It's not that I'm totally opposed to lowering the sales tax -- for one thing, it hits poor people a whole lot harder. The people behind the question would scream the loudest if there was a valid proposal to lower the sales tax i and raise something else to make up for the loss.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Nov 02, 2010 2:40:58 pm PDT #3392 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sarameg - Nov 02, 2010 2:43:35 pm PDT #3393 of 30001
Left the house at 5:10, stopped by the elementary to vote and was in the pool by 5:30. Sweet! I was talking to one of the judges, and she said it had been a steady stream all day, they never had more than a handful in line, but the machines were never vacant. Which is nice, considering the only real contest is for governor, but that's a loaded one.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2010 2:44:36 pm PDT #3394 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap -- I just got a personalized email from my favorite store in New York, and I REALLY REALLY want one of the dresses she included! Too bad it's way too expensive, and she only made 4, so it will never be on sale.
flea - Nov 02, 2010 2:52:49 pm PDT #3395 of 30001
information libertarian
The polls closed an hour ago, and there are no results yet! I hate waiting! And all our voting is touch-screen, so there is no need for any paper-counting related delays.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2010 2:55:37 pm PDT #3396 of 30001
Oh man, someone out there is playing dirty. I'm still getting robocalls. Listening to them tonight, @7:15, I get one from my House rep, saying something about how the polls are open until 8, that's there are calls going around to dems implying they don't need to vote, this is an attempt at voter disenfranchisement, etc. I'm like Wha? @7:20 I have a very weird vague message about "O'Malley and Obama have gotten the job done, everything is fine and all that's left to do is watch it on tv" with no identification or affiliation given. Pretty sure that's what prompted the earlier robocall. BAD FUCKING FORM. Jesus christ. I hate people.
Jesse - Nov 02, 2010 2:58:46 pm PDT #3397 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I haven't gotten a single robocall this time around. Huh. I wonder if they figured out I'm not actually a Republican.
Of course, I also got NY voting materials, with my MA address on them...
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2010 3:02:43 pm PDT #3398 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Sorry to inturrupt election stuff, but Top Gun is on AMC y'all!
lisah - Nov 02, 2010 3:06:54 pm PDT #3399 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I don't want to watch returns but bob does. Stupid love! And only having one tv.
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2010 3:20:28 pm PDT #3400 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
And now Jon is playing Frontier Psych for me.
Liese S. - Nov 02, 2010 3:28:48 pm PDT #3401 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We'll be watching returns, but right now my directivo is acting up. I suspect it's something about the 1,300 messages about how it hasn't been able to call home in all that time and is very lonely and wants to cry. I was deleting them regularly for about the first year, and then I kinda quit, and then the tivo started hanging up if I tried to go to the messages, and now I think it's eaten up all the tivo's brane.
So I'm running off last year's Blackhawks cup win to the other dvr (so I can have it forever and pets it and hugs it my precious) and then I'm about to nuke the tivo HD. With fingers crossed vehemently because of the whole, there is no more directivo despite years of promises, thing.
Anyway. Two more hours, and then an hour of reformatting, and then returns. Which is fine, because the polls here don't close for another couple of hours anyway.