I'm both pro-choice and anti-abortion. I'm against abortion, but your abortion isn't my business unless I'm the fetus' father.
Whay is it just the WOMAN'S choice? She has a plethora or birth control choices, while a man has only abstinance, surgery, or a device that lessens the pleasure of sex.
If she lies and says she's on birth control and gets pregnant, YOU pay child support. If she wasnt's an abortion, she gets an abortion even if you wan the child.
I wish mine were smaller! There are no advantages whatever to having a big dick, and quite a few disadvantages.
It's really gross sitting on the toilet and having it hang into the water. Some toilets were obviously designed either by women or by men with small penises. It's hard ti shit whan you have to be careful keeping your dick dry.
A big cock is harder it get in, especially if she's got an extra tight vagina. If she's got a really tight pussy it's likely to be uncomfortable for both. As Mojo Nixon put in in Tie My Pecker To My Leg, "I need a woman that's six feet ten, she gotta be that tall so's I can get it all in". Some women not only have tight ones, but you hit her back wall.
My ex-wife had an IUD, and the damned thing poked me in the dick.
Since it takes more blood to tumesce, erectile dysfunction is more likely.
You can't wear cutoffs or it's likely to hang out the leg of your shorts. This can be embarrassing.
You can never get good head, not even from a toothless woman.
And it's not going to get you laid. She's not going to know you have a big dick unless another woman's told her you do. And even then, technique counts for much more than size.
The only advantage to having a big dick is you don't have to buy an SUV or a Harley.
If you want to work any longer than you have to, you either have a really, really great job or a really, really unfufilling life. I like my job, but I absolutely HATE that alarm clock. I hate having to go to bed early because the alarm clock is going off in the morning. I hate the lack of freedom working imposes.
My dad's been retired for fifteen years or more, he says he's so busy he doesn't know how he ever found time to work.
Healthy enough to work? I hope I'm healthy enough to spend my days and nights having fun and enjoying my freedom! I'm eligible for retirement in three years, but I won't be able to afford it for another ten.
Luckily? I'd say we're lucky it isn't a common occurrance! It's also lucky that you can't go faster than the speed of light and that stars are so far away from each other.
Look what happened to the natives when Europeans discovered Australia and the Americas. What do you think will happen if an alien species smart enough to travel between the stars discovers us?
If we do in fact have the only solar system un the galaxy capable of creating/sustaining life, THAT would be lucky. Running across an intelligence that could travel between the stars would be very, very unlucky.
Did you also know that the primary reason there is solid carbon dioxide on Mars is the density of the atmosphere, and not the distance to the sun?
Did you also know that if your mommy was any uglier, or your daddy wasn't drunk, you wouldn't exist? It's true! The existence of life is contingent on many factors.
Terry Bisson wrote a short story called They're made out of Meat that I found amusing.
Someone at slashdot pointed me to it once. It is about your very premise.
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
And you'll need to stop confusing climatologists with meteorologists.
I'be always wondered, why do they call them meteorologists when they don't study meteors? Do they call people who study asteroids and comets "weatherologists"?
In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, our solar system was special. In it, humans were the only sentient life forms in the galaxy. It had a "scientist" (who only did book research) discussing the "owigin question" of where humanity started ("...some say sol, oah Alpha Centuri...").
In (IIRC, it's been a while since I read the books) Foundation's edge the story had Earth, where humanity started, a radioactive wasteland, and it was revealed that having two gas giants in the center orbits and our giant moon were responsible for our uniqueness and for the creation of life.
He coined the word "robotics" and kinda sorta foretold the internet with his "multivac".
Skin color and ethnicity should matter in an election
You say that as if it is a self-evident truth, but I'm afraid I must vehemently disagree with you. Why do you believe that? You would rather have an incompetent black woman than a competent white man? Or vice versa? That defies logic! We have all races and ethnicities here, and the President must represent us all, black; white; brown; green; whatever.
Your definition of "African-American" is illogical as well. I personally think that term is incredibly stupid. I worked with a TRUE African American - he was born in Nigeria, emmigrated to the US, took the test and became an American citizen. He's black, but if he were white he would still be an African-American.
Meanwhile you have a free black who immigrated from Britain before the US Revolution, but his American descendants are African American because... because nobody knows the man wasn't a slave?
