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Well, following on from a recent comment, I felt I should revise my opinions on this outrageous invention, after my circumstances have changed. My conclusion is still the same: the mosquito should buzz off. However, I can further appreciate the anxieties of many shop owners and residents.
Within your local communities, you can always recognise the same old faces: there’s the local tramp, the local druggies, the local drunks, and so on. Twydall is no different, and working in a convenience store as I do, you quickly get used to regular customers, regular routines and regular nuisances.
Without much difficulty, I could reel off a list of regular (and semi-regular) customers. I’m not going to, as that would probably be a step too far, but I will say this: amongst our regular, semi-regular and one-off customers are a diverse range of ages, ethnicities and backgrounds. I’ve even served a couple of Medway Councillors over the past couple of weeks (not from the same party, I might add, but both with interests in Twydall).
The customs are simple: many regular customers will always ask for the same thing (20 Raffles, half a bottle of Scotch, 10 Hamlet Miniatures, a bottle of Captain Morgan etc.) and you know exactly what you are going to have to reach for before the customer asks. Then there’s the No ID No Sale policy - which is strictly enforced! Working on a Saturday evening as I do, there is nothing unusual about people buying alcohol. If someone looks under 21, we ask for ID, if they can’t show any, we refuse the sale. The usual excuse is “I’ve left it in the car”, before darting down the road to the other convenience store, where they know they stand a better chance of being served alcohol or tobacco products.
Yes, I know that John McCain has already announced that he has chosen his running mate - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - but she is a virtual unknown!
Obama played a risky hand when he chose one of his critics - Joe Biden - to be his running mate, but McCain’s choice of someone who could be his daughter (although Meghan McCain is younger and much better looking!) went further in my opinion.
Of course the general idea is that the ticket is balanced out, and, to be fair, this has happened quite well: McCain, the white, elderly male with much experience, has chosen Palin, the white, middle-aged female (”hey Obama, I’ve chosen a woman, why not you?”) with some experience; while Obama, the black middle-aged male with little experience, has chosen Biden, the white, elderly male with a lot of experience.
The choice of running mate whilst significant at the moment plays only a minor role in the overall shape of the election. What really matters to Americans is achieving a shift away from George Bush, and much like Milliband isn’t the way to achieve the necessary change in this Country, McCain isn’t the key to achieving the necessary change in American.
Election workers in Florida’s Brevard County were given a headache after Tropical Storm Fay rendered two polling stations unusable for Tuesday’s primary.
Workers scrambled to find new polling stations in two precincts where before the all important August primary, which takes place just days after Sen Biden was announced as Obama’s running mate.
Asif Ali Zardari, husband to the late Benazir Bhutto, looks likely to be elected President of Pakistan when the Pakistan Parliament votes on September 6.
Zardari became leader of the PPP upon Bhutto’s assassination last December, and was yesterday nominated as his party’s candidate for the presidency. He announced that he had accepted the nomination today.
Zardari’s decision to stand could, according to the BBC, threaten the coalition currently running the Parliament, as his main coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif, is against him becoming president, preferring a “consensus president”.
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