Well, we spent the better part of the day at the mall, and didn’t buy a thing. Such restraint. We did go to see “The Incredibles” at the Ontario Mills mall theatre tho… that was a fun movie.
Wherever that is… We have a 10:00 am flight out of Heathrow, connecting through O’Hare. We were delayed for two or three hours in Chiccago due to a snowstorm, but wouund up arriving in San Jose at about 7:15 pm. Then we stopped off at the house before driving down to LA for Thanksgiving… whew! LONG DAY! 
We got over to TKTS this morning and bought tickets to see a show again tonight. This time we’re seeing “Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat”. After getting the tickets, we jumped back on the tube and headed over to St. Paul’s Cathedral. For some reason, I had missed going there before. We took lots of pictures there. Then off to Harrod’s for a bit of shopping before dinner and the show. It turns out that both of the shows we saw were within close walking distance of the hotel. Thanks to George Bush’s irresponsible fiscal policy, everything cost about double what it did the last time we were here in 2000. 
We booked a tour to Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath for today. The bus picked us up at 7:40 AM, and dropped us back off at 10:00 PM. This was a good day, lots to see and a change of scenery. I hadn’t been to Windsor Castle before, so that was cool, got to see the changing of the guard there. Had lunch in a 600 year old pub. The food was apparently not quite that old. 
Then, on to Stonehenge, which seemed different than the last time I had been there, new parking facilities, and an audio tour. Still the same old rocks tho…
Bath was OK too, glad to have gotten out to see and do some different stuff for the day.
Next time, remind me to go by myself, I’ll get more done. I think I’ll take a ski vacation by myself in January. Oh, we saw Bat Boy, the musical… was interesting, and kind of funny. Today we saw the dismounting of the Horse Guards at Whitehall, Big Ben, Parliament, and a few other tourist attractions. Meanwhile, somebody slept in till nearly 2:00 pm. Why would you fly 12 hours to sleep all day?
Well, we’re here. The flight was long, but uneventful. Took yesterday off to sleep. We just bought 1/2 price tickets to see Bat Boy matinee this afternoon. It’s COLD here 
Planning to do a day trip to Edinburgh maybe Monday.
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“President” Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the discussion on the word “tragedy”.
So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a “tragedy”.
One little boy stood up and offered: “If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy.” No,” said Bush, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raised her hand: “If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.” “I’m afraid not,” explained the president. “That’s what we would call great loss.”
The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?”
Finally at the back of the room a small boy raised his hand… In a quiet voice he said: “If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs. Bush was struck by a “friendly fire” missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Bush. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well,” says the boy, “It has to be a tragedy, because it certainly wouldn’t be a great loss and it probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
Scanned image of printed email from mom.
Looking at the NY Times Election Results map got me thinking about the whole Red vs. Blue thing. Notice that there are no likely terrorism targets in any of the Red states? Sure lots of things to fly a plane into, but where’s the symbolism? There’s no WTC, Pentagon, Statue of Liberty, etc… So, of course the red state residents were willing to re-elect Bush, where’s the risk for them? What’s the liklihood that they’ll be the target of the backlash from his disasterous foreign policy? Terrorists will surely pick on NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles or San Francisco before they target a city like Dayton or Des Moines.
I was listening to talk radio today as I drove across Arizona and New Mexico… Rush actually made some sense as he disputed the notion that the gay marriage issue was the cause for Kerry losing the election. The one thing I disagree with him on is what he (and Bush) refer to as activist judges. The point they all seem to miss is that the role of the judicial branch is to decide arguments about the meaning of laws, how they are applied, and whether they break the rules of the Constitution. See also: checks and balances: Limits imposed on all branches of government by giving each the right to amend acts of the other branches. I am not a lawyer, so, let’s keep it simple, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial court found that the Massachusetts marriage law broke the rules of the constitution.
Then Hannity comes on and starts saying that Bush has a mandate, and broke a record for winning with the most votes any president has ever gotten. I’m thinking, wait a minute… Kerry also broke a record for getting the most votes for any candidate who didn’t win! But of course he left that part out… so now all the pukes will go spouting off with only half the information. So anyway, as the Wall Street Journal points out, Bush’s victory was “the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.”
Mandate my ass.
Note: President Bush vote tally from AP as of 4PM Thursday with 99 percent of precincts reporting. Results give Bush 51 percent of the popular vote and John Kerry 48 percent.
Well, right now, I think I should start “praying”…
praying for all the “Moral Values” moms and dads whose kids are now in country or might be killed in Bush’s Iraq war. Who are so afraid of gay marriage, they’re willing to accept defecit, deceit and lies from this administration, who are willing to kill thousands of innocent Iraqis and over 1,000 American soldiers to spread freedom and democracy. Oh, and let’s not forget to pray for all the 18-24 year olds who were too lazy to get off their butts and get out and vote, who will probably get drafted next year by BushCo for the administration’s war.
Have a nice day. 
Don’t forget:
National Celibacy Day
November 2
NO DICK – NO BUSH
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