Tut Tut it Looks Like Rain.

Well, dear readers, it's raining again. The ground in this area is so sodden already, people that have basements must be sighing heavily in unison right about now.

I heard a co-worker say that someone had pumped 30,000 gallons out of their basement to date. That's a swimming pool-full.

In other news, the democratic candidate debate was pretty mild, wasn't it? no one wants to ruffle any feathers just yet, it would seem; the only points of contention is whether one voted for the war in Iraq at any point, or whether one voted for the recent spending bill. Someone argued that voting FOR the bill was hypocritical when we aren't supposed to be in Iraq at all. Fair enough. Some of these democrats are all politicians to their gills, against abortion rights but voting for them, but all of them seem to understand the importance of problems here at home: environmentalism and healthcare. Some are even threatening to revolutionalize the healthcare industry by allowing a government employee-like buy-in system. Say what??? About frickin time SOMEBODY was thinking about healthcare and the environment. I mean, I know with the sheer amount of scandals to be buzzed about around the water cooler, these less juicy topics go by the wayside, but, the future, she is a-comin', folks.

The only good news to come out of the government, in this region anyway, is that 10 million in uncollected lottery winnings will be applied towards the school system. That's awesome, I haven't heard news that good in a long time.

It's a good thing that congress has been shaken up. It's a bad thing if it doesn't matter because politics are so political nowadays, it really doesn't matter WHO is in congress.

Time will tell which of the above statements turn out to be true.