BS: Thank God For Election Years

Subject: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: GUEST,Jeep Man
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:54 PM

Thank God that every few years we have a chance to learn how our trusted elected officials are actually Low Down Dirty Lying Dogs. That our County, State, and Nation are Doomed unless we elect the candidate who paid for this ad.

The state of our Nation is so bad, its a wonder it hasn't already collapsed from mis-management, our cities failing and our children starving.
I just don't know how we will survive until the next election, BUT I SURE WILL ENJOY THE QUIET!!! Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:19 PM

Don't hold back, Jeep Man. Don't hold back.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: Fishpicker
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:48 PM

Perfectly stated Jim! What we need in Washington DC is an exorcism.

                           FP

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:00 AM

Remember the old chinese curse?

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:19 AM

Didn't some folks try an exorcism, back in the late '60s or so?

Obviously didn't take.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:14 PM

I'm glad I don't live in a "battleground state." The two parties are concentrating their advertising dollars in the relatively small number of states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

Folks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida will be subjected to an absolute barrage of political advertising from now until Election Day. Residents of about 8-10 other smaller states where the outcome remains in doubt will also suffer *almost* as much televised noise pollution.

On the other hand, I regret that my state is not considered a "battleground," because its electoral votes have already been conceded to one of the candidates -- and it's the one I most emphatically do NOT support! Well, maybe those of us in the spposed minority can pull off an upset and prove the experts wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:57 PM

You have them every other year don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 04:15 PM

Presidential elections are every *four* years.

Senators serve six-year terms. There are two senators per state, elected statewide, with the expiration dates of their terms staggered.

Representatives to the "lower" house of Congress serve two-year terms. They represent districts within states, each district electing only the one Congressman. So these elections do come up every other year (when the entire House, theoretically, turns over at once -- except that most incumbents get reelected). Since they occur on even-numbered years, every other congressional election coincides with a presidential contest.

All other elections are local or state affairs, not national. We have *plenty* of them, more in some jurisdictions than in others. Also, each contest usually requires at least two election-days -- one for the "primary," open to a theoretically unlimited number of condidates, and later a "general election" restricted either to one candidate per party, or (as in Louisiana) to the two highest finishers in each primary.

Some states to a better job than others at minimizing the number of elections. One factor that works against consolidation of the election schedule: Presidential election day is always on a Tuesday (the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November), as mandated by the Constitution -- but most states have moved their own elections to Saturdays, when more people can vote more conveniently.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: Peace
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:27 PM

Rap,

It was partly an exorcism and partly the notion that if enough people made a circle around the Pentagon--notice all the neat symbolism here--it would be possible to expunge the evil therein.

There was a second attempt to get enough people around it saying "om" that the vibes so created would levitate the building. I can't recall if that was the Pentagon or the White House. I was in NYC at the time and probably smokin' something.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:58 PM

As described in detail by Norman Mailer in his book "Armies of the Night," a large contingent of protestors (hippies, college students & teachers, clergy, etc.) marched from the Washington Mall across the Key Bridge to the Pentagon and surrounded it. This was on one of the monthly "Moritorium" days in the fall of 1969 -- November 15, if I remember correctly. I was there.

One part of the very diverse and very loosely organized leadership coalition that issued the call and brought so many people to Washington was the "Youth International Party," or "Yippies," personified by Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman. Part of their message was a call to encircle the Pentagon in order to perform some kind of New Age exorcism.

Most of the crowd squatted peaceably on the Pentagon grounds until dark, and then went home. Some of the more radical element actually climbed the walls and entered the building; they got tear-gassed and arrested, not surprisingly.

I don't think the exorcism "took."

Subject: RE: BS: Thank God For Election Years
From: GUEST,Jeep Man
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:13 PM

I just learned from the TV that if a certain candidate is elected, we will automatically be subject to a 23% sales tax. This is bad.

Now I need to watch to find out who will not impose such horror.

I had a phone message today which was in the guise of a "Survey".
Turns out it was from a woman candidate warning me again about the dreaded 23% tax. Trouble is, she is running in a state where I don't vote.

Stay Tuned. Jim