[Leica] OT: Maine (was: Not my usual subjects - and in color)

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Just calling it as I believe it, Michael. ;-)



On 9/21/06 1:20 PM, "Michael Eric Berube" <pj@GoodPhotos.com> wrote:

> BD wrote:
>>> utterly  bizarro story of the parents
>>> in Maine kidnapping their daughter,
> 
> Sonny asked:
>>> What color was Maine again?    ;-)
> 
> BD responded:
>> Well, it's two Senators are Republicans...and it's the summer home of Per
>> Bush and where baby Shrub summered - so I guess it's Red. ;-)
> 
> What sort of research techniques to they teach down there in those vaulted
> halls of the ivy leagues of technology?!
> 
> In fact, Maine was a "Blue State" during the last election. While some of
> our "even more rural" counties were Red, not enough were to split our
> Electoral votes (which Maine, like Nebraska, can do) and we joined the rest
> of the North Eastern Seaboard and voted for the Demopublican wing of the
> Corporate Incumbent Party which rules our nation (instead of the Repulicrat
> wing.)
> 
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
> 
> For the record Senators are Republican, are both women, both are ardently
> pro-choice. One of them, Olympia Snowe, pretty much heads up the Fiscally
> Conservative/Socially Liberal centrist group in her wing of The Party. Her
> continuance to counter the Chief Executive against her wing's lines has
> consistently earner her the title of RINO (republican in name only) by most
> neo-cons. Both of our Congresscritters are from the Demopublican wing of
> The Party, both male, and both also ardently pro-choice (well, when it
> comes to choosing to abort a pregnancy at least.)
> 
> As to our 'summer visitors', the Bush's are just a handful of the millions
> of pains in the ass that we have to deal with en masse Memorial Day through
> Labour Day (and now that it is Leaf Peeping season and soon for Ski
> Season.) <sigh>
> 
> Worth noting that a good many of these PITAs 'summer at their cottages in
> Maine' every weekend to escape their daily Hell in the greater Boston area.
> ;-)