musing minds

Illinoize has a great new look! If you are interested in Illinois politics check out both Illinoize and The Capitol Fax Blog.

Further in the occasional series, Peeves, Peeves Vol. 2, and Peeves Vol 3.

Bare/Bear

Bare: naked, uncovered. Testimony laid bare the inner workings of XYZ Corp.

Bear: An ursine mammal; black bear, polar bear, grizzly bear… Also to hold up, support, carry. She had to bear the weight of the injured child. The sadness of the situation was almost too much to bear.

Speak/Speech

“Speach” is the illegitimate child of speak and speech and it is incorrect.

Phrases:

It’s toe the line, not tow the line. It’s getting as close to the line as you can without going over, hence toeing the line. Towing the line would be dragging it behind you.

Finally. This was the longest election season I’ve ever seen.

Questions:

1. Who will Blagojevich pick to replace Obama as Illinois’ freshman senator?

2. If Rahm Emanuel becomes Obama’s Chief of Staff, who will Blagojevich pick to replace him.

3. Will Blagojevich pick himself for either office (Rahm Emanuel is currently holding the congressional seat that Rod Blagojevich held before he became Governor)?

4. What will the next four years be like?

Hubby went to the polling place at 6:20 this morning and he was number 60 in our precinct. I went about 11:50 am no lines, no problems, although The Little Guy was disappointed that they didn’t have a sample ballot that he could fill out while I was filling out the real ballot. There was someone electioneering in the parking lot for the democrats, but then he saw my McCain/Palin lipstick kiss button and said I could just throw the card he gave me away…

No exit polling.

Proud to Vote

I may be over-optimistic (I probably am) but this is my electoral map:
I was extremely optimistic and waayy wrong.

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Tomorrow is Election Day. Now that the end is in sight here are some polls.

The poll above was supposed to include an option for “I’ve early/absentee voted”. Sorry about that.

I had this plant outside all summer and brought it in at the beginning of last month. There were some wonky looking leaves on it so I trimmed it back some by popping some of the leaves off. I also pulled a forest full of elm trees out the pot.

Now it’s blooming beautifully.

Except for Hawaii, Arizona, and Puerto Rico. They don’t go to Daylight Saving Time in the first place.

Fall Back November 2, 2008 at 2 am

It’s a good time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors too.

Enjoy that extra hour of sleep! :moon:

…ah, yes

We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Where do Obama’s higher taxes hit?

$150,000? $200,000? $250,000?

And why $200,000 for an individual, but $250,000 for a couple? Where’s the fairness in that?