October 30

I'm having a heck of a time trying to keep ahead of the leaves this year! It's slowing down a little bit now but the battle won't be over for a long time. With gas at $1.939 a gallon we may be forced to abandon the fight.

Out of my address book another staunch Democrat couldn't take it any more and has come out of hiding. She is from Saint Louis so I'm not surprised. She has been sending me a few pro-Kerry things that like everything else, has nothing substantial that a person could hang their hat on. Mostly anti-Bush stuff. You know, nothing said about what Kerry will do or how he plans on doing it. Too bad so many people don't want to think for themselves, instead they would rather just follow a Judas Goat like the stockyards use. Kerry being the goat worries me plenty!

I sure hope the last little paragraph doesn't make anyone else angry, tho the lady in Saint Louis still hasn't gotten so angry as to tell me not to send her anything else, I'm thinking I won't send her this.

On the off chance that I did anger someone else, I'm sorry and I'll attempt to refrain from sending anymore emails for several days, tho I do think my worry is stronger than my sorrow.

"As if the conflicting polls of 'registered voters,' 'likely voters' and 'national adults' weren't confusing enough, now we have a pair of surveys of American children that show contradictory results: 'Senator John Kerry has been declared the winner of Nickelodeon's "Kids' Vote" according to kids nationwide who exercised their voting power in the network's presidential poll held online Oct. 19.... In this year's vote, Sen. John Kerry received 57% of the vote, and President George W. Bush received 43%.' But Scholastic, a children's publishing company, gives victory to Bush: In the 2004 Scholastic Election Poll, George W. Bush received 52 percent of the votes and the Democrat contender, John F. Kerry, received 47 percent.' Apparently kids who read favor Bush, while those who watch TV prefer Kerry. Hmm, whose parents are more likely to vote?" --James Taranto