A day for lots of question marks, ALL CAPS and exclamation points!!!

Have you seen what's happening in Florida and Ohio?
The first election related federal lawsuit has already been filed! Yesterday! Okay, you expected that.  But have you seen what's happening in New York? It's out of control!  It's another perfect storm! And this time it's a deluge of electoral chaos and mayhem! 

 First post-Sandy staff meeting at work and it begins with a half dozen horror stories of voting chaos in NY and NJ!  The CEO of our company relates a "Who's on First" narrative about his attempt to vote at a polling site where the officials are UNAWARE of  the Governor's executive order to allow affadavit voting at any polling location statewide!  BECAUSE OF SANDY!  REMEMBER SANDY? They 're clueless.  Affadavit?  What affadavit?  Are you in the book?  You have to be in the book!  HOW CAN I BE IN THE BOOK if this isn't my district?  You need to be IN THE BOOK!  I have an affadavit!  What affadavit?  Couldn't WE SEE THIS COMING?  And how can voting technology still be stuck in a pre-digital age?  Hell, it's stuck in a pre-mechanical age!  Just about EVERY GROCERY STORE AND CANDY COUNTER in even the most humble and depressed area is equipped with 100% effective and foolproof UPC scanners and/or lottery ticket machines that never fail--and yet this morning, I'm USING A PEN TO MAKE MARKS ON A PIECE OF PAPER  that then must be scanned using technology that was OUT OF DATE 40 YEARS AGO when it was proven to be UNRELIABLE in the scoring of Grade School standardized tests!!!!

The news of multi-state electoral dysfunction is pouring in as I write this and I don't know if I can take much more of what I'm seeing at:  http://electionlawblog.org/

I'll spare you further blather from this blogger and let my betters have the floor...


“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

“The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.” 
― Andrew Vachss

“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.” 
― Grover Cleveland

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." 
--Emma Goldman 

"Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote."
--William Shirer

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do."
--Wendell Berry

“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”---Joseph Stalin

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
---Karl Rove

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W.C. Fields

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
---Robert Orben

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.” ― Jon Stewart

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” ― H.L. Mencken

Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs. 
-- Woody Allen

Voters in the  NorthEast are now looking at the 

Blue State/Red State thing in a whole new way 

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which is as good a reason as I've heard yet...

see ya at the polls. 

Whoa, almost forgot, and sorry, forgot last couple of posts...so here's a triple portion:

J is for:
jentacular		Pertaining to breakfast
jumentous		Smelling like horse urine
K is for:
knismesis		Light tickling
krukolibidinous		The act of staring at someone's crotch
kyphorrhinos		Having a nose with a bump in it
L is for:
lalochezia	The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain
lethologica	The inability to recall a precise word for something
liripip	The long tail of a hood in medieval or academic costume
lygerastia	The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out