silence in class

[Otto]

This is so good after a 12 hours nightshift!

Otto

Michael Bailey wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Rcfchess at aol.com <Rcfchess at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>I'm afraid it's about as much of a joke as is the fact that people voted for
>>Bush...which ain't funny.
>>
> 
> 
> There were a number of irregularities in 2004 as well as 2000.  Exit
> polls were probably more accurate than the machinery.  Many counties
> recorded a larger number of Bush votes than total voter turnout. 
> Republican funding of "voter drive" groups which threw out Democratic
> registrations, disparities in numbers of machines supplied to R vs D
> districts, bureaucratic hurdles of all kinds; and, gracious sakes -
> who with a reasonable expectation of fairness'd believe that it's even
> legal for a state official in charge of voting to also be involved in
> a candidate's campaign?  Bush league stuff but historically, pretty
> common everywhere
> 
> Anecdote I found on one skeptic site: an oldtimer in the voting
> machine sales game says the buyers always had 2 questions: how much
> kickback, and how to change the totals...ie, it was ever thus
> 
> So I doubt Bush got as many votes as his flacks claim.  But you do see
> those W stickers on cars, so some people must groove to his
> music...hard to imagine...
> 
> from a joke list:
> These people vote
> 
> 
> Guy bought a new fridge for his house.   To get rid of his old fridge,
> he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: "Free to good
> home. You want it, you take it".
> 
> For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking
> twice at it.   He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting
> of this deal. It  looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to
> read:  "Fridge for sale  $50". The next day someone stole it.
> 
> Caution! These people Vote
> 
> 
> While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which
> direction was North because, he explained, he didn't want the sun
> waking him up every morning.   She asked, "Does the sun rise in the North?"
> When my brother explained that the sun rises in the East, (and has for
> sometime), she shook her head and said, "Oh, I  don't keep up with that
> stuff"...
> 
> She ALSO votes!
> 
> 
> I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center.   One day I
> got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was
> open. I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days
> a week." He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?" Wanting to
> end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Pacific"
> 
> He ALSO votes!
> 
>  My sister has a life saving tool in her car It's designed to cut
> through a seat belt if she gets trapped.   She keeps it in the trunk. ..
> 
> My sister ALSO votes!
> 
> 
> 
> I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring
> attached to an earring by a chain.   My friend said, "Wouldn't the
> chain rip out every time she turned her head?" I explained that a person's
> nose and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the
> head is turned...
> 
> My friend ALSO votes!
> 
> 
> I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area.   So I went to
> the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never
> showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a
> trained professional and I was in good hands. "Now," she asked me, "has your
> plane arrived yet?". .
> 
> SHE ALSO votes!
> 
> --
> "After such knowledge, what redemption?" - Thomas Stearns Eliot
> 
> 

	

	
		
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