The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux) - Page 593

JWBear · 11-02-2010, 09:03 AM

Get out and vote today!!!

sleepyjeff · 11-02-2010, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

Get out and vote today!!!

But I already voted last week......but if you insist, I'll vote again

Betty · 11-02-2010, 09:28 AM

I was first to vote in our precinct. Yay! I am wearing my "I voted" sticker proudly today.

Alex · 11-02-2010, 09:30 AM

I was going to leave early to vote today but fortunately a Facebook friend offered the opportunity to vote in comments on one of her posts.

Just one more thing that Facebook makes simpler.

Betty · 11-02-2010, 09:31 AM

As if you used Facebook!

Alex · 11-02-2010, 09:34 AM

I use Facebook.

Betty · 11-02-2010, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I use Facebook.

Really? Huh. for some reason I thought it was like smiley faces to you.

Alex · 11-02-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Betty

Really? Huh. for some reason I thought it was like smiley faces to you.

It's not my favorite, but I can't deny the network effects. But I've been involved with the various iterations of online social networking for the last 20 years so I've pretty much got my fingers in all of them to some degree (I think the only really big one that missed me completely was MySpace).

JWBear · 11-02-2010, 10:24 AM

"As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and ...provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead."

- HP Lovecraft

Letter to C.L. Moore, August 1936 quoted in “H.P. Lovecraft, a Life” by S.T. Joshi, p. 574

mousepod · 11-02-2010, 12:38 PM

I voted this morning. I admit that I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the yes/no options for the judiciary. I spent some time googling the various people, and finally just gave up and voted 'yes' for those endorsed by the Democratic Party, and didn't cast a vote either way for the ones I didn't know.

11-02-2010, 09:03 AM	#1
JWBear Worn Romantic Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach California Posts: 8,435	Get out and vote today!!! __________________ Unrestrained frivolity will lead to the downfall of modern society.
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11-02-2010, 09:28 AM	#3
Betty Kicking up my heels! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Silver State Posts: 3,783	I was first to vote in our precinct. Yay! I am wearing my "I voted" sticker proudly today. __________________ Nee Stell Thue
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11-02-2010, 09:30 AM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I was going to leave early to vote today but fortunately a Facebook friend offered the opportunity to vote in comments on one of her posts. Just one more thing that Facebook makes simpler.
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11-02-2010, 09:31 AM	#5
Betty Kicking up my heels! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Silver State Posts: 3,783	As if you used Facebook! __________________ Nee Stell Thue
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11-02-2010, 09:34 AM	#6
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I use Facebook.
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11-02-2010, 10:24 AM	#9
JWBear Worn Romantic Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Long Beach California Posts: 8,435	"As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and ...provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead." - HP Lovecraft Letter to C.L. Moore, August 1936 quoted in “H.P. Lovecraft, a Life” by S.T. Joshi, p. 574 __________________ Unrestrained frivolity will lead to the downfall of modern society.
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11-02-2010, 12:38 PM	#10
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	I voted this morning. I admit that I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the yes/no options for the judiciary. I spent some time googling the various people, and finally just gave up and voted 'yes' for those endorsed by the Democratic Party, and didn't cast a vote either way for the ones I didn't know. __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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