By Now....

... most of you are thinking that I was bluffing about stopping at 300 posts. No, but this is still fun.

In the GTA, this week, we managed to kill 3 and wound 12 in car related incidents. Several hit and runs, plus others where the driver stopped to admire his or her work.

The explanation is as follows. Around the time change in the fall, there is an increase in traffic accidents involving pedestrians. The week prior to and the week following time change are higher than usual but the week of the time change is a big bump up. Those 3 weeks, are triple the corresponding average. 

The experts say:

1.  changing light conditions and earlier sunsets affect the drivers ability to see

2.  hoods are up ( people not the cars ) and pedestrians are less able to hear approaching cars.

3.  road conditions are getting slick from leaves and rain

Oh boy, and here I thought drivers were aiming their cars a little better so got a higher success rates.

In the GWN for you southerners, an Ipsos Reid poll ( I don't know what that means but they say it every time ), shows support for ' Bronch ' Obama is 84 %.
( the ' Bronch ' label comes from the viral You Tube video of the whiney little girl, complaining of the massive media coverage in her state )

And I didn't know ... that there is almost nil big budget advertising in states such as NY b/c of expense and the tendency for the votes to split even. ( I think that's why  )

Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania get way more money b/c these states are seen as swing states.

One politico, interviewed on CBC TV said Obama and Romney have been to Ohio so often, ' You'd think they were running for a senate seat in Ohio '

On the 'West Wing' re-run this week, Josh Lyman may have lost the advantage for Bartlet in Pa / Oh /  Mi , by blowing an anti-smoking law suit  decision. 

M feels Bartlet ( Martin Sheen ) would have made a great president, for real. But I warned her the Republicans are still the Republicans and would act the same way, like they do now.

Apparently, our  house is more Democrat than Republican.

We want to send you Stephen Harper ( our Prime Minster ) but it wouldn't be fair. He'd cock it up in the States just like here. He's an equal opportunity kinda of guy, he can't help it. And he's ignorant in two languages unfortunately, one of them is not Spanish.

BTW, he plays piano and sings, don't you want him ?
Imagine a ' musical White House ' sounds  ' Christmassy ' .
doesn't it ?

OMG, did this rant turn political. Mea culpa, Mea culpa as my Buddhist friends say.