let's just not vote next time...

[mnaz]

i mean it. no "democrat," no "republican"... the whole thing is pretty much gone...

we been had.

write in someone.

[Steve Plonk]

I urge you to vote the lesser of two or three evils. Ross Perot isn't running.
Ralph Nader is too old...
You'd just throw away the election to the 40% who DO vote for someone,
besides Donald Duck (Trump?). My vote is always going to go with the Democrats in a national election. I've seen what has happened in the past
with a republican president. Unless a viable third party emerges, it will STILL
be the Democrats and republicans who are running things. Get real.

So don't sit it out...VOTE DEMOCRATIC and get some of what we want...
I am not happy with gridlock and we need to win the House back to the
Democrats and keep the Senate Democratic. I think those who don't vote
have no right to complain. Fence sitting is ridiculous in view of what is
at stake during this next election. Do it for the next generation and go
vote for someone of your choice. A choice will emerge in just eleven short months regardless of what we do.

[still.trucking]

I will most likely vote, maybe just out of habit. But I feel that by not voting I am voting for Newt Gingrich or somebody like him.

A story that has disapeared down the memory hole that relates to your mentioning not a dime's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans. Back when Gingrich was running for congress in the late seventies I think there was a pay raise going through congress, the democratic incumbent that Gingrich was running against publically criticised the congressional pay raise and voted against it. The Democratic party pulled their support for the incumbent, gave him no funds in his reelection campaign, just boycotted the guy as punishment. The rest is HIStory as they say. Gingrich went on to win.

[mnaz]

some of today's headlines on alter-net:

---- "UN Envoy Speaks Out Against US Brutality Towards Occupy Protesters"

---- "Oakland Police Trained Alongside Bahrain Military and Israeli Forces Prior to Violent Occupy Oakland Raid"

---- "20 Ways the Obama Administration Has Intruded on Your Rights"

---- "5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride"

---- "6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street's "Secret Government"

---- "How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our Congress"

---- "5,000 Military Families Illegally Foreclosed On"

---- "The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System"

---- "After the Deficit Committee, There's a New Propaganda Push From the War Profiteers

---- "Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens on US Soil Still in Pentagon Spending Bill"

yeah.

"keep the faith"

i guess.

or not.

[tinkerjack]

It is enough to drive a man to drink. Not that I need a reason.


when my head gets so full of news I think about something kurt wrote.

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Who will cast the first stone...who of us walks as the crow flies eclipsing the light we follow the shadow stayed behind and now this holy shroud comforts me in the dark to one day awaken and know my own mind as it really is.....obscurity is my staff.......
Artguy 

I picked up a copy of Scientific American, about the future. It cheered me up. I suppose that is what keeps me going crumbs of hope
In the meantime it is Christmas, and people are stressed to the max with good cheer and credit cards.
pardon the ramble mnaz, these little text boxes on studio eigh is how with I deal with my faith or not situation.

looking at whimsical deb's banner
I wonder what she would say about it
Something positive I bet
Deb was always upbeat