November 7, 2006

  • So, today was election day. I came up with an idea that is going to revolutionize voting. Are you ready for this one people? Its huge! Get on board with this: Naked voting. Wait. I mean, instead of voting on Tuesdays, we change it to Saturdays. I know this will take an act of congress to change, but it makes sense. I know that the law is that employers have to give employees time off to vote, but they don't have to pay them while they are off voting. But, how many people can afford not to get paid for a couple of hours to go vote? Plus, a lot of people work far from their polling place, so that might present another problem. Look, voter turnout today is once again going to be at an embarrassingly low amount. Its probably going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 40%. We started democracy, damnit, we should be setting an example for all of the other democracies in the world. Yet, in these other countries, they have a far higher percentage of people that vote. And sure, there are a plethora of reasons why people don't vote. And maybe we really should only have the informed voter voting. But still, as a country, we should be encouraging people to vote and make it as easy and as convenient as possible. And I would be willing to bet that if the elections were held on a Saturday, the turnout would be higher by about 10%. At least. How many people have got kids they have to get to daycare in the morning before work and of course, pick up kids after work. That can make it tough to find time to vote, especially since people are also working more and more hours at work. Sure, there are people that work on Saturdays, but the percentage of people that are off on Saturdays is A LOT higher. Another idea that somebody at work came up with, and this is an even better idea, is make election day a national holiday. That would ensure that even more people are off work and therefore, have more time to vote.

    Holy shit, former NFL QB Heath Shuler just won a Democratic House Seat in North Carolina. I didn't even know he was running. Shit, it seems like he was in the NFL like 53 minutes ago. Anywho, back to my pointless ramble.

    Ok, where was I? Oh, that's right, I was trying to convince you to give me all your money. See, what I would do with your money is take it to the off track betting facility right next to my work and................oh, wait, I'm being told I wasn't talking about that at all.

    Hope you all voted today, because you can't do it on Saturday. And most of all, if you did vote, I hope you voted smart and voted Democratic. Sure, they are pussies, stupid and full of shit a lot of times, but the Democrats are NOT Republicans, and as we know, Republicans are heartless, evil and are doing their best to ruin the country and the world. Oh, and the Republicans are full of so much more shit than the Democrats, so much more in fact that they are swimming in vast pools of shit and attempting to turn that shit into gold and the best they can do with that shit is turn it into more shit. In short, right now, there is nothing even remotely good about the Republican party.