Nov. 2, 2010 -- I Voted
 

I just got back from the polling place.

I voted against the Democrats and their Road To Serfdom, voted for the Republicans and the Libertarians. And on a couple of referendum ("Proposition") issues, voted probusiness, for I am getting so sick to death of CA's antibusiness regulatory climate and extensive state intrusiveness into economic matters, which exacerbates unemployment in this State.

I feel very civic today.

I voted in DC, useless as that is.

An unopposed mayoral candidate, and no representation on capitol hill. Were there any bond issues or anything like that?

Somebody wants make the Attorney General an elected position. I voted against that.

I also, despite a robocall urging me to, did not write in Fenty (who lost the primary) for mayor. I don't know who would fund that robocall; it seems like purely wasted money.

Road to Serfdom? I don't think I saw that one. Was Bob Hope in it?

"I voted" is like "I gave money to charity" in the "looooook at meeeeee, I'm so good and better than you."

Even better, it's like hanging your HS grad tassle from your rear-view mirror of your Camaro, to show how accomplished you are. :lol:

Most people don't need the back pats or recognition for doing right things. Except sychophantic losers with big mouths and bigger egos.

In that case ....
I voted
on my way to work this am.
I had a real nice conversation with both the party reps that were outside handing out papers on their candidates. Then I went inside and was given a doughnut by the nice lady there.
I only had four people to vote for, so it didn't take long.
On the way out I handed the voting sheets back to the nice men (recycle and all that)
We talked a bit more and one of the candidates showed up as I was leaving.
It was nice to talk to him as well. Not sure that he liked hearing what I had to say. It was nice to let him know that should he win the obstructionist BS that his party has been responsible for over the last 2 years better not happen for another 2.
He realized I didn't vote for him and moved on. I chatted with the two reps a bit more and then left.

Glenn Beck's radio show just said, "Our goal tonight is to make George Soros cry!" Hee hee hee. Just had to put that out here.

Hayek isn't as funny as Hope & Crosby -- but you can read the Readers' Digest version of RTS online, at least.

Shawnee, Shawnee... the way I do things pretty much makes me better than you presently are. That's just how it is, as your mini-rants of the last thirty minutes' posting go to demonstrate. Learn how to spell sycophant, and unlearn sneering, for fear of lacking virtue. I have a bigger and a better ego than you do.

Perhaps Ezra Pound may sing from the grave to Obama the following:
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Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection --
We shall get ourselves rather disliked.

UG - stop it.

No. Did I not say "nor shall my sword sleep in my hand"?

If you have become uncomfortable, step out of range.

I split my votes evenly between the two major parties...

I ended up giving 1/3, 1/3, 1/3rd. Libertarian, Dem, Repub. I voted 2 weeks ago. We have had early voting here for a number of years and we all love it. Saves you from being late for work on election day from waiting in line for the fools who have to stare at the screen trying to make up their minds about poorly written amendments instead of doing the research before you show up.

Fuck cancer, and fuck glen beck. I respect him so little, I refuse to use capital letters in his name. He is smarm.

Ezra Pound was a crazy anti-Semite.

Oh, and he was crazy.

UG is funny.

MY late FIL was a friend of Pound's. There is a lot of family lore about Pound and how crazy he was. Hadn't heard he was an anti-semite though. I'll have to ask my wife about that. Knowing my late FIL though, I'd be surprised if it were true.

Oh and I voted, despite the relative pointlessness of it.

We had like 16 races to vote in! Railroad Commissioner, Agricultural Commissioner, a whole slew of judges, all kinds of crazy shit.

True dat.

I voted despite the utter pointless of it. For 2 pages of positions the only choice was Rep, made me sick. Not even a write in option, I thought there was always supposed to be a write in option.

Oddly enough, I think at the state level you have to jump through some hoops to be an "officially allowed" write-in candidate. I was provided with a list of people I could write in, in the one or two races that allowed one.

Had a large array of offices to fill here. I voted for one democrat, and one republican. The rest were for people who were better choices.

I voted, too. We had quite a few things to vote on. Some amendment stuff to lower taxes on vehicles (wouldn't that be nice?) and some properties. A senator and congress vote, several other stuff and about 20 judges. I was in and out in about 5 minutes. No harassers at the door. Hurray for living near a small town. Oh, and now, I presume the schmear fest on the radio should be over now, so I guess I can start listening to music again.

Went around 2, had a nice chat with the sign-in ladies about A Christmas Story and Spaceballs, voted, out before I got blocked in by school busses ... which was a problem at the polling station. Instead of moving the bus loading area they blocked the entrance driveway to the polling area.

