Truth be told, Dave, I'd much rather have your mouth running than be wondering where it was or if it was even capable of running. You know how it is when you are on the mend....can't get enough of the feelin' good feelin'. Let 'er rip. And yes, you can count on Princess Di and me for the round up. It would have to be a pretty unusual circumstance that I couldn't get out of for this.

Eight days and counting until this hellish nightmare we call a political race is over. If nothing else, it is bound give pause to those who are thinking about immigrating here. How ugly. You can say that we end up selecting the lesser of two evils, but these days, it boils down to voting for the better name-caller/finger-pointer. I wish there was a simple way to distill the truth from all this hogwash. It is possible we have too much information available? And 4 beeeeellion dollars for campaigns? I believe that'd buy a whole boat load of medicine and food and clothing. What if we just cut back a little on this next time around, and limited each candidate for office to one letter size piece of paper with their name and office they were running for and party and brief description of what they planned on doing and how they planned on gettin' 'er done. If each candidate sent one of those out to each household, stamp and all, I think we could bring the total down to around $80 mil or just 2% of what they are wasting now. And, just maybe, we would know what we were getting instead of what we weren't.

Be happy and careful and a voter