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i have to write a one-paragraph biograhpy for the DCist staff page. i really do hate these sort of things. you're supposed to sum up your entire being in one witty paragraph, and if you're not clever or funny enough, you are doomed for eternity on the web page. AND i have to find a good picture. blargh!
did everyone have very fun labor day weekends? va beach was good, even though it was cloudy the entire weekend, so we didn't make it out to the beach. i finished the half marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, which was a little disappointing because i wanted to break 2 hours, but whatever. we went out later that night for becca and julie's birthdays, and an insanely good time was had by all. scandalous pictures will be forthcoming.
update: something i found heartening this weekend, though hardly meaningful or scientific. we did a lot of driving around virginia this weekend, down and up I-95, through some rural areas, and around va beach/norfolk, which is basically the biggest military area in virginia. i couldn't keep count of the number of kerry/edwards bumper stickers that i saw, which surprised me. probably 15-20. but what really surprised me is the number of bush/cheney stickers that i saw on the road. it was a grand total of...two. now, if we're going to equate military support bumper stickers with bush supporters, then bush was winning out, because i saw about 32 million yellow ribbon/i heart my soldier/support our troops bumper stickers. but my family has a US Navy bumper sticker on our car and no political bumper stickers, and we're about as liberal as you get. so, anyway, i am crossing my fingers, based on my bumper sticker observations, that virginia is going to go blue.
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interesting observation, but you haven't hung out in the pentagon parking lot lately.
according to the Express paper, Kerry is going to pull out of the war in 4 years. I guess that's a good timetable, but couldn't a lot of things change? Is he promising to be out of Iraq in 4 years regardless of the progress made there, or is this dependent on certain agenda items being completed?
By the way, Bayes convinced me that selling my vote was a disgrace to our nation and that he would rather I vote for Kerry than sell my vote, so I'm actually interested in learning the issues now, and how each candidate would make America different in the next term.
haha, who were you going to sell your vote to?
To reveal the name of the person would be to betray the anonymity of the bidding process and, I've got to tell you. I'd be very careful with whose dancing shoes you step on when it comes to these fat cats doing the bureaucratic tango.
Oh, I forgot to write this earlier, but here is my suggestion for your DCist profile:
"She is a predator posing as a house pet. A good companion, in a peculiar sort of way. Powered by Lithium Ion batteries and paid for by friends of Ted Leo, Catherine is a total Smashing Machine."
if i hadn't already written my (lame) bio, i would totally use that. awesome.
I'll rat out Jon (that's the kind of friend I am): his Dad was going to pay him to vote for KE04.
The feds will be converging on your house shortly...
ha. well, jon, you really should think about it, especially cause if you vote kerry, your vote will actually really matter because virginia has half a chance of going blue this election. hence why tommy, charles and i are lying about our residency until november, so we can vote in virginia.
i mean, you should really consider who you want to vote for, not consider accepting your father's tainted money. is mark voting this year? i remember him saying a while ago he wasn't going to.
I think he's going to vote...I can't be sure, but I seem to recall that, while he disagrees with Bush's tax policy and the reasons for the current debacle in the middle east, he feels strongly enough about abortion that he would probably vote for Bush, which is a mystery to me because I think that even with a Supreme Court full of Antonin Scalias, you still need a Constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade. Maybe I'm wrong about the liklihood(sic) of this, though, because I got lectured by some lady this weekend about how Bush was going to make abortion illegal.
I myself am pretty conflicted with my feelings about abortion (lets not get into a discussion about abortion), but I also don't believe that it should be an issue - there's plenty of people dying right now without the consent of their parents.
I side more with my older brother, who has no faith in the political process and refuses to vote because he thinks it's unfair that stupid people get to vote as many times as he does. Even so, it's disgraceful to not use the one power given to every American citizen. I have a feeling my vote will go to Kerry because the only thing I have against him (as a presidential candidate) is that I find the sputtering indignation of Bush detractors annoying.
I have always found your older brother's reasons for not voting to be painfully obnoxious and elitist. If he wants tests at the polling place, he can find an excellent example in the tests set up in the south to prevent African Americans from voting.
Whether or not I am voting will remain a mystery for now, at least.
As for abortion, it would not require a constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court, in deciding Roe, placed upon itself the mantle of permanently-seated constitutional convention. It can very easily (and, honestly, without much practical effect) reverse itself in similar fashion. And, when I say without much practical effect, I mean that would simply make it up to the states to decide what to do about abortion. I hardly think the legislatures of New York and California will enact stringent anti-abortion laws, but if they feel like it, so be it. Such is democracy.
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