You want to know the sad thing about the whole voting issues in Florida - it all came to light for just two reasons - We have a lot of electoral votes and we just happened to be very, very close in the vote. I'd be willing to bet that it could have happened to a bunch of other states as well. The good news is that Florida will probably lead the way in modernizing the voting process - at least in the counties that are not run by mindless rednecks.

By the way, we love Canadians down here - they encourage us to look closely at our change when it is given to us at a store - we don't want to be stuck with the worthless stuff from north of the border (that's Canada, not Georgia).

We love the Brits too - though we wish they'd learn about sunscreen BEFORE they turn into silly looking lobsters.

The Irish - Love em! but why do they seem to gravitate to the few Irish pubs and want to drink bottled Michelob?

But then there's all the other nationalities we've dealt with in Tourism Central. I could go on - but that isn't what the tread is all about . . .