An excuse to blog!

Not only did I do the first post in many months today, but also updated the website and generally spent the day messing around with it. I took the first sick day in several months today for gastroenteritis/election anxiety/bad mexican food.

This gave me time to do some thinking. (generally not a real good thing)

Politics: Hmmmm, what a topic. Everyone knows Obama won the election, and it seems
very politically incorrect today not to be thrilled with that. Just to say it up front, I was nothappy about either Obama or McCain. It was simply Obama's time to be President. About every 50 or so years, we elect a young lion as President. Kennedy was our parents and Barack Obama is ours. It is time for a change.
What truly mmakes no sense to me is that the Congress has lower approval ratings than Geo W. Bush does and we filled the seats with more of the same. Go figure.

This country will survive and continue to grow! In four years we will have another election and consider many of the same issues again.

The major contribution President Elect Obama made is that he energized the political system. Record turnouts proved people are now caring about politics! That is always a good thing.

California elected a liberal Democratic president, yet overturned the law allowing same sex marraiges.....That makes no sense.

Just to point out, California is not a radically democratic as it seems. When Gore beat Bush in 2000, he only won 7 counties! The coastal communities tend to vote Democrat and the majority of the state (geographically) tends to vote Republican.

For all practical purposes, California is an UNGOVERNABLE state! It's no wonder the Governator has had his hands full!