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Happy birthday to Lurkitty!
Nov. 7th, 2006 09:28 amI still have to gift-wrap your requested gift -- a Democratic congress -- but hopefully UPS (Untampered-with Political System) will deliver it to your door by tomorrow morning!
Nov. 7th, 2006
Breaking news!
Nov. 7th, 2006 05:24 pmJust received in my in box from the chair of the stained glass window committee:
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We have a church full of pessimistic people who said this wouldn't be possible, that we'd never get any grant funding. Ha. Good timing, too -- we're supposed to make a presentation at a congregational meeting on Friday. True, this is not a grant to actually restore the windows, but it is a grant to help us find grants that can... the nay-sayers didn't even want us to spend any money on finding grants. Sheesh.
Yeah, I voted too.
Nov. 7th, 2006 05:54 pmI was the 578th voter in my small town. We have an old-fashioned wooden ballot box. You put your paper ballot, completed by hand with a pencil, folded neatly so nothing shows, into a slot, and an elderly gentleman whose name I still don't know after all these years turns a big crank that grabs the ballot and pulls it inside the box, and the number changes like an odometer's. The ballot box probably dates from the early 1900s.
I trust it a lot more than the new-fangled voting machines.
I spent four hours Saturday in the home of a stranger with eight other people, making calls on behalf of MoveOn.org. I was calling the 9th district in Florida, urging people to vote for the Democratic candidate. I hate doing this kind of work -- I am much better at motivating people on paper than on the phone -- but I felt I had to.
Just now I got an email from MoveOn.org :
(We were very specifically told not to make any calls after 9 p.m., FYI) I hope the people receiving these calls don't actually think they'll be prosecuted for voting. But then again, the days of lynchings aren't that far behind us -- if they even are. If you had to live through that era, today's threats might be sadly effective.
Damn, I hope MoveOn.org is wrong about those stories.... If not, we're in an even bigger handbasket than I'd thought.
I trust it a lot more than the new-fangled voting machines.
I spent four hours Saturday in the home of a stranger with eight other people, making calls on behalf of MoveOn.org. I was calling the 9th district in Florida, urging people to vote for the Democratic candidate. I hate doing this kind of work -- I am much better at motivating people on paper than on the phone -- but I felt I had to.
Just now I got an email from MoveOn.org :
( Read more... )
(We were very specifically told not to make any calls after 9 p.m., FYI) I hope the people receiving these calls don't actually think they'll be prosecuted for voting. But then again, the days of lynchings aren't that far behind us -- if they even are. If you had to live through that era, today's threats might be sadly effective.
Damn, I hope MoveOn.org is wrong about those stories.... If not, we're in an even bigger handbasket than I'd thought.
