just a couple thoughts...

this for all you 'vivor addicts. wanna watch a better reality show with less drama but more blood? try watching those who are running for office in Colombia...

from Yahoo! News...

Suspected leftist guerrillas gunned down two candidates in Colombia's upcoming state and mayoral elections after a campaign meeting in a lawless southwestern province, authorities said.

Police found the bodies of Jairo Gomez, a mayoral contender in the city of Genova, and Julio Cesar Castennanos, who was running for city council, lying in a ditch early Saturday, said Uriel Torres, a police spokesman for the Quindio region.

The two went missing after a campaign stop in a rural area outside Genova late Friday, Torres said. He blamed the attack on Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which is bent on undermining the Oct. 26 vote.

At least 23 mayoral candidates have been killed and eight others kidnapped in the run-up to the elections. The FARC has been blamed for most of the attacks.

Nearly 160 candidates have pulled out of the race, a third of them citing death threats, according to the nation's registrar's office.

those people on TV are such wannabes...Ahnold? he's a wimp too. make that doubly wimpy since he's a 'publican :P

AND

there's always a lotta talk surrounding the ever increasing identity theft that is on its way to becoming a plague in the United States. one way to try to deter thieving of personal info is to shred documents, receipts, etc.

it is suggested that we vigilant consumers should invest in a cross-cutting paper shredder. apparently, the regular strip-shredders are not sufficient enough in making things tough for the potential thief; they can often just put the strips back together and voilá, yer credit is now shot.

for those who worry about identity theft...but don't want to take the time in tearing everything up...or can't afford buying a fancy cross-cutting paper shredder, here's my piece of advice:

wanna stop those pesky dumpster divers who want all that personal info? this is all you hafta do... throw all yer perishables into one trash bag and the paper stuff into another - keep 'em separate. however, before you tie up that paper document bag, take a HEAVING SHIT into it. think the dumpster divers will ever want to steal yer identity? hell, they'll send you a case of Lysol and beg for forgiveness...

'course, this is only what i did before i saved up for that cross-cuttin' shredder ;)