Thankfully, for today's generation and the ones to follow, the cultural differences are becoming more about economic differences rather than differences in skin tone and whether your ancestors were property
Racism is a tool of the rich to keep the rest of us at each others' throats. If race has meaning to you, and you are not a rich man, you are a tool, fool.
In addition to that, she's also pretty rabidly pro-life.
You mean she's against the death penalty? So am I!
Or do you mean anti-abortion? 'Snot the same thing.
"Pro Choice" nitwits are just as bad, if they're "pro choice" they're for legalizing drugs. Why is it a woman's right to remove a fetus, but not to add a drug?
there is a subset of us Christians who came to faith because it made sense
There is another subset who came to faith by being baptized in blood. Some people won't accept witness or any other proof.
We tend to be ashamed of the Christians that are most often portrayed in the media.
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the slashdot athiests combined. He is one of the "wolves in sheep's clothing" Christ warned you about; so is Bush. They worship not God, but mammon. Their church is the bank and their priest is the economist. These people believe that priceless==worthless. Beware of them.
I don't have any allusions that ether one of them have a chance in hell against Tweedledee or Tweedledumbass though
It doesn't matter anyway. They feed us this "you are wasting your vote on a loser" BS, well, if that's the case everybody should vote for McCain, since he's going to win anyway. I'd rather "waste" my vote on a losing candidate than vote for a man who would like to see me in prison.
My then-wife went to the store right down the street from our apartment in Orlando and couldn't buy cigarettes. I had to go in and get los cigarillos, porque mi espousa no habla Espanol.
If you abstain you are seen as apathetic, and painted as such by the corporate media. I vote "none of the above" by picking Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Party candidates.
All five parties are on my ballot this year! Hooray!
"I'm voting fro the black candidate!"
"You're voting Obama?"
"No, I'm voting McKinney! Who are you voting for?"
Well, lets see, I'm against the DMCA, the Republicans are for it. So are the Democrats.
I'm against the Bono "perpetual copyright" act. Both wings of teh Repubolicrat Party are for it.
PATRIOT Act? FISA? All these laws were passed with almost unanimous votes in the House and Senate, yet none of them do the citizen any good and I daresay any citizen who knows about them is against them as well.
Voters aren't apathetic; it's just that there us no real choice. I vote, but I don't blame the ones who don't.
Insightful my ass, the comment was a troll and if I see it metamoderating somebody will not get mod points for a while. The parent post is filled with inflamitory rhetoric and redundant language. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican; I have split my ballot since I first voted in 1972 when I voted for Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon, as I imagine most people with at least average intelligence do. This election I'll probably vote Barr (L) or Baldwin (C).
Just keep explaining how morally superior Democrats are...and how they need to soak those rich who make over $60K...
Nobody, not even Democrats, want to "soak the rich". What peple want is for the rich to pay their fair share. Personally, I don't mind welfare for the poor, but in the US it's the rich (and I'm not talking about people making $60k) that get welfare.
67% of corporations operating in the US pay no taxes at all. The Republicans want to cut taxes for the rich even more!
Food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit aren't subsidizing poor people. In America, the poor work for an almost living. They aren't the recipients of food stamps; their greedy, selfish, heartless employers who won't pay a living wage are. If not for food stamps, these people couldn't afford to work for McDonalds or WalMart. The same goes for the Earned Income credit. If any of your employees are getting food stamps or the tax credit, you are the one on the government's teat, not the poor slob you're exploiting.
and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more
If you're talking about the oil companies, HELL YES!!! Their profits are obscene and they are strangling the American economy. When the oil baron took office in 2000, gasoline cost 1/4 what it does today.
The rich benefit most from government policies, they should pay the most in taxes, both in whole numbers and percentages of income.
When tax breaks are handed out to "help the economy" they should go to the middle class, or even better yet the poor. Wealth doesn't "trickle down", it flows up. Wealth is created on the factory floor, the programmer's cube, the fry cook's grill, not in the boardroom. The poor and middle class create wealth, the rich merely aggregate and control it.
