37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-6-12”

  1. I shared a friend’s FB post last night:

    Obama is expected to take an early lead on election day…until the rest of us get off work.

    That is why I am going to vote first thing this morning. My ex-mother in law is a poll watcher today. She had to be there at 6:30 and cannot leave the building today until the polls close.

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  2. I Already voted
    There have been other elections that determined the unalterable direction of the country. This is one of them.
    But I’m afraid the direction has already been determined.
    I just want my grandkids to have a free America.

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  3. Is it justKim and me this morning? I hope everyone else is out at the polls.
    I’m in Pigeon Forge today. I haven’t seen many campaign bumper stickers this time around. Those I have seen here alre all “Mitt”.

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  5. I’m here; late due to voting. My polling place was busier than I’ve ever seen it. There were 21 people in line when I got there at 7:05. Another that I passed on the way to work had a line more than a block long outside the building.

    The man who voted right before me complained that Question 6 was not on his ballot. That is the referendum on same-sex marriage. I’m not sure why he waited until after he hit “cast ballot” to mention it – it would have been very obvious on the summary page that it was there or not and he could have shown the election official then. It would be quite interesting to find out that it was randomly missed on some ballots. It was on mine.

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  7. Our poll opened at 6AM. I got there at 6:20. There was a short line. After two ro three minutes, I got my turn. I was #28 (I think that includes some absentee voters). I showed my ID and the lady asked which ward I lived in. A lady at the other end of the table said “He lives in North.” It was my neighbor. Also at the judges’ table was the business lady form the small garage where I get my oil changed. Funny that she was an Obama supporter last time around. One of those “We never vote Republican” types. I wonder if she will change that this time around. The garage has two employees: she and her brother the mechanic. I wonder what the Obama economy has done for them?

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  8. We will go to vote when Lee gets home early this afternoon.

    Here’s what I posted on Facebook this morning…

    “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice & be glad in it!

    Also, let us exercise our right & privilege to vote today.

    And let us rejoice even if “our” candidate does not win. 🙂 “

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  10. My polling place is in the ballet school around the corner. That’s usually better than the neighborhood elementary or high school as parking is a bit easier. I could probably walk but I won’t, I’ll just stop there before heading into work.

    Quite the discussion at work late yesterday (2 liberal reporters and 1 fiscal, not necessarily social, conservative editor). They were really going at it over the polls & who’s going to win. I believe there’s a lunch wager between them now. 🙂

    This will be a day filled with tension, I’m sure. 😦 But also kind of exciting to finally get to the end of this story after all these months.

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  11. Peter, that’s why I like still going to my local polling place on election day. I find it kind of fun to see my neighbors and have that sense of community that you get while voting.

    It’s always something of an old-fashioned scene, right out of a Norman Rockwell (aka Chas) painting — despite all our 2012 fashions and electronic trappings.

    😉

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  13. Mumsee- We get a fine point marker so no one can erase a choice. If we make a mistake, we go to the judges who shred the ballot and give us a new one.

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  14. I threw up in my office again yesterday. I feel bad for the facilities people having to clean up after me, even though I manage to get it all in the trash can. I doubt that I’m sick (i.e. with something contagious), but they are prudent and wiped down my door and door handles with Virex, as well as all door handles in the area that I could have touched.

    I continue to get people asking if I could be pregnant, only half joking now. I’m pretty sure that if I were it would be ectopic, and I’d have more pains than just from nausea.

    I’ve never had problems with acid reflux before that I remember (except maybe late in pregnancy), but my husband used to all the time before his gastric bypass surgery, and he agreed that yes, acid reflux would give me the constant nausea as well as feeling unable to eat much. (I’ve lost about ten pounds so far, not a good way to lose weight. I don’t understand how my husband ever gained weight. I keep nibbling at stuff like saltines to absorb the acid, but I can’t eat very many.)

    I finally got an appointment with the doctor for late tomorrow morning. Now it’s just a matter of whether I can make it through the rest of the day at work today. (I’m a “squatter” at an unused desk in another office, since there’s some smell I can’t identify that makes me gag when I go to my own office. Previously I dismissed my co-worker’s concern that it might be a scent she wears, since most of the time I can sit or stand near her without a problem, but this morning when she brought me stuff from my office, I thought I smelled the whatever it is that makes me gag again. This is not good.)

    I’m pretty good at putting up with various kinds of pain, but this kind of discomfort is really getting to me. All I want to do is crawl into bed and sleep, not so much because I’m tired as because that’s the only time I don’t feel bad.

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  16. If I were guessing the outcome of this election only based on how those in this house are voting, I’d be discouraged.

