Happy Election Day

 Hello everyone!  I am sitting in Andrea's basement watching the NBC "Decision 2010" coverage.   I'm not really paying much attention but I love the soothing background noise of the news and I also love the demographic maps that are shown on TV. 

Without sounding really cliched, I was reminded of the freedoms we enjoy in the U.S. today.  Justin's mom is in China for the next month teaching University classes.  She was there in 2008 as well for the same reason.  When she was there in 2008 she started a blogger account and had a blog similar to this one.  China, being a communist country, censors the Internet.  It was noticeable in 2008 but now it is to the level that google searches are limited.  Since Blogger is owned by Google she was unable to use her old blog.  Oh, having the internet sensored would drive me crazy!  Having anything censored drives me crazy!  I was raised in a censorship free home, where any book or magazine that we were able to comprehend was allowed (of course there wasn't porn laying around or anything...)  I read alot of the same books and magazines my parents were reading and in 6th grade I made my mom order me Newsweek to go along with our Jr. National Geographic and Sports Illustrated for Kids subscriptions.  I was really weird and arguably pretty boring!  Anyway, I know the Internet is full of as much crap as legitimate information but it's important that it is available.  I don't think there are any examples of societies that succeeded by depriving people of information.

Anyway, she started a new blog with a different blogging website. 

 

Check it out in the following weeks.  It should be interesting.  I know it was in 2008!  And enjoy the ease of access! 

On another topic, rifle season for deer hunting starts on Friday.  Jakey, although he isn't a trained hunter or anything, is all ready for his weekend at the farm.  He has a new orange collar to alternate with his signature blue one!  It suits him!

He matches the couch so it is nice to be able to see him before sitting down!  Haha.

It seems to have a reflective quality.  No mistaking this guy for a deer!