The rich, by definition, don't have to count their pennies. The poor (and lower middle class) live paycheck to paycheck. Give them cash and it will go right into the economy. Give it to the rich and it's going straight into the bank; it will be invested. It wil gain them more money, but that money will NOT help the country.
and how evil those corporations are,
Yes, they are. Union Carbide killed thousands in Bhopal, India. Purina killed my grandfather because they were too cheap to put doors on an elevator. Tyson Chicken burned dozens of Mexicans alive in Georgia because the fire doors were chained shut for fear they would steal chicken parts. I journaled yesterday about a corporation who is killing babies for profit. I'm not talking about fetuses; these are formerly crying, eating, shitting, living infants who were stangled by a poorly designed crib that the corporation deemed too expensive to fix.
Yes, evil. Putting profits before human life is evil.
and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more
Why wasn't that trollish comment modded redundant?
and how much we need union bosses and hip Democrats to make our spending decisions for us
The bosses aren't in the unuon, dufus, they're in management. Where did the phrase "union bosses" come from, anyway? My union makes no decisions for me; I and my fellow employees collectively bargain with my employer, and when the union and management agree on a contract, I and my fellow members vote on it. If we vote "no" the union and management bargain some more.
We're getting some new voting machines this election (they're being rented) and if the newspaper is to be believed, these machines will actually be trustworthy.
They're doing it as I've advocated for years.
Sangamon County had to obtain new voting machines after the State Board of Elections ruled the county couldn't use the more than 900 machines it purchased for $2.7 million three years ago.
The board said the company that made the machines, Populex Corp. of Elgin, had not completed all the required testing.
County officials say they prefer to rent equipment for this election because the state is likely to adopt new standards for voting machines, and the county does not want to be stuck with even more machines that might not be certified under the new rules.
<snip>
Compared to the Populex machines, the rental equipment is fairly simple. Voters will mark paper ballots with a pen or pencil, and those ballots will be fed into a scanner. Voters who miss a race or over-vote will be alerted by the machines and given the option of changing their ballots.
Simple design == elegant design. I wish some of you guys (especially you mechanical engineers and software coders) would learn that.
There was a really extreme campaign in Florida where Republicans discouraged blacks, Hispanics, and other traditionally Democratic voters from going to the polls
I lived in Florida for five years. There are so many Hispanics there that there are places there you can't buy a pack of cigarettes without knowing how to speak Spanish. However, the Hispanic population is so Republican I doubt seriously you could find a hundred Hispanic Democrats in the whole state. If the Republicans were asking "proof of citizenship" in Floride, they would have shot themselves in the foot.
Methinks they understand Florida quite a bit better than you do.
As to the question "What non-obvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the Democrats win in November?" I'd like to know why the submitter thinks that nerds as a whole will be voting Democrat?
I've split my vote on every election, as I imagine most of my fellow nerds do, since by definition nerds are too smart to fall for partisan politics.
This election on the one hand you have a doddering old fool who supports the current clusterfuck of an administration. On the other hand you have a wholly inexperienced political hack from the most corrupt city in the nation, in the most corrupt state in the Union (mine). Here in Illinois we're so patriotic even being dead doen't keep us from voting. Our last Governor is in Prison, our current governor may be there next because of his ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, who Obama has ties to as well (the Rezko sleazeball has ties to politicians of both Democrat and Republican arms of the Corporate Party).
I'll be voting "none of the above" (Libertarian, Green, or Constitution) this election, as I can't bring myself to vote for a candidate who is beholden to nobody but the corporations again. The DMCA, Bono Act, FISA, PATRIOT act, all were voted in with almost 100% vote from both arms of the Corporate Party. Why should I vote for a person or party who almost always votes against my interest on bills? A pox on both their houses.
If you consider yourself a Democrat or a Republican, I don't think you're smart enough to be a nerd. Sorry, that's my opinion. Real nerds don't fall for Jedi mind tricks.
Whoever wins, I fear that the present Preseident has fuX0red things up so badly that if you vote for the winner, you vote for Herbert Hoover.
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I'm both pro-choice and anti-abortion. I'm against abortion, but your abortion isn't my business unless I'm the fetus' father.
Whay is it just the WOMAN'S choice? She has a plethora or birth control choices, while a man has only abstinance, surgery, or a device that lessens the pleasure of sex.
If she lies and says she's on birth control and gets pregnant, YOU pay child support. If she wasnt's an abortion, she gets an abortion even if you wan the child.
