(11-03-2020, 05:48 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Bite me!
I'm more of a nibbler than a biter, but never mind that.
We voted this morning, I voted first 'cause my polling place was closer. There WAS a lady handing out literature on how to vote on the referendums to folks inside the polling place, but nothing else, just folks haranguing the voters outside as we went in wanting us to vote this, that, or the other. It didn't matter to me - I already knew how I was going to vote on the referendums. One was for a VA Constitutional Amendment to allow gerrymandering, and since I think the state is already gerrymandered enough, thank you very much, that was a hard no. The next was to eliminate auto taxes for disabled vets, a no brainer and a yes, and the last was a referendum on removing the Confederate statue at the courthouse - another hard no.
Grace had to vote at a precinct on a mountain top not far from Grundy VA, out in the middle of nowhere. A funny thing happened on the way out from that poll. A State Trooper got in behind me and lit me up. So, I drove about 100 yards further down the road and pulled in to the Grundy Police Department parking lot, so it was safe for the good officer to get out of his car and bitch at me about whatever it was he wanted to bitch about. Instead - and mind you we were on a deserted 4 lane road - he shot on down the road with his lights on and laid down on his horn at me, which is never a good idea. I dunno what the hell he was trying to say, but if he was in a friggin' hurry, he could have gone around me on that road. Probably a newbie just out of the Academy. I doubt he will last long up there. Maybe his siren was broke and he had to use his horn - who the hell knows what goes on in their minds?
Anyhow, we got our votes in. Mine was vote#242 at 9:30 AM or so, and Grace said hers was #23 at around 10:30 am but, like I said, her precinct was out in the middle of nowhere, about 400 yards or so from where I used to work on that mountain top.
They gave us both fancy "I voted" stickers with the presidential seal on them - I guess they upgraded from the tiny blue "I voted" blobs they gave us last time around.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’