November 8, 2006

  • so... today was election day.  i helped staff the polling station today at seminary > we were electing our Community Council President.  it was exciting since it was all women who were running!  it turns out that we will have to hold a run-off election next week since no one got the required majority of 50% + 1 ...

    one of the things that i consider my duty on election day is to make sure that every woman i see on that day is urged to vote.  in the United States, women have only been allowed to vote since 1920; my grandmother was 13 when women's suffrage succeeded in winning that right.  it's even harder to believe that in the Episcopal Church, women have only had a voice at General Convention since 1973 > Gen Con is when we conduct the business of the national Church, including selecting our Presiding Bishop (the head primate of the Episcopal Church, our equivalent to an archbishop) who was just installed last saturday.  she is a woman, the first woman to hold that position in the Episcopal Church, and the first woman to hold that rank in all of the Anglican Communion.

    so i had several of my female friend accuse me of nagging them into voting.  too bad. too sad.  people died in my lifetime helping to secure the ability of our black brothers and sisters to vote, so i'm not going to take this right and duty lightly, nor will i allow my friends to...

    and i am excited that the democrats have done so well this night... i only hope that they will be able to protect the poor and needy, and honor and respect the dignity of every human being.  i hope they will be able to combat the culture of corporate greed, and address the vast amounts of need.

    only time will tell.

     

Comments (10)

  • as for the history, I was talking about the fact that, if a king marries, his spouse is a queen; but if a queen marries, her spouse is a prince.  I rest my case.

    Anyway, it's not as if I actually care.

  • So do you think that one should vote, even if they know nothing about the issues or the candidates, just because voting is a good thing?

  • Oh, it's not that you should never assume. It's just that it's a fallacious assumption to do so, because so many voters are totally uninformed. Only 30% or so of the US electorate votes; and only about 30% of the US electorate is actually considered sufficently competent to do so (and I'd be surprised if that number wasn't high.) They just have no absolutely no idea what the hell's going on.

    Obviously the above is only an example, but it's an important one. Remember that most people simply do not care, and even when you do get them to vote, you have a North Korea like situation- where 90+% of people vote... but have no idea what they're voting for and simply don't care. They just vote like they're told.

  • RYC: Ah, but as I like to point out often and frequently, there are no democracies left in the western world. There are plenty of Constitutional Monarchies (England, Canada, Australia, Japan), plenty of republics (France, Germany, the United States), plenty of totalitarian states or absolute monarchies (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia (sort of), North Korea, etc)... but no democracies. The Democracy died out in Ancient Greece.

    Re Operas: It depends. I loved La Boheme when it was put on here, but the once I think I most enjoyed in recent times was... um... an adaption of Margret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale". Wagner, I disliked too much to talk about. The staging was awful and the music is horribly atonal to my ear.

  • God bless you and your zeal.   THe crazy belief that mankind is essentially good, True community can come....we can see peace and true love in our lifetime.  WHy on earth do we continue to believe these things!  I think this in itself can be an evidence for God because certainly we can find so much to dispute this.  I urge all to vote as well

    YOu are great!  thanks!

  • ryc: there's a link on his page and on mine: a few entries back i posted the link to paypal, where you can donate i think using your credit card and/or debit card. :heartbeat:

  • RYC---i forgot that potholes really qualify as inverted speed bumps...---a friend of mine got a brand new car when she graduated college in DC, and returning home after four years, she obviously forgot how to drive in the city...as soon as she crossed the GWB she hit a pothole and completely demolished her front end suspension:eek:

    What, it's been about FORTY YEARS since Black folk been allowed to universally vote in this cuntry

    Besides seeing Bobby Kennedy and MLK get wasted on television, Bull Connors and his ilk were daily television fare, along with Viet Nam [as it was then spelt].  Seeing kids my age getting hosed down and attacked by dogs made me QUITE the voter when i came of age---i even go to the off-year elections when the only thing on the ballot is street cleaner commissioner and parking lot councilman:lol:

    i think the REAL REASON behind 9/11, if it wasn't a Reichstag fire, was that the rest of the world saw GW STEAL the election and NOTHING HAPPENED:mad:

    IF that had happened in Jamaica, where i spent my formative years, the ensuing bloodshed would have been of Civil War proportions...MOST of the world takes voting SERIOUSLY...maybe Amerikkka is finally waking up???

  • ryc: Thanks for helping me out with that last question. The average age was 16.5.....
    So, I'd say the right age to begin dating would be 17. And, yes I do have a prospect in mind. I an wait until my fifteenth birthday though. :wink:

  • bien, la politique behing tout me maintenant, mais vous bénit pour
    obtenir impliquée

  • Guess you already know...today is a SALE day:wha:

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