post debate (sorry hockey swamped me)

Daughter played 4 games this weekend---lets hope it was a learning experience.......


now about that debate---ahhhhh forget that

But in other election news I got my ballot in the mail.  Having spent 16 years in Chicago living in basically the same place yet seemingly going to a different polling station every year, the mail in ballot was a welcomed change.  And it gave me a chance to research all those judges.  There were also a gazillion propositions on the ballot---how great would it be if there was some independent analysis of those propositions.  We have a big one in CO this year--prop 69 which would basically socialize medicine in the state which depending on which analysis you read would save everyone money and headache as every doctor becomes in network, or decimate CO as every doctor and business flees the state and death panels determine that all treatment is unnecessary as is all payment to doctors.  Doing a really good in depth analysis is almost impossible for the average voter in the state so they rely on others who are anything but neutral.

Moving away from the propositions and back up to the top of the ticket--there are 22 different people on the ballot for president in CO including the usual suspects as well as the socialist party, nutrition party, american solidarity party, pacifist-nonviolent party, socialism and liberation party, kotilkoff for president party (my current favorite), the prohibition party (aren't they about 100 years behind the times) the veterans of america, independent american, American's(are those the USSR sleepers from FX), American Delta, and American solidarity along with a number of others.  Wow.  Imagine if they had all been invited to the debates.

It also feels a bit weird to be voting weeks before election day.  What happens if I vote for Hillary only to discover next week that she is an android from Neptune bent on nuclear war?  What if Trump release his tax returns and it shows all his money has been given to planned parenthood?  I appreciate the ease of mail in voting, and I suspect it increases turnout which is good but it feels a bit like deciding the victor of the world series in the bottom of the 7th inning in the 7th game.  Shouldn't we play it all the way out?  And doesn't it kinda reinforce party line voting--asking you to cast your vote before the game is even played out?