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Saturday, November 03, 2007


More Batshit Crazy

I was just sorting and counting the currency in my wallet and noticed a little message stamped onto the back of a $10 bill.

It reads:

PEACE
No More Wars
Peace
01-20-09

I am amazed with the mindset on display with such nonsense. It is the POV that apparently feels that the War on Terror was started by George W. Bush and his “Cowboy Diplomacy”.

Do none of these people remember that we didn’t start this little fracas? Do none of them remember all of the attacks that had gone before, yet remained virtually unanswered?

They apparently seem to think (if that’s the word) that the day Bush leaves office will be the day that all those pissed off Arabs will lay down their rifles and celebrate the peace of having someone other than a meanie like Bush in the White House, all sectarian violence forgotten as they work towards a new frontier of prosperity and tranquility and chocolate milk rivers.

But this war didn’t start on 9/11, any more than WW2 started the day after Pearl Harbor. This war by radical Islam dates back to the 1972 Munich Olympics, and the death of 11 Israeli athletes for the “crime” of being a Jew.

And it isn’t going to go away just because there is a new President who wants to surrender to the Islamists.

Nor is it going to go away because they hate Bush - because Bush leaving office simply means that they are going to have to find someone else to blame for the failure of their version of Utopia. Not to mention every single one of them being wrong about Bush declaring “Martial Law” and abolishing elections…

Oh, one other thing: to those morons who are apparently trying to pretend that Bush can be impeached after he leaves office, I can only urge them to actually read the Constitution. Specifically, Article I, Section 3, Paragraph 7.

Nuttier than squirrel shit, I tells ya…

Posted by Drumwaster at 06:47 PM |

The regulars all know

that whenever I am needed by the Registrar of Voters to work an election, I will gladly say “Yes”.

Well, I’ve said “yes” once again, for the upcoming election on Tuesday.

I’ll be working all day, but don’t expect much in the way of a turn-out, since most of the elections are “local issue and bonds” - a hospital board election here, a Mayoral election there, a bond issue elsewhere. The last time I worked this area on a single-issue election, we had 12 people show up in a 13-hour span (from 7am to 8pm), and that wasn’t even the worst turn-out I have seen. (There was this one election - for a college board replacement election - we had nine people sign in.)

I imagine there will be similar elections all over the country, so go and vote if you have a chance. There may be no issues or candidates you wish to vote for, but there will almost certainly be an issue or candidate you will want to vote against. Even if there isn’t, you owe it to your community just to show up and stand in the booth. The vote - the sovereign power of the franchise - is your SOLE power over the State, and if you don’t exercise it, whether from ignorance or apathy, you do yourself, your neighbors and your community a disservice.

If you can’t serve in the military and you don’t want to serve on a jury, then voting is the only other way to offer your personal service to the community at large.

So go out and vote.

Posted by Drumwaster at 05:40 AM |
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