"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (1825-1829)
Nov 02
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Nov 02
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (1825-1829)
“Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I’d have all of you shot!”
– Pink Floyd “In the Flesh”
I just couldn’t resist. 😉
In other election news, most of the 11 referenda for bans on homosexual marriage are expected to pass. This confirms to me that the debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment debate was fruitful. My Democrat friends have repeatedly said that since the amendment had no chance of passing the debate was merely a ploy to get votes for Republicans. I’ve said all along that the point was to put the issue into the spotlight and get people to do what pro-family folks wanted in the first place – write bans into state laws.
Nifty. I’m 79% Kerry, 21% Bush, 0% Nader.
I’m not telling who got my vote though. Just the way I am. 🙂
Nothing wrong with women baking pie. Wouldn’t mind a woman baking me a pie right this moment, actually. But I meant that to express the cliche of women’s place being “in the kitchen” cookin’ up goodies for their men.
But then to qualify the second sentence of the previous paragraph, I have a chronic compulsion to help out when women are in the kitchen (mostly because it’s a darn good excuse to be close to women–wink wink), so don’t get the wrong idea that I just want to sit around smoking my pipe, reading the paper, and letting my woman do all the work! No ma’am.
Steve,
We didn’t have Nader to kick around here in PA this year — which was probably the only reason I didn’t vote for him again. It was a tough choice in the end, and I actually considered all of the available third-party candidates in the lead-up to this election. Won’t post online about who I voted for, but I will say the turnout was an extremely pleasant surprise this year; I was expecting it to swell a little, but I get the impression it swelled quite a bit.
Funky,
How was the turnout in your neck of the woods? I’m still hearing about precincts in areas of PA (urban and non-urban) that haven’t closed because so many people were in line at 8.
Still don’t know who to vote for? Read this article. It’s about Presidential Guidester, the first choosing quiz I’ve taken that allowed for weighting of issues. According to PG, Bush is a 44% match to me and Kerry is a 56% match. Peroutka (who actually got my vote) wasn’t listed.
There’s nothing anti-feminist about women who want to be homemakers.
Thot you’d like to know, Funky, that I’m:
24% Bush | 37% Kerry | 39% Nader
Not too great with any of them. (Hence my seething anger at the status quo!) Tho’ I did vote for Nader–I guess I got that right (no… left ;-). And according to electoral-vote.com (as of a few minutes ago), NJ was an exact tie, so… it may just be my vote that causes Kerry or Bush to not win this state… which would serve them right.
Funky, I still can’t believe you went for Petroutka… tho’ in another selector poll, he did score a higher correlation for me than Bush or Cheyney. No self-respecting Pink Floyd fan could possibly go for Petroutka… unless of course they actually didn’t get it that Pink’s Evil Twin’s diatribe above wasn’t intended to be a political endorsement!
Okay… we’ll see if this whole thing sorts out by tomorrow AM, eh?
Cheers!
Turnout looks great. How the heck can GWB have a 3-4 million vote lead?
Arrrggghhh….
Ugh. If this nation survives the end of the Age of Oil (and I’m not too certain it will), I suspect we’ll look back on all these bans on gay marriage the same way we look on old miscegenation laws.
The government has dabbled in dictating the terms of home life before–laws against sodomy, laws against bestiality, laws against interracial marriage, laws against polygamy, etc.–but it never seems to last. Eventually people realize how silly it is for the government to get involved with these things. Honestly, if we can make laws against gay people being married, why can’t we make laws against stupid people having children? Oh wait, we tried that, too. It didn’t work, either.
We like to criticize all those Islamic nations for their wacky social laws, but our track record isn’t exactly stellar. Americans have always had this fascist, get-in-line-or-we’ll-shun-you streak, especially when it comes to the ways individual people are allowed to relate to others. First we freaked out when poor people were allowed to vote. Then we freaked out when women took off their aprons. Then we freaked out when black people were allowed off the plantations. Now we’re freaking out about gay people trying to love each other. As Yakov Smirnoff used to say, “What a country!”
One of these days, I’ll wake up and Americans will no longer define themselves according to their skin color, their sex/gender, their sexual preferences, their race or ethnicity, their religious predilections, or their political party, and we’ll all just be plain ol’ “human beings,” right? Right?
Not if the We’re-Christians-and-We’re-Gonna-Take-Over-Your-World Lobby has anything to say about it. You–atheist! Get over there in that box and don’t talk to my children! You–homo! Get over there, pretend you don’t exist, and don’t touch me! You–strong, independent woman! Get back in the kitchen and make me some pie! You–with the brown skin! Keep quiet and do what I say! Look, Lord! Look at all the good things we’ve done! *sigh*
What’s wrong with a woman baking pie? 😉
I have two pumpkin pies in the oven right now.
(And for the record, I’d consider myself a feminist. But what’s wrong with liking to bake?)
Yeah, I’m kind of mystified there too.
I really thought he’d turned off a lot of conservatives, but I guess everyone goes home at the end of the day…