lost

where's the remote? a cry often heard in my flat as once again i have misplaced the darn thing.
i sent it, it must be lost in the post! is an excuse i have heard (oh ok i have used it as well!)
i have put down papers i am working on and they are not there when i go back to them, i have saved files on my computer and they are not there when i go to access them.

hell we have all lost stuff in the past.
i bet we have even lost important stuff as well.

but you just have to admire florida they have lost 58,000 votes. hey but they were only absentee voters votes. (maybe they have gone to the same place all the explosives in iraq have disappeared to. not been a good week for losing things for the bush administration!)
of all the states to have problems with the election you would have thought that after 2000 florida would have been squeaky clean. i am not sure if that is them being incredibly stupid or just supremely arrogant knowing that nothing is going to happen to them if they do mess around with the votes.
because in the scheme of things 58,000 votes are a bit harder to lose than my remote and a lot more important to find!
already the democrats are backing nine lawsuits in the state!

to quote:
"It looks like they're trying to steal the vote again," said Diane Glasser, vice-chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party.


now it maybe me - but if india can get its national election to work right, you would have thought the world's greatest democracy should be able to as well.
let's be honest this is not really the example to be setting the iraqi people for their january election.

perhaps they should have accepted fidel castro's offer to send in impartial observers!