Riders on the Storm

Build the ark! We are experiencing a rain not seen in years. Actually, Northern CA is getting hit a lot harder than the Central Valley. But, unfortunately, my family and I were in Northern CA visiting my mom. The 3 hour trip from the Bay Area to Visalia took over 4 hours.

We listened a bit to the XM radio channel for San Francisco weather and traffic conditions. It sounded like the soundtrack to The Day After Tomorrow. This route closed due to flooding, this one due to a gasoline spill, these closed due to fallen trees, BART not running due to trees on the tracks, and on and on...

It was nice to make it home safely and rest in my recliner. Focusing on driving in a rainstorm with limited visibility takes a lot out of you.

We also got a chance to listen a bit to the Iowa postmortem discussions. It was especially interesting to hear the replaying of Hillary's speech where she was so excited how energized the Democrats in Iowa were.... yeah, right! She was most likely fuming inside at the dumb idiots of Iowa who couldn't get it right.

There was also discussion on how the Democrats in Iowa, who are 95% white, voted overwhelmingly for Osama Obama, a black man. Where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? They should be happy happy happy.

Actually not. If a black man wins the nomination - or the presidency - how can they still call the U.S. a racist nation?

By the way, how is it that when the press and other Dem candidates asked hard questions and asked for answers of Hillary they were piling on and picking on a woman but when Hillary and the Dem candidates pick on Obama it is not racism?

Ron Paul getting 10% was pretty significant. I hear ABC is now going to let him into the debates. Kucinich is not allowed and is making a big fuss, BTW.

I enjoy the sound of rain on the roof.