I'm trying my second MLR today. The first one I did didn't work. This is a 3 day process so I'm hoping it works. We'll see since I didn't start it until after having two bluemoons with an orange slice to celebrate the end of the dictatorship. I just don't see how a democracy can function when there are no checks and or balances. Therefore I am delighted that the one-party system is dented. It is encouraging to see that Bush doesn't seem to be taking the unilateral approach to dealing with the new house and senate leadership and can only hope that his actions actually follow his words. I think it was obvious in this election that the voting public was responding to the obvious examples of absolute power corrupting absolutely. I heard some people only vote against incumbants purely for that reason. Interesting concept. On a more local note, Bill Ritter won governor and that will probably mean a raise in my stipend which is long overdue considering of all the significant cuts in state funding, higher education was cut the most. And of all cuts in higher education, the Health Sciences Center was cut the most. We're a public institution pumping out doctors, nurses, dentists, physical therapists, etc. but apparently that is not an priority which is sad considering it only increases the cost of health care when there are already shortages of these professionals. Anyways, as a public institution, we actually pay more in taxes than we receive back from the state. We would be much better off being a private institution. Many private institutions actually get more in state funding than our "state funded" school. But, in lean times, higher ed gets cut first and we're certainly feeling it. I know of several students who couldn't find labs willing to fund them since money is so tight. "Bye-bye." Ha ha. My rant is over. I don't have funny baby stories so I talk about annoying politics. Well, after my visit to Roanoke I'll be much more interesting.
