Votes @ MindSay

Now that there are so many of us with no jobs and lots of spare time on our hands it would be a good time to do some "house cleaning". It is time we march to Washington and fire every last politician! We are the people, their employers and they are not doing their job! They are employees who lie, cheat, steal, corrupt and fail completely to do their job. They rage war everywhere as they war amongst themselves in an never ending battle. It's one pissing contest after another and it is time we gave every last one of them their walking papers!
Let's fire every single Republican AND Democrat and start a new party...the peoples party.
Let's lay every issue on the table and let the people vote on it. We'll register everyone 18 and over,stop the country for the day, have everyone vote and majority wins....period. After 2 years we'll see how it goes and vote again.
No lobbyists, no special interest, just  votes.
I am so sick of both these parties I could scream! And we all sit back watching and waiting hoping something will change. Well, it's never going to change folks. It has always been this way and will never get better until we say "ENOUGH"!!
Off with their heads!!!

I was going through voting for my favorite blogs and I noticed that one I voted for, which had only 1 vote switched to 7 votes after the vote was counted. How is that happening?

 

I had screengrab opened so I snapped two pictures right in a row of the "7 votes". Other than attaching the pics to this, they have not been altered in any way.

Alrighty Guys... The votes are in and those who want to know win 10-2!  Here are the stages of development for this years fairy costume.  Enjoy...

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

 

Stage One... Added more colors to the Skirt and experimented with the pink flower (looked a little to Hawian)

 

Stage Two... Removed pink flowers and added flowers to hair to see end results so far...

 

Stage Three...More colors in the skirt now.

 

Stage 4.... I made a short cape in case it is cold.  (same fabric as under-dress)

 

Stage Five...  Time to nail down the Hairstyle. (you guys like green?  LOL)

 

All that's left to do now is fix up my makeup to match the morning of the Faire.  What do you guys think?  Any Suggestions?

 

 

OK... I have the outfit pretty well completely done now.  Do you guys want to see some pix of it so far or do you want to wait and be suprised with the finished product next week after the Faire.  I will Tally votes and honor your choice. 

 

Do remember... these pictures will not show make-up done or anything.  They will simply give to a strong idea of where I went since the last posted picture which only showed you the beginning phases. 

 

PS... Voting lasts one day.  I will post results tomorrow night.

 

Votes:  Yes, Please show us now...

Nine

 

Votes: No, I want to be suprised...

Two

 

Votes: Undecided

One leaning towards yes

 

FINAL VERDICT.  PICTURE POST COMING SOON.  THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!!!

I've been hearing a lot of odd talk coming out of the spin rooms this morning about the election. I have to disagree with most of the conclusions people are trying to draw from the race so far.

One is that Barack Obama is too timid to take on McCain, because he isn't campaigning as aggressively (in the negative sense) as Hilary Clinton. This is a bad conclusion to make, because campaigning against your own party is much different than campaigning against a true rival. Obama has no real incentive to attack Clinton. I don't doubt that, when the time comes, Obama will do just fine pointing out the uselessness of McCain, who will just continue the current failed policies of Bush.

The other conclusion being drawn is that the states that Clinton is winning are the big states for voter turnout in the General Election. New York, California, New Jersey, etc.... The flaw in this argument is that these states are going to be taken by Democrats anyway, as usual. McCain doesn't stand a chance in certain states, just as the Democratic Nominee doesn't stand a chance in certain other states.

This list is my interpretation of the "red state vs. blue state" situation. It might not look exactly like other lists of red and blue states because I made this list myself. I've labeled them so they are fairly self-explanatory. I compiled this list for the general election, and while compiling it, I realized that certain states tend to be good at picking the winning nominee (at least since 1968), so I listed their predictive value as well. Whether or not there is any predictive value, I leave that up to you. I am personally undecided. But I plan on watching a few of the "great predictors" to see if they do the same this year.

However, I must note... most of the states that I list as "true swing states" have voted Republican in 2000 and 2004. While this denotes a "predictive" value, it also denotes a Republican leaning as well.

New Hampshire		leaning democrat (fair predictor)
New Jersy		Moderate Democrat
Florida		Republican Leaning Swing state (good predictor)
Mass.		Strong Democrat
Delaware		Strong Democrat
DC		Strong Democrat
Illinois		Strong Democrat
Vermont		Strong Democrat
Hawaii		Strong Democrat
California		Strong Democrat
Connecticut		Strong Democrat
Washington		Strong Democrat
Rhode Island		Strong Democrat
Maine		Strong Democrat
New York		Strong Democrat
Wisconsin		Strong Democrat
Maryland		Strong Democrat
Minnesota		Strong Democrat
Oregon		Strong Democrat
Michigan		Strong Democrat
Kansas		Strong Republican
Alabama		Strong Republican
Indiana		Strong Republican
Alaska		Strong Republican
Georgia		Strong Republican
Idaho		Strong Republican
Arizona		Strong Republican
Nebraska		Strong Republican
Montana		Strong Republican
Colorado		Strong Republican
North Dakota		Strong Republican
North Carolina		Strong Republican
Oklahoma		Strong Republican
Wyoming		Strong Republican
Virginia		Strong Republican
Utah		Strong Republican
Texas		Strong Republican
South Carolina		Strong Republican
Mississippi		Strong Republican
South Dakota		Strong Republican
Ohio		True Swing State (Great predictor)
Tennessee		True Swing State (Great predictor)
Louisiana		True Swing State (good predictor)
Missouri		True swing State (good predictor)
Kentucky		True Swing State (great predictor)
Arkansas		True Swing State (great predictor)
Nevada		True Swing State (good predictor)
Pennsylvania		Weak Democrat.
West Virginia		Weak Republican
New Mexico		Weak Republican (voted for D 2000, R 2004)
Iowa		Weak Republican, (fair predictor)

So as you can see, there are relatively few states that are likely to change the way they vote. In my opinion, Obama has a better chance of bringing in the undecided/independent votes, so he would actually be the stronger nominee against John McCain.

Comments?