08:51 – We’ve been working hard lately, so today we’re going to take it easy. We do need to make up three dozen small parts bags for the chemistry kits, but other than that we’ll take the day off.
Barbara’s parents are now officially moved into their new home at the retirement village. Our PhonePower VoIP service is working fine. My to-do list is still overwhelming, of course, but at this point all of the really urgent stuff is done. Except that inventory on the chemistry kits is running low, and we’ll get that taken care of.
Was having a conversation with a family member about the to vote/not to vote issue via IM, and stumbled across a nearly decade-old lecture at MIT by Noam Chomsky. Although the piece is titled something else, he makes clear, that it is known through research (at MIT, among other places) that the electorate is quite well aware that voting will not make a difference, and significant numbers of people actually vote against their own interests, because they fully understand it will make no difference whatever on issues that actually ARE important to the electorate.
Thoroughly supports OFD’s position. The most relevant part is the second half.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeTbDdl7XiE
Here’s an odd one: not quite sure what to make of it. A 55-year-old guy is standing naked on his front porch. A girl in the neighborhood notices and tells her parents, who call the cops on him. “…he was standing approximately 10 feet away from his front door…and had ‘no reasonable expectation of privacy'”.
Apparently, he has been spotted unclothed before, though there is no indication that he was doing this to get any particular attention. In any case, this time he had the bad luck to be spotted by a child, which makes being naked on his porch into a felony.
Does this make sense?
Odd, I’ve tried twice to post the link to the story, but it isn’t being added to the comment thread. Just google for “Mark Stephen Lynn, 55”
Voting doesn’t change things, because we don’t get to vote for the people who should be changed. The bureaucracy! Americans have a third choice to vote for, which would begin some of the changes that are needed. Voting for Dumb and Dumber certainly no longer works. THAT I can agree with.
Not voting is much worse. Look at the human rights violations of countries where you can’t vote, or can only vote for the Party, and think about how quickly that could happen in the US, when correct thinking people stop voting. The TSA was only the beginning. When the US didn’t erupt in revolution over that, the Powers That Be knew they had a good chance of getting a death grip on a nation that has lost it’s heart and soul.
Vote Libertarian, and Vote often!