I am in a land where eating is considered exercise and the state vegetable is cheese fries . . . can you guess where? If you went with Wisconsin, you are correct. Specifically I am in Milwaukee and as I am finding out it is a cool town. Granted as a passer through all I do the good stuff and see the things worth seeing but as a whole the city is far better than what I thought it was going to be.
One thing they have all over the place here is signs that tell you "Rough Road " that you see just as you are about to drive on some giant potholes. It is as if them putting a sign up telling you that the road ahead sucks is enough and gets them off the hook to actually do anything to fix the road. Down at the the Milwaukee mayors office: "we've been getting complaints about the crap roads we have" "hmmm how can I deal with this so it is not a surprise to people that the roads are terrible, I know put up some signs so people know that we know that the roads are the worst and then no one will call thinking we may not know".
I see where they are coming from it is the whole "let the pot soak" mentality. How much does the soaking of the pot actually help, not much but it does help one get out of cleaning it that second. Or the fact I only do laundry when I am absolutely out of options to wear. Until it hits crisis, avoid.
The elections are big in the news down here and it strikes me that having the presidential elections every four years so everyone knows when the vote is coming up allows for the hype to build for the years in advance that it does so by the time the vote occurs everyone is sick of it. I don't know if Canada is any better which sort of surprises the country with an election, you wake up one morning and you see a sign on your lawn and and listen to a couple hours of CBC radio and hope you make a solid choice. USA voting process takes the aprouch of slowly taking a band-aid off makes it hurt less where Canada just rips it off, maybe more painful but at least you get it over with.
In the end it doesn't matter who you vote for or how you vote, you can't win, the government always gets in.
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I think that you make an excellent point with visiting people rather places. I find it much like Frodo and his epic journey to destroy the ring power. As they sit on the side of the erupting Mt. Doom Frodo looks at Sam and says "here at the end of all things, I am glad I am with you" Although at this moment they feel that they will never see the Shire again, it was more important they were together in their most important time. The Gods of fortune did smile on them as the eagles came and eventually they are able to return to the Shire. So I guess the moral of the story is that sometimes we get all that we want, people and places, but when it's those moments in which we have to choose one or the other it is more important to pick who then where.
i think that the only pro to the long drawn out election process in the states is that you get to see how the candidates react to ongoing and new, emerging issues whereas here in Canada we only see how the candidates can react to or pitch ideas for change for issues at the time.
"You shall not PASSSSS"
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