Brother, can you spare a job? A cartoon in classic old style, featuring narrative audio by GWB.
Want to know where I currently stand, politically, dear journal? Well, it’s like this.
The “anyone but Bush” mindset is one I can’t support. I know that I certainly don’t much care for the man… But is Kerry any better? Every time I hear him speak, my opinion of him drops. His only selling point to my mind right now is “well, he’s not Bush”. That’s not valid enough. Is he going to do anything for the environment? I haven’t heard. Stance on big business? I don’t know, for sure. Is he really the lesser of two evils… I don’t have enough quantitative evidence to know. If I played the odds and was forced to pick, it’s *likely* that Kerry’s a better guy, just because Bush’s policies are horrid to my mind… but likely isn’t good enough. I’d like to know one way or the other.
All I’ve seen so far is “Nyah-nyah” crap debate, and it makes me unhappy with any choice that can be made.
Will I vote? Oh yeah. Will I adore who I vote for? Oh, no.
New Citizens Say GOP Took Away Their Right To Choose
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dario Cruz has lived in the United States for 16 years, but just became a citizen last week as he and about 200 other immigrants were naturalized.
One of the things he had always wanted to was register to vote, but when he was offered the chance to do that right outside the ceremony, he knew something wasn’t right — the place on the form where you’re asked to choose Democrat, Republican or independent was already filled out.
“It’s like one side,” Cruz said. “You don’t get to choose.”
According to Cruz and his family, every form was checked off Republican.
It was something his wife, Linda Cross, first noticed. She said she asked what was going on, and was told the woman registering voters said they were with a Republican organization.
“I am Republican,” she told Channel 4’s Jim Piggott. “I was very angry with that if they want to register whatever party, you shouldn’t try to dictate to people what party they are going to register; who they are going to vote for, because then you don’t have any freedom.”
The couple left without registering, but they did tell local Democratic Party officials what happened.
“These new citizens that were coming out and maybe did not know much of what was going on were all registering Republican,” Cross said. “Not by choice, but by someone else’s choice.”
Clyde Collins, who runs the local Democratic Party, says this practice is not right, and as informed federal officials about the incident. They told him an investigation is underway.
“First of all, it violates your fundamental right,” Collins said. “You have right to decide which political party you wish to enroll.”
Collins says those who were sworn in last week will be contacted and told they have the right to register for the party of their choice.
For Cruz, that is what’s important.
“I think you should be able to choose who you want to vote for,” he said.
For the record, any registered voter can vote for any candidate of any party in a general election, but in most primaries in Florida, people can only vote for candidates of their own party.
Channel 4 has tried contracting federal officials about this issue since last Friday and have not received a response, nor have local Republican leaders responded. Folio Weekly will have more on this story in this week’s paper. (via)
I train a new tech today. we’ll see how he works out. I have low expectations, but high hopes. I’ll settle for him to be better than my worst current tech, and able to work Sundays. I’d like for him to be as good as my best tech, but we’ll have to wait and see.
As always, feel free to go into greater detail in the comments.
It seems that a common theme is isolation, and helplessness amongst all of them.
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