Seems about right...

My Personality

Neuroticism	45
Extraversion	67
Openness to Experience	96
Agreeableness	46
Conscientiousness	62

You are poised, confident, and clear-thinking when stressed, however you feel enraged when things do not go your way. You are sensitive about being treated fairly and feel resentful and bitter if you think you are being cheated. People generally perceive you as distant and reserved, and you do not usually reach out to others. Generally you are not considered to be an emotional person, however you are aware of and in touch with your emotions. You see no need for pretense or manipulation when dealing with others and are therefore candid, frank and sincere. People find it relatively easy to relate to you, however you generally see others as selfish, devious, and sometimes potentially dangerous. You have a strong sense of duty and obligation, and feel a moral obligation to do the right thing.

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Maybe I'm doing better than I thought...

37 miles per gallon

Created by The Car Connection

A labrador?

Who're THEY kidding? I don't think they know me all that well. I'm neither sociable, nor particularly...

Wait a sec...

Here's their description:

Your family is what makes you tick, and you never "flea" from an opportunity to hang out with the whole gang. A family picnic complete with hot dogs, deviled eggs and a refreshing swim in the lake is hard for you to stray from. Your sparky temperament and dogged intelligence mean you are not only a blast to hang out with, but great to work with as well. Your close pals appreciate your patience and forgiveness, knowing you'd rather let sleeping dogs lie than dwell on the mishaps of the past. Your dashing good looks may one day lead to a modelling career, if only you can tame the unfortunate clumsiness that sometimes causes you to go flailing from the catwalk.


Ummm.... okay, maybe I am...

I'm trying... really I am...

Geez... I can't even get the hang of posting! You'd think I would know better than to hit "Back" after previewing, but NOOooo, not the smartypants I.T. guy! I have to go and blow out a whole long post that I was working on. Damn.

Oh well...

The gist was that I'm pleased Obama won, that it looks like the Dems will hold a solid majority in the House & Senate, and there's no such thing as a filibuster-proof Democrat majority because they just can't agree on what they want. The Republicans will always be more successful at getting what they want, because they don't want to be all things to all people.

I wonder if we'll get GM, Ford & Chrysler bailed out in time to avert a depression? I bet if the UAW would agree to disband, W & his cronies would bail them all out so fast it would make your head spin, but so long as they have a union to bust, no deals will be struck (and to the douche who claimed they get $75/hour for sweeping floors, what are you smokin', dude?). They would rather see 25% unemployment than allow the big three to keep us afloat while we transition to greener and more efficient forms of energy so long as they're staffed by union personnel.

The thing is, though, that the decisions about the cars made and the quality floor of the product are choices made at the executive level, not by the factory personnel, and the making of low-quality low-mileage SUVs instead of high-quality environmentally friendly vehicles (remember the Datsun B-210?) has done more to bring them low than any union contract could. Besides, the unions have renegotiated their contracts in the last couple years to allow for lower-paying jobs to replace higher-paying ones when employees are replaced. I'm more concerned about Rick Wagoner's $15.7 million salary than I am some dude in the factory making a decent wage. And that's just the CEO (whpo oversaw the decline, I might add). What about the other executives? How many millions could be saved by replacing the executive level (VP and above) with people making something a little more realistic? Does the executive at the big three really represent almost 300 times the value of a factory worker to their crporation when they are helping bring it low?

Well, I guess well just have to sit tight and see how things play out. I'd hate to think that the Republicans would let their political agenda bring about the collapse of the world's economy, but it certainly wouldn't be the first time politics caused or even agravated a disaster, and likely won't be the last...

Election Day Eve?

Well. here it is November 3, and tomorrow is election day. I'm excited and scared by the choice we face. I believe that this may be a fateful decision, and I can't shake the feeling that things will go terribly wrong somehow. I'm a pretty progressive guy, socially speaking, and a fiscal conservative, and I don't think there's really any choice that we as a nation can make that will have a bigger impact on our daily lives that the choice of who will lead us over the next four years.

At this point, the domestic economy shows signs of near total collapse, international markets are in the same boat, our current executive leadership seems to think more of the same baloney that got us here, combined with a general socialization of the disastrous debts and credit defaults will save us.

Politically speaking, we have one candidate who won't (or possibly can't) define what he stands for other than "not Obama" and the other is offering hope and inspiration combined with lots of hard work and rebuilding and expanding the infrastructure, much like the CCC and TVA of FDR's time.

The thing is that ordinarily I wouldn't be really in favor of all the spending attendant on such a plan, but we've seen what our current robber barons and "leaders" have offered, and I am hearing from the right that what we really need is more of the same policies and tax breaks and such that brought us to this point.

History tells us that what Obama is selling is much like what FDR was using to drag us out of the Great Depression until WWII provided the demand for more goods and services than industry could provide, and Obama is getting much the same treatment that FDR got from the Republicans of his day.

I don't know if Obama will be able to convince the Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the Senate that he has the right plan, but I think we're rapidly approaching the point where almost anything is better than what we have presently, even if it seems to be a socialist solution to the right-wing (it isn't, really. It's a capitalist solution - we aren't talking public ownership and control of industry here).

Anyway, here's hoping our next President Elect will be Barrack Obama...