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11772. judithathome - 10/26/2004 3:37:06 AM I have seen "repelling the terrorists" in action for the last 5 days. Bush's Air Force One was parked at the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve base about half a mile from my house all weekend and there has been a Navy AWACS plane in the air 24/7 for two days before it got here and all day today...I'm assuming Bush left this morning to go to wherever he was making speeches today. (He's been in Crawford this weekend, I guess)
Anyhow, this plane is a prop plane and it circles the area back and forth, making sure this is restricted air space around the base. There are three of them stationed here and there is one in the air constantly when he is anywhere in this area...an hour and a half from here, actually. They are very loud. It has been constant background noise all day and all night. I keep wondering how much gas this bastard is using, flying around that long.
I understand the need for it but jesus, it is irritating.
11773. Macnas - 10/26/2004 11:57:31 AM How do all.
I've missed the Mote for a while, and I do miss it.
I've been too busy to make time to post, as things are kind of heating up here. I've also been engaged in Dilbertian politics with a mercenary contractor who has tried to hang me high to entrench/prolong his tenure.
I've wasted a lot of time rebutting, undermining, and otherwise professionally dismantling this fool. To think, in the old days I would have just beaten the shit out of him.
Ah well, talk to yez later. 11774. Magoseph - 10/26/2004 12:05:19 PM Hello, everyone! I'm voting this morning, around nine when there'll be no one in the town hall. Bush/Cheney signs have multiplied in this area, as Kerry/Edwards signs in others. This tells me the turn-out will be huge here too--I certainly do not want to stand in line outside as we did in 96 under a cold rain.
11775. PelleNilsson - 10/26/2004 12:15:18 PM Nice to see you, Macnas. 11776. Magoseph - 10/26/2004 2:11:02 PM I've missed the Mote for a while, and I do miss it.
We missed you, Mac. 11777. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/26/2004 3:10:18 PM Speaking of WalMart:
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Wrong imbeciles, you're advertising with them and therefore, supporting coercive programming and unbalanced propaganda. 11778. PelleNilsson - 10/26/2004 4:07:42 PM The election invades every thread. How I wish it would be over. 11779. RickNelson - 10/26/2004 4:17:18 PM Read in Poetry the last three poems I found online. One's a song. 11780. wonkers2 - 10/26/2004 4:17:39 PM Welcom back,
Mac! 11781. judithathome - 10/26/2004 4:27:55 PM The election invades every thread because it is what is going on right now and it will hold sway for another week or two. You can't expect people NOT to notice or speak of something this serious.
You are lucky...you live in a country that is sane. 11782. RickNelson - 10/26/2004 4:30:36 PM I don't know about their sanity judith, they wear those funky hats. Funky hat people, I just don't know...
LOL 11783. judithathome - 10/26/2004 4:57:10 PM Well, we all have our little slips.... 11784. Magoseph - 10/26/2004 10:03:13 PM I united the two arrows on my ballot today. It was very easy and it took two minutes of my time from my car and back. I was given a form to sign, a ballot to mark, and an envelope to seal.
Absentee voting has been practiced for years around here down to an art, I understand. 11785. arkymalarky - 10/26/2004 11:52:29 PM Don't know what the crowd will be like where I vote. It's a tiny town (just over 100 people) and voting is generally a relaxing social event, but we used to go 3 miles across the bottoms to vote in a little community building before turnout dropped off, so it may be crowded this year. I've never seen such a level of interest everywhere. Certainly not in 2000. I wish the student I lost a pizza to that year was still around for me to recoup. 11786. wonkers2 - 10/26/2004 11:59:51 PM I voted last week absentee and my wife voted today. We also got our flu shots free without having to wait in line at the Oakland County Public Health facility. We heard the lines were long last Saturday, the first day the vaccine became available. 11787. judithathome - 10/27/2004 3:38:00 PM Going off to the doctor this morning to have my echocardiogram results explained to me...it looked good to me but the letter with the results advised going to my doctor to have it explained. Two areas were "moderately abnormal"...lucky for me it wasn't a brain scan! 11788. Magoseph - 10/27/2004 3:43:10 PM 
I never saw a chocolate pie before--did you? Do you have a recipe?
11789. Ms. No - 10/27/2004 4:52:34 PM My Aunt Doris makes chocolate pie at holidays. In fact, it's not considered a proper holiday unless she makes her chocolate pie. It's one of the things I'm really looking forward to this Thanksgiving. Not that the pie is so incredible --- it's excellent pie --- but just knowing I'll be there with my whole maternal family and that we've all been thinking about this same pie and the woman who makes it and remembering other times we've eaten it together and those who aren't with us anymore and the new crop of kids --- my nephews -- who will be eating it for the first time and starting their own life-long memory. 11790. Ms. No - 10/27/2004 4:53:57 PM Magoseph,
That, however, is a gorgeous specimen. Where did you find it? Do you have a recipe for it? I'm assuming those are pistachios and cherries on top. 11791. Magoseph - 10/27/2004 6:06:06 PM Here, Ms. No:
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