Tuesday, October 19, 2004
GOTV Holidays are Here! Party Hearty.
First, the daily blather:
Umm, rushed in from where? Mars? The devil is in the details, aWol, you liar.
So, we spent thousands of lives and billions of dollars to topple Saddam and replace him with an Ayatollah? And you’re okay with that, aWol boy, as long as that’s what the “people decide”? Okay, then, can we put Gore in office now, please? After all, the people decided.
And the people will decide again. Voter registration ends today in Connecticut and Friday in Alabama. Alexander Bolton, neo-F-word writer, notes with satisfaction that “The Bush-Cheney campaign has emphasized to its business allies the importance of urging employees to take advantage of new rules that allow them to vote weeks before Election Day.” The Bu’ushiites are getting out their vote, with help from fatcats and embedded pols.
Well, damn them, me hearties! We can do better! There are more of us, and we’re just as fired up as they are! Hell, we’re MORE fired up! Our ASSES are on the line, not just our MONEY! A lot of polling places are already open. 26 states have early voting. Big John Kerry is urging us to get out now. If we don’t have any “business allies” just go anyway! Since a General Strike is unlikely, the best idea might be to use your sick days—if you got ‘em—NOW and get to the polls with a few dozen friends. If you don’t have sick days, go on Saturday—a lot of states have polls open on Saturdays, too, or even keep them open until 7 in the evening. The guy I called last week who would drive folks is cool with the idea of taking people now if they want to go, and even making a run to the ice cream shop afterward and piling together to watch a ballgame or a movie, which is appealing to some of the folks around here who don’t get to town very often. It’s a holiday! So I’m gonna call up ten or fifteen folks—he’s got a 15 seat van—and we’re gonna make a holiday of it, dammit! I might even go see if the tire guy wants to go—he’d liven up the party for sure.
So, make your own holiday! Plaster your vehicle with Kerry Edwards signs, load up some of your friends and neighbors—make new friends, too—and take a holiday drive to the polls. Go out afterward with your buttons on and have a party! Hell, make every day until November 2nd a GOTV holiday! You’ll be able to look yourself in the mirror much more happily on Nov. 3rd if you do.
To the polls, me hearties! Make a party of it! Create a village and stomp a weasel! Arrgghhh. Only two weeks until we take back our country!
"I know there are some here who are worried about the flu season," Bush told a rally at a baseball park here [Florida]. "I want to assure them that our government is doing everything possible to help older Americans and children to get their shots," Bush said, adding that millions of vaccine doses were on hand for those who need them the most and more was being rushed in.
Umm, rushed in from where? Mars? The devil is in the details, aWol, you liar.
If free and open Iraqi elections lead to the seating of a fundamentalist Islamic government, "I will be disappointed. But democracy is democracy," Bush said. "If that's what the people choose, that's what the people choose."
So, we spent thousands of lives and billions of dollars to topple Saddam and replace him with an Ayatollah? And you’re okay with that, aWol boy, as long as that’s what the “people decide”? Okay, then, can we put Gore in office now, please? After all, the people decided.
And the people will decide again. Voter registration ends today in Connecticut and Friday in Alabama. Alexander Bolton, neo-F-word writer, notes with satisfaction that “The Bush-Cheney campaign has emphasized to its business allies the importance of urging employees to take advantage of new rules that allow them to vote weeks before Election Day.” The Bu’ushiites are getting out their vote, with help from fatcats and embedded pols.
Well, damn them, me hearties! We can do better! There are more of us, and we’re just as fired up as they are! Hell, we’re MORE fired up! Our ASSES are on the line, not just our MONEY! A lot of polling places are already open. 26 states have early voting. Big John Kerry is urging us to get out now. If we don’t have any “business allies” just go anyway! Since a General Strike is unlikely, the best idea might be to use your sick days—if you got ‘em—NOW and get to the polls with a few dozen friends. If you don’t have sick days, go on Saturday—a lot of states have polls open on Saturdays, too, or even keep them open until 7 in the evening. The guy I called last week who would drive folks is cool with the idea of taking people now if they want to go, and even making a run to the ice cream shop afterward and piling together to watch a ballgame or a movie, which is appealing to some of the folks around here who don’t get to town very often. It’s a holiday! So I’m gonna call up ten or fifteen folks—he’s got a 15 seat van—and we’re gonna make a holiday of it, dammit! I might even go see if the tire guy wants to go—he’d liven up the party for sure.
So, make your own holiday! Plaster your vehicle with Kerry Edwards signs, load up some of your friends and neighbors—make new friends, too—and take a holiday drive to the polls. Go out afterward with your buttons on and have a party! Hell, make every day until November 2nd a GOTV holiday! You’ll be able to look yourself in the mirror much more happily on Nov. 3rd if you do.
To the polls, me hearties! Make a party of it! Create a village and stomp a weasel! Arrgghhh. Only two weeks until we take back our country!
