[Randallw]

Personally I find the US electoral system perplexing. It seems to be a factor of american worship of the individual that you vote for a "President" instead of the party. The Republicans already have their candidate and the Democrats can't even make up their mind. Just vote for the party you support, then choose the leader of the winning party. Here in Australia, and I imagine Canada, we just vote for party members and whichever party has the most elected members places their leader as Prime Minister. At the last election here the Prime Minister himself was voted out.

I'd go on about how the Communists, led by a salacious drunk, ended up winning, but you don't want to hear the details.

As for the main topic, I was just reading yesterday of how Georgia is readying for war with Russia, and Georgia is trying to join, if it hasn't already, NATO. that'll be nice. A war between NATO and Russia.