Adventures in Voting
Correspondent:: "ghost"
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:57:48 GMT
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Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to do.
Need to ask questions.
Call League of Women Voters general info line... number disconnected, call
not redirected.
Call League of Women Voters administrative office... number disconnected,
call not redirected.
Call Board of Elections city office... referred to borough office.
Call Board of Elections borough office... referred to special Voters Info
line.
Call special Voters Info line... go past menu prompts in English, Spanish,
Chinese, French (probably Creole), and what sounded like Portugese.
Surprised they didn't have a prompt in Russian.
On hold for 20 minutes.
Finally called local politico's office. Administrative assistant told me to
go back to special Voter's Info line and press 0 twice.
Did that. Another 10 minutes on hold.
Called back politico, assistant relented, informed me that I would need to
file absentee ballot by Oct. 26, agreed to send absentee ballot today.
Maybe I'll get it by Friday, maybe not.
Would have been quicker and easier to go out, score a dime bag and get a
quick knob job from a toothless crack whore.
More rewarding, too.
Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 19 Oct 2004 20:58:32 GMT
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>Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to do.
If you're not moving far, just go back and vote where you normally would have.
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: Rev DJ Epoch
Date: 20 Oct 2004 19:16:12 GMT
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kdetal@aol.com (KD et al) wrote in
news:20041019165832.24216.00002140@mb-m10.aol.com:
>>Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to
>>do.
>
> If you're not moving far, just go back and vote where you normally would
> have.
Believe me... he's moving to a whole 'nother PLANET! Ghost is gonna have to
get used to counties instead of boroughs... oh yeah, and southern cookin'.
"Hey boy, ya ever had GRITS before?"
--
The Church of Our Lady of Prepetual Motion
Cathedral, Carwash and Dancehall- Home of the Traci Lords Memorial Brothel
Rev. DJ Epoch - proprietor and janitor
Divine Southern Redneck Yeti Clench Recruitment site: http://revdjepoch.COM
The collectve IQ of a shift at Waffle House is usually equal to the total
number of TEETH said employees still have... +/- 5%
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 08:01:49 -0700
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Rev DJ Epoch wrote in message news:...
>>> "Hey boy, ya ever had GRITS before?"
I started gritting when I turned 5 and haven't been able to let up
since. You awful ruffians converted my noggin into one big neuropathy.
One would not think TMJ was a personality trait, but one slice of rat
tart without so much rat in it later and there ya go. When you die, I
hope you are all sent to Mississippi.
--
HellPope Huey ~ www.subgenius.com
I'm pretty much out of my damned mind
and I approve this message.
"Change comes in excruciating increments
for those who want it."
- "The West Wing"
"C'mon,
those moles aren't gonna whack themselves!"
- "King of the Hill"
Correspondent:: Rev DJ Epoch
Date: 21 Oct 2004 17:32:43 GMT
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hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey) wrote in
news:8cc8cffc.0410210701.1a5dded7@posting.google.com:
> Rev DJ Epoch wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>>> "Hey boy, ya ever had GRITS before?"
>
> I started gritting when I turned 5 and haven't been able to let up
> since. You awful ruffians converted my noggin into one big neuropathy.
> One would not think TMJ was a personality trait, but one slice of rat
> tart without so much rat in it later and there ya go. When you die, I
> hope you are all sent to Mississippi.
>
Yah, and you probably rode around the neighborhood on your bicycle strong-
arming old ladies into buying 10 copies of "Grit" just so you could get
your bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 for Friday night. HAVE YOU NO SHAME??!?
--
The Church of Our Lady of Prepetual Motion
Cathedral, Carwash and Dancehall- Home of the Traci Lords Memorial Brothel
Rev. DJ Epoch - proprietor and janitor
Divine Southern Redneck Yeti Clench Recruitment site: http://revdjepoch.COM
"They can have my penis when they pry it from my cold, dead hands." --
Cardinal Vertigo
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 17:44:06 -0700
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Rev DJ Epoch wrote in message news:...
>>> HAVE YOU NO SHAME??!?
I think I once did, but after 25 years "in" this "group," well, it
long since fell off in an acceleration of what was an inevitable
process of spontaneous amputation anyway. Shit, I barely have any
PRINCIPLES left, so anything resembling morality is long gone. We
'preciate yore BIDNESS, seeker!
--
HellPope Huey ~ www.subgenius.com
I'm pretty much out of my damned mind
and I approve this message.
