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Nov 06 2012
Lizard People
I Voted Today!
And I had to use the write-in option again for at least one of the offices.
I’m not saying I was the guy. I’m not saying I wasn’t. But someone somewhere voted for Lizard People. I suspect it could be the start of a movement.
On the U.S. Senate section of the ballot, the oval for Al Franken was filled in. But at the bottom was a write-in for Lizard People. Lucas Davenport says it was meant as a joke.
“I don’t know if you’ve heard the conspiracy theory about the Lizard Men,” said Davenport. “A friend of mine, we didn’t like the candidates, so we were at first going to write in revolution, because we thought that was good and to the point. And then, we thought the Lizard People would be even funnier, and there was kind of a running inside gag between some friends and I.”
Lizard People refers to the conspiracy theory there’s a race of shape shifting lizards masquerading as humans who rule the world, but Davenport doesn’t consider himself a believer.
The vote was thrown out for having more than one name indicated, a decision the Franken campaign has challenged. But the ballot instantly attracted national attention.
Some people posted angry responses on blogs, accusing the unknown voter of wasting a vote in the too-close-to-call race.
Davenport, a contractor who lives in Bemidji, Minn., says that’s why he finally decided to come clean.
“I mean, it was on ‘Hardball,’ and there was serious discussion about it, it’s ridiculous. If Lizard People, in plural, is written in on the ballot, I don’t think it should be taken seriously, whatsover, and this animosity is just wonderful,”
Mar 19 2010
11/2/2010 The Great Sit In
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If the so-called progressive Democratic Party succeeds passing the Health Insurance Corporate Welfare bill without a public option, I’m staging a Sit In…On Election Day.
You’re all invited!
It’s easy to organize!
It requires almost no effort on the part of the participants!
Imagine a Sit In all across our nation.
If you want to demonstrate this in-action activism outside your own home you could stop by your polling place, walk in, sing a bar of Alice’s Restaurant, and walk out without voting.
It can start with just one person, if just one person does it they may think he’s a Crazy Third Party Naderite and they’ll ignore him. And if two people, two people do it, in Harmony, they may think they’re both F-ing Rahmtarded Liberals and no big threat. Where are they going to go anyway?
And if three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people in one day, I said fifty people in one day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out.
They may think it’s a movement.
Mar 06 2010
better than doing nothing
Like a lot of people, I’m insanely frustrated with our elected representatives’ actions. I’m constantly asking myself, am I doing enough, are we making any difference at all.
My local supermarket was about to go on strike. My cashier had a button on reading “I don’t want to go on strike but will if I have to”. I told her she and her coworkers deserved a decent wage and if they went on strike I wasn’t coming back to that store until the strike was over. I told her she had my complete support. I don’t know how many other customers offered support. I’m only one person but I figured offering my support was the least I could do on that day, in that line.
I’m constantly getting mailings from the DCCC and others from the Party Establishment looking for money. I’m answering each one, telling them why they have lost my support. They always provide a business reply envelope but ask you to save them postage by using your own stamp. I never provide my own stamp. I make them pay to open my empty envelope and find my two cents worth. It may only be punishing them a few cents at a time, but if a hundred people do it too, or maybe a thousand people, it starts to add up to real money.
Mar 05 2010
The Nader Vote
For a brief time I was angry at the Nader voters that could have given us President Gore instead of the King Kriminal Bush.
These days, not so much.
Nader, when asked if he felt responsible for the Bush years said something along the lines of …Hey, it’s not my fault. If I hadn’t been on the ballot, the people who voted for me probably wouldn’t have voted at all…
I can’t argue with that.
Apr 25 2009
Extreme Justice vs. Equal Justice
Today’s Republican noise machine is busy broadcasting that those people who want accountability for torture are just the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. If the Obama justice department investigates and prosecutes former Bush administration officials, Obama will lose the support of moderates.
Here’s what a former Republican Presidential candidate said about extremism versus moderation:
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” Barry Morris Goldwater 1964.
Now I’m no extremist.
An extremist would insist George, Dick and Don get water-boarded over one hundred and eighty times in thirty days.
You know… Justice biblical style – an eye for an eye.
Nope, I’ll settle for a fair trial and if convicted of a crime, sending them to jail.
The real question is, in this new Obama era, will there still be two systems of Justice and two Americas?
Dec 22 2008
The Issue is Black & White, and redundant. Separate but Equal = Bigot.
I just surfed past 30 seconds of Morning Joe Scarborough Country and heard Joe Mika and Pat all whine:
as soon as someone who’s against gay marriage is called a bigot, the conversation is over. Oh the humanity, it’s so awful, if you are a conservative Christian who believes in traditional marriage you’re a bigot, oh my Gosh this is so terrible, to be labeled a bigot!
Nodding heads all around the table.
FUCK YOU PAT! YOU ARE A BIGOT!
Jan 13 2008
Fight!
The next time I see a Repug attack dog on Faux Noise or on the MSM tagging a Democratic candidate as Liberal, Liberal, Liberal, I want to see MY candidate aggressively attack back.
“That’s right I AM A LIBERAL!
- Conservatives believe it’s perfectly ok for the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer!
- Conservatives don’t care that the middle class in America is shrinking!
- Conservatives want to give the Richest 1% Tax Cuts while our military struggles to buy more up armored humvees!
- Conservatives want to privatize social security instead of raising the withholding cap for people who earn more than 100 Grand a year!
- Conservatives don’t care that the deficit has doubled under their watch!
- Conservatives want Paris Hilton not to pay any taxes on the money she earns from her parents death!
- Conservatives don’t want evolution taught in public schools!
- Conservatives don’t want stem cell research done on frozen embryos, even if they are going to be thrown out anyway!
- Conservatives don’t want teenagers to know about or to have access to birth control!
- Conservatives are offended when they hear a phone message giving them an option for a second language!
- Conservatives are afraid their kids will become gay if gay marriage becomes legal and accepted!
- Conservatives believe water boarding isn’t torture as long as they’re not on the receiving end!
- Conservatives believe we should occupy Iraq indefinitely!
- Conservatives believe we should ‘stay on offense’ on the so called war on terror, and that we should threaten to invade or nuke any country whose leaders don’t like us!
- Conservatives believe we can just kill everyone who hates us!
- Conservatives believe anyone who thinks President Bush is an idiot, hates America!
That’s right, you nailed me! I AM A LIBERAL!”
It makes me nuts that our candidates are afraid of the L word. Especially since the Conservatives have been such screw ups. All we have to do is point out their record. When they try to duck it and shift blame we need to hit them with “I thought your party was supposed to be the party of personal responsibility, take some!”
I know I’m just fantasizing but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a candidate that would actually fight? Their candidates are falling all over each other to claim they are more Conservative than the other. While our candidates and the MSM think being labeled a Liberal is bad?