I predict that tomorrow we will see a lot of upsetting results and some surprises and in the final moment, we will suddenly realize that it doesn’t really make much of a difference.

I lived under the democrats controlling congress through the 80s until the early 90s when the republicans overthrew them.

Now the situation is potentially reversed.  Through a lot of stupid acts by republicans, some bad leadership and a lot scaremongering the democrats may indeed sieze control of one or both houses of congress.

And in the end, the everyday guy (or gal….let’s not be sexist) will still be screwed and ignored.

I can no more drop in on my Senator and expect a meeting now then I will be able to then.  They are out of touch and live in their ivory castles, insulated from the little people.

Immigration?  Social Security?  We have done nothing to fix those issues till now, and I doubt it will change.

Gay Marriage?  Maybe a dem controlled house will legalize it, but the courts are taking us there one inch at a time already.

Sounds harsh, but true.  A student who refused to answer a WASL question was suspended.

Has the State and its flawed WASL gone too far?

Via Bloomberg 

Tyler Stoken was a well-behaved fourth grader who enjoyed school, earned A’s and B’s and performed well on standardized tests.

In May 2005, he’d completed five of the six days of the Washington State Assessment of Student Learning exam, called WASL, part of the state’s No Child Left Behind test.

Then Tyler came upon this question: “While looking out the window one day at school, you notice the principal flying in the air. In several paragraphs, write a story telling what happens.”

The nine-year-old was afraid to answer the question about his principal, Olivia McCarthy. “I didn’t want to make fun of her,” he says, explaining he was taught to write the first thing that entered his mind on the state writing test.

New York has hit upon the perfect way to bypass the laws against gay marriage.

Since the laws require marriage to consist of a man and a woman all you have to do is change one person in a same sex couple’s gender.

Oh not with anything as intrusive as gender alteration surgery.

Just file a change to your birth certificate and become legally the opposite sex.

N.Y. Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice

Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.

Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.