    Lee & I are definitely voting Republican. I’m very sure Emily & Chrissy are both voting for the Democrats on the ballot. As for my upstairs tenants/friends, I think the 3 females (mom & 2 grown daughters) are voting for Democrats. The father, a far-right conservative, is voting for the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson.

    😦

    One of the points one of my friends makes about Romney…“I honestly do not understand how anybody could want to give Mitt Romney 50 states after the deplorable job he did with one.”

    And her friend responds, “The fact that he’s polling very poorly in Massachusetts speaks volumes.”

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  19. The pencils were still there. Shockingly, everybody knew us (and our children) though we do have to show our ID’s. And, when I handed in my ballot, the local pastor announced my name and that I had voted, and everybody cheered.

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  22. I made my token vote. It was easy breezy. The only Democrat on the ballot was Obama.
    It wasn’t busy at all. I suppose all that early voting period took care of the crowds normally there. I’d hate to be there this evening though.

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  23. I voted.

    But they moved our polling station again, but didn’t notify anyone. Ticks me off.

    Also, the miserable woman from Obama for America was giving the old ladies a hard time abut what she considered signs that were too small. She was complaining about other made up issues as well.

    🙄

    The lady in charge was on the phone with the county complaining about the OfA lady’s behavior.

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  24. Karen, I’m surrounded where work and live. 🙂 Some days, much of my FB feed consists of post after post about how stupid and evil Romney is and how wonderful Obama is. Onward!

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  25. Our family of three cast early votes for Romney. My brother went to the poll near his home north of Atlanta at 6:30 a.m. and was #14 in line. He said lots of people were there. A person in our office, a little south of Atlanta, went to the poll around 11:00 a.m. and was through in about 5 minutes with no crowd. The people I have encountered while out and about today have been seeming more friendly than usual. I think everyone is walking on eggshells not knowing who is going to be up and who is going to be down. It just seems like change is in the air. My brother heard that Rush had said he hoped the change would be seeing OPbama in the unemployment line. My brother has been unemplyed for almost a year now.

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  26. Of course that was suppose to be Obama. I don’t know how that P got in there. Personally, I really liked how that little girl who was in tears about the election called him Broco Bama.

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  27. I just got news that my friend and former pastor, Bob Jennings, is free at last. He was told 2 1/2 years ago that he had 6 months to live. Now he is free from cancer and all other earthly suffering.

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  28. A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

    To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

    In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

    (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

    Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

    Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

    Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

    To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

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    1. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour,’ ‘favour,’ ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise.’

    Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’).

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    2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ”like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English.

    We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u” and the elimination of ‘-ize.’

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    3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

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    4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent.

    Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.

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    5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

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    6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.

    Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

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    7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.

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    8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

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    9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager.

    South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth – see what it did for them.

    American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

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    10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters.

    Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.

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    11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer.

    Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

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    12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.

    You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

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    13.You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.

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    14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

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    15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.

    God Save the Queen!

    PS: Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!

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  29. Well, I voted a few weeks ago. Absentee ballots often aren’t counted except in a close election, but I needed to cast my “No more Obama” vote. Last time I voted at a polling place was for George W. in 2004. I drove 700 miles to cast my vote.

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  30. Tychicus:

    😀

    Our Bible study includes a British couple and an Aussie couple. Every week is an education. We learned last night that fluid measures in Britain (before they went metric) used the same words but weren’t the same amounts as American.

    An Imperial ounce is 4% smaller than an American ounce. An Imperial pint is 20 Imperial ounces, so significantly larger than an American pint. Imperial quarts and gallons are proportionately larger than American. So in America, 1 gallon = 3.785 liters, but in Britain, 1 gallon = 4.545 litres.

    I’m not sure I can get used to eating chocolate chip biscuits.

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  32. Ajisuun,

    Where did you hear that absentee ballots aren’t counted except in a close race? I never heard that. Here in California, I vote absentee in all elections just for convenience, and I voted on a number of propositions in addition to voting for president and other offices. My votes had better be counted!

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  33. Okay, I realize this is unofficial, but Bridal Cave in Missouri has predicted the outcome of the presidential correctly every time since 1968 (exceot for 2008). And this year? They predict a Romney landslide! We can only hope the tradition holds. As ana sside, Mrs L and I put our ticket stubs in the Roney bucket when we were there in October.

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  35. We voted this morning. No lines at all. My SIL had the page with our names ready to sign by the time we walked all the way up to the table. There was a whole page with just her and my BIL’s name and ours. We were able to vote and chit chat a bit. I seldom vote when I don’t know at least one of the election judges. This year I met a new one. Rural areas can be quite nice at times.

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