Weekend riding, politics, etc.

A lot of interesting things transired over the weekend.

First, my sister came to town(zanzibar coffee in tow) things were great, mexican food, margaritas, hanging out at my friend marco's house, until saturday morning when she lost/wast robbed of her wallet. Talk about a pain. 2 hours of phone conversations with credit card companies and things got taken care of. She was rather perturbed, and asked,"Matt, have you ever lost your wallet before. I feel like a dumb ass." My response,"Kristin, the question is not have I lost my wallet before, the better question is how many times has this occured." I think 6 is a good rough estimate.

I went on a great outdoor ride with the likes of Ryan, Roxie, Marco, Bryan, Munson et al. It is great to see everyone doing the necessary "off" season riding to stay in shape, gain fitness. Alas, I did not make it to Des Moines for the 2 mile roller races. It is a pity also, because I actually fancy myself as sort of a two mile-indoor roller race-early season specialist. Wonder who won?

Third, I watched the republican/democrat duals, or I mean debates yesterday. Some observations:

GOP
The republican debate was ridiculous, they throughly solidified the fact that none of them will become president.
No one wants a president that has weak kneed policy, but can sling smart assed quips all night
John McCain loves slinging smart assed quips.
I think Mitt Romney came out of the debate looking the most presidental saying things like "It would be nice if we could stick to policy and not personal attacks."
Unfortunately, we did not hear much for Ron Paul. When he speaks with a back drop of politicians that love war mongering and spending the US peoples he sounds crazy. What is crazy, is is that this war cost one Trillion dollars(277,000 per us citizen?), most of the GOP want to send more troops, build more ships and extent the sphere of influence of the USE(United States Empire). His ideas only sound because his are rooted in constitutionalism, liberty seeking for the american people, and deficite spending, and why would we all want to focus on these things?

Democrat
john Edward and Barack Obama come out looking like it is a two way race for the Democratic nomination.
Hillary Clinton Talks all the time about here 35 year history of making change, well forgive me Hilary, but I don't remember any of this so why not talk about your platform now.
then they asked about Pakistan...F.