Congressman Joe Sestak announced his candidacy for The United States Senate yesterday, challenging Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination in the spring. Could be an interesting race. Sestak is a young(er) candidate (I know, younger than Specter? But he's 57 so whatever) who is a progressive Democrat, as opposed to Specter who is not actually a Demorcrat at all. Could be interesting. Specter has every endorsement in the known expanse of the universe, Ed Rendell said, "I would tie my infant grandchild to the railroad tracks during peak hours if it meant the U.S.A. Senate would have six more years of Arlen Specter!" Barack Obama's endorsement was a little less excited, "Arlen is... I'll say he's one of the best Jews I know."The Times of New York reports that Specter has more money than Sestak at $7.5 mil to $4.3 mil.
The only thing is, if this were an open election the Specter would win easy. But it's not. It's a Democrats-are-allowed-to-vote-only election (the best kind) and truth be told, Democrats aren't Republicans, jus tryna spit it raw here, so they may not vote for Specter, who became a Democrat like 2 seconds ago cause he was going to lose the Repub Primary. So like who likes Arlen Spectorino? Independents. Middle of the road (MOTR) D-Crats and Repubs. But among the D-Cratico partay, I don't know it could be more difficult for Specter than originally thought to win, considering Specter was like on Bush's dick (!) for the last 8 years. Do you remember Bush?! That's not doing him any favors with the Mt. Airy crowd. (Although truth be told they're probably going to have the Eugene Debs write-in campaign again, so that's a pretty tough demographic for anyone.)
Here's an in-depth poll.
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Even though it is 113 days till our collective annual day of thanks, Thanksgiving, I am feeling thankful today. After a couple days of not speaking and spending a lot of time on the couch I am up again and this makes me happy and thankful to be an AMERICAN. I know that if I lived in a bad country like Romania or Africa or Canada I would probably be dead right now, my throat having closed up days ago rendering me unable to breathe. Breathing = Life, transitive property, you get the idea. If I lived in a place like Rumania, where their medicine is still from the Dark 
Ages they probably would have given me like an original tracheotomy and would've just sliced my gullet open so I could get air in my throat, but like I woulda died from bloodloss. If I lived in Africa I don't even know what they would have done. Probably like torn up some long-ass grass next to their hut and then boiled it with water and have me drink their "potion". They might've chanted over me, which tbh, might be worth it. In Canada the health care system is so bad that you can't see a doctor for 12-18 months, and that's only if it's super serious, it's a 3+ year wait normally. You get what you pay for Healthcare duh.
Ages they probably would have given me like an original tracheotomy and would've just sliced my gullet open so I could get air in my throat, but like I woulda died from bloodloss. If I lived in Africa I don't even know what they would have done. Probably like torn up some long-ass grass next to their hut and then boiled it with water and have me drink their "potion". They might've chanted over me, which tbh, might be worth it. In Canada the health care system is so bad that you can't see a doctor for 12-18 months, and that's only if it's super serious, it's a 3+ year wait normally. You get what you pay for Healthcare duh. So I'm glad I live in a place where I can go to the doctor and get antibiotics in the same afternoon.
Me in Rumania
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