It's Politics Time! (Yaay!)

It's down to the home stretch with the presidential elections. I really hope that Kerry wins. The Dick'n'Bush team just don't give me the sense of security that I think this country needs. And no matter what Dick'n'Bush say, you can't go it alone. You have to have the support of other nations if you want peace. Anything less makes the United States look like pond scum.

At least here in Belleville, NJ, there isn't much else going on politically. Just the President, the US House of Representatives, and the Register (whatever that is, probably a municipal thing). No public questions, no state, county, or municipal elections (except that pesky Register).

I'll vote Democrat all the way across (all three votes, that is). I've always believed that people should work for a living and not sit on welfare, but at the same time, the government should not lighten the tax load on those that are most able to pay it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I see a problem reducing taxes on the richest people when the gap between the haves and the have-nots is ever-widening.

For the shortest lines, go and vote early. It's going to be a hell of an election, and polling places will be crowded. For those of you voting in New Jersey, polls open at 6 am.

Whatever happens, the world isn't going to stop turning no matter who's elected. The nice thing about being American is that we can be civil even if we all disagree.

edit: Here's what I wrote in someone else's journal about why I don't like Bush:
I try hard to look past the [political] poo-flinging to see what the candidates are all about. Kerry's shape-shifting image is seriously overblown by the other side, and at least he can change his opinion of a situation if he receives better information. With Bush it's like he's driving on a windy mountain road and he just wants to drive straight ahead, and the road is supposed to straighten out for him, and he would have nothing less.

...and now, for something completely different

I just checked yesterday's weather on weather.com. I knew it was a nice day, but the daytime high was actually 74°F! Sunny, a little windy. It had to have been the envy of the rest of the country.

I'm still eating leftover candy, and I probably will be for the next two weeks. I got a big bag of mixed candy. Inside were jawbreakers, fruit-flavored tootsie rolls, Double Bubble gum, and Sweetarts. I set a few of my favorite ones aside, then the rest went to the kiddies.

When my mom used to buy candy, I would always arrange it in the bowl so all the stuff I didn't like was near the top. That way, when she gave out candy, she would give out the stuff I didn't like, and most of what was left over was the good stuff. Now you know why you all got crap candy when you were little.

Yesterday I sat in front of my building with a few of my neighbors, shootin' the shit and giving out candy to the kiddies. I was chewing some of the gum. When it was out of flavor, I stuck it to a leaf, then I went out into the road and stuck it in a pothole. My neighbor asked me why I did that. I said because the township wasn't repaving my road, so somebody had to. Buddum tss! (My road is a disaster - it's almost unnavigable because of all the potholes) They thought it was funny. I guess you had to be there.