Also good to know. Don't wear any buttons or shirts or anything indicating who you're voting for. Many states have electioneering rules, which in some cases can be used against people wearing shirts, buttons, hats, etc. bearing the name of their chosen candidate. If the polls in your state have deemed passive electioneering a violation, then it is ( Read more... )

Just as an FYI as we get closer to Nov. 4 -- please make sure that your voter registration and whatever ID you're going to use to vote match exactly. If they do not, it is likely your vote will be challenged, and you will have to vote with a provisional ballot, which will basically mean your vote will not be counted. This is especially important to ( Read more... )

Because I am an equal-opportunity denouncer of taking what should be polite disagreements in policy to an obscene level; this is also unacceptable.

Per Shakesville: Last month, a small group of McCain supporters were hanging out peacefully and distributing pamphlets at 51st and Lexington in Manhattan. For no apparent reason, a local Manhattanite ( Read more... )

I try and avoid politics on my LJ for the most part, simply because I have many friends I would prefer to not antagonize if I can avoid it, since we get along very well as long as politics doesn't come up. They are intelligent people, and even if I disagree with them, and they with me, we usually just "agree to disagree" and get on with our lives ( Read more... )

I'm finally able to come clean. :o) I have a new job ( Read more... )

From madlori.

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

MIB: You guessed wrong.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic ( Read more... )

And this one is pretty funny:

Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in ( Read more... )

Noah has learned how to smile. :o)


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Thankfully, Chinese milk powder is banned in the United States, but it is still very scary that babies are dying in China from baby formula contaminated with melamine, the same chemical the was responsible for the contaminated pet food last year.

It's times like these I'm very grateful that a) I don't have to feed my kid formula and b) that we have ( Read more... )

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