Post #396,053
11/4/14 5:16:04 PM
11/4/14 9:22:12 PM
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Did my duty and voted.
In SC I'll be surprised if anyone or anything I voted for will win, but it's not because I stayed home.
The Sun City community (in Indian Land, SC), with a fair number of Northern transplants, had a pretty good turn out. It could be a small island of sanity, but on the other hands it's also a population that's set in their ways.
Off topic, but something I learned recently, is why Indian Land has the name it does. When the Catawba tribe made deal a deal with the Crown this area was part of the Catawba reservation. In the 1800's, when the tribe was down to less that 200 members, the State of South Carolina got them to agree to reduce the reservation to about a square mile in exchange for what became a piddling annual cash payment. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
Edited by a6l6e6x
Nov. 4, 2014, 09:22:12 PM EST
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Post #396,054
11/4/14 7:45:36 PM
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Thanks for doing so.
There seemed to be a pretty good turnout at our precinct. I was #506 at 9:30 this morning - no waiting for me (I missed the rush).
I can't stand the coverage that's on TV at the moment. I'm just checking the web occasionally, listening to Sirius-XM.
Fingers crossed!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #396,055
11/4/14 8:07:51 PM
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#197 at 9:15
Which seems decent for our precinct at that time. Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #396,057
11/4/14 9:04:49 PM
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Gotchya beat - #27 at 8:15
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Post #396,058
11/4/14 10:08:07 PM
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Only because I had a doctor's appt at 8:15 ;-)
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #396,062
11/5/14 5:24:33 AM
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4:30 pm
I leave for work at 6 am. No biggie. My vote doesn't count whether I vote in the morning or afternoon. The repubs have the state so gerrymandered that they have a lock on the process. Still, again, I voted, so I am allowed to bitch. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
~ AMBROSE BIERCE
(1842-1914)
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Post #396,064
11/5/14 9:15:44 AM
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B.S.
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Post #396,093
11/6/14 4:22:18 PM
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Make that...
If you voted and you're guy/gal/issue won, you have no right to complain. If you picked the loser, then you can complain! Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #396,104
11/6/14 8:57:32 PM
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No.
If you vote, you're stating that the process is legitimate. It isn't. You participated in the effort to legitimize an illegitimate process. You've no right to complain. I disagreed with George about this for years, but now I see he was correct all along.
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Post #396,105
11/6/14 9:09:32 PM
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You're being awfully binary tonight.
Democrats aren't pushing personhood amendments. There's an awful lot more to the law and civil society than what you're railing against tonight. Venting is fine and good, but have some perspective, Ok? Voting is vital. People died so that we would have the right to vote. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #396,114
11/7/14 5:54:35 AM
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Oh, crud.
You're back on the "well, this side is fractionally less bad about {item1} so ignore all the other similarities.".
It's not flying any more. The system needs MAJOR overhaul. And it won't happen from the inside. WE have to do it.
It's going to be messy. "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."
~ AMBROSE BIERCE
(1842-1914)
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Post #396,115
11/7/14 7:00:09 AM
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Yes, things need to change.
They're not going to change by people staying home.
Squeaky wheels and all that.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #396,071
11/5/14 11:23:14 AM
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took 1 hour starting at 5:03 PM
at least the rain missed me since the line was a good 30 people outside the school doors.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
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