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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 2, 2010 3:52:40 GMT -5
My absentee ballot still hasn't arrived. I don't know if I'll be able to vote in this election. I sent in the application with plenty of time to spare. If I can't vote because I didn't get the ballot in time, I'll be pissed. I always got my absentee ballot weeks in advance. It was kind of nice to be able to vote before the wargarble was finished. And then suddenly the person you voted for 2 weeks later is accused of a crime of some kind and found guilty JUST before election day. That's kind of a danger I see in voting weeks in advance. Of course, one could argue that could happen after the person is elected too. As for the Ireland thing, I was just poking fun at the Irish, as I do.
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Post by Vene on Nov 2, 2010 9:50:16 GMT -5
I always got my absentee ballot weeks in advance. It was kind of nice to be able to vote before the wargarble was finished. And then suddenly the person you voted for 2 weeks later is accused of a crime of some kind and found guilty JUST before election day. That's kind of a danger I see in voting weeks in advance. Of course, one could argue that could happen after the person is elected too. When is the last time that happened? Is this a realistic fear?
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Post by starseeker on Nov 2, 2010 10:22:04 GMT -5
I don't get it. Are the Irish trying to stop drinking so much and become a united country? Well apart from the fact it's a Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin thing... After the Irish war of Independence, the 5 counties of 'Northern Ireland' got sold up the river a little, and were not included in the Republic of Ireland. It's bagging the loyalists, albeit in a really fucking odd detached tangential way. A call for a united Ireland is to get the 5 counties to be included in the Republic of Ireland, and to end the troubles and discrimination and so forth, but this is trying to make out that the 'enemy' are illiterate white trash, the monarchy, industrialists, capitalists and rich twats. It's a bit like an army recruiting poster with someone with their foot on an arab head... That said - frankly there should be a united Ireland, and the colonialist oppression by Britain of Catholic Irish and systematic discrimination, even at the end of last century was nothing short of a disgrace and a travesty of justice and human rights. I thought it was 6 counties into Northern Ireland: Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan joined the Republic.
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Post by MaybeNever on Nov 2, 2010 14:03:56 GMT -5
And then suddenly the person you voted for 2 weeks later is accused of a crime of some kind and found guilty JUST before election day. That's kind of a danger I see in voting weeks in advance. Of course, one could argue that could happen after the person is elected too. When is the last time that happened? Is this a realistic fear? I'll bet it happens all the time in Soviet Russia!
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Post by Tiger on Nov 2, 2010 14:04:14 GMT -5
Whelp, it's election day and my mailbox is depressingly empty. Clearly this is a sign of a nation-wide conspiracy to deny liberals the chance to vote.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 2, 2010 14:24:06 GMT -5
And then suddenly the person you voted for 2 weeks later is accused of a crime of some kind and found guilty JUST before election day. That's kind of a danger I see in voting weeks in advance. Of course, one could argue that could happen after the person is elected too. When is the last time that happened? Is this a realistic fear? You never know. It -could- happen. but of course, I'm amazingly paranoid. Also, I voted today. Whoot. The moment I finished? ANOTHER POLITICAL AD.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 2, 2010 15:43:03 GMT -5
true that.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 2, 2010 15:44:02 GMT -5
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 5, 2010 1:01:38 GMT -5
Been a bit since I've posted some, hasn't it?
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 8, 2010 11:50:25 GMT -5
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 8, 2010 21:01:33 GMT -5
Can we make a new thread for this Ireland BS?
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 8, 2010 23:04:09 GMT -5
Can we make a new thread for this Ireland BS? Please do so.
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Post by Bluefinger on Nov 9, 2010 13:03:01 GMT -5
Can we make a new thread for this Ireland BS? Moved all the relevant posts to an appropriate thread (thanks mechtaur), and for reference, direct all further Ireland topic posts here.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 9, 2010 16:03:25 GMT -5
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Post by darthtoxic on Nov 9, 2010 17:35:46 GMT -5
Ya know, it's a good thing they made sure to tell us that's a pie.
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