Let's start with the Quote of the Day, since it's been a few days since we've checked in with it...
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
-Douglas Adams
I love Douglas Adams, the man who gave us the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. (If you don't know the answer, I will kindly provide it to you, 42. Now if only we knew the question.)
On to other things, today, I participated in my civic duty and voted in the primary, taking advantage of Early Voting, which ends tomorrow. Make sure to go and vote today or tomorrow if you live in Texas. If you don't vote today or tomorrow, make sure to go on Tuesday and make your voice heard.
Remember, after the primary ends on Tuesday, the caucus begins. Go to your local precinct on Tuesday evening after 7:00pm for that. You are only eligable to participate in the caucus if you voted in the primary, however.
Tonight, I hope to get in to see Barack Obama in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas. If I get any good pictures, I will share them with you here. I tried to talk my sister into going and taking my niece wearing a "Change Me, Obama!" bib, but alas, she said that 8:00pm was way to late for the 8 month old to be out. My sister has no sense of history (and even less sense of direction, but that's another story completely). What can you do?
One more thing before I go, an old man at the early voting place made me laugh this morning. He raged about the "mean" volunteers not allowing him to vote in the Democratic primary for President and the Republican for everything else. They informed him (calmly, I thought, considering) that he could only vote in one or the other for the primaries, but not both. They noted that in the general election in November he could vote Democratic for President and Republican for everything else.
This was his response.
"I ain't voting for no Democrat in November!"
Ah, small town Texas, how fun you can be.
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well, josh man, it isn't just small-town texas. this from an article in today's new york times: "Past a thicket of candidate signs in the parking lot, Constable Ron Hickman, a Republican incumbent running for his third four-year term as a Harris County law enforcement official, appealed for votes and, too often, he said ruefully, explained the rules.
“They don’t understand why you can’t vote for someone on one ticket and then one on the other,” Mr. Hickman said.
Two of his supporters, in fact, had come to do just that. Jimmie Williams, 70, a retired oil company worker and an avid Republican, said, “I wanted to vote against Hillary so Obama would win so McCain would go against Obama and have an easier time.”
His buddy, J. B. Cain, 65, a retired computer programmer and also a Republican who said he had never voted early before, came with the same idea, although interjecting, “Lord help us if he couldn’t beat either one.”
Mr. Hickman explained that if they voted in the Democratic primary, they could not also vote for him as constable in the Republican primary because voters are handed either a Republican ballot or a Democratic one. Both men then dropped their plan to vote for Mr. Obama."
That is classic.
The best part is that they think McCain would have an easier time against Obama then against Clinton, when most pundits seem to think the exact opposite. Well, it's been so long since a Texas election mattered, we can't be blamed for some confusion be it in the small towns or the big ones.
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