Hey you...

...yeah you.

You know who I'm talking to here. You need to calm down and quit crying.
I know you're all apprehensive and worried about the election. You think the Republicans are going to steal another one. You know what? YOU'RE WRONG. Dead wrong. You're just making shit up to worry about. People have had it with Bush and Bush McCain. They've had it with conservative misrule and greedy power mad priggish pseudo religious Republicans. The right kind of people, and by that I mean progressives, liberals, people of color, gays and lesbians, and clear thinking independents, and forward thinking Republicans are going to band together and we are going to elect our first ever black President. We're going to vote in such numbers that our votes can't be discounted or thrown out. We're voting early, by absentee ballot, by any means necessary. We're going to win. So please, I beg you to stop whining, to stop spreading discontent and negativity, and to do something positive to help us end the Republican reign of terror. Offer to drive the elderly to the polls on election day, call your friends, neighbors, and family and remind them to vote.

Seriously, you know I love you and most of the time we're on the same page on most things, but you've got to stop your fucking whining right this minute or I'll crush your head.
I am not kidding, I will crush that melon you call a head if you don't stop scaring people with your doomsday bullshit.

I'm sad to report that I was not among the chosen people

I did not get picked to be on the jury in today's civil trial. I was ready to serve but they did not call my name.

The case involved a multi car accident where one car rear ended another then the car that hit the first car got hit by another and as they people were getting out of the second car the third car got hit sending it deeper into the second car and it caused some injuries to the people who were in the second car. At least that's what I think happened anyway. So the people who hit the first car were suing the people in the fourth car for medical bills and pain and suffering, I think. Alas, I'll never know because they did not pick me. They did read out my first name and I was hopeful but then the last name they called out was not mine so I sat back and waited. But I waited in vain.

The two attorneys then had a chance to dismiss any of the jurors but they decided to dismiss none and the judge then said that he had never in all his days on the bench see two attorneys not dismiss at least one juror. Judge S. then smiled and thanked all of us on jury panel "A" for coming in and he told us to call in sometime this weekend. I've got another 6 weeks of being on call to go so my hope springs eternal, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Many are called, few are chosen

Woo hoo! I've got to report prior to 9 AM in the morning for jury service. I'll probably get "struck" but who knows, I may also get to serve on a jury. Either way, I'm excited to do my civic duty.