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Show www r Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 1-4, 2008; The Park Record A-16 DpGS ON M A I N MORE STREET By Tom Clyde • Get the snow blower ready Everybody Well, we're down to the wire. Only three Ted Stevens, a doddering octogenarian, and now days to go before the start of the 2012 cam- a convicted felon, is still ahead in the polls and is trying to predict what paign season. This has been the longest, loud- likely to be reelected. Personally, I would consider this election a kind of winest campaign I can remember. John McCain we'll has been running for president since at least real success if there were 435 members of the ter A 1950. Hillary Clinton was campaigning in the House of Representatives in the unemployment have. womb. Obama's been at it for nearly two office on Wednesday morning, with Nancy repeat of last ; years. Sarah Palin has been running for almost Pelosi at the head of the line. The majority of year would eight weeks now. It's all wearing thin, but them are Democrats; all of them are incum- be very nice. Apparently one of the Salt Lake TUesday itfs over. It's kind of over early for me, bents who should be held accountable for their weathermen said that the ocean currents, non-performance. If they had been doing their were setting up with a "la nina" effect, which because I voted last week. I started watching the Obama infomercia!, job, the odds are pretty good we would not be in is what happened last winter. The storms but quickly found that I'm tired of it all. So I the current mess, or multiple messes. But in a came in often enough to keep the skiing just, switched over to the farm channel, expecting year when the electorate claims it wants change, about perfect all season long. I don't know if ( to find the "Classic Tractor Hour." Instead, T. we are going to send 90 percent of the same he has any idea what he's talking about. \ Boone Pickens was explaining his wind/natu- incompetent, venal criminals back to Congress. They have a hard time forecasting tomor-, ral gas power strategy to a group of high- Yeah, that will change things around here. We row's weather, so looking out three or four , plains farmers. He made all kinds of sense. keep doing the same thing over and over again, months is a stretch. Years ago, a neighbor told me his t h e After the long and counterproductive political and are surprised and disappointed when the ory about winter predictions. He claimed , season, here is a guy with a solution. It's that if the hornets' nests are high in the ; well thought out, and he was quick to admit where there were problems and technology 777/5 year, the hornet nests are trees, we will have a big snow year. He • was very old. Somehow, that gave h i s , gaps that needed to be filled. Whoever wins cantaloupe sized and right at the very theory an aura of credibility. Some years i the h election, l i ii hhope hhe iis on the h phone h with Pickens by about noon on Wednesday. Wf S 0TWe nfthp ireeS trPP<i00Sn hvthatthpnrv WP the hornets' nests around the ranch are ; For the first time in my life, I voted a P < Oy Wai Weory, WG built about chest height. It's a discovery I've generally made by accidentally . straight ticket. I had to think about it for a in for a big smacking one with a shovel while irrigat-; while because there are some Republicans 1 ing. You tend to remember that. Then who actually deserve consideration. " other years, the hornet nests are way up Governor Huntsman has done a pretty solid in the tops of the trees and you don't have job. He seems to be able to rise above the swill result isn't different. in the legislature and take a logical, long-term In the 1950s, the U.S. was the world's pre- to worry about them at all. This year, t h e ' view of things. The Democrat running against mier manufacturing economy. Nobody was bet- hornet nests are cantaloupe sized and right Congressman Bishop frankly seems like a ter at it than we were. Then it faded, and we at the very tops of the trees. So, by t h a t , major-league twit, but he's in no danger of win- became the world's best technology economy. theory, we are in for a big winter. ning. So I voted against Bishop. Even on the Then we became the world's best services econI have to admit that, while I eagerly watcrrlocal level, there are a couple of council candi- omy until that got shipped to India. So we the hornet nests in the fall, I've never tried . dates I would have voted for in a non-partisan developed an economy based entirely on trad- to go back in the spring and correlate the race. But I'm mad as hell and hold the ing pieces of paper, and nobody was better at it hornets' forecast with what really happened. Republicans largely responsible. than us. Then somebody discovered that pieces It could be completely random. It might be a I saw a map of the U.S. recently with each of paper didn't have any intrinsic value. Now better predictor of the World Series than the , congressional district color-coded. Only those we're on our way to building a new hunter-gath- weather. But I know that the hornets build districts where there was a serious challenge erer economy, and I'm sure we will be the best their nests differently from year to year. And were colored, with those predicted to go one hunter-gatherers in the world. Whatever we do, my neighbor who told me about this lived to • way or the other shaded red or blue. The rest of we Americans do it big. The new currency will be 102, so he has to be right. the map, showing the vast majority of districts, be Campbell's Minestrone Soup. It's a little hard Get your snow blower ready. was gray, indicating the incumbent had no seri- to carry in your wallet, but it tastes better than ous challenge. Something like 90 percent of a collateralized debt obligation (though Tom Clyde served as a Park City attorney inCongress will be reelected. The other 10 percent Icelandic Treasury Bonds, seasoned with a little the 1980s and is the author of "More Dogs on are either dead or recently caught in sex scan- garlic and saute"ed in olive oil, can be quite Main Street." He has been a columnist for1 dals with underage pages. So far, Alaska Senator tasty). The Park Record for more than 20 years. THE SPUR BAR & GRILL U FALL DINING SPECIAL 2 F0R 1 ENTREES Down the alley @ 352 Main Street, Park City 435 615 1618 www.thespurbarandgrill.com valid (or Riboyo ileak. srilh olhor dtccounti, *poeial«. or piomoiiono Valid wilh n o d 11 card purchases only. Expire a IIFI4JDB Election Results -**-***1 The Park Record will be posting local election results throughout Tuesday night and Wednesday morning on our website, www.parkrecord.com. VOTE Correction: In her Oct. 25 column, "Would U Vote for This Man?" Ten Orr referred to "This American Life" as a National Public Radio.show, It is apt. ".This A«ierican-;Life" isiproduced by WB£Znand,distributed toipublic radio stations nationwide by Public Radio International (PRI). We apologize for the error. M|U«,< ^ { SUMMLT C O U N T Y ^ ^ * dwung, PUBLIC NOTICE O F 2008 SUMMIT COUNTY POLLING LOCATIONS Public Notice is hereby given regarding polling locations and assigned voting precincts for the 2008 General Election to be held November 4, 2008: Location Assigned Precincts Henefer Fire Station 355 S. Henefer Road 25-Henefer Coalville LDS Church 40 N. Main, Coalville I9-CoalvilIeSouth 21-Springhollow Wanship Fire Station 2000 S. Hoytsville Rd. Easy Street, the comfy grill with the great big heart, is back! We've taken over the whole building again, just as you wished, so please stop the anonymous letters and late-night phone calls. Uncle! . 17- Wanship 24-Echo 20-Coalville North 22-Upton 18-Hoytsville Oakley Town Hall 960 West Center, Oakley 14-Oakley 15-Peoa Kamas City Building 170 North Main, Kamas 12-Kamas West 13-Marion 29-K.amas East Francis Town Hall 2317 S. Spring Hollow Rd. 28-Francis 11-Woodland Snow Park Lodge Lower Deer Valley 2250 Deer Valley Dr. South 1-Deer. Valley North 2-Old Town South 31-Deer Valley South 32-Old Town North Treasure Mountain Middle School 2530 Reams Blvd, Park City 3-Prospector 33-Sidewinder 4-Thaynes Canyon McPolin Elementary School 2270 Kearns Blvd, Park City 5-Park Meadows South 35-Park Meadows North 6-Quarry Mountain Sheldon D. 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