Swords Crossed meeting tonight in Second Life from 5:30pm Pacific time until 7:00pm Pacific time.

There's some Lodi gossip to be had if you check her profile when you get there ;} I am having way too much fun.

Come early or late!

ok! I now have a 24 hr period -- from 9:30 a.m. Eastern yesterday to today ... approx. $281,550 raised divided by 24 hours =

approx. $11,700 per hour

I'll check back next week to update -- will it accelerate, or decelerate?

Oh, wasn't Alcee Hastings impeached as a judge in Florida? I think he was up for a chairmanship, but that fact nixed it ... I think??

Vouchers go down in crushing defeat
Vouchers' money man says Utahns 'don't care enough about their kids'
By Glen Warchol
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:11/07/2007 07:34:28 AM MST
Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor Tuesday, defeating what would have been the nation's most comprehensive education voucher program in a referendum blowout.
"Tonight, with the eyes of the nation upon us, Utah has rejected this flawed voucher law," said state School Board Chairman Kim Burningham. "We believe this sends a clear message. It sends a message that Utahns believe in, and support, public schools."
More than 60 percent of voters were rejecting vouchers, with about 95 percent of the precincts reporting, according to unofficial results. The referendum failed in every county, including the conservative bastion of Utah County.
Voucher supporter Overstock.com chief executive Patrick Byrne - who bankrolled the voucher effort - called the referendum a "statewide IQ test" that Utahns failed.
"They don't care enough about their kids. They care an awful lot about this system, this bureaucracy, but they don't care enough about their kids to think outside the box," Byrne said.
Doug Holmes, a key voucher advocate and contributor, said, "We started hugely in the hole and it's always been the case. The unions have done this in four different states, where they take the strategy of confusion to the people."
But Holmes said, "You don't run away from something because the odds are stacked against you."
Utah's voucher program, supported by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and Republican legislative leaders, attracted national attention because it would have provided tax-funded subsidies to any student, rich or poor, to enroll in a private school.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7392263

Analysis from the Master

Dems shine bright on election day.

Most interesting that the fabled new wedge issue, immigration, and the invasion of the scary brown people, wasn't the GOP's savior as had been predicted.

Yesterday's initial results showed that a more long-term structural realignment may be occurring and that voters are increasingly drawn by Democrats' promises to improve schools and ease traffic and away from Republican conservatism on such issues as taxes and social policy, particularly in fast-growing Northern Virginia. [...]"The results are proving that, while immigration is a concern to people -- and it should be -- it is not returning the votes that they thought that it would."

And of great interest to me and my one note song on the sub-prime market mess was folks are very jittery about the economy. All those for sale signs, the crazy price of oil, and mortgage write downs, hidding lost assest off the balance sheets...... well people aren't stupid. What's next a falling dollar..... oh wait.

The reality of growth and wealth is that almost nobody in Loudoun really feels like they're living in the wealthiest county in the country. Because we're not sharing in it.

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The pundints can claim all they want to on the TeeVee about how fab the market is, the global economy is the Best Ever. Still regular folks in local communities buy gas and groceries, and there is little left over for menial luxuries unless they put in on the credit card.