Ken,
That's about my voting record too, except the off-year election I missed
I'd lived in the community for about a month and didn't feel like I knew
enough about the local issues yet.
90% is a number we should be shooting for, because with absentee ballots
and voting early, etc., there's just no excuse!
Kendall
An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
-----Original Message-----
From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: an interesting article...anti Bush anti Utah anti religion
very offensive consider deleting
well i knew that, but still more people should vote.
i'd not be satified with 90 %. i think i missed one
election since i was able to vote and it was an off
year. i'd just moved to georgia and there was not time
to get registered. i think the second night in
temporary quarters, i watched election results.
--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> The turn out for both the Republican and the
> Democratic parties in the
> last Presidential election was the highest it's been
> in my memory (40
> years). I'm older than that, but I just missed the
> '60 election (not
> born quite yet - missed it by three weeks), and not
> tall enough to turn
> on the TV in '64. As a matter of fact, Kerry would
> have had enough
> votes to win in '04 had the Republicans not also
> increased the
> percentage of their registered voters who actually
> voted.
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 1:20 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: an interesting article...anti Bush anti
> Utah anti religion
> very offensive consider deleting
>
> well, i do agree that more people need to vote. i'd
> not noticed either party advising people that it is
> better not to vote. but, i will look for that in the
> future.
>
> --- Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Whenever one party assumes control for a
> > long time there is
> > corruption. I am a life long Democrat and union
> > activist. I do not
> > understand poor people who are Republicans but
> that
> > is an aside. In Hawaii
> > the Democrats have had control for a long time and
> > there is corruption. In
> > Utah the Republicans have had control for a long
> > time and there is
> > corruption. Of the two types of corruption, I far
> > prefer the Democratic.
> > This disaster like all disasters of this
> > magnitude belongs in the
> > hands of the President but he is too busy whacking
> > golf balls and deciding
> > how best to steal all the worlds oil for his
> > friends. I don't like him or
> > his policies.
> > I work on child abuse issues and
> > specifically on the church child
> > abuse lawsuits. In Utah the Supreme Court decided
> > that a church, namely
> > Mormon, cannot be held responsible for its
> negligent
> > acts towards children.
> > I have watched the Supreme Court of Utah make
> wrong
> > decisions for over
> > twenty five years. It is sad. This is also the
> state
> > that allows, virtually
> > promotes by their indifference, white slavery and
> > the trafficking of young
> > girls in the name of religion, polygamy. Oh yes
> Utah
> > and the Mormons have
> > their public relations arm that claims they are
> not
> > responsible. That is a
> > lie. They started polygamy and have done nothing
> to
> > stop it even though it
> > was a requirement of statehood to do so.
> > It is quite upsetting to hear the Mormon
> > commercials claiming how
> > much they love children. They love them so much
> they
> > move perpetrators
> > around the country just like the Catholics and
> > rarely report child abuse.
> > These carefully crafted commercials simply appeal
> to
> > peoples fear of rapid
> > change and longing for an idealized past and are
> > gauged to find more tithe
> > payers. The Republican theme God is on our side
> also
> > disgusts me. I hope
> > the non voting Americans wake up soon from their
> fog
> > that voting does not
> > matter. It was also part of the Republican agenda
> to
> > control Congress to
> > disenfranchise voters by marketing the idea to the
> > baby boom generation
> > that not voting is the best policy since it's only
> a
> > choice of the lesser
> > of two evils. If more peopel voted Bush would have
> > lost and I think he did
> > lose anyhow but for the Diebold machines that
> > cpatured the phony vote for
> > him. I am very disappointed in every American who
> > does not vote as the
> > mandate in this country would certainly change if
> > people started voting
> > again. Oh yes and then we have to count them all.
> > Whew! ! End of tirade.
> > Back to gardening.
> >
> > Linda
> >
> > At 06:54 AM 9/16/2005, you wrote:
> > >oh, okay. let's see, what party has been in
> control
> > of
> > >the State of La for 40-60 years? which party has
> > been
> > >in control of the city of New Orleans for 40-60
> > years?
> > >so who allowed the situtation to exist even
> though
> > we
> > >have spent more than 6 trillion dollars on the
> "WAR
> > ON
> > >POVERTY."? i think we need and exit stategy. we
> > need a
> > >time table to get out of this war. we have lost
> the
> > >war. New Orleans showed this war lost.
> > >
> > > the party starts with a "D."
> > >
> > >--- Mike Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't know if I agree with this
> > wholeheartedly.
> > > > Just another post to get
> > > > y'all talking...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Judge Roberts, Hurricane Katrina and Americans
> > with
> > > > Disabilities
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Building a Supreme Court to Excuse Our
> Nation's
> > > > Neglect of the Poor and
> > > > Disenfranchised
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > By Jim Ward, Founder and President
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ADA Watch/National Coalition for Disability
> > Rights
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > New Orleans is America's canary in the
> > mineshaft.
> > > > Ideologies of
> > > > privatization that incapacitate effective
> > government
> > > > -permitting the
> > > > privileged to save themselves while leaving
> the
> > poor
> > > > clinging to roofs -must
> > > > now be challenged. This disaster is a chilling
>
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