“Bush and Cheney are so over,” says Rover.
Good doggie, good doggie!
but we can't help ourselves.
Lovely, patriotic doggie.
And speaking of signs . . .
Seems like there has been a rash of sign thefts lately. The Iowa
City crowd keeps getting their signs stolen from their lawns, and I
hear that when Kerry spoke in the Des Moines area recently, Kerry signs
went missing all over. (They didn't take the other candidates'
signs, just the Kerry signs. A selective group of thieves, as it were.)
Here in the boonies, the Thieman household had just made the trip to
Sioux City to pick up an Art Small sign and a Joyce Schulte sign – an
hour and a half drive for us – when the guy who mows our lawn, bags our leaves, and shovels our snow came over
and failed to replace our signs when he was done mowing.
And he
took the signs with him, apparently storing his equipment on top
of them on his flatbed. So, the next morning, I left a message on
his answering machine and asked him to please put the signs back.
Eight
hours later, at four in the afternoon, I called again and left a
message with his son. (This is a guy who, if you call him and
tell him you have a check for him, will be there in five minutes
flat.) Three hours later, still no signs, so I
called his wife. That did the trick. The next morning he
returned the Joyce Schulte sign to our yard, although it was half-way
shredded. Apparently, the Art Small sign was completely
shredded.
So, we went to Dem HQ in Sioux City again and got ourselves a new Art Small sign
and a new Joyce Schulte sign.
Unfortunately, the new signs had only been up one day when the wind
tunnel we live in grabbed the Schulte sign and blew it away. We
hope it landed upright in a Republican neighbor's yard. I'm
telling you, it is so windy here that if I had put a wind turbine on my
front lawn a year ago, I'd be a millionaire by now.
The Art Small sign still stands, although it did get rather mowed down
by the wind, too. It's not quite as flat, however, as our Howard
Dean sign after two feet of snow fell on it last January.
Then, last night, I got a call from the BV County Dems HQ and they told
me that our absentee ballots had not been recorded as returned.
And we mailed those in 3 weeks ago! We mailed them from the Storm
Lake post office and they had to travel a full half mile to get to the
courthouse. So, now, I'll be chasing that down on Monday.
Either it just didn't get put up on the website that the Dems are
using, or the Republican county auditor is losing a lot of Dem absentee
ballots.
If you sent in your absentee ballot ages ago and keep getting panicked
calls from national, state, and local Dems asking if you've returned
it, take the hint and call your county auditor to see if your ballot has been received. Monday is the last day.
Politicking is haaarrrrrrrdddddd!
Linda Thieman
Blog For Iowa 
I share the puppy dogs sentiments
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Linda,
You are SO hilarious. I'm quite delighted to slip into the gutter every now and Zen.
— Dawn
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