Politics

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   On Sunday I flyered for Lamar again, Monday I went to Fuzios with Kristy, and today I voted.
   A certain ASUCD senator-elect helped us on Sunday. We'll call him Y. He said he had voted for me when I ran for senate even though he didn't agree with my politics. I said "I don't make political statements, so how can you not like my politics?" He said "I thought you were a libertarian" "No.. libertarians are completely irrational."
   For the record, I am not a libertarian. Libertarians are what you get when you take a republican, remove their moral convictions and any rationality you may find. I am militantly independant, and wholly rational. Every political spectrum test I've ever taken has put me dead center of the political spectrum. I am the swing voter and its not because I don't care.
   Being registered "decline to state" allows me to vote most party's ballot in the primaries. Obviously the republican one has but one choice on it so there's no point in voting that, and it would be less than rational to vote for a third party, so I found myself evaluating the democratic candidates. Now I know all these candidates have been making a lot of noise lately and everyone has been all hepped up on their favorite candidate for months now, but I'm proud to say I had no preconcieved opinion at all before I started reading their statements. It pleases me to know that the millions of dollars spent on advertising were completely lost on me (I don't watch TV and have thus far pointedly ignored everyone's best efforts at selling me the candidates). I am the swing voter and only rational assimilation of qualifications and statements will get my vote.

   No I'm not telling you who I decided upon. I don't make political statements.


Today's Controversy
   Dixon Ticonderoga or Sanford, which pencils are the best? I have to say, I have a box of a dozen Ticonderoga, and despite the claim on the box, these "1388-2 soft" pencil's are NOT in my opinion the "world's best pencil" as the box claims. I have a few Sanford pencils which I find quite delightful, but they're old and getting short. Another strong contender though is the paper-mate pencil that I acquired after someone administered a weird poll to pavelthegeek and I about the herbs found in sobe...


Picture of the Day

Joe Fitzmorris
Chairman, Davis College Republicans
© Kris Fricke 2003


Unrelated
   Along with Adrian, Jill, and I, there is also a bunny that lives at 229 The Trees. Adrian and I have named it "Sputnik," though Jill insists on calling it Herbert or Bernard or something. Also, Adrian and I realize the bunny is secretly filled with evil. I believe its aspirations are not dissimilar to those pictured here. It did escape from its containment-unit once and chew through Adrian's PS2 cable once in fact.
   Firefly is an amazing series. It aired on Fox with about 14 episodes before being cancelled before christmas 2002. I'd never heard of it but Adrian got the whole series on DVD and when he plays an episode, everything stops around here. Even Jill can't escape it, and the bunny doesn't concentrate on radiating so much evil. Apparently the series is being made into a movie now though, so we may all rejoice. --really does take break to watch episode IV of firefly before continuing--
   You will become addicted to this.


Related
   A Year Ago Today: quitting IHOP
   Kristy wrote an excellent new livejournal bio. I have a crush on her.

Comments

BunBun

[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

The bunny's name is HARVEY for godsakes...HARVEY! And he isn't evil and he does have character, he's just misunderstood.

I still can't believe Adrian decided to punish Harvey by removing his only posessions from his cage including his food and water dishes, his riot box, and his salt lick. Poor bunny.

Re: BunBun

[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

P.S. You're "A Year Ago Today" also contains the 1st time you mention me in your LJ, I remember, because I basically told you to mention me...AND I really did decide we would be good friends. Ihaveacrushonyoutoo.

furry death

[inequity.livejournal.com]

dirty little beast...

i've ran over two rabbits within the last year with "Muddlefoot the Volvo".


I take pride in the amount of life that Muddlefoot has taken from the local rabbit community...

Re: furry death

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

hehe "muddlefoot" - excellent name

[sivart13.livejournal.com]

You don't think the candidates' statements count as advertising?

advertising

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Every candidate gets one official statement to express their views. I mean I was not exposed to unfair advantages some candidates may get through massive advertising spending, and I was not exposed to television commercials which might use music and/or images to imply their candidate is more preferable as opposed to the cold hard type of the statements, nor was I exposed to any mud-slinging type advertising that might be being used to deride other candidates.. I don't even know if people do that kind of thing in the primaries... I'm out of touch with modern media culture.

The main point though is that to my perception every candidate was given as equal a chance to explain themselves as possible irrespective of budgets.

[obisan69.livejournal.com]

I dated a Libertarian for 3 weeks once... you're exactly right about their lack of rationality and moral convictions. That's a mistake I'll only make once.

Are you consistant with the letters that you use to describe senators and senate-elects? (ie, if Senator-Elect Y appears again, will he still be Senator-Elect Y, or Senator Y). I have far too much time on my hands and it might be amusing to try and decipher who you're talking to =)

Consistency

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yes I intend to be consistent with the lettering. So far we have X, Y, and Q.


And I got the email about the ASUCD gathering thing. Amazing that they actually included us on something. (=

Re: Consistency

[obisan69.livejournal.com]

Good to know =) I was just hanging out with Senator X a few minutes ago, actually.

I'm glad y'alls were invited to the event. The way they were talking during planning, the court wasn't going to be asked.