Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Not in polite society. :) Anyway, it was on Oklahoma's ballot.
I think their general tone defeated them. They are not a happy party to be around.
I also wonder how much the Wellstone "memorial" affected the races.
I can't believe most of our proposed amendments passed. How in the world can Jeb get over 56% of the vote and then have constitutional amendments like "Protecting pregnant pigs", "Statewide Kindergarten for 4-year olds", and "Smaller class sizes" pass? You know that the 4-year old kindergarten will eventually become mandatory, things like that always do.
I think I realize now why the pubbies seem to be such a schizo party every now and then. It's the voters fault. We vote in our "conservative" candidates and then when we have the chance we help pass the most liberal of proposals.
Good point. That whole Wellstone thing really shocked me, I couldn't believe it was happening in America, reminded me of a Hitler rally. Others must have felt the same.
"I can't believe most of our proposed amendments passed."
I usually vote against amendments just on principle, they usually end up adding to bureaucracy and augmenting the power of authority.
But I am firmly convinced that we would have used our "democracy" to vote all our rights away a long time ago, if it were not for our Constitution. Of course the Democrats do their best to ignore the Constitution and appoint judges who will "interpret" it differently on every occasion.
In Wake County (one county away from me) 5 of 7 County Comissioners will be Republican. Wake County has to have one of (if not the most) greedy school boards in the state. I expect (hope) we'll be seeing some upset school board people when the budget battles start. :D
That’s why I can’t believe they passed. Jeb got over 56% of the vote. So you would think that over 56% of those who voted would be, generally, of like mind with us, but that was not the case.
When a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to protect pregnant pigs passes in an election where the R’s win big, something is very wrong with our voters.
I wonder if most R’s these days are fiscal conservatives but social liberals. They like the idea of government being involved in aspect of our lives, but they don’t want to pay for it.
I came over because I was hearing the Nine Riders were making a mess. Sorry about the horse poop by the entrance.
Stayed up until about 3:00 a.m. thinking Fox was going to call South Dakota, which is still the one too close to call right?
Katie Colic was NOT happy this a.m. NBC wasn't calling Minnesota, but most others have.
Wake me when the next campaign starts...
......huh? snort....what do you mean we've already started?
I appreciate that gentle Dark Lord. Horse poop I can manage... It was the sniffing that really creeped us out.
That would be fun! Y'all are up here until the 4th? Sometime during the weekend after Thanksgiving would be good! Let me know what your schedule up here will be. We have nothing planned. Our #2 son isn't coming home for T'giving because he has three big projects due at the end of the semester, and he'll be coming on on Dec. 18th for Christmas anyway, just in time for the TTT premier!!!
Maybe we could convince Rosie to come to 'Deep South' NH, too!
I think the voters are gradually moving to the "French Tradition," that is the tradition of egalitarianism and socialism. I think they are starting to think socialism is an American tradition.
Wife and little one are doing well and taking their antibiotics. Jr. and his friends cleaned out the rest of the Halloween candy (I'm guessing 4-5 pounds of chocolate...and no we didn't say it was okay) yesterday since there was no school. Dog got his predinizone shot...
Life goes on. It's just a little more fun this a.m.
LOL! You're right, Sam. Some of it is a little overwrought with the upper middle class singers going on about how tough life is! But yes, some of the music is really good. We like Garnet Rogers, a Canadian, and brother of the late Stan Rogers. The man plays a MEAN fiddle, and has a lovely rich baritone. We've seen him twice in concert in Worcester.
The Folk Music show on WHYY in Philly is what introduced us to Celtic music, and that's the majority of what we consider 'folk' music that we really like. We went to a concert in the town next door once to see Tommy Makem. Tommy Sands (not the IRA terrorist with the same name) opened the show, and now he is a popular singer in his own right! But that concert was fun because we were there with a couple who had recently moved to the US from Ireland, and it turned out that the husband was from the same county as Tommy Makem! The two of them started talking after the show, and it was hilarious, because the more they talked the THICKER that brogue got and we could hardly understand them! We ended up going to the couples' apt. with the man who ran the folk club and Tommy Sands and sat up talking religion and politics til 5 in the morning! It was a fun night!
Sir SuziQ and I certainly DO NOT share the politics of most 'folkies'; I'm sure we'd get strange looks if we drove up to a folk club with our Bush/Cheney bumpersticker!
Doesn't Brother, Where art thou get into this a little. I've heard it's an OK movie.
It was a FUN movie! The music is Bluegrass/Old Timey, which is covered under the folk title when folk music radio shows are played. I've enjoyed Bluegrass since college, long before I ever started listening to 'folk shows', though I enjoyed folk music from the 'folk scare' of the 60s such as that done by Dylan, Baez, and Joni Mitchell to name the more popular folks.
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