The Eleventh Hour
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
So is voter turnout really going to be all that much greater nationally this year The media is attracted to long lines of voters like moths to the flame and we see these stories every presidential election. But are they really representative of what is g...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Heh, JP had a good point. Better tank up. Gas already has gone up around 24 cents a gallon today. Who knows, with the election over, it may be back up to $4.20 by Friday.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
I voted. And man, the new fill-in the circle ballots are sooooo much better than those expensive and time wasting electronic ballots we used in recent years. Theyre even better then the old school punch cards we used to use. I was in and out in 10 minute...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
I voted. And man, the new fill-in the circle ballots are sooooo much better than those expensive and time wasting electronic ballots we used in recent years. Theyre even better then the old school punch cards we used to use. I was in and out in 10 minute...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
More than any other day in his life, today must be testing Barack Obamas mettle. How can you simultaneously grieve the loss of someone very close to you and experience the exhilaration of being elected president of the United States and not just fall com...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Mrs. TEH voted this morning and was concerned that the person standing behind the machine in which she fed her ballot could see who she had voted for as she fed the ballot into the machine. I told her that was necessary since that person needed to know wh...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Just a random election thought here, but what Senator his going to have more access to President Obama than Dick Durbin That has to work to our advantage somehow.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Since I know you all come here for me to tell you how to think, I am offering a simple voters' guide on how to vote today. Here is a list of who to vote for and my considered reasoning as to why.President - Barack ObamaWhy: I am a terrorist-loving, socia...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Having once been an employee of the State of Illinois, I understand how State workers are often subjected to things that those in the private sector are not. On the positive side of the working experience ledger though was the election day holiday we got ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
We ate at Saputos the other night to celebrate my daughters 16th birthday (her choice). I like Saputos a lot. Mainly because they have good food who would of guessed. But I think I like them even more now that Ive realized something that I hadnt not...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Like most Springfieldians I hear from, I really wish the city would make a decision on Hunter Lake one way or another. My operonal preference is for buolding the the lake. With water becoming an even more valualbe resource and having it as a buffer agains...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Like the color in the trees, farm combines appear in the fields every fall. I've lived places where the harvesting machines have come right up to my back door to pull in the crops. They're ubiquitous in Illinois this time of year. And I've lived in Illi...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
I cant wait until next week when Ill be able to go home for lunch, turn on my favorite cable news channels and see California high-speed car chases and breaking news of trapped construction workers instead of live presidential campaign stump speeches.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Ezra Klein is shocked that some (young) people dont know what Pong is. Pong as in the electronic game. Klein himself is too young to have even been born when Pong first came out but he seems aware of it. Not sure why really. Maybe he read about it in an ...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
It's Halloween! Let's drink a nice pumpkin beer.Ahhhh, and maybe another.Oh, but don't overdo it. No, no...ohhhhhh, too late.C'mon, just slow down and pace yourself and...awwwwwwww, man.OK that's enough, time to sleep it off.Have a great weekend! And d...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
The person in this SJ-R video on how to fill out a ballot in Sangamon County spends way too much time filling in the oval. I think. Also, it looks like he is using a pen. Anyone who has ever been to school in the last 35 years knows that you need to use a...
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
I hear theres going to be a big victory rally in Chicagos Grant Park next Tuesday night. I guess it's because the Cubs won the World Series.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Walking past the old Walgreen's on West Monroe a couple of days ago, I found letters on the sidewalk.
Posted by The Eleventh Hour 2 months ago.
Not to gratuitously revisit the contentious issue I blogged about a couple of days ago (I think I set a TEH record for number of comments), but there is this:BOSTON -- A criminal investigation has been launched into the death of an 8-year-old Connecticut ...
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