From the Times...

When you step into the voting booth on Tuesday, you have a unique opportunity to personally help shape our national policy and the direction of this country. Please try to never make the mistake of voting a straight party ticket regardless of who is running under party banners.

The powers that be of both major parties are turning up the pressure for you not to think for yourself and blindly follow their urging and vote straight Democratic or Republican. Don't fall for it!

There are candidates of both parties who do not deserve to be elected. Know whom you vote for, regardless of which party they belong to.

The old adage "Bad leaders are elected by good people who don't vote" is timeless and holds true today.

*blinks*

Does anybody know anything about the non-Presidential candidates where they are? Is that presidential with a small p?

*frowns*

From an article on inmate voting in the Times...

"I just was horrified when I realized they could vote," said Mary Black Andrews, a state representative from York, Me., whose first husband was a Maine state trooper who was shot and killed in the line of duty. "I just don't think that they deserve that right if they've been convicted of a violent crime."

*blinks*

I'm sorry, please explain the logic. Somebody commits a violent crime and suddenly their ability to reason is horrifically impaired AND they have no stake in this country at all?

Moreover, rights aren't something you deserve or earn. They're something you get just by being there.

I'm not arguing about this, seriously. I'm sure people can come up with many more coherant arguments against inmate voting than how "horrified" you are. I'll just sit here and stew a while.

The sequel to yesterday's post by ozarque

Wherein she's chastised for finding the pattern in French irregular verbs and *gasp* teaching this to her students so they don't have to memorize.

*hums* 'nother autism article

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/10/31/area_news/news04.txt

( Notable stuffs )

*checks clock*

I need to go to class soon. Djusk' a!

Taken from asperger

Here

( So-called Dateable Girl rules )

( And the male counterpart! )

My favorite part is the part where the site is named in chtspk: http://www.rudateable.com/

Stay tuned, I'll edit this for snark. Or give up in boredom, whatever.

I am now officially scared...

It's on MSN. What do you expect?

A person's view on the Bible and poor people...

Here. Theological debating will commence... now. Or maybe not. Whatever. *is very very bored*

Things that annoy me:

Right now, it's blackboard.com, where I submit one homework a week in Latin (theoretically). I disliked it when I first signed up, because it reccommends that you make your blackboard password the same as your email password. Um, why? That's a direct violation of the Very Important Rule: Have more than one password! I have three emails. Four, if you count the LJ one. One is used ONLY for signing up for things. One is used ONLY for personal mail. And the other is my yahoo backup, which is mostly used ONLY for a few yahoo mailing lists. Occasionally I consider moving all my non-friendly emails there. Each of those has a separate password, and nobody, but nobody, even knows where my "signing up for things" email is.

However, I can understand why they would say that. After all, it's a school site. A very boring one. Nobody is going to want to steal the password for your blackboard account. Fine. But why, then, isn't it possible for them to set up cookies so I don't have to log in EVERY damn time I visit? If I go away for a minute, I have to re-login! Are they security conscious or not? If they're not, I'd really like to be able to quit logging in to the damn site.

Oh, and the layout is really unintuitive, but that's standard.

TMI warning!

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