I hate to interrupt Andy for matters he regards as trivial, but…
…I can’t wait to tell him my absentee ballots came today and I’ve just finished voting in the May 15th primary!
“So?”
Somehow I thought that might be his reaction. Oh well – woo hoo! – I, at least, know my civic duty and took care of it! The ballots are in the mail.
I tried to change the channel…yet there was something strangely compelling about watching it. Kind of like the time I was grossed out watching a knee operation on PBS but was in a state where I was physically to weak (from nausea) to change the channel.
That is a nice photo of Andy’s glowing kitty face! He looks like he is up to something. 🙂
That he was! “Not much!”
he’s upset because he can’t vote!
Yeah, he had no say in the ordinance requiring kitties to have collars and tags if they are outside!
No cats on the ballot? Who cares!
I have to check to see if there are any that match the second and third best status of “One who has one or more cats at home” and “cat lover”!
That could tip the scales for my vote!
Vote, always vote! Nice work. 👍🏻👌🏻😎
I have since I became eligible to register. I voted by absentee ballot when I was stationed in the US Army in Germany, it was that important to me. I’ve never missed an election, even the little one issue deals. It disgusts me that our fate as a country is decided by fewer than 50% of those eligible to vote. While forcing people to vote (the way Australia does) seems like a good idea, I’d rather people feel it their civic duty and something that added to the value of their citizenship. I refuse to listen to anyone who doesn’t vote complain on politics.
I totally agree Doug, no vote, Shut up. Thank you for serving our country sir. Less than fifty percent tells me it’s those who believe they have an entitlement and don’t need to vote. To hell with that thinking.
Exactly. They will be the death of America. I personally support a national service law where everyone except severely disabled at age 18 have to serve a minimum two years in the military or some sort of national service – in the national parks in CCC-type work on infrastructure; cleaning trash along roads, whatever else currently is done by volunteers or whatever else can be devised. They would be paid at a rate similar to lower ranks in the military for starts.
That’s a fabulous idea Doug! I support your view!!
I felt the time I served in the military was the best time of my young adulthood for personal growth and an budding sense of civic responsibility.
Good job! The more of us that take the time to do this, the better!
BTW, I still wish each category had a ‘none of the above’ option & if 50% + 1 voted for that all sides would go back to square one to find a more worthy candidate …. Have wanted that for ages!
The “none of the above” option would, I believe, serve to warn the “winner” that more disagree with him/her than agree, so best better do yer damn job in the interests of the country! I’m for it. Humility seems to be in short supply among out politicians. The California approach where the top two vote getters in a nonpartisan primary got to run for an office has some merit, though that would just perpetuate the all Republican candidates in many races in tmy state. Whatever method is used, I hope never to have to choose between two seriously flawed candidates for president again. Too often too many times in my life that has been the case, and I can’t even tell you which candidate I voted for in some election, they both were so bad.
LOL, I know what you mean! When I can’t figure out which one is the ;lesser evil’ I simply don’t vote in that category … A few years ago, an obnoxious egotist was the head of the school board and was running unopposed for reelection … Apparently, i’m not the only one who refuses to vote for the only option, because he only got 70-something percent of the votes…. I’m betting that if there’d been a ‘none of the above’ category, he wouldn’t have done that well.
Also will note that he was so demoralized over not gettin 100% that he never ran again, so apparently he got the message.
That’s an aspect of the categories with only one candidate that hadn’t occurred to me! Of course, the local media would need to do better than mine and actually report the final count for all candidates. Here, they just note the winners of races where more than one person ran (plus total votes) or where you select three out of five or six candidates, like for city council. I do support voter-enforced humility in ourt public servants!
The candidates got the totals and I suspect I know one that was happy the results weren’t televised 😉
Good job :)Sorry Andy was not impressed.
He will be appreciative as long as there are no consequences for kitties….!
I don’t think he really cares about that much though….
I think w=he would say “Meh!” if he could speak.