Just noticed (and not sure how long this has been going on) that when you try to visit Thinkin’bout Stuff by entering this URL: www.thinkinboutstuff.com you didn’t get to visit Thinkin’bout Stuff. Not sure how a bad index got into the mix and redirected everyone to an old “coming back soon” page from years and years ago…. but it’s fixed now.
Wonder how many folks never stopped by for a visit because it looked like we weren’t home 
Our smoke alarm went off tonight… no worries.. just burning food.
But it raised an important question for me… since the alarm went off.. how do I get it to stop? I can’t turn it off, because “going off” is what made it start making noise in the first place.
Turning the alarm on doesn’t seem like the right thing to do either.
So if turning it on and turning it off won’t shut it up, what to do? I stumbled upon the answer quite accidentally…
After trying to think what the right answer was for about an hour, dinner now over, the oven now off… the alarm stopped making noise and is now in whatever state it is in before it goes off again.
Amazing… after years and years of claiming Republicans are suppressing the vote, Democrats have decided to punish Florida for moving their primary by not allowing their delegates to be seated nor their votes counted at the Democrat convention.
That’s over 1,000,000 US citizens, residents of the great state of Florida, who will not have their votes counted in this election because the Democrats have deemed them unworthy.
And the really sad thing for the Dems is they can find no way to blame the Republicans.
Interesting this isn’t bigger news.
Oh sure, stop a few illegal aliens from voting and you’re a racist. Stop felons? How dare you withhold the right to vote from these poor misunderstood criminals. Require photo ID to prevent voter fraud and you are clearly trying to suppress the vote.
But throw away over one million votes… well, hell… serves them right for voting on a day not approved by the Democrat Party.
Never fear good people of Florida… HRC is on the case. Now that she’s won, she’ll do everything she can to make sure every one of those votes count. Anyone believe she would bother to lift a finger if she lost?
And what of poor BHO… how will he ever explain it if he opposes HRC’s efforts to demand these votes be counted? What can he do… agree with HRC and she gets the delegates uncontested… fight her on this and he’s no better than those rascally Republicans.
So sad…
There are more than 150,000,000 Americans old enough to run for President of the United States. Do we really believe that our generation has so little to offer that, from among those 150 million people, the best candidates are either named Bush or Clinton.
If HRC is elected president and somehow manages to get re-elected to a second term, the President of the United States for more than a generation (28 straight years) will either have been a Bush or a Clinton… I guess it’s conceivable Jeb Bush could keep the seat warm until Chelsea Clinton is ready. Then again, at the end of this hypothetical two terms for HRC, Chelsea will be old enough to run for president and the Clintons could score the first presidential hat trick.
Come on people… 150,000,000 of us to choose from, no need to limit ourselves like this. If we’re not careful, this could turn into a rotating monarchy instead of a democracy.
Clearly I have not been keeping up with writing, but at least I have been thinkin’….
If work and life allow the time, I will get back to writing what I’m thinkin’ in a more verbose fashion, but for now, postings will likely be somewhat random and somewhat brief.
As far as the presidential race… haven’t figured out who I like yet, but definitely know who I don’t like. As an independent, I don’t have much say until the general election, so for me this period of time is one of observation and waiting.
Will try to check in as frequently as I can, but for now, I leave you with a random thought:
“Some are only happy being sad, but I find I’m happier being happy”
