  DEBATE UPDATE Had a grand time at the debate party last night. There were several thousand Dean supporters who all gathered to watch the debate together.
It was fun to see the urlLink Democrats blast Bush  and Clark. Dean accused several rivals of giving Bush a blank check to go to war in Iraq by voting for or voicing support for a congressional resolution last year. I think that for the most part they all did very well expressing their viewpoints and most of them tried to put urlLink Clark in the Hot Seat. My favorite part - of course - was urlLink Dean, running on the left as a Washington outsider , saying the party hasn't taken a strong enough stand against Bush and his policies. "Why do you think I am where I am, having come from no place at the end of January? It's because I've gone out and given 50 percent of Americans who have given up on voting in this country a reason to vote again," he said. "We have to have the values of the Democratic Party, but in Washington, the culture is, 'Say whatever it takes to get elected. ' And the minute you're willing to say whatever it takes to get elected, you lose, because the American people are not nearly as dumb as the people in Washington think we are.
" It was a lot of fun and I met a lot of great people there who are as committed as me to ousting Bush. I also saw a lot of people I had met at the urlLink Meetups and the urlLink District 11 Democrats meetings. My co-worker, urlLink Kevin , was there as well and we shared some drinks and did a lot of rallying.
The best part was when Dean himself came and spoke to the group. It was very exciting and felt grand to be part of something big. BASEBALL FEVER urlLink Yankee Bastards That's all I have to say. HOMECOMING WEEKEND Tonight is urlLink Washington High School's Homecoming game. My darling daughter will be marching in the urlLink WHS Purple Pride Marching Band when her school matches up against the husband and my alma mater - urlLink Sunnyslope High School. It's a classice rivalry that has been going on for decades. Washington is urlLink ranked #4 in 4A in the Arizona urlLink High School Football rankings .
It's been raining here all day so tonight's game should be a good one - we will be nice and cool and see which team is the better mudder. So today I am wearing my Band Booster t-shirt which made the daughter very happy - thrilled in fact. She got a little weepy when I took her to band practice this morning because of it. Then I blared the urlLink Beach Boys: Be True To Your School on the way to practice and we sang along loud and proud.
I told her she probably thought I was crazy and she said "that's what I love about you Mom". It choked me up that my daughter embraces my insanity. MY CAR UGLY? An article saying that my urlLink Chrysler PT Cruiser is ugly hurt my feelings. I beg to differ - my cranberry Cruiser is beautiful. It's not a plain-vanilla car and that's why I love it so. 