"Change comes in excruciating increments
for those who want it."
- "The West Wing"
"C'mon,
those moles aren't gonna whack themselves!"
- "King of the Hill"
Correspondent:: "ghost"
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:58:47 GMT
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"Rev DJ Epoch" wrote in message
news:Xns95889B94FC6C9nunyabiznowaycom@129.250.170.91...
> kdetal@aol.com (KD et al) wrote in
> news:20041019165832.24216.00002140@mb-m10.aol.com:
>
> >>Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to
> >>do.
> >
> > If you're not moving far, just go back and vote where you normally would
> > have.
>
> Believe me... he's moving to a whole 'nother PLANET! Ghost is gonna have
to
> get used to counties instead of boroughs... oh yeah, and southern cookin'.
>
> "Hey boy, ya ever had GRITS before?"
>
Hell, even us Yankees have had grits. I even know the difference between
grits and Wheatena.
I just don't understand how anyone can actually EAT the stuff.
Now, jook (congee)... that's a different story.
As far as gruel goes.
Correspondent:: "ghost"
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:00:04 GMT
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"Rev DJ Epoch" wrote in message
news:Xns95889B94FC6C9nunyabiznowaycom@129.250.170.91...
> kdetal@aol.com (KD et al) wrote in
> news:20041019165832.24216.00002140@mb-m10.aol.com:
>
> >>Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to
> >>do.
> >
> > If you're not moving far, just go back and vote where you normally would
> > have.
>
> Believe me... he's moving to a whole 'nother PLANET! Ghost is gonna have
to
> get used to counties instead of boroughs... oh yeah, and southern cookin'.
>
> "Hey boy, ya ever had GRITS before?"
>
Hell, even us Yankees have had grits. I even know the difference between
grits and Wheatena.
I just don't understand how anyone can actually EAT the stuff.
Now, jook (congee)... that's a different story.
As far as gruel goes.
Correspondent:: Rev DJ Epoch
Date: 21 Oct 2004 19:03:37 GMT
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"ghost" wrote in news:EOSdd.17669$OD2.17005@bgtnsc05-
news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
> Hell, even us Yankees have had grits. I even know the difference between
> grits and Wheatena.
>
> I just don't understand how anyone can actually EAT the stuff.
Simple. In a bowl. With butter and a dash of salt.
>
> Now, jook (congee)... that's a different story.
>
> As far as gruel goes.
>
As for jook... I'm alergic to peanuts.
--
The Church of Our Lady of Prepetual Motion
Cathedral, Carwash and Dancehall- Home of the Traci Lords Memorial Brothel
Rev. DJ Epoch - proprietor and janitor
Divine Southern Redneck Yeti Clench Recruitment site: http://revdjepoch.COM
The southern idea of a 7-course meal is NOT a 6-pack and a Big Mac!
Correspondent:: kdetal@aol.com (KD et al)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 22:04:05 GMT
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Ghost wrote:
> Hell, even us Yankees have had grits. I even know the difference between
>> grits and Wheatena.
>>
>> I just don't understand how anyone can actually EAT the stuff.
I love grits. So there.
Then again, I was born and raised in the South.
Probably accounts for my brain damage.
--"Oh, hell, don't let them drink your tears and want more!..I'll be damned if
death wears MY sadness for glad rags. Don't feed them one damn thing..Breathe!
Blow!"
"Nothing.....funny..."
"SURE there is! Me! You!..All of us!..Look!" -Ray Bradbury
Correspondent:: djcameron60616@yahoo.com (delfuego)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 16:00:08 -0700
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"ghost" wrote in message news:...
> Miving from NYC ONE DAY before Election Day.... not quite sure what to do.
>
> Need to ask questions.
>
> Call League of Women Voters general info line... number disconnected, call
> not redirected.
>
> Call League of Women Voters administrative office... number disconnected,
> call not redirected.
>
> Call Board of Elections city office... referred to borough office.
>
> Call Board of Elections borough office... referred to special Voters Info
> line.
>
> Call special Voters Info line... go past menu prompts in English, Spanish,
> Chinese, French (probably Creole), and what sounded like Portugese.
> Surprised they didn't have a prompt in Russian.
>
> On hold for 20 minutes.
>
> Finally called local politico's office. Administrative assistant told me to
> go back to special Voter's Info line and press 0 twice.
>
> Did that. Another 10 minutes on hold.
