tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post4813240351832267232..comments2024-03-27T15:41:01.956-04:00Comments on rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague: Super Wednesdayrhymeswithplaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-62241393311665853342012-03-08T22:25:16.458-05:002012-03-08T22:25:16.458-05:00Helsie/Helen (and Ro), goodness gracious, no, I di...<b>Helsie/Helen (and Ro)</b>, goodness gracious, no, I didn't realize you are one and the same person! Also, there is a YP and there is an RWP (<i>moi</i>), but as far as I know there is not an RYP in these parts.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-77130363014012096692012-03-08T19:31:50.895-05:002012-03-08T19:31:50.895-05:00Oh, that's me Helsie if you didn't realise...Oh, that's me Helsie if you didn't realise RYPHelsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04801049953035653441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-39654775382981357452012-03-08T19:31:03.742-05:002012-03-08T19:31:03.742-05:00Yes RYP there is plenty of choice on the ballot pa...Yes RYP there is plenty of choice on the ballot paper so no problems with our freedom there. I think that as we never had to fight to get a vote people perhaps were a little "she'll be right mate" and needed to be "encouraged" to get involved!<br />I have never met anyone who was actually fined for not voting so don't know if we are a very law abiding lot or it is just I move in a law abiding circle of friends. Anyway nobody complains and the schools and other charities make lots of money selling raffle tickets and lamingtons at the polling booths (usually schools ) and neighbours have a catch up and friendly chat as they line up!<br />CheersHelsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04801049953035653441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-12576234474691029232012-03-08T07:38:44.023-05:002012-03-08T07:38:44.023-05:00Shooting Parrots, excellent questions! I shall ans...<b>Shooting Parrots</b>, excellent questions! I shall answer them in my next post.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-26943634949341380612012-03-08T04:10:03.353-05:002012-03-08T04:10:03.353-05:00I probably should know the answer to this, but exa...I probably should know the answer to this, but exactly who covers the cost of these pre-election elections? Is it the state (the government I mean) or is it the party?<br /><br />And what would happen if there were three, four, five or six other political parties. Would they have to hold primaries too?Shooting Parrotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503757845024102476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-21965553399020592492012-03-07T17:39:03.205-05:002012-03-07T17:39:03.205-05:00Putz, forgetting politics for the moment, I guess ...<b>Putz</b>, forgetting politics for the moment, I guess Mitt is okay, but he seems to be trying too hard to seem like "one of the common people" when he so obviously has very little in common with most of them. Evidence: His comment about his wife's two Cadillacs and his comment that he didn't have any friends who were fans of NASCAR races, but some owned the teams (I'm paraphrasing). A little too in over his head with the meat and potatoes crowd, he reminds me a great deal of George Herbert Walker Bush ("Old 41") because both seem to picture themselves more as monarchs than presidents -- "divine right of kings" and all that.<br /><br /><b>Helsie</b>, I was shocked to learn that very fact -- about voting being compulsory in Australia -- a couple of days ago. Seemed straight out of the old Soviet-bloc nations. Of course, they had only one name on the ballot in those days. I trust that you have a choice of candidates. Freedom to me -- I'm going out on a limb here -- is the freedom to vote and the freedom not to vote and the freedom to tell people they shouldn't complain if they don't vote and the freedom to ignore them and complain anyway.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-21016245429908873772012-03-07T17:00:39.970-05:002012-03-07T17:00:39.970-05:00Don't know if you are aware of it or not but h...Don't know if you are aware of it or not but here in Oz it is compulsory to vote in all elections. If you don't vote then you receive a fine ---- think it might be $100.You line up to get your ballot and have your name crossed off the roll. I've been hoping we would introduce computerised voting but we seem to be stuck with the old paper method still.<br />CheersHelsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15136273834165751276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-38006185356517241022012-03-07T16:00:42.221-05:002012-03-07T16:00:42.221-05:00i for the life of me can't figure out where mu...i for the life of me can't figure out where mutt r{ruff} really went wrong<><>,.no, i am not personnally enamored with him, but really folks, isn't he really the only choice????? re: pubs like ann,,,the small lizard newt took georgiaPutzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480109111920196513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-80231823988647510382012-03-07T14:33:26.471-05:002012-03-07T14:33:26.471-05:00Y.P. and Snowbrush, I do not care to know what or ...<b>Y.P.</b> and <b>Snowbrush</b>, I do not care to know what or where or why you are scratching. Be advised to keep details of your personal hygiene (or lack thereof) and other habits, intimate and otherwise, to yourselves. <br /><br />And <b>Snowbrush</b>, I most definitely was <i>not</i> a poll watcher! I was a precinct clerk, trained and paid by the county to set up the equipment necessary to vote, assist the citizens of the county in the process of computerized, touch-screen voting, and making sure the information they entered into the touch-screen voting machines was duly recorded and conveyed to the proper authorities in a timely and secure manner. Poll <i>watchers</i>, on the other hand, just stand around and try to find fault with everything.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-72729682952936284882012-03-07T13:56:37.138-05:002012-03-07T13:56:37.138-05:00"A visitor from Portland, Oregon
viewed "..."A visitor from Portland, Oregon<br />viewed "rhymeswithplague: Super Wednesday" 2 mins ago"<br /><br />I am NOT from Portland, and, Pudding, we're scratching over here too. We have an infestation of politicians.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-11719163178706576182012-03-07T13:54:45.357-05:002012-03-07T13:54:45.357-05:00You were a poll watcher! That's what you were ...You were a poll watcher! That's what you were doing that took you away from us?Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-83342740874885994922012-03-07T13:39:03.991-05:002012-03-07T13:39:03.991-05:00"My non-U.S. readers are probably scratching ..."My non-U.S. readers are probably scratching their heads." <br />Scratching yes - but not my head dude!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.com