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  • #16
    Why not?
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Albert Speer
      Nov. 7th, 2000 was the first time Bush was elected.
      Actually, Bush wasn't selected until Dec. 12.
      Tutto nel mondo è burla

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      • #18
        No.
        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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        • #19



          Actually, Bush wasn't selected until Dec. 12.


          They allmost slipped it past the rest, good thing Boris is around.
          Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Oerdin
            Ok, I was wrong.
            Goes very well with your sig, if I may say so.
            Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
            Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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            • #21
              that way you can take some time off work
              Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #22
                You need better unions.
                Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                • #23
                  Ideally, Election Day should be a national holiday.
                  Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by DanS
                    Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.
                    And that's an ideal way of keeping the working class from voting. Conspiracy theory, perhaps. But I really, really doubt that people would accept an election on any other day than a sunday here. The social democrats are the ruling party, and their traditional base is the industrial working class.

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                    • #25
                      DanS, come to think of it I don't know many besides myself who gets off work to vote either. The voting places are usually open till late in the evening anyway
                      CSPA

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                        Ideally, Election Day should be a national holiday.
                        I agree...

                        And Kropotkin... They couldn't make it Sunday for religious reasons... the hard core fundies would have a cow.
                        Keep on Civin'
                        RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Gangerolf
                          The voting places are usually open till late in the evening anyway
                          I'll be voting when the polls open at 6:30. Not much risk of having to wait in line that way.
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Ming
                            And Kropotkin... They couldn't make it Sunday for religious reasons... the hard core fundies would have a cow.
                            If that's not enough reason to hold it on a sunday, I don't what is.
                            Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                            Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by DanS
                              Nobody that I know of gets off work to vote.
                              Which is the reason that our elections are on a Tuesday. It keeps the undesirables from voting, though our two-week early voting period effectively ended that. It was rather difficult for me to get into the library yesterday: huge line.
                              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                              • #30
                                I like to have it on Sundays when there is a lot less traffic, people are much more chilled, have time to think and are generally not in the stress-stress mood that they are in for the rest of the week.
                                That said I think it's a bad idea to hold it on an ordinary working day.

                                As Boris said, it should be a holiday!

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