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Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by laffeyn » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:40 pm

I feel like a thread should have started already. Whats wrong guys?

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by xkristyx » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:52 pm

barack obama muthafucka!


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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by aeon grey » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:13 pm

Smoking Guns wrote:boooooring
bullshit.. they had fucking holograms on CNN!!!!

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Hank Fist » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:44 pm

laffeyn wrote:I feel like a thread should have started already. Whats wrong guys?
nothing really needs to be said, i guess, barack destroyed mccain. i'm about to watch the star wars wolf blitzer thing on slate.com

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by El Rhino » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:59 pm

Watch the watermelon rinds start flying out the window of the White House...


Anyways, I voted for myself. Wasn't sold on Obama and I sure as fuck wasn't going to vote for McCain. A while back ago him and Bush wanted to grant the illegals amnesty in a pathetic attempt to pander to this mythical Hispanic vote the Republicans keep counting on. So yeah, fuck McCain.

Between the two of them, honestly, I think I'm glad Obama won. The Republican party has been nothing short of lackluster for the past eight years and I'm ready for someone else. I think Obama is going to be a little more moderate than some people on the right think he will be, which is good.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by joseph » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:06 pm

im glad theyre over. i dont want to hear shit about politics for a year

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Hank Fist » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:27 pm

I voted muslim (if you can't beat'em....) ha. I'm excited to see what happens. I kind of fear for his life.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Beaver » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:46 pm

Im upset that the words "idiot" and "insane" are to be amended for the constitution. I voted for against.

I also voted for someone f/ the Socialist Party over Boswell that fat old fuck....and for a Green Party Member over that Black panther AKO bastard.

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Post by El Rhino » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:33 pm

Beaver wrote:Im upset that the words "idiot" and "insane" are to be amended for the constitution. I voted for against.
I voted against that too. I guess it's probably the only thing I really felt strongly about in the election. I wrote in names for virtually everything, except voting against Harkin and Boswell.


Anyways, mass celebrations today in African-American communities across the United States http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHhTyjzHHtU
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by joseph » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:39 pm

Beaver wrote:Im upset that the words "idiot" and "insane" are to be amended for the constitution. I voted for against.

I also voted for someone f/ the Socialist Party over Boswell that fat old fuck....and for a Green Party Member over that Black panther AKO bastard.
we actually voted the same on those. surprise.

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Post by Big Fat Retard » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:39 pm

All my votes were write in except for the one senate race that had a Socialist Party candidate. I don't like Socialists, but at least this guy admits he's one.

Some of them I just wrote in "none of the above"
For President I wrote in Ron Paul with Tommy Chong as VP, Johnny Reeferseed for Polk County Sheriff, and El Rhino as Soil and Conservation Commissioner. I voted "no' on the Idiot Amendment. I also vote no for all the judges just to be a dick.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Beaver » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:45 pm

lol at Rhino's vid.

Always vote no for all judges...ALWAYS. The only good ones are dead ones.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by El Rhino » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:46 pm

Big Fat Retard wrote: El Rhino as Soil and Conservation Commissioner.k.


Nice. Next election I should wage a write-in campaign for this position.


Ryan Lewellin for Soil and Conservation Commissioner: Blood and Soil.


I actually wrote in Barack Obama and John McCain for that position. I believe you could pick four.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Beaver » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:07 pm

storkus wrote: Damn, maybe we DO need the state constitution to address the problem of idiots voting.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by xkristyx » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:31 pm

goooddd oonnnneeee.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by DaVo » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:07 pm

I'm happy with the outcome. I'm hoping this is the last we here of Sarah Painintheass. I'm really thinking that the lower 48 need to take a close look at what is going on up there. First off the fed gives everyone money every year just to live there, then there is the kick backs from the oil companies they all get, not having a state income tax or sales tax and they are voting for a convicted felon Ted Stevens for senate. I think we all need to take a long look at this place.

The thing that I'm most excited about is the huge voter turn out. It's been guessed at being the highest % since woman got the right to vote in 1920.

