Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!

Oz ,'Bring On The Night'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Sep 12, 2006 6:15:48 am PDT #7499 of 10001

And two of my friend's co-workers from two different counties weren't able to vote at all this morning because the machines weren't working.

Jesus. Well, maybe my voting after work isn't such a bad idea. Maybe the kinks at my district will be worked out by 6 if we have those stupid machines. I really hate the state for caving to this.


sarameg - Sep 12, 2006 6:18:32 am PDT #7500 of 10001

[link]

Oh, this could get ugly.


ChiKat - Sep 12, 2006 6:20:34 am PDT #7501 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Instead, I look at him and think "You look like a monkey on my tv, and I feel like an actual monkey is insulted by comparison. I think you are a liar and completely selfish, and I think you make decisions based on what will work for you, and not for our country. And I think you invoke religions, and "family" feelings in such a transperantly fake way that I can't understand how you fool anyone into thinking that you have the best interests of our country at heart."

I love you, Sophia. You have summed up why I cannot watch him on tv or listen to his voice. It gives me physical pain.


lisah - Sep 12, 2006 6:21:45 am PDT #7502 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Oh, this could get ugly.

ugh! Why does it have to be so hard?

I didn't have to wait at all at my polling place & I got there right about 8. And there was a very cute young cop sitting with the poll workers. That was nice.


flea - Sep 12, 2006 6:30:20 am PDT #7503 of 10001
information libertarian

No voting here today. Just received the LLBean Christmas catalog in the mail - it's Sept. 12!!!


Trudy Booth - Sep 12, 2006 6:30:41 am PDT #7504 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

If you are thinking about voting for Giuliani for President, please remember: The very last thing you want to do is to give this person more power. Seriously. Trust us on this one.

Wrod.

Yeah, all the dislike for the first few amendments, disregard for seperation of powers, and megalomania of the current guy but VERY VERY VERY smart.

Just don't to it, America.

****

And, using Audrey Hepburn as your model for skinny pants is not a good idea. For one thing, she was legendarily skinny. If you do not look like Audrey Hepburn (and really, who does?), you will not look like that in skinny pants. It would be like having Barbra Streisand hawking voice lessons. You have to realize that freak-o-nature ingredients, in addition to the liberal application of money, went into that particular success.

And malnourished for a good chunk of her childhood! Not to take a single thing away from her elegance or her grace, but this is not a body you actually want to HAVE, the woman was sickly for years having been half-starved during the war.


sarameg - Sep 12, 2006 6:37:22 am PDT #7505 of 10001

DC:

At precinct 38, Bruce-Monroe School in Ward 1, volunteers with the Fenty campaign reported in the morning that the electronic voting machine was not functioning. "When you go to vote for someone, it puts that you voted for someone else," said Sundiata Street, who said he became aware of the problem after another Fenty volunteer went in to vote electronically and witnessed the malfunction. >[link]

bangs head on desk


Jesse - Sep 12, 2006 6:40:07 am PDT #7506 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I really don't know why everyone doesn't vote the way they do it in Somerville -- paper Scantron ballot. It's counted by a machine, but there's a paper backup that you've written yourself.


sarameg - Sep 12, 2006 6:51:13 am PDT #7507 of 10001

Someone has to keep Diebold in business!


§ ita § - Sep 12, 2006 6:55:35 am PDT #7508 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You have to realize that freak-o-nature ingredients, in addition to the liberal application of money, went into that particular success.

You might want to give Nike a yell, and every other ad that does or does not mention "these results not typical." It's almost the point of advertising.