Snow!

We are having our first snow of the season at sea level. It has been coming down all day really, and has sure been messing up my satellite television. Sara is making bread and soup and Hana is begging for outside time. With the way things are going it doesn't look like tomorrow will be a day for working at the office.

We have had a fairly nice four day weekend. Sara and I hung out at the gym and even took her parents and sister climbing. Her mom and dad did excellent, I hope we get a chance to bring them outside in the spring.

What's a philosophy?

I have an eight year old nephew (well not yet eight, but soon) who likes to ask big questions. I was a bit stumped when he asked "What does philosophy mean?" We pulled out a dictionary and went about trying to explain it. Not easy when every word you want to use has to be explained as well.

Sara and I had a nice visit with the family in Denver. The nephews were more than a handful on Saturday, but they shaped up pretty quickly. After some sassing back to grandma the older nephew got the shake down from Uncle Chris. The boys were very well behaved after that and we had a very good time with a quick science project. We went into the bathroom and the boys looked at their eyes in the mirror. I turned off the light for 30 seconds and then turned it back on. This of course causes the pupil to constrict and the boys thought that was cool.

We visited Breckenridge, which is a nice ski resort/tourist trap. We would have liked to spend more time but such is the way things go. We also had a great time on the way to the airport. There is this monster store called Outdoor World, and it had a shooting range (with lasers, not bullets) and the boys also got to climb the indoor rock wall. That was pretty neat. We probably could have played for a few hours. Even Sara had fun in there shooting at the range.

We had a bit of excitement at the airport in Denver. Going through security we got pulled aside. Sara apparently had our Leatherman in her purse. Why this wasn't caught at Sea-Tac we have no idea, but none-the-less it was a big surprise that we had this knife with us on the plane to Denver. So $8 and three to six weeks later we'll get our Leatherman back. Fun stuff to have security going through your purse. We cannot remember why the Leatherman was in Sara's purse though...we figure it must have been from our camping trip to Redwood National Forest.

So the family is well, and the nephews are growing tall. Mom has settled into Denver, and seems to be very happy with the weather and altitude. Sara and I just need to become wealthy enough to visit more often. Colorado is a great place to visit.

Hmmm, interesting results.

I didn't see that coming. Seriously, I was almost 99.9% certain that the GOP would hold the Senate. And seriously, I figured Missouri would be much closer than it turned out to be...I mean despite the exit polls and weekly trends showing a Dem win there...didn't expect that it would actually hold to reality.

So, I hope that now there is a clear change of power in our political system, we don't fall asleep and let the Dem's become as corrupt and dirty as the GOP's became. My hope is that both parties do some serious work on setting the ethical standards of our politicians. And I hope that the GOP can find its way back from the lunacy that has gripped them for such a long time. Focus on politics that actually impacts the people, not this gay bashing, tax cutting for the rich, anti-abortion stand. Middle class America needs to focus on keeping our civil liberties, providing education so we can compete in this global economy, keeping people employed with good paying jobs, and making sure we can have reasonable health needs met.

And hopefully we can get away from these bills that amount to doing nothing. It makes no sense to say we are going to "leave no child behind" if we are not going to fund these bills.

Okay, it is nice to see the bully humbled.

Keep your video camera's powered on.

Holy Cow! Thank you all who have taken your video cameras and focused them on the polls, and have made it next to impossible for the election to be twisted and undermined. Yes, there are some very, very close races and we will likely have to wait until the morning to see the end results, if not longer. However keep your eyes on Missouri and Virginia. The weekly polling, the exit polling show there is a favorite, and so far it is looking suspicious. We knew Virginia would be tight, but Missouri ... well 60% of the votes are counted and it should be much closer than it currently is being reported.

Earn your citizenship!

Go and Vote. If the odds are overwhelming they can try to cheat all they want...

Prepare to have your Democracy undermined...again.

Well there are really only two and a half days left until the votes are cast and counted. If you are paying attention, the media is already minimizing the position of the Democratic party. My first thought was "This cannot be right!" So I started doing my research, and sure enough it looks like the media is reporting on selective polling that shows the Democratic Party to not have the leads that weekly polling has been showing.

Why is this important? Well most polling has a plus or minus three percent. So if you put the Republican candidate within that 3% then you flip the results so the Republican wins and then you can say it was within the margin of error.

So the media is preparing the Democrats for disappointment. This is what they did in 2004, 2002, and 2000. The pattern of deception continues. The media claims to be "impartial" but they fail to report the facts, or if they do they minimize the time of presenting factual information. If you pay close attention you'll catch a few comments like "This is the only poll that shows the tightening of the race, but no other polls are showing that. (paraphrased)"

And then they keep playing up the John Kerry comments which if you actually watch the video, the whole video, it is clear and the audience knows it is clear who the jab was directed at -- George Bush. People who claim otherwise are lying to themselves.

So just pay attention. The deception before us is not well hidden, but so many choose to ignore the truth.