//Election 2008
President
Hey, so maybe the whole “Bradley Effect” was kinda bullshit.
Because I Am A Petty Bitch With Naught But Tar In My Heart
I just have to take this two seconds to get up on my high and mighty, self-righteous horse and then I shall shut it and shut it good.
It is fantastic that everyone is going out and voting. I could not be happier about it.
However, many people who have not bothered to vote since perhaps the last presidential election (if that) are telling me how hard it has been to vote today. I do not mean waiting in long lines or encountering technical problems. I mean they do not know where their polling place is or whether they are registered or other such stories of this strenuous and bewildering thing called ‘voting’.
Can I just say, as someone who has made an effort to vote in every election, even the local ones, since I came of age: I sympathize with long lines or technical problems, but not with figuring out where to vote or whether you’re registered. Please do not make yourself out to be this heroic martyr because you just now figured out how to fulfill your civic duty.
When you register, they mail you your polling information. And then they send a follow-up card before the Primaries that lists your polling location and your Election District number.
Sorry to be so petty and bitchy, but you would think from the griping that these people had to climb Mt. Everest.
Thank you thank you thank you for voting. Thank you for making a difference. But please do not think you are now eligible for sainthood.
Don’t Let the Despicable Prop 8 Pimps Win
Just a couple final thoughts before election day:
Just Stop Thinking About It
And Care of Samuel L. Jackson Himself
Totally Might as Well Be a Racist
As Bad as Nana
Vote NO on Prop 8
Two things have NOT happened since gay people started getting married in California back in June of this year:
1) The apocalypse has NOT occurred, despite what your friends working on Wall Street might have told you.
2) People have gotten exactly 0% smarter. Or to put it another way, while all people are probably getting stupider each day, there are other people actively working to hurry the process along.
The result of the above pair of incontrovertible facts is Proposition 8. This is the latest endeavor by mostly out-of-state interests to codify discrimination under the California Constitution. They offer no apologies, no arguments of any believable substance, nor do they really try to disguise their Proposition as anything more than what it really is: An effort to deny constitutional rights and freedoms to a specific sub-section of our populace simply because supporters of Prop 8 woke up one day feeling like fucking assholes.
Oh shit. Excuse me. Pardon the expletive. It just slipped out. I totally did not mean to brand my fellow Californians (and also the Floridian and Utah Mormon financial backers) as total assholes. And yet…um…yeah…I sorta did. Don’t Mormon’s have enough damned discrimination to worry about? And after 8 years of Bush, frankly I think it’s time we took a long, hard look at why we’re listening to people from Florida at all anymore.
Proposition 8 is indefensible. If you’re not against it, please try to drag yourself aboard the train headed towards modernity where we all try to treat eachother with some basic human respect and don’t waste our time trying to Constitutionally discriminate against people just because they’re different. I have this feeling that it won’t even take you a trip to Wikipedia to refresh your memory as to why this is a shitty idea.
On November 4th, Vote NO on Prop 8. Don’t be a douche.
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