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11890. Jenerator - 11/2/2004 4:56:10 AM Good one! 11891. alistairconnor - 11/2/2004 2:25:34 PM Ah well shall we talk about something else today? 11892. PelleNilsson - 11/2/2004 2:44:56 PM Let's talk about death, graves and epitaphs. 11893. Marc-Albert - 11/2/2004 2:46:26 PM I deleted Post 11885 because I posted the wrong URL, folks
How lucky you are. Can I also delete my posts if I feel the need to? 11894. Magoseph - 11/2/2004 3:06:56 PM In a way, you can, Marc--just ask your friendly host to do it for you. 11895. alistairconnor - 11/2/2004 3:25:08 PM You can have your own thread for the asking, Bébert. And be absolute monarch of your micro-kingdom.
You could issue your own stamps. Have you thought of that? 11896. judithathome - 11/2/2004 4:35:47 PM Yes, by all means let's not talk bout the most important day of the next decade here in the USA.
I have noticed we have more birds flocking to my neighborhood this year than ever before. And every day at approximately 4:30pm hundreds of these grackles amass in my tree tops and they hop around and make racket amd preen and strut and we have a literal rain of acorns assail the roof and the yard. On the skylights in my garden room, it sounds like a hailstorm for about twenty minutes. It's deafening. 11897. Magoseph - 11/2/2004 4:54:35 PM Yes, by all means let's not talk bout the most important day of the next decade here in the USA.
Not yet--I still have some more to say. Last week, I went to the town-hall to vote at 9am and there was absolutely no one there. I completed my vote in a jiffy. This morning, at 7:30 am, my husband drove to the store and came home. He reported that not only the huge parking-lot was full of cars but the side streets and the highway were crowded with over 200 parked cars. My husband has never seen anything like it in this little village during his lifetime. He estimated to get to the voting place, people have to park at least six blocks away and walk to the town-hall. There was no way for him to estimate the lines because you couldn't see the people over the cars. He saw one person who apparently had voted and was trying to exit the parking lot. There were two policemen trying to get her out and having no success, as the cars had her jammed in and they were evidently locked. Needless to say, he exited the area as soon as he could.
11898. thoughtful - 11/2/2004 5:08:36 PM well unfortunately, it is not only the most important event in the us but is bound to have strong ripples affecting most of the rest of the world as well. such is the current lot in life of the usa.
11899. angel-five - 11/2/2004 5:12:14 PM Have faith, Thoughtful. 11900. Magoseph - 11/2/2004 8:01:44 PM From Salon--Getting testy in Florida
A Marine Corps vet tells some tales of confrontation from the front lines of the get-out-the-vote effort in Tampa.
By Jim Jones
Nov. 1, 2004 | I was out today with three postal workers and one teacher knocking on doors in the poorest sections of Tampa. Of course, they were predominantly black and Hispanic. While we were jumping in and out of the car, we had the Redskins-Packers game on and were cheering on the Packers.
We've been out every day, seven days a week, getting out the vote. We have been identifying Kerry supporters to ask them to vote early and to provide transportation if needed.
Since we've been going to previously identified union households the feedback is about 90 percent for Kerry. However, even considering that we are not getting a true cross-section of the voters, it's hard not to think that this area will go to Kerry. As the talking heads have been saying, it's all about getting the base out to the polls.
Strange shit here in Florida. Some of our teams ran across some "young" groups of two and three with "generic" badges asking black households if they had absentee ballots and offering to "deliver" them to the polling office. It looks strongly like these are Republican teams out to destroy ballots.
We had one of the IBEW retirees, age 73, get punched out while sitting in his car at a polling place while waiting to vote. He had Kerry stickers on his car and this 37-year-old asshole went over and attacked him. Well, the union hall sent over a "security team" of eight to "assist" voters and protect them from such assholes.
I have a "Veteran for Kerry" sticker on my pickup's back window, right below my Marine Corps sticker. I've had two assholes yell shit at me when passing. One of them kept cutting me off on the freeway, giving me the finger. 11901. Magoseph - 11/2/2004 8:02:03 PM I had another confrontation with a fat coward who passed me on the sidewalk when I was walking from a house I had just worked. He said, "With that Kerry button on, I can see that you didn't serve in Vietnam." In so many words I corrected him by telling him that I went there twice as a Recon Marine. I then asked him, "What were you? A fucking Army cook?" He then said some more, including a "fuck you." I then yelled at him, "Come on back here you fat fucking yellow bastard and say that." He was about 6 foot and between 250 and 300 pounds. He got in his truck and took off. I chased him on foot just for show and to rub it in.
We've had other teams experience similar treatment. One of the Insulators Union guys from New Jersey punched out some prick who mouthed off to him. There seems to be a pattern with these loudmouths. They'll yell something like, "commie," or "pacifist" but then flee when they find out you are neither, especially the latter.
I'm getting too old to get into fistfights but, dammit, a fellow just can't allow such misconduct around himself.
Anyway, we're out again tomorrow. I'm early-voting in the morning. The early voting has been huge. There are typically two- and three-hour waits to vote. Most of it is caused by the large number of voters and six constitutional amendments on the back of the ballot.
Let's see what tomorrow brings.
Semper Fi
About the writer
Jim Jones is a United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance veteran, currently volunteering with the get-out-the-vote effort in Florida. 11902. Jenerator - 11/2/2004 8:38:48 PM Mago,
Changing gears here, I saw a bumper sticker on a truck yesterday that read:
YES this is my truck/NO I will not help you move 11903. Magoseph - 11/3/2004 3:36:59 PM How about some more Texan jokes, Jen? Hello, everyone--on my way to town by foot; never mind that the temperature is beloww 50 degrees.
Hi, Mac. 11904. Macnas - 11/3/2004 3:42:12 PM Hello Mago! 11905. judithathome - 11/3/2004 4:17:52 PM Jen won't tell the best Texas joke.
George Bush. 11906. Jenerator - 11/3/2004 5:57:30 PM That doesn't really work, Judith.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
George Bush.
George Bush who?
George Bush, that's who. 11907. judithathome - 11/3/2004 10:29:50 PM Hey, it works for me...mine, I mean.
Enjoy it while you can. 11908. Magoseph - 11/4/2004 12:03:38 PM The two preceding posts are not understood by me, J and J. Stop playing with my mind because right now, it is in a precarious state. Give some sexy jokes, please.
11909. Magoseph - 11/4/2004 12:04:13 PM Hey, Mac.
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