This daily thing isn't working...

The photo ( an animated gif...) is from September 2nd- My mother's 79th birthday, btw!

After dinner we watched Bush address the Republican convention, and promised each other to reserve our catcalls and commentary for AFTER the speech. We didn't succeed.

It's unfortunate that Kerry was chosen over Dean as the Democratic candidate. Rather than representing an alternative, he's essentially cast as the lesser of two evils. Of course the Republicans were going to use it against Kerry that he voted for the Iraq war, and many other Bush initiatives. He isn't credible. Neither is Bush, except as a consistent rather than a vacillating bastard. Unfortunately the average idiot is going to believe the anti-Kerry ads, focus on his "suspect" Vietnam war record (which is more heroic by any account than Bush's own) and somehow absorb the Republican's continual boast of having created jobs, while missing the fact that a far greater number, almost 1 MILLION JOBS, have been LOST. Bush spoke at length of plans to ensure greater access to health care, yet his last term saw the number of Americans WITHOUT medical insurance INCREASE by 13 percent (5.1 million more Americans joined the ranks of the uninsured, bringing ther total to 44.96 million as of 2003).
My mother remarked that in a country which contains so many brilliant individuals, how does it arrive that two such ineffectual characters are competing to lead it.
Read my lips, or rather, watch Bush's lips as his beady eyes shift left to right, from one teleprompter to the other. As a puppet he is learning to pace himself better and read his given lines with increasing confidence. His performance was near perfect for the image he and his handlers wish to achieve. Strong, confident, caring, but none too smart that you couldn't barbecue some steaks with the guy and feel that he had better things to do or people to do it with. But who are you fooling- of course he does! His people play golf in exclusive country clubs. They own oil companies and profit from the disasters they create. Their kids are undoubtedly not in the reserves, being called up for duty. They won't be the ones brought back in body bags - that honour is for the fools who will vote Bush in for a second term. And I have no doubt that they will.

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originally uploaded by DawnOne.

The following morning I woke up, appropriately, to the sound of military jets dive-bombing my building (minus the explosives). Huge sonic booms. I thought it was the Snowbirds practicing for the weekend airshow at the "Ex" (Canadian National Exhibition) but I've been informed that these are the American bomber jets. Canadians don't possess anything close to such technology... good for us!