Men have no choices, why?
I wish mine were smaller! There are no advantages whatever to having a big dick, and quite a few disadvantages.
It's really gross sitting on the toilet and having it hang into the water. Some toilets were obviously designed either by women or by men with small penises. It's hard ti shit whan you have to be careful keeping your dick dry.
A big cock is harder it get in, especially if she's got an extra tight vagina. If she's got a really tight pussy it's likely to be uncomfortable for both. As Mojo Nixon put in in Tie My Pecker To My Leg, "I need a woman that's six feet ten, she gotta be that tall so's I can get it all in". Some women not only have tight ones, but you hit her back wall.
My ex-wife had an IUD, and the damned thing poked me in the dick.
Since it takes more blood to tumesce, erectile dysfunction is more likely.
You can't wear cutoffs or it's likely to hang out the leg of your shorts. This can be embarrassing.
You can never get good head, not even from a toothless woman.
And it's not going to get you laid. She's not going to know you have a big dick unless another woman's told her you do. And even then, technique counts for much more than size.
The only advantage to having a big dick is you don't have to buy an SUV or a Harley.
If you want to work any longer than you have to, you either have a really, really great job or a really, really unfufilling life. I like my job, but I absolutely HATE that alarm clock. I hate having to go to bed early because the alarm clock is going off in the morning. I hate the lack of freedom working imposes.
My dad's been retired for fifteen years or more, he says he's so busy he doesn't know how he ever found time to work.
Healthy enough to work? I hope I'm healthy enough to spend my days and nights having fun and enjoying my freedom! I'm eligible for retirement in three years, but I won't be able to afford it for another ten.
Lets say... zero.
Nonsense! All you need is an Infinite Improbability Drive and you'll find lots of planets like that.
In a bar fight, you can only win at ASDF keyboard battles
I think Arthur proved you wrong when he got in that fight with Thor. "Want to step outside?"
Luckily? I'd say we're lucky it isn't a common occurrance! It's also lucky that you can't go faster than the speed of light and that stars are so far away from each other.
Look what happened to the natives when Europeans discovered Australia and the Americas. What do you think will happen if an alien species smart enough to travel between the stars discovers us?
If we do in fact have the only solar system un the galaxy capable of creating/sustaining life, THAT would be lucky. Running across an intelligence that could travel between the stars would be very, very unlucky.
You didn't supply links, here you go.
Did you also know that the primary reason there is solid carbon dioxide on Mars is the density of the atmosphere, and not the distance to the sun?
Did you also know that if your mommy was any uglier, or your daddy wasn't drunk, you wouldn't exist? It's true! The existence of life is contingent on many factors.
Terry Bisson wrote a short story called They're made out of Meat that I found amusing.
Someone at slashdot pointed me to it once. It is about your very premise.
And you'll need to stop confusing climatologists with meteorologists.
I'be always wondered, why do they call them meteorologists when they don't study meteors? Do they call people who study asteroids and comets "weatherologists"?
In Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, our solar system was special. In it, humans were the only sentient life forms in the galaxy. It had a "scientist" (who only did book research) discussing the "owigin question" of where humanity started ("...some say sol, oah Alpha Centuri...").
In (IIRC, it's been a while since I read the books) Foundation's edge the story had Earth, where humanity started, a radioactive wasteland, and it was revealed that having two gas giants in the center orbits and our giant moon were responsible for our uniqueness and for the creation of life.
He coined the word "robotics" and kinda sorta foretold the internet with his "multivac".
So, YOU MOMMA! Don't dis the late doctor A!
Skin color and ethnicity should matter in an election
You say that as if it is a self-evident truth, but I'm afraid I must vehemently disagree with you. Why do you believe that? You would rather have an incompetent black woman than a competent white man? Or vice versa? That defies logic! We have all races and ethnicities here, and the President must represent us all, black; white; brown; green; whatever.
Your definition of "African-American" is illogical as well. I personally think that term is incredibly stupid. I worked with a TRUE African American - he was born in Nigeria, emmigrated to the US, took the test and became an American citizen. He's black, but if he were white he would still be an African-American.
Meanwhile you have a free black who immigrated from Britain before the US Revolution, but his American descendants are African American because... because nobody knows the man wasn't a slave?
