Og of Neanderpundit is regaling us with tales of drivers on his way to work. More specifically about the “Blue Hairs” as he calls them, and the idiots that drive fancy cars that believe it gives them a right to hot rod through traffic. His little tale reminded me of an ongoing annoyance I’ve had for the last couple of months.

As some of you may remember, I tend to have a lead foot. Typically I drive about 10 mph over the posted limit. IÂ’m generally not the fastest car on the road, but IÂ’m definitely not the slowest. I donÂ’t care if people pass me and I donÂ’t mind passing people. Although I do hate it when they whip around me just to slow down. Especially if they are making a turn and come to an almost complete stop. But that is not what I want to talk about.

There is a stretch of road that I travel down every day to work. ItÂ’s only about four miles long, but in that stretch the speed limit goes from 30 to 35 to 40 to 45 miles per hour. When I start out on it IÂ’m doing 40 miles an hour and just about everyone is passing me like IÂ’m standing still. Every time the speed limit increases by 5 MPH, so do I. Again IÂ’m generally being passed rather easily. Finally, when I get to the stretch of road that is 45 MPH, IÂ’m doing 55 MPH. However, now all these cars that have been passing me are now being passed by me.

Can anyone explain this to me? I mean IÂ’m still doing 10 over the speed limit. Speeding tickets in the state of Illinois increase in severity based on how fast over the speed limit you are going, not on how fast in total you are going. Thus doing 40 in a 30 has the same fine as 55 in a 45. However, doing 50 in a 30 has a larger fine then 55 in a 45. Why the hell do all these morons not accelerate past 50? I donÂ’t know, but I get annoyed when they start boxing me in and I want to go.

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IÂ’ve never believed in the electronic voting machines being hacked theory that is floating around. ItÂ’s just way too big of a conspiracy theory for me to buy. They may be flawed, but I donÂ’t believe they are rigged or hacked. Then again living in Illinois I canÂ’t think of any voting method that isnÂ’t flawed. Hell I live in the same state as Chicago; we all know what they can do with ballots and a large body of water.

Tuesday night I did start to wonder how flawed our polling system is. The polls here closed at 7:00 PM, we didnÂ’t start getting election news/results until around 8:00. By 8:30 you still couldnÂ’t get an accurate picture of how the election was going. Depending on what news source you where looking at, they all give different figures. Three local channels, the local newspaper and two radio stations couldnÂ’t agree on any results. At a little past 9:00 PM one station declared Blagojevich the winner while another station showed Topinka in the lead. The newspaper had a state representative loosing as well as a US congressman, but two of the stations had them both winning. Some races showed really close in one place and on opponent to have a wide lead at others. No two had numbers that even resembled the other sources. It went on this way all night. I finally gave up watching and checking the results because it was frustrating and annoying.

I’m trying to figure out how all of these “reliable” news sources could have widely varying results. I know I’m not that savvy in the ways of how votes are counted and election results reported, but one would think they would have a least a uniform or single point of media release. I’m also wondering how accurate any of the election results actually where.

Yea, thatÂ’s another rung in my ladder of lost faith in our government.

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