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I voted. Have you?

Started by johnnyroadglide, May 17, 2011, 08:08:02 AM

hightowerlover


mtraininjax

Voted at 14H at lunch time.
And, that $115 will save Jacksonville from financial ruin. - Mayor John Peyton

"This is a game-changer. This is what I mean when I say taking Jacksonville to the next level."
-Mayor Alvin Brown on new video boards at Everbank Field

Bativac

Still haven't voted... still haven't decided. Working a 12 hour shift that ends at 6:15 so I'll still have plenty of time at the end of the day... I guess I'll make up my mind on my way to the polling place.

I have a strong case of that "voter apathy" they're always talking about. I am strongly apathetic. That makes sense, right?

Shwaz

Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!
And though I long to embrace, I will not replace my priorities: humour, opinion, a sense of compassion, creativity and a distaste for fashion.

BridgeTroll

Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!

Mea Culpa... :)
In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

Shwaz

Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 03:18:29 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 03:16:13 PM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Shwaz on May 17, 2011, 11:47:43 AM
Quote from: BridgeTroll on May 17, 2011, 08:22:23 AM
I missed early voting... because my dog died... after eating my homework.  I was gonna go this morning but forgot.  I plan to go at lunch... but definitely after work... :)

Sorry for your loss BT - my good friend Tim once told me (before I picked up my pup) that taking on a new pet is buying a small tragedy.  :-[

As for me I'm scribbling my ballot right after work!

Thank you Shwaz... now I owe you an apology.  My post was apparently a poor attempt at humor designed to portray the numerous and silly excuses for NOT voting.  The good news is... I just returned from the polls with my sticker on my shirt.  Took less than 5 minutes... :)

You scoundrel!

Mea Culpa... :)

Backatcha I missed the homework part of your original post.
And though I long to embrace, I will not replace my priorities: humour, opinion, a sense of compassion, creativity and a distaste for fashion.

Jimmy

Grandma just sent word from 11P - another Alvin Brown voter in Maxville!  :)

ChriswUfGator



L.P. Hovercraft

Quote from: Bativac on May 17, 2011, 01:22:36 PM
Still haven't voted... still haven't decided. Working a 12 hour shift that ends at 6:15 so I'll still have plenty of time at the end of the day... I guess I'll make up my mind on my way to the polling place.

I have a strong case of that "voter apathy" they're always talking about. I am strongly apathetic. That makes sense, right?

Hey Bativac,
I definitely understand feeling that way, but come on brother: jump off that fence!
You've got a 50/50 chance (or worse, depending on who's counting the votes) that the candidate you pick won't make it anyway, so at least go down fighting and with a clear conscience that you fought on the side of the angels.  If your guy wins, great!  If not, start organizing for the next election.


Which Side Are You On?
A Song by Florence Patton Reese

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I’ll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell

Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner
And I’m a miner’s son
And I’ll stick with the union
Till every battle’s won

They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You’ll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair

Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?

Don’t scab for the bosses
Don’t listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize


Notes:
Pete Seeger says in an introduction to “Which Side Are You On?”:


Maybe the most famous song it was ever my privilege to know was the one
written by Mrs. Florence Reece. Her husband Sam was an organizer in that
“bloody” strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1932.
They got word that the company gun-thugs were out to kill him, and he got
out of his house, I think out the back door, just before they arrived.
And Mrs. Reece said they stuck their guns into the closets, into the beds, even
into the piles of dirty linen.
One of her two little girls started crying and one of the men said “What are
you crying for? We’re not after you we’re after your old man.”
After they had gone she felt so outraged she tore a calendar off the wall and on
the back of it wrote the words and put them to the tune of an old hard-shelled
Baptist hymn tune, although come to think of it the hymn tune used an old
English ballad melody.
And her two little girls used to go singing it in the union halls.”
"Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved.  And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
--John F. Kennedy, 6/10/1963

mtraininjax

QuoteVoted at 14H at lunch time.

Damn!

Chris - I even Foursquared it in your honor!
And, that $115 will save Jacksonville from financial ruin. - Mayor John Peyton

"This is a game-changer. This is what I mean when I say taking Jacksonville to the next level."
-Mayor Alvin Brown on new video boards at Everbank Field

Timkin


jcjohnpaint

morning vote Brown of course

JaxNative68


Doctor_K

2 more votes for Alvin at the 04T district!
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."  -- Albert Einstein

Shwaz

Vote cast... 1 more for the leader of chipmunks.
And though I long to embrace, I will not replace my priorities: humour, opinion, a sense of compassion, creativity and a distaste for fashion.