>
> Called back politico, assistant relented, informed me that I would need to
> file absentee ballot by Oct. 26, agreed to send absentee ballot today.
>
> Maybe I'll get it by Friday, maybe not.
>
>
> Would have been quicker and easier to go out, score a dime bag and get a
> quick knob job from a toothless crack whore.
>
> More rewarding, too.
Perhaps.
I see three problems with the election (fixed) this year. One --
Florida. These are the same people who couldn't properly do a simple
task. And led to a fixed election. Two -- E-voting. Who in their
right mind would approve such a "secure" thing? Online payment is one
thing, but election ballots? Three -- Absentee ballots. I can
respect getting sauced up in the Ramada Room from dusk til dawn on Nov
2, but even if I have to slither in to the voting booth, I'm going to
be there in person.
Um four reasons actually -- We have Nader Green Party, Socialist
Party, Constitution Party, and Libertarian Party not given room on the
stage with Bush and Kerry in the three debates .. *cough* FIXED
ELECTION *cough*
Okay .. I'm done ranting I guess.
Actually not -- This H1-B and barn-door open border crap has got to
stop. In a few years it will be to the point where you can't wipe
your own ass until a support rep in India gives you instructions in
broken english, and the sweat shop in Maylasia designing the sand
paper to do so.
yeah, I'm done now.
Delfuego
Correspondent:: Cardinal Vertigo
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:57:54 GMT
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delfuego wrote:
> I see three problems with the election (fixed) this year.
There are only two problems with this election. The first is that it's
not completely publicly financed. The second is that it's not a direct
popular vote with instant runoff balloting.
Massive corporate campaign donations and the fucked-up and undemocratic
Electoral College are the two root problems that cause 90% of the
bullshit in American electoral politics.
Those two reforms are all that's needed to fix American democracy.
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 22 Oct 2004 13:43:22 -0700
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Cardinal Vertigo wrote in message news:...
> delfuego wrote:
>
> > I see three problems with the election (fixed) this year.
> There are only two problems with this election. The first is that it's
> not completely publicly financed. The second is that it's not a direct
> popular vote with instant runoff balloting.
> Massive corporate campaign donations and the fucked-up and undemocratic
> Electoral College are the two root problems that cause 90% of the
> bullshit in American electoral politics.
>
> Those two reforms are all that's needed to fix American democracy.
Nah, there's one more, which is the biggest of all: most of the
electorate are willful idiots, with no desire to modify their
condition. If you can fix THAT one, I'll gum your johnson on "The
Daily Show" and play "Wipeout" on my ass with my hands while I do it.
However, as it is, I think our mutual purity is quite safe.
--
HellPope Huey
Behind almost every successful man
is a woman who doesn't want to kill him, yet.
Praise will come to those
whose kindness leaves you without debt.
- Neil Finn, "Try Whistling This"
"Bring me a bag of Bigfoot's droppings or SHUT UP!"
- "Futurama"
Correspondent:: Cardinal Vertigo
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:01:11 -0500
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HellPopeHuey wrote:
> Cardinal Vertigo wrote in message news:...
>
>>delfuego wrote:
>>
>>>I see three problems with the election (fixed) this year.
>>
>>There are only two problems with this election. The first is that it's
>>not completely publicly financed. The second is that it's not a direct
>>popular vote with instant runoff balloting.
>>Massive corporate campaign donations and the fucked-up and undemocratic
>>Electoral College are the two root problems that cause 90% of the
>>bullshit in American electoral politics.
>>
>>Those two reforms are all that's needed to fix American democracy.
>
> Nah, there's one more, which is the biggest of all: most of the
> electorate are willful idiots, with no desire to modify their
> condition. If you can fix THAT one, I'll gum your johnson on "The
> Daily Show" and play "Wipeout" on my ass with my hands while I do it.
> However, as it is, I think our mutual purity is quite safe.
I think you might be surprised at the acuity of the American electorate once
they're actually given choices which are really worth choosing.
And if I'm wrong, hey, it'd still be better than what we've got.
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:27:19 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:01:11 -0500, Cardinal Vertigo
wrote:
>I think you might be surprised at the acuity of the American electorate once
>they're actually given choices which are really worth choosing.
>
>And if I'm wrong, hey, it'd still be better than what we've got.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is governer of California.
I mean, choices or not ... I mean how acute could somebody be who
wants ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as governor?
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
The whole point of having a religion is to be able to do things on
longer time scales than a single human lifetime or a few generations.
