going to get all self-righteous or anything. I am going to point out, however, that the longer we continue on this path that little-bitty-problem that we all scoffed at 20 years ago...you know what I'm talking about...the global warming theory? Yeah, that's just going to continue to get worse.

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