In other Happy Monday News, someone broke into my car this morning. Smashed the window and attempted to steal the radio. Motherfuckers. Sigh.

Damn. That sucks. Did they do much damage to the dash trying to get the radio out?

I thought there was no way Bush would be able to win an election against a household plant in 2004, yet he managed a respectable lead in the popular vote.

This is what I'm saying. This is the kind of thing that turns one into a conspiracy theorist, of course.

Oh Kat, I'm sorry.

Until Wall Street took a nose dive I though McCain was going to take it, though barely. Now I getting cautiously optimistic. I still think McCain would be an improvement over Bush.

I still think McCain would be an improvement over Bush.

That's not cautiously optimistic. That is extraordinarily optimistic. He may be smarter than Bush, but is apparently just as ignorant and even more stubborn and crazy. Plus in the event that he became President, odds are that he'd die or become unable to continue the Presidency and leave Palin in charge. Also Bush took a booming economy at peace and turned it into a depression and war. McCain would start with a depression and two wars. I worry about where downhill from there leads.

I have avoided all but a miniscule amount of work this morning. I really need to get to it. But first, I am going to take lunch and go get a toy for my son at Toys R Us (probably a Christmas gift - I have a coupon). Maybe I'll get him something small also to give as a no-occassion surprise.

Also Bush took a booming economy at peace and turned it into a depression and war.

This reminds me of perhaps the greatest Onion headline ever. When Bush was inaugurated in 2000, the Onion headline was, "Bush: 'Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over'"

When Bush was inaugurated in 2000, the Onion headline was, "Bush: 'Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over'"

There was an extremely depressing website linked to a while back which took this article and added links to all the items in it which had come true. Practically everything but the photo caption was underlined blue.

That's not cautiously optimistic. That is extraordinarily optimistic.

I wrote that post poorly. I meant I was cautiously optimistic about Obama-Biden winning.

He may be smarter than Bush, but is apparently just as ignorant and even more stubborn and crazy. Plus in the event that he became President, odds are that he'd die or become unable to continue the Presidency and leave Palin in charge. Also Bush took a booming economy at peace and turned it into a depression and war. McCain would start with a depression and two wars. I worry about where downhill from there leads.

Yeah, true, but Bush has set an amazingly low bar.

I am cautious because a lot of key states are close. I figure McCain will get Missouri, North Carolina, and Virgina. Colorado and Nevada could easily go for McCain as well. If that is the case, then if Florida and Ohio go for McCain, he'll eek out a victory.

That's a lot of ifs, but I think it is plausible.

Just to clarify my earlier post about my dad: the thing that interested/amused me about it wasn't any assumptions about capital gains taxes one way or the other, just that he and all his financial advisers, fiscally conservative but otherwise mostly apolitical people, are all making plans predicated on an Obama win as a foregone conclusion.