- Josh Geller
Correspondent:: Cardinal Vertigo
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:06:54 GMT
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Zapanaz wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:01:11 -0500, Cardinal Vertigo
> wrote:
>
>>I think you might be surprised at the acuity of the American electorate once
>>they're actually given choices which are really worth choosing.
>>
>>And if I'm wrong, hey, it'd still be better than what we've got.
>
> Arnold Schwarzenegger is governer of California.
>
> I mean, choices or not ... I mean how acute could somebody be who
> wants ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as governor?
And yet 4.2 million people voted for him, some of whom I'm sure were
fairly intelligent and well-informed.
Why? Because Schwarzenegger's team managed to convince the Californian
electorate that he'd make a better governor than Bustamante. That's all.
It doesn't mean a plurality of Californians actually WANTED
Schwarzenegger in the governor's mansion. It means that a plurality was
sold on the idea that Schwarzenegger would be better than Bustamante.
There's a huge difference between shrugging your shoulders and saying "I
can't stand this asshole, but at least he's better than that fuckwit,"
and actually WANTING someone to be in office.
I could make a pages-long list of people I'd rather see in the White
House than John Kerry, but not only do I plan to vote for him, I'll be
dragging my sorry hung-over ass out of bed early tomorrow morning to go
work on his goddamn campaign. "Democracy" in action.
Correspondent:: djcameron60616@yahoo.com (delfuego)
Date: 23 Oct 2004 01:12:13 -0700
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Cardinal Vertigo wrote in message news:...
> Zapanaz wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:01:11 -0500, Cardinal Vertigo
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I think you might be surprised at the acuity of the American electorate once
> >>they're actually given choices which are really worth choosing.
> >>
> >>And if I'm wrong, hey, it'd still be better than what we've got.
> >
> > Arnold Schwarzenegger is governer of California.
> >
> > I mean, choices or not ... I mean how acute could somebody be who
> > wants ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as governor?
>
> And yet 4.2 million people voted for him, some of whom I'm sure were
> fairly intelligent and well-informed.
>
> Why? Because Schwarzenegger's team managed to convince the Californian
> electorate that he'd make a better governor than Bustamante. That's all.
>
> It doesn't mean a plurality of Californians actually WANTED
> Schwarzenegger in the governor's mansion. It means that a plurality was
> sold on the idea that Schwarzenegger would be better than Bustamante.
>
> There's a huge difference between shrugging your shoulders and saying "I
> can't stand this asshole, but at least he's better than that fuckwit,"
> and actually WANTING someone to be in office.
>
> I could make a pages-long list of people I'd rather see in the White
> House than John Kerry, but not only do I plan to vote for him, I'll be
> dragging my sorry hung-over ass out of bed early tomorrow morning to go
> work on his goddamn campaign. "Democracy" in action.
Everybody loves Ah-nold. If they didn't, it would blow the whole
image of voting for Hollywood stars for office to achieve worthy
social status. Jesse Ventura, Arnold Shcwatzenegger, Ronald Reagan.
Are those the only three? All I can say is that if people have enough
problems maintaining servers and getting into their Hotmail accounts,
how safe could e-Voting be? I'm tempted to go with either
Libertarian, Democrat or writing in Perot and Stockwell for a second
run.
Correspondent:: "Deekoo L."
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:25:18 -0500
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For reasons that would not become apparent until far too late,
Cardinal publically announced:
> Zapanaz wrote:
>> Arnold Schwarzenegger is governer of California.
>>
>> I mean, choices or not ... I mean how acute could somebody be who
>> wants ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER as governor?
>
> And yet 4.2 million people voted for him, some of whom I'm sure were
> fairly intelligent and well-informed.
>
> Why? Because Schwarzenegger's team managed to convince the Californian
> electorate that he'd make a better governor than Bustamante. That's all.
>
> It doesn't mean a plurality of Californians actually WANTED
> Schwarzenegger in the governor's mansion. It means that a plurality was
> sold on the idea that Schwarzenegger would be better than Bustamante.
>
> There's a huge difference between shrugging your shoulders and saying "I
> can't stand this asshole, but at least he's better than that fuckwit,"
> and actually WANTING someone to be in office.
The impression I get is that Schwarzenegger actually was relatively
popular, while most of Bustamente's votes were anyone-but-schwarzenegger
or no-on-the-recall. Mostly due to a subconscious hope that he'd take
a machine gun to the machines of government, I think.
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