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BarbaraD
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Seriously Folks.....
« on: Nov 6th, 2006, 6:57pm » |
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Tomorrow is ELECTION day. I urge each of you to go vote whether you agree with me or disagree. It's our RIGHT as Americans (about the only one we have left).
There's all kinds of referrendums on the ballot. Study them and know what you're voting about.
As Eleanor R. said "Vote early and often!"
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #1 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:03pm » |
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 AMEN!,MAY THE RIGHT CROOKS WIN
....Tim.....wishin I lived in Texas so I could Vote for Kinky!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #2 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:09pm » |
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Voted last week (permanent absentee). Don't have to worry about Arnold being Guv again (not since Kerry stumped for the other guy).
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #3 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:12pm » |
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Ahneees a chew inn.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #4 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:16pm » |
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I wish those outside California could see what we will be voting for this election. We are going to try to tax the oil companies 4 billion dollars to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and raise the cigarette tax $2.60 per pack! And thats just the begining!
But I agree, get out and VOTE!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #5 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:21pm » |
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LOL What's the oil one - we tax the oil companies that drill in Calif and they can't pass the cost back to us in the gas they sell!
It's like NAFTA - do you hear that big sucking sound (and I'm not talking about Chewy).
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Mrs. Barlow, I never, and I repeat never, ever pissed in your steam iron.
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on Nov 6th, 2006, 7:03pm, tanner wrote: AMEN!,MAY THE RIGHT CROOKS WIN
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LOL I'm with Tim.
BTW POP is voting Kinky...........
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #7 on: Nov 6th, 2006, 7:33pm » |
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Tonight Steve (my sweet registered Independent voter husband) and I (Democrat by birth, Republican by the grace of God) will sit down with our California Voter information book and "discuss" politics. We have allotted exactly 30 minutes for this and must decide not only the oil company thingy, but also whether 13 year old girls should be able to continue getting abortions without their parents consent (paid for by MediCal-thats Medicaide for you non-CA folks), whether sex offenders should all have to wear GPS monitors some for life, and whether to raise the taxes on a pack of cigs by (no kidding here) 2.60. My husband just got home and is now asking if I am ready to "do our thing".
Serendipitous that we should be talking about this now? I think not.
I remember when doing our thing was, well, more fun..
Kathy-proud to be an American, priviledged to vote!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #8 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 1:51am » |
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I still vote in many ways like my old Republican self; to make sure these creeps have to stop and think down there. Republicans used to be....Republicans.... and that was a large part of what they were about. No more.
My votes will largely be obstructionist because of the damage the current goons can and have done to us.
Slow them down, kids.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #9 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 2:55am » |
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I once saw the voting forms for one sort of election in the US and fair dinkum it looked pretty much like our Sunday news paper that usually takes me three days to read.
Our voting system is just so simple; there might be 5 candidates for one position and all you do is number the boxes 1 – 5 in order of preference or if you are really lazy you just vote for the political party of your choice.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #10 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 5:49am » |
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Give Pop a thumb's UP for me Matt. Kinky will make a great governor.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #11 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 6:09am » |
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It's the beauty of democracy. If you have right to vote, and choose not to, you've lost your right to complain about the outcome.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #12 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 8:00am » |
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on Nov 7th, 2006, 2:55am, Barry_T_Coles wrote:
Our voting system is just so simple; there might be 5 candidates for one position and all you do is number the boxes 1 – 5 in order of preference or if you are really lazy you just vote for the political party of your choice.
Cheers
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Ah, and that would be lovely. Are your ballots paper? With 50 states having 50 different ways of voting (paper, touch screen, voting machines), that would be difficult.
I never could make some of my British friends (from another board) understand that we can't *spoil* a ballot.
Husband will vote this morning and daughter and I will vote this afternoon.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #13 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 8:05am » |
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on Nov 6th, 2006, 7:24pm, maffumatt wrote:
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Good for him!
 Just one more reason I think you dad is so cool. 
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #14 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 9:05am » |
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I am voting in the great state of Missouri where we can vote for a weaslely looking guy who has run a very shady and dirty campaign or a weasly like woman who has run an ugly campaign too. I am ashamed to be voting for one of them and knowing the "balance of power" may shift even slightly with one of these clowns.
We also have a few very controversial ballot issues. Sadly, like usual, they are not straight forward. They have added a bunch of weird stuff to make them look like they are one thing when they are another. Good thing the newspaper prints the ENTIRE question weeks in advance for us to read.
Anyway, go out and vote. If you are voting with me, vote today! If you are voting against me, wait until the lines are shorter tomorrow.
BTW, I'll let you know Wednesday which way I voted so you can choose which way to vote!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #15 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 9:09am » |
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Vote! I'd vote if I could...
I take my tiny duty seriously.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #16 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 1:36pm » |
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I just vetoed!!!!!!!!! (OK I voted, but wouldn't having the power to veto rule!!!)
Anyway fellow Americans, go out and vote!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #17 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 1:43pm » |
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The important voting takes place in the primaries, but nobody ever shows up for those. There isn't a single person on my ballot that I want to vote for. We do have an ammendment that I care about voting against, but otherwise I will have to hold my nose and vote or write some one in for all of the officials.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #18 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 1:45pm » |
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Being the political ad coordinator, I've seen some ghastly ad's cross my desk for sleezy endorsements. Sheriff's race has been almost a blood bath from the apposing candidate to the incumbant. Incumbant breaks news of the arrest of a suspect finally of a 3 year old murder just 4 days prior to the elections? Something very fishy going on here.
One that struck me as totally odd, however, was an unapposed candidate for state Representitive spending 3K in advertizing. Who's NOT going to vote for the guy? He's unapposed!!
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #19 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 3:29pm » |
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Already did Mom!!! Made Dave vote too. HEHEHE
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #21 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 4:23pm » |
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the present system eliminates any possibility that a person with a relevant background to that of a majority of the population would even consider running. thus we're beset with these horrid examples from both sides of the spectrum. so many good men and women, the kind we need truly making the difficult decisions going forward, would never put themselves or their families through this mess we call the electoral process nowadays. from the local level all the way up to the president.
i voted today to simply tell "them" i will not give in. i will be here, waiting for the day when the revolution of common sense takes control of the process again.
i don't like the people i voted for today any more than the ones i didn't vote for.
but i won't give in.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #22 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 5:12pm » |
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Yesterday the day before voting day, when I gassed up my car, gas stations all over town were selling it for 2.17 a gallon.
Today on my way to vote they had all gone up to around 2.45 Hmmm. co-incidence.?
should have put "bozo the clown" in the write-ins.
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #23 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 6:54pm » |
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on Nov 6th, 2006, 6:57pm, BarbaraD wrote:I urge each of you to go vote whether you agree with me or disagree.
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Thanks Barbie, I don't even know what day it is sometimes. I'm voted. 
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Re: Seriously Folks.....
« Reply #24 on: Nov 7th, 2006, 7:44pm » |
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Ok.. I voted! Bethany1 for Govinor of Massachusetts.
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