You should vote if you axe me...

The trees never see the wood handle.
Machines cut the woods and are indifferent to the scurrying animals running from their homes.

Friday my son was talking about a 6' rattle snake they killed. Poor thing, every creature has a place in life. The snake had his territory and came out his hole in the ground to defend it. The rodents he consumed either went for the woods or got squashed under the tires of the great machines.

My son is a log truck driver making 1500 a week take home. I once drove log truck until I went back to work for Walmart thank God. I saw that German machine grab the tree and saw at the bottom. Here it grabs the tree and a big snippet cuts the tree like scissors leaving no stump.
I have thought of making a thread about the devastation left behind when the loggers leave. Yep I will get some pics together it will take awhile as I am getting my motorcycle together for a trip to Laurel Springs, NC. If anyone is up that way it would be swell to meet you.

It seems that I'm rambling, but my kitten is lost and I'm sitting here talking to you guys crying.

Anyone wants to skim over this its ok cuz I am not even talking about your vote, because I skimmed over most of it until I saw a mention of trees. I don't have that many trees in this small yard, but plenty of hiding spots as I look this morning.

I truly appreciate all on this forum as I can blabber on with no reprimand. Not so on the motorcycle forums unless I am talking about the specs on an engine. Tires and oil are big subjects. They always working on these Harley's. I have spent more money on mine than all the metrics I ever rode. I never went into the engine on those. When young I wasn't particular about checking oil or tires they never left me on the side of the road. Who the hell wants a Harley? I think I will go find a Goldwing or a 1700 Yami. I saw a picture one of you guys rides a crotch rocket. I kept it in my other phone that I lost while riding. Do you have another pic?

Well I hope I haven't bothered y'all too much and will leave you back to whatever you talking about. Thanks for listening I feel so much better.

No problem, babbling is therapeutic. You'll find the kitten.

Awww... I'm so sorry about your kitten. How old is it? Cats do like to explore their environment and sometimes get lost, but most often they make it home and then you are so relieved that you want to kill them! ;)

Sending you good thoughts and everyone - remember to vote for your favorite feline!

sorry man

I found the kitten see the cat thread.

The cat thread? Where's that? :confused:

Oh, THAT cat thread! I was confusing it with the one in the "What's for dinner?" thread. :blush:

Sent this to a woman, in response she asked me if that was who was running for president in 2020. She votes every time.

How are things in The Twilight Zone?

To make a change, you have to vote.

To vote, you have to register.

This is excellent advice for getting ready in time.

From here

I could very well end up voting for Joe Biden this year. I've read that Ivanka might not want to be part of a second term Trump administration; rather, preferring to spend more time with her immediate family. That could seriously compromise the dirty old man vote.

If Biden would announce plans to put someone like, say, Tushi Gabbard in a high profile position in his administration, the dirty old man vote might be swayed his way and put him over the top. Biden would have to have the foresight to recognize the opportunity though.

As good as Tulsi looks on a surfboard, the DNC has no love for her. Having her the the cabinet would send a signal about finding a balance between the over-commitment of the Bush Obama years and the reckless disloyalty of the current administration.

I voted tonight. It was done on a mail in ballot.


NO FRAUD!

Not only has Trump sought to spread FUD about our upcoming election and the inevitable increase in voting by mail using his tweets, he has also grafted gifted rewarded captured the Postal Service by installing one of his mega donors as the Postmaster General (such a swamp move, the PMG's wife was named the Ambassador to Canada--poor Canada). This new PMG has declared that in order to be more like a business and less like a government service, *no overtime will be paid*. When the whistle blows, drop the mail where you stand. It'll be there tomorrow.


What's this got to do with voting?

As I pointed out earlier in this thread, it's possible to verify your options for voting by mail *NOW* and the sooner the better. Vote. Please vote. To make it count, you have to follow some rules and the sooner the better.

I already Voted, in the Aug 11 primary. And I have mail in ballots coming for all of the upcoming elections. We can do that in Wisconsin.

Can't vote in the general election until the candidates are revealed. Attachment 71135

Speaking of elections, Pete's signs were stolen off our property today.

Property Rights are a fundamental belief of the ___________ Party.

VOTE!!!

Ok, that's out of the way for the next thirty seconds....

I'm getting ready to watch the VP debate. New thing this year, well, not a new thing, but people are NAMING it, "managing expectations", whooooo that's fun.


my anti-expectation-managing, or managing expectations against my own self interest , whatev, I'm new at this don't hate at me. I think Kamala Harris will crush that talking point machine.

WHO'S WITH ME NOW?

Go Kamala!

wow.

I got the phrase "talking points machine" from "teh media" but I have to say, ON POINT, media, well done.

jfc.

He's sideslipped answering the actual question, run out the clock not answering, dodging and weaving like a mofo... props. props, yo.

your answers say a lot, despite addressing questions not asked by the moderator.

side note, stop talking over Senator Harris. It really is rude and makes you look like a prick.

holy shit

he just said "let the record show she did not answer the question"

Ok

that's the match that lit the fuse on your own petard, boomer.

proc-to-co-lo-gists????


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too bad the moderator doesn't have that mythical mute button....

did you see that fly land on his head?