Only four races most talk was about bears, neighbor shot 500 pounds of black bear last season, beekeepers rejoiced.

Finally got the call I was waiting for - my kids voted as well.
Very proud of them.

The public sucks.

He's a funny man, but I have to disagree.

I hear bear meat is very good to eat. I am a hunter, but not sure that I would want to shoot one unless I was directly threatened by one. Same for moose. I would eat them if someone else harvested the meat.

We're quickly approaching an overpopulation problem with the bears here, so I say have at. Moose would be a different story. I don't hunt anymore though so it is pretty much theory for me.

ugh. that's all I have to say. oh, and I voted against "traditional family values." for all the good it did.

I hesitate to demean the dead, but I said it before he died, so I'll say it again. George Carlin was a funny comedian, but after awhile, all that pot smoke shrunk his brain, and he started making comedy routines that were dumb, like this youtube bit. Totally stupid, and the audience applauding him while he's insulting them are more stupid.

"I got a rock".

FAIL

...in getting his point, that is.

George Carlin was a MASTER. Loved his stuff.

I saw him live at Rutgers Univ. about 23 years ago. Funny stuff!

Really - I think I saw him about the same time at the Grand Opera house in DE.

Hmm...maybe a little earlier actually - I think I was still in my teens.

While I quite agree about cancer, I must take issue re Beck. My, my. Such a spurt of venom at the mere mention of the reformed alcoholic.

Glenn Beck satisfies the liberty-minded adult -- yet his thinking causes you to snarl. Am I to figure that you are neither liberty-minded nor adult? For if you were at least liberty-minded, you'd like him, and not on my say-so.

Glenn's opposition seems to come from that quarter that pursues the aggrandizement of the State at a cost to the individual, that works to inflate the dollar, that thinks government-issue health care is the only health care (a simplistic notion if ever there was), that is going to jack your income taxes by a fifth... in short, those people who are out to destroy everybody's quality of life, yours included. These are people locked in a bitter hatred of worth and of life, and they are a sorry lot. They'd piss off a New Black Panther.

Glenn Beck is truly down with capitalism, which is another way of saying he has a close connection with the stuff and breath of life itself. All of capitalism's rivals are ripoffs, shucks, and inferiorities.

Now aren't you glad you know more about it than you did this morning?

So if you don't like Beck you don't like liberty?

Wow.

Beck takes a kernel of truth, a very small one, and spins it into some completely mindless banter about a nightmare he had or some other delusional conspiracy.

UG, Beck may be on "the right side" but can't we all agree he is a stark-raving lunatic? The man is seriously mentally unstable. Shouldn't you have concerns about choosing such outlandish bedfellows?

It doesn't matter who you think Beck's enemies are, you don't have to defend a freakin' fruitloop.

He's just trolling.

Who? Beck or UG?

both.

Here's the thing: Beck and UG are both funny - but in different ways.

Bri you have summed it up perfectly there.

YES! I lean a lot righter-er than most of you all, but still
YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!

I would say Glenn Beck is mentally stable. He has no soul or morals, but stable.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/04...-beck-inc.html

If you truly like liberty, why wouldn't you like Beck? He speaks very powerfully for liberty, as you should know -- but you imply that you doubt.

I prefer liberty to all other social conditions, as you know. Beck does too. The enlightened thinkers know he does -- having experience of the man. The not-enlightened cannot believe it. The Socialists have to choose between believing it and remaining socialists. Since remaining socialist is an unworthy and blood-tainted goal anyway...

In consequence of that, DanaC, Beck has a lot more wow than you can aspire to -- until, that is, you abandon the millions-killing antihuman thing that is socialism and become a capitalist and hence a woman in full.

Because Beck only proposes liberty for those he support his opinions and version of "liberty". Beck is a hate and fear mongering tool who pictures himself as the savior of the right.

He also is a scam artist. All you have to do is check out the gold company he tells his listeners to invest in to see they are nothing more than thieves who pay Beck and sucker in more victims.

Oh yeah. I can see that.
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I really don't like Beck and disagree with him on virtually everything,
but those Liberty Safes are Da bomb!

Stop. Please. You're killing me.

I don't think the world is ready for Dana to become a woman in full.

But you have to admit, it would be totally hot.

I got goosebumps just typing that.

If Dana isn't a woman in full now, I tremble to think what she would be like once she was...I'm for it!

She just needs a man, to beat her when she offends Muhammad. :lol2: