A weeks worth of news

So whats happening this week?

Friday was halloween, with very predictable lack of trick or treaters as usual (at both mums house and 28 Deerswood). Saturday saw Amys present giving (her birthday had been and gone but she was in Tooting) along with Lolas 1st birthday (the real reason she came back to Enfield i assume). Sunday saw Lewis Hamilton get the fifth place he needed in F1, with mixed reactions (Lucy was very happy but the guys were cheering on Massa because Hamilton is an arrogant .... man). Yesterday saw a potential change in project again (there is a possibility for a Huntingtons genetic bioinformatics project that i am extremely excited about) and today everyone is talking about the US elections. Theres no point asking me who i would vote for, im not american, and if i were american i would probably have a different outlook to the one i have right now so i might vote differently, so it seems a silly question, my priorities as an English person are different to the priorities of America. Anyway it seems like the rest of the world wants Obama to win, as always people are easily overwhelmed by charisma and this guy has it in bucketloads, even if everything else he says is a load of rubbish, it makes me wonder if his spin doctors could actually write him a speach that didnt contain the word "change" and if they did what would be left?? The BBC seems very much to be on his side, satrical news programmes not even contemplating the idea that McCain might win, its taken as a given in, his 72 and its a bit of a joke, the other party had to have a candidate, this one will do. Little Britain (the television comedy) has a spin off called Little Britain USA or something along those lines where they do the usual gay prime minister gag except the gay guy is now the prime minister (because Blair has been thrown out and Brown is now in power) and he has meetings with the President - a young black guy .... yup the BBC knows who it would have voted for. It makes me laugh when people say "people wont vote for Obama because his black, i would have voted for him, its about time they had a black president" A statement still ridiculously racist. Are people really voting for someone because of their skin colour over policies?? whether it sways your vote for or against it doesnt matter its still racism, colour has nothing to do with it, nor does sex, these are just gimicks. However the charisma factor does remind me of the attitude when Blair became Prime minister, he was young and charismatic, everyone loved him, he said the right things at the right time, but this cant go on forever, the media wont love you eternally, one day things will go wrong, spectactually wrong, so is life. A great turn out so far though, it seems everyone has an opinion about this historic decision, the same decision in England would be met with much greater lethargy, voter turn outs are extremely low, because people dont like either party and if they did prefer one they assume none of their policies would be put into action anyway because politicians lie, so why bother? Kayleighs explanation of why she doesnt use the vote which women fought so hard to get her was that when a party comes along with policies she actually agrees with she will vote for them but shes not going to vote for the lesser of two evils because they are still after all an evil, (or something to that effect), contraversal maybe but i hope it makes Kayleigh happy that i got her name in here.

So i guess we will wait and see what happens, be McCain or Obama, England will be celebrating with fireworks tomorrow.