Thankfully, for today's generation and the ones to follow, the cultural differences are becoming more about economic differences rather than differences in skin tone and whether your ancestors were property
Racism is a tool of the rich to keep the rest of us at each others' throats. If race has meaning to you, and you are not a rich man, you are a tool, fool.
In addition to that, she's also pretty rabidly pro-life.
You mean she's against the death penalty? So am I!
Or do you mean anti-abortion? 'Snot the same thing.
"Pro Choice" nitwits are just as bad, if they're "pro choice" they're for legalizing drugs. Why is it a woman's right to remove a fetus, but not to add a drug?
Both sides of the abortion debate are wrong.
I think I'd make a piss-poor President. Maybe not as bad as Bush, but pretty bad.
It was almost thirty years ago, between 1980 and 1985. I don't remember the street name nor store name.
I try not to respond to trolls/flamebait but I'll make an exception in your case. As to "make myself look important", lay off the crack pipe, son.
While you're at it, why don't you take a ball peen hammer to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel since it contains religious thought.
Sadly, there are those here who would do just that. Fanaticism knows no bounds. There are religious fanatics even among the fanatical athiests.
there is a subset of us Christians who came to faith because it made sense
There is another subset who came to faith by being baptized in blood. Some people won't accept witness or any other proof.
We tend to be ashamed of the Christians that are most often portrayed in the media.
Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the slashdot athiests combined. He is one of the "wolves in sheep's clothing" Christ warned you about; so is Bush. They worship not God, but mammon. Their church is the bank and their priest is the economist. These people believe that priceless==worthless. Beware of them.
So now are we going to get a bunch of jokes on how it takes 2 years to have good 'fakes' made?
I welcome the jokes; humor and laughter is the only thing unique to our species.
As a Rational Christian, I am excited about this material being released
As am I, but it will be as enlightening to me as watching "Passion of the Christ" with subtitles turned off.
I don't have any allusions that ether one of them have a chance in hell against Tweedledee or Tweedledumbass though
It doesn't matter anyway. They feed us this "you are wasting your vote on a loser" BS, well, if that's the case everybody should vote for McCain, since he's going to win anyway. I'd rather "waste" my vote on a losing candidate than vote for a man who would like to see me in prison.
Not me! No way, man, I don't want the job!
My then-wife went to the store right down the street from our apartment in Orlando and couldn't buy cigarettes. I had to go in and get los cigarillos, porque mi espousa no habla Espanol.
I agree with you, nobody should hit anybody.
If you abstain you are seen as apathetic, and painted as such by the corporate media. I vote "none of the above" by picking Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Party candidates.
All five parties are on my ballot this year! Hooray!
"I'm voting fro the black candidate!"
"You're voting Obama?"
"No, I'm voting McKinney! Who are you voting for?"
"The Republican."
"McCain?"
"No, Bob Barr, he's a Libertarian this year!"
Well, lets see, I'm against the DMCA, the Republicans are for it. So are the Democrats.
I'm against the Bono "perpetual copyright" act. Both wings of teh Repubolicrat Party are for it.
PATRIOT Act? FISA? All these laws were passed with almost unanimous votes in the House and Senate, yet none of them do the citizen any good and I daresay any citizen who knows about them is against them as well.
Voters aren't apathetic; it's just that there us no real choice. I vote, but I don't blame the ones who don't.
Insightful my ass, the comment was a troll and if I see it metamoderating somebody will not get mod points for a while. The parent post is filled with inflamitory rhetoric and redundant language. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican; I have split my ballot since I first voted in 1972 when I voted for Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon, as I imagine most people with at least average intelligence do. This election I'll probably vote Barr (L) or Baldwin (C).
Just keep explaining how morally superior Democrats are...and how they need to soak those rich who make over $60K...
Nobody, not even Democrats, want to "soak the rich". What peple want is for the rich to pay their fair share. Personally, I don't mind welfare for the poor, but in the US it's the rich (and I'm not talking about people making $60k) that get welfare.
67% of corporations operating in the US pay no taxes at all. The Republicans want to cut taxes for the rich even more!
