When you vote, DO IT RIGHT!

Hey guys, it has come to my attention that some of you slackers out there aren't voting correctly. I am not talking about WHO you vote for , or HOW (like mail-in, or early, or on Tuesday), and am talking about lack of completion.

I know this is a tense and exciting time for all of us and some people have the attention span of a fruit fly, but seriously. Local issues and LOCAL POLITICIANS are just as important, nay MORE important than your Presidential hanging chad. Seriously, who do you think actually spends money in the United States Government? HINT: It's not the Vice President or the President. It's CONGRESS! They decide almost everything! Yes, the President has veto power, but hey if you took any government class you know that even the veto is not the end of the line. The Congress has the ability to override veto! Did you know that? Well you should! Because if you don't vote for your Senators (the Senate half of Congress, each state has TWO) or your Representative (the House of Representatives half, sometimes just called "the House" which does not mean the White House you dumbasses, and each state has a number based on their population.) then you are giving up MOST of your voting power!

Example: I live in Colorado. We have two Senators (of course) and one is Republican and one is Democratic. I think that is a good balance since we only get two.

We have seven Representatives*. Four are Dems, 3 GOP. This is a little more complicated because the districts are made roughly by population**. So the greater Denver Metro area, Boulder, and resorts (Summit County) have FIVE of the seven districts. The other two districts cover like 80% of the land area of Colorado. So if you live in Rangely or Craig, Grand Junction or Durango, you all have the same Rep (District 3). Fort Collins and Sterling and Buena Vista have the same Rep (District 4). Which means that a lot of the time, you could end up being represented by someone you don't agree with politically.

Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming -- you only have to vote for one Representative! So it is EVEN MORE IMPERATIVE that you vote. Three people is all you get to make your say in Congress.

SO VOTE! For all of the people on the ballot! For all of the measures!!! The Blue Book has plain langauge, do some research, check out the pros and cons of different mill levys and tax increases. If you don't want more taxes, VOTE THAT WAY! If you want better schools, VOTE THAT WAY! If you want anything VOTE FOR IT! You don't live in the White House, and you live under State Law first! The fifty American states are separate sovereigns with their own state constitutions and state governments, so this is IMPORTANT.

Please don't mark your Presidential ticket and leave the rest unvoted. You are doing yourself, your kids, your dog, your cat, your roads, your drinking laws, your abortion statutes, your education funding, your gambling, your water, your sewage, your police department, all a disservice. For or against, vote what you believe. Or else shut the fuck up. The President is not the be all and end all of our laws and politics. They don't decide whether we get new buses versus new jails. YOU DO.

*You can only vote for the Rep of the District in which you live.
** well not really always by population, for more on this subject check out the term "gerrymandering".

Unscheduled outage.

So I am listening to "Answer Me This" podcast. Julia introduced me and it is quite funny British trio that answer any questions listeners send in.

One thing they mentioned was Alderny Airport, where they have a knit-while-you-wait corner, and all knit squares are used to make blankets for charity.

I think this is a great idea but I think that it would drive me nuts. I would always wonder if my square was good enough. Or did it make it into a blanket? Did someone use it as a nappy for their baby? Did it get blown or thrown away? Does the custodian steal a few of these for personal use?

Did Miss Aguilera really call herself "X-tina" for awhile? Wow, I really am learning a lot from Answer Me This. I also am so super duper excited about this new book I got yesterday called Creepy Cute Crochet. I am halfway through a tiny Cthulhu already!

Also I found a really weird convergence of things relating to not wanting children -- some stuff on another podcast (kinky) some stuff on Ravelry (wierd!) and some other thing that I ran across through Stumble Upon or something. After reading these sites I was weirded out.

Some of these people are downright crazy about it. Now I totally support a person's choice to not have kids. I don't think they are weird for not wanting kids. A guy I work with had a vasectomy when he was quite young and has a bunch of cats he loves, and is about to get married and not have kids with his girlfriend, and I think it rocks. I don't even think they are weird for not wanting to hang out around kids or for wanting kids to behave in stores, etc. If I were them I would treat an unruly kid just like an unruly dog -- in fact I do.
But some of these people are really fruitcakes. I call bullshit on their stupid complaints. Yeah kids are dirty. So are dogs. So are lizards. So are cats. SO ARE ADULTS! Take a look at any "expose" about how gross hotel rooms are, public restrooms, etc. Little kids have the common cold and jelly, not Hepatitis and semen. So have fun pissing in the bar toilet, which hasn't been properly cleaned since the homeless dude bathed in there last week. Then worry about that woman sitting her kid on the counter. Think about it. Diapered baby ass = STD free.
Oh and the "children should be seen and not heard unless spoken to"? I will remember that next time you are prattering away about your period in the middle of Target you stupid cunt, or when your dog barks for four hours while you are banging that slag from the Pizza Hut, or when you try to serenade your true love at karaoke after six martinis. GAG.
I hate kids behind me at restaurants, I hate screaming babies in theatres and on airplanes -- EVERYONE DOES! EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE KIDS.
It is a big world with a lot of annoyances. Stand up for yourself. Tell people to get their screaming, dirty kid away from you. And then grow up and get a fucking clue that they are no more annoying than half the adults or dogs you will ever meet and a lot less lethal than either.

I also love how somehow these people think that kids are different today than "in their time". These douchebags are like 23. Which means that I babysat these pieces of shit and let me tell you what they were like: dirty shrieking bastards whose parents indulged them. Yeah, you.
So I support your choice to not have like or be around kids. Now shut the fuck up about it.


Whew. Sorry. I hate intolerance don't you?