The other thing is that it maybe the end of the conservative religious right's power. Though they tried to throw off the vote with their message of usual gay rights, abortion and etc... It doesn't seem like it was effective at all. This is great news for this country. Cause this is the power base that brought us Reagan, Bush and then Bush again.

I have to say that I was happy to see that race made no difference. America seems to have voted for who they felt the best man was or against the Republicans.

I have felt he was the right man for the job for a while. Now let's see if he can get anything done or will he be bogged down like Clinton was from the start. Wall Street seems to be shaking in their boots at the idea that there is a reformer in office. Only time well tell.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Dennis Haskins » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:48 pm

went to get the paper today and found this front page on the Des Moines Register, as well as the USA Today next to it:

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an excerpt from the phony front page reads, "2008 marks the 56th consecutive victory in the presidential elections for capitalism, which has successfully weathered crises ranging from the abolition of slavery to the Great Depression and the Summer of Love over the course of its 219-year administration."

i went to a few more and it appeared that all of the newstands had these front pages.

in a google search, apparently an Anarchist group in North Carolina claimed responsibility in an email sent to corporate news outlets, which reads:
Early this morning, many thousands of corporate newspapers in over 20 cities across the United States, including Chapel Hill and Carrboro, were given more accurate front pages. That one wealthy politician will replace another is not not news worthy. Capitalism has always won at the polls, and it always will. McCain and Obama's support for the financial bailout proved this, and ensured that any vote would be a vote for Wall St. The real stories worth telling are those of resistance and struggle, any instance where oppressed people attempt to realize dignity, autonomy and equality in their daily lives.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Varg » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:35 am

lol @ "resistance and struggle"

What a difference they'll make with phony newspapers...
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Shane » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:55 am

DaVo wrote:I'm happy with the outcome. I'm hoping this is the last we here of Sarah Painintheass.
I stopped reading after this.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Crumpty Williams » Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:59 am

joseph wrote:
Beaver wrote:Im upset that the words "idiot" and "insane" are to be amended for the constitution. I voted for against.

I also voted for someone f/ the Socialist Party over Boswell that fat old fuck....and for a Green Party Member over that Black panther AKO bastard.
we actually voted the same on those. surprise.

lols.. i also voted no on that.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Joey Chaos » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:23 am

Beaver wrote:Im upset that the words "idiot" and "insane" are to be amended for the constitution. I voted for against.

I voted against this as well, but my damn wife canceled my vote out because "that's fucked up".

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Post by Crumpty Williams » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:00 pm

lol. i also voted against that just for the hilarity factor.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by joseph » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:18 pm

The proposed amendment to the Iowa Constitution regarding voting limitations for mentally incompetent Iowans finally makes it onto the ballot 11 years after Rep. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, and former Rep. Betty Grundberg wrote the proposal.

The proposed amendment affects Article II §5 ("Disqualified Persons"), which currently reads: "No idiot, or insane person, or person convicted of any infamous crime, shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector." Iowans are asked to vote on whether to strike "idiot" and "insane person" from §5; in place of the outdated and offensive terminology, "mentally incompetent" will be inserted into the Constitution
http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/s ... 2320.shtml
wow. that took 11 YEARS?? i dislike the changing of definitions.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Smoking Guns » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:10 pm

arizona, california, and florida all voted to ban same sex marriage.

so fuck this election and fuck those states.

seriously.

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Marijuana wins 9 out of 10!!!

Post by Big Fat Retard » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:11 pm

2008 Ballot Initiatives
On November 4, 2008, MPP and our allies across the country passed nine out of 10 marijuana-related ballot initiatives ... and also defeated a bad initiative.