Food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit aren't subsidizing poor people. In America, the poor work for an almost living. They aren't the recipients of food stamps; their greedy, selfish, heartless employers who won't pay a living wage are. If not for food stamps, these people couldn't afford to work for McDonalds or WalMart. The same goes for the Earned Income credit. If any of your employees are getting food stamps or the tax credit, you are the one on the government's teat, not the poor slob you're exploiting.
and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more
If you're talking about the oil companies, HELL YES!!! Their profits are obscene and they are strangling the American economy. When the oil baron took office in 2000, gasoline cost 1/4 what it does today.
The rich benefit most from government policies, they should pay the most in taxes, both in whole numbers and percentages of income.
When tax breaks are handed out to "help the economy" they should go to the middle class, or even better yet the poor. Wealth doesn't "trickle down", it flows up. Wealth is created on the factory floor, the programmer's cube, the fry cook's grill, not in the boardroom. The poor and middle class create wealth, the rich merely aggregate and control it.
The rich, by definition, don't have to count their pennies. The poor (and lower middle class) live paycheck to paycheck. Give them cash and it will go right into the economy. Give it to the rich and it's going straight into the bank; it will be invested. It wil gain them more money, but that money will NOT help the country.
and how evil those corporations are,
Yes, they are. Union Carbide killed thousands in Bhopal, India. Purina killed my grandfather because they were too cheap to put doors on an elevator. Tyson Chicken burned dozens of Mexicans alive in Georgia because the fire doors were chained shut for fear they would steal chicken parts. I journaled yesterday about a corporation who is killing babies for profit. I'm not talking about fetuses; these are formerly crying, eating, shitting, living infants who were stangled by a poorly designed crib that the corporation deemed too expensive to fix.
Yes, evil. Putting profits before human life is evil.
and how their obscene profits need to be taxed more
Why wasn't that trollish comment modded redundant?
and how much we need union bosses and hip Democrats to make our spending decisions for us
The bosses aren't in the unuon, dufus, they're in management. Where did the phrase "union bosses" come from, anyway? My union makes no decisions for me; I and my fellow employees collectively bargain with my employer, and when the union and management agree on a contract, I and my fellow members vote on it. If we vote "no" the union and management bargain some more.
We're getting some new voting machines this election (they're being rented) and if the newspaper is to be believed, these machines will actually be trustworthy.
They're doing it as I've advocated for years.
Simple design == elegant design. I wish some of you guys (especially you mechanical engineers and software coders) would learn that.
There was a really extreme campaign in Florida where Republicans discouraged blacks, Hispanics, and other traditionally Democratic voters from going to the polls
I lived in Florida for five years. There are so many Hispanics there that there are places there you can't buy a pack of cigarettes without knowing how to speak Spanish. However, the Hispanic population is so Republican I doubt seriously you could find a hundred Hispanic Democrats in the whole state. If the Republicans were asking "proof of citizenship" in Floride, they would have shot themselves in the foot.
Methinks they understand Florida quite a bit better than you do.
As to the question "What non-obvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the Democrats win in November?" I'd like to know why the submitter thinks that nerds as a whole will be voting Democrat?
I've split my vote on every election, as I imagine most of my fellow nerds do, since by definition nerds are too smart to fall for partisan politics.
This election on the one hand you have a doddering old fool who supports the current clusterfuck of an administration. On the other hand you have a wholly inexperienced political hack from the most corrupt city in the nation, in the most corrupt state in the Union (mine). Here in Illinois we're so patriotic even being dead doen't keep us from voting. Our last Governor is in Prison, our current governor may be there next because of his ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, who Obama has ties to as well (the Rezko sleazeball has ties to politicians of both Democrat and Republican arms of the Corporate Party).
I'll be voting "none of the above" (Libertarian, Green, or Constitution) this election, as I can't bring myself to vote for a candidate who is beholden to nobody but the corporations again. The DMCA, Bono Act, FISA, PATRIOT act, all were voted in with almost 100% vote from both arms of the Corporate Party. Why should I vote for a person or party who almost always votes against my interest on bills? A pox on both their houses.
If you consider yourself a Democrat or a Republican, I don't think you're smart enough to be a nerd. Sorry, that's my opinion. Real nerds don't fall for Jedi mind tricks.
Whoever wins, I fear that the present Preseident has fuX0red things up so badly that if you vote for the winner, you vote for Herbert Hoover.