11/8/05
Presented for your delectation by the Hired Hand at 12:06 PM
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
--Archilochus
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem
Comments on "11/8/05"
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Gentleman Farmer said ... (1:58 PM) :
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Selfish Country Music Loving Lady said ... (3:28 PM) :
post a commentYou voted? In DC? For what? Let's see, for the pretend Member of Congress? No, that won't be until next year. For DC Council? Maybe. It's been only about 2 months since I fled the National Capital Area for the Evergreen State, but I really don't remember whether there was a campaign for Council going on or not. Perhaps there is a referendum about whether to change the political slogan on DC license plates from "Taxation Without Representation" to "Bush is a Poopy-head" or "Indict Cheney".
Meanwhile, here in the Northwest, I have voted already courtesy of the highly promoted vote-by-mail option. Elections here have not gone to all-mail-all-the-time, but it is headed in that direction. It is odd that the State is becoming more rigorous about voter ID at the polls, while simultaneously trying to replace polling place voting altogether with the more fraud-susceptible mail-in voting. In any event, the fun election around here won't be until December when the special election will be (or depending upon the Supreme Court, will not be) held regarding the recall of a certain infamous local mayor. It is really bizarre living in a place where is it a double entendre to ask whether the mayor has a "mandate".
Hired Hand voted in Cal--ee--fornia, of course. Not that it will do any good: Idiots will continue to run the state Government, and when things go wrong, will blame the prior idiots who used to run it.
Please, the Gubernator (as the Economist loves to call him) has it spelled "Kah-li-fornia" on his massive billboards.
And thankfully, we at least had the opportunity to vote on HOW we elect the idiots who run the state government. Of course, it was in the middle of just about everything else on the ballot, which was your standard "should we figure out how to spend more money on this this and this?" stuff.
I thought about voting by mail, but at the same time, the satisfaction of dropping my stub in the box (rreowr!) hasn't gotten old. One must keep in mind that this is only Hired Hand's 4th Real Live Election. It's still pretty cool to me.
You need to get your meows right, HH. The correct usage in the previous comment would have been "prrow." "rreowr" is reserved for cattiness.