Anxiety Post

Here are some links that I have been watching 2/2 my anxiety w/ the election:

CHOICE

JOE

Stats

Palin

Powell

It's That TIme of Year Again...

Four years ago, Matt and I stumbled upon a Boulder Event that made us blush. ~100 people running down Pearl St naked with pumpkins on their heads. Well, they are back at it again and have made the news....

Who ARRRRRRRRGH you voting for?

Not quite as cute as my pirate, but Obama's got my vote.

Autism Vs. Down Syndrome

A sample of Senator McCain's comments throughout tonight's debate:

"And I just said to you earlier, town hall meeting after town hall meeting, parents come with kids, children -- precious children who have autism. Sarah Palin knows about that better than most. And we'll find and we'll spend the money, research, to find the cause of autism."

First of all, Sarah Palin's son has DOWN SYNDROME, NOT AUTISM! The cause of Down Syndrome is genetic, indicated by an extra 21st chromosome.

So how would she have extensive knowledge of autism? Governor Palin found out in December that her son would be born with Down's Syndrome and admits :
"It took a while to open up the book that the doctor gave me about children with Down syndrome, and a while to log on to the Web site and start reading facts about the situation."

I find it hard to believe that in the time that she was alerted to the special needs of her child, give birth, complete her duties as Governor and run for Vice President for the United States of America that she has had time to then investigate other diagnoses and become an expert on the subject.

Yes, her son has Down Syndrome. So do 400,000 other people in this country, and I would guess that their parents' wouldn't claim to have better knowledge about the 1-1.5 million Americans who are on the Autism Spectrum because of it. That's like saying because I have a friend who is from France I have better knowledge of individuals from Greece.

Autumn Gold

Over the last 3 weekends, we've been up to Estes twice. First, we happened to be up during the "Autumn Gold" festival - that we thought sounded like a name of a Kenny G cover CD. We also were up during "Elk Fest" when we redid part of the roof of the garage. Lots of tourists to watch the elk hoping they would copulate in an open meadow.

One thing is for certain, we live in the best place on earth!
















































DOUBLE RAINBOW!