Massachusetts Question 2: Remove the threat of arrest or jail for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana, replacing it with a $100 fine, which could be paid through the mail without lawyers or court appearances, just like a speeding ticket. MPP's campaign committee, Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy Yes WIN
65%-35%

Michigan Proposal 1: Permit terminally and seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctors' approval. MPP's campaign committee, Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care Yes WIN
63%-37%

California Proposition 5: Expand the number of drug offenders diverted from prison into treatment and decriminalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, among other things. Yes on 5 Yes LOSS
60%-40%

California Proposition 6: Among other things (such as increasing spending on prisons and law enforcement and increasing penalties for gang crimes and methamphetamine distribution), require the expulsion from public housing of anyone convicted of a recent drug offense. Safe Neighborhoods Act No DEFEATED
(A WIN)
30%-70%

Berkeley, California Measure JJ: Expand the non-residential zones where dispensaries can locate, create an oversight commission to create standards and determine whether relocating or future operators are in compliance, issue zoning certificates, and bring Berkeley marijuana possession limits in line with recent court rulings determining that such limits are unconstitutional in the state. Citizens for Sensible Medical Cannabis Regulation Yes WIN
62%-38%

Fayetteville, Arkansas Require adult marijuana possession laws to be the lowest priority for local law enforcement. Sensible Fayetteville Yes WIN
66%-34%

Hawaii County, Hawaii Ballot Question 1: Require adult marijuana possession laws to be the lowest priority for local law enforcement. Project Peaceful Sky Yes WIN
53%-39%

Ayer, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, and Townsend, Massachusetts Question 4: Direct the district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation that would allow seriously ill patients, with their doctor’s written recommendation, to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for their personal medical use. DPFMA and MassCann/NORML Yes WIN
74%-26%

Medfield, Needham, and precincts 1 and 2 of Dover, Massachusetts Question 4: Direct the district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation that would allow seriously ill patients, with their doctor’s written recommendation, to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for their personal medical use. DPFMA and MassCann/NORML Yes WIN
73%-27%

Bedford, Burlington, precinct 3 of Wilmington, Massachusetts Question 4: Direct the district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation that would allow seriously ill patients, with their doctor’s written recommendation, to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for their personal medical use. DPFMA and MassCann/NORML Yes WIN
71%-29%

Hanson, Pembroke, precincts 2,3,4,5 of Duxbury, precinct 2 of Halifax, Massachusetts Question 4: Direct the district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation that would allow seriously ill patients, with their doctor’s written recommendation, to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for their personal medical use. DPFMA and MassCann/NORML Yes WIN
71%-29%

http://www.mpp.org/library/2008-ballot-initiatives.html
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Hank Fist » Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:20 pm

Thank you Johnny Reeferseed for your relentless advocacy. You are the true soldier in the war on drugs.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by inx515xhell » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:16 pm

Smoking Guns wrote:arizona, california, and florida all voted to ban same sex marriage.

so fuck this election and fuck those states.

seriously.
well, at the same time prop 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_2) was passed in cali, and i'm really psyched about that. still a bummer prop 8 got shot down. i was there a couple weeks back, hilarious anti gay marriage commercials going on.

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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by DaVo » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:35 pm

inx515xhell wrote:
Smoking Guns wrote:arizona, california, and florida all voted to ban same sex marriage.

so fuck this election and fuck those states.

seriously.
well, at the same time prop 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_2) was passed in cali, and i'm really psyched about that. still a bummer prop 8 got shot down. i was there a couple weeks back, hilarious anti gay marriage commercials going on.
I saw little on this last night. Is it really going to be effective? As I understand it only effects animals raised in CA which is not where a majority of these animals are raised.
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Re: Soo uhh.. how about those elections?

Post by Shane » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:05 pm

DaVo wrote:
inx515xhell wrote:
Smoking Guns wrote:arizona, california, and florida all voted to ban same sex marriage.

so fuck this election and fuck those states.

seriously.
well, at the same time prop 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_2) was passed in cali, and i'm really psyched about that. still a bummer prop 8 got shot down. i was there a couple weeks back, hilarious anti gay marriage commercials going on.
I saw little on this last night. Is it really going to be effective? As I understand it only effects animals raised in CA which is not where a majority of these animals are raised.
I think this establishes a precedent which can be used to present/justify legislation nationwide. I look past the supposed minimal effect this will have in California, instead seeing the overall effect this could have.
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