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twothirteenseventysix says:
i burned my voter's registration card yesteray. i wanted an odd ceremony to be involved, but i just saw it in my wallet and it started bugging me. i burned it in IHOP's parking lot. it felt good.
hey, josh, i think there needs to be a "some rich white guy in '08" bumper sticker. maybe not until the two rich white guys are chosen, because it might seem sex/racist. its true, though, in the end we will have a "choice" between two guys who have no real idea what it means to be an average american.
posted Aug 26
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Bear Suit says:
I was there and it was bad ass. The rich white guy who has no idea what it means to be american that I like best is Alec Baldwin. What if our choices were "Alec (D) and Stephen (R)"? I might have to remove this from my groups and write in Pauly Shore if that happens.
posted Aug 27
twothirteenseventysix says:
hey, not to get all grammar policey, but this craw business is sticking in mine. the phrase "gets my craw" really doesn't make sense to me. a craw is either the crop of a small bird or a lower stomach of a small animal (i checked the dictionary). to have something "stick in one's craw" means to be irritated. if that's what's meant, you can use that phrase. its an amazing phrase, by the way.
keep buggering on.
posted Jul 13
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josh is uuah says:
that was exactly the intention. i'm kind of hip all over outdated vernacular. fuck, i still say "swell" sometimes.
posted Jul 20
twothirteenseventysix says:
i actually wore a tee-shirt on the fourth that had an american flag on it. it was a representation of an old picture of immigrants building rockefeller center. i actually like america. i like it for the fact that great things have happened here in spite of politicians.
i have said many other places the reason i don't vote is that i'm sick of my vote being a target market. we vote for politicians, but its so much like oz. there are a billion little men behind the curtain that we aren't supposed to pay attention to. regardless of who i vote for, these little men decide the policy and get all the money. like i said, there are tons of great things going on here that they don't touch, so i celebrate that.
its just not worth worrying about which rich white man is the figurehead.
posted Jul 6
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josh is uuah says:
i don't hate america. it's just that . . . the illusion of a functioning democracy (practically or idealistically) really gets my craw.
posted Jul 6
josh is uuah says:
i've spent 2 weeks trying to figure out what that means, and i'm still in the darkest of darks.
posted Jul 20
clare says:
Haha. Fourth of July means nothing to me.
As do most politicians I know of...
Now I'm all for blocking the vote, but how does one propose to do this in a country where it is illegal (and seen as irresponsible) not to do so?
All comments, suggestions, anti-political tirades welcome.
posted Jul 5
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josh is uuah says:
didn't you say, earlier, that you planned on not voting and just buckling-up to the $50 fine? has the penalty increased?
posted Jul 6
clare says:
No, but the government has just shortened the amount of time where you're supposed to enrol to vote and has done it so under-handedly that a LOT of people are going to get fined for not enrolling on time and being unable to vote. They're scheming rich men and women who live behind desks and I'm sure they don't have legs.
I still don't plan to give them my vote, but I'll just give them $50 instead. Lame.
I'm wondering if there is a more creative way of not voting, like living on the moon or becoming an US citizen.
But both of those options are silly because I really like the weather here, and I'd get mighty lonely.
posted Jul 7
josh is uuah says:
i hear about people seceding from the government, in the u.k., like crazy. the f.b.i. goes nuts, here, if people do that. a couple of australians, however, did it, (click here and scroll down to "australian developments"). so, you could always try declaring your house it's own sovereign state, and just give 'em all the royal "thumb-off". if they get pissed, just rip-off shakespeare; "no, sir, i do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir."
posted Jul 7
Bear Suit says:
Is writing in 'Bill Cosby' and voting for him the same as not voting. maybe I don't belong to this group. 'cause I've done that and I plan on doing it again in the future.
posted Jul 7
josh is uuah says:
it counts, until it catches on and somehow becomes a crazy movement that gives the coz a chance at winning . . .
posted Jul 7
goenfukyrself says:
i think bill actually holds some semblance of what i want in a leader.
posted Jul 7
clare says:
Yeah, they're clamping down on the sovereign state in Queensland - mainly because they're growing a LOT of pot. There is one in the middle of nowhere in my state, but it's just a farmstead. Nice idea, though :)
I could do what they call a donkey vote (which i'm pretty sure is the PC way of calling you and ass voter) and screw my vote up on purpose so that it doesn't count. Tick the wrong amount of boxes or something.
I wish I could write the Coz in, or perhaps Ned Kelly or Waltzing Matilda, or Guy Fawkes, or any other anarchist figure from history so they get the point. But we don't write names, just tick boxes - I guess it's safer that way for the government.
posted Jul 9
josh is uuah says:
i encourage you to donkey punch the bastards. fifty dollars isn't a lot of money to them, i'm sure. but, if you're not voting, i'm guessing you don't want to give them a dime of your money, either. support is support, aye? donkey vote, for sure.
posted Jul 9
josh is uuah says:
so, like . . . i just realized that i started this group on the fourth of july. completely unintentional, kids. believe it or not. i'm sure you might find it "ironic", but . . . you're wrong. on two points, possibly.
one being that this just happened to be the day where i had enough time and boredom to finally do this
the other being that, well, you should probably read the definition of irony, rather than taking for granted that the lexicon involves any kind of correct use of the word . . . ie: when you say "ironic" you probably mean "interesting coincidence".
either way, the coincidence is unintentional. i can be a provocateur, sometimes . . . but not now.
posted Jul 5
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goenfukyrself says:
i've only heard one person use the word "ironic" correctly in MONTHS. that really gets my craw.
posted Jul 7
josh is uuah says:
i've always wanted to misuse that word as a mineral pun, but forget to when i have the chance!
posted Jul 12
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twothirteenseventysix says:
don't look now, but the madness has begun. only ten more months until the rest of america decides who will be their figurehead. i am going to sit on the sidelines and laugh my way through this one.
posted Jan 4