-1 for radio,

BUT!

they talked about it at the top of the hour, I heard twitter lost its mind.
[still.... lol]

So Pence was anointed - by fly shit. Appropriate?

Or was that a fly trying to tell him his time was up. He listens to no one - except Trump. Or does he?

He wasn't in the room when Trump was spreading his viral wisdom upon all others.

NO!

Yes!


Only if you want.

You can't unsee...

Those look like detergent boxes. So we can wash our hands of the whole thing?

Also Peanut Butter, toothpaste, furniture, etc.

Harsh bro.

How about now?

Now?

"cum-demned" ballot! (had to re re re re wind it to get that)

bwaaaahahhaahhhahahahahhahaha!

Honestly, I appreciate those guys rigid opposition to human based (but still vegan!) envelope sealing substances, they really, really drove that point home. But voting isn't (or shouldn't be) *that* hard.

VOTE!






(if. you. want. to. jfc.)



But please vote.

Just completed the mail in ballot....and have the sticker on my shirt....

Now that it turns out you are a human being, thanks for voting!

You keep a roll of "I voted!" stickers?

Do they send 'em with the ballot?

This sticker...Does it say "I voted!", or does it say "Chiquita"?

It comes with the ballot.

I've voted by mail for several years now and I can't recall ever seeing an "I Voted" sticker included with the ballot materials

Elections are run locally, so it's up to the state. I've only voted by mail this year, and I got a sticker for the primary and the general.

Can one get a tattoo for that?

So, in Texas, Governor Abbot recently declared that during this period of early voting, the number of drop boxes for ballots only (not mailboxes, secure containers for ballots only) would be limited to one per county. This represented a major reduction in ballot drop boxes for some counties, especially with dense population centers. The news this morning is that a judge has ruled that this order from the Governor “likely violates their fundamental right to vote,” and has suspended the Governor's order.

Because nothing says 'merican more than "See you in court."

link

Got my ballot Friday but didn't notice any sticker.

Got ours last night, no sticker. Some places are sending them out though.

We got our ballots 2 weeks ago filled them out the next day and dropped them in the drop box at city hall.

So the state of Texas' appeal was successful. A three judge panel granted a stay of the lower court's order to stop restricting the number of ballot boxes to one per county. Republican Governor restricts access to voting; one judge, nominated by Obama issues an injunction overturning that order; a three judge panel, all nominated by Trump, issues a stay against the injunction, allowing the ballot box restrictions to remain in place.

This is likely a view into the future of how much and how long the impact of Trump's actions will be felt.

It seems obvious that in this case the Republicans want to suppress the vote and the Democrats want to expand the vote. This is one reason I am a proud Democrat.

I'm not always pro-Democrat but I am actively anti-Trump and anti the party of Trump. My ballot is filled out and will go in the mail tomorrow.

I'm pro-good ideas and good policies.

I see more good ideas and good policies from people who have the "D" associated with their name than what I'm hearing from "the Republicans". Again, let's focus on the ideas and the effects, less on the party attribution. I only pointed it out in the recent news up-thread since it seemed... it seemed partisan, irrespective of the logical and moral "justification" for the original move: "to prevent fraud". For Fuck's Sake.

I realize now, that my post about the sticker sounded a little like I was jumping on the Jam-bashing bandwagon, but really, I was just setting up the "Chiquita" comment.

I like the purple finger better than the sticker anyway.

Really? Could you explain what these good ideas are? I can't see a one, and see the Socialist Democrats as poison. They haven't any concern with rights and liberties... Trump is concerned with absolutely nothing other, except for the economic growth thing -- implemented by liberties, I don't hesitate to point out; there are several here who just can't scrape that idea together. Other people's fat wallets, let alone your own, say this benefit, from this approach, is no fantasy.

Tangentially, I'd add that Critical Theory is socially a very bad habit.

The fella who thinks quote marks are for "emphasis" -- is "clever." The quotes around the D are legit; they are glaringly unnecessary around the Republicans. Punctuation: it can save lives.

Let's see... Banana Democratic Republic? Starchy place.

I'll stick one in myself, then, too. Sundown Monday evening, the wife and I slipped our ballots into the very sturdy welded-quarter-inch steel and bolted to the pavement official ballot box at the county government center. You couldn't budge one of these things with a bullet. The building has two outdoor ballot boxes, within a stone's throw of each other, and of course there's the basement Office of the Registrar, which during business hours you could hand your ballot envelope in over the counter. No crowds elbowing each other.

In my years here, Ventura County has gone from IBMish punch cards and card punchers to Scantron-type optical scanners and tabulators with bins for the hard copies. With the federal mandate for scanners, and the punchcard things mechanically wearing, we voters got nifty stickers saying "I Voted" from the polls.

The nifty sticker tradition continues with the universal vote-by-mail in California this year -- a dark blue elliptical stickum reading "I Voted By Mail/Voté Por Correo." I had a moment's trouble with it until I figured out that only the blue part, and not what resembled a tan ellipse around the blue part, was the sticker; the tan ellipse was the backing beneath it. Now two Voted stickers adorn my black ballcap, from this election and the last.