Election topic

I've already voted; hooray for permanent absentee status. But let this topic be a reminder that PMS expects that every man will do his duty.

I'm a little surprised that everybody thinks that Sandy was good rather than bad for Obama, but I don't understand these things.

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Brandon: "I had casual sex this weekend." Alex: "I had sex too, with someone I love who accepts and loves me." Kodi: "I cleaned up my .emacs."

My thoughts are that it is bad if it prevents democrats from voting at a disproportionate rate, but otherwise, I think it helps comparative public opinion, given some mentions Romney had about cutting back on FEMA a while back. Also, it gives the president something presidential to do.
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Fame is but a slow decay.
-Theodore Tilton

Wanted Ron Paul, thought about voting Romney, switched to Johnson, now back to Romney. I really haven't been happy with this cycle whatsoever.

It's an argument against the notion that government intervention always ruins everything. That's neatly encapsulated in Romney's earlier cries of "defund FEMA" but in general it's a demonstration of well-organized government intervention saving lives.

Frankly I'm also a little confused about how this sort of thing reflects on the administration directly, but that might just be a deeply rooted thing about how humans and governance--how the religious luck of the king affects prosperity, and bad luck (i.e. drought, disease, bad harvests) are attributable directly to the king, even if there's no demonstrable chain of cause and effect and agency.

Either that or the president's office is more directly involved than we're assuming--directly coordinating between government aid agencies and NGOs like the Red Cross.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

…that might just be a deeply rooted thing about how humans and governance--how the religious luck of the king affects prosperity, and bad luck (i.e. drought, disease, bad harvests) are attributable directly to the king, even if there's no demonstrable chain of cause and effect and agency.

I'm inclined to agree. I mean, it seems silly to me that people expect the president to help the economy even though, to my knowledge, nobody can predict the effects of economic interventions meaningfully better than chance. It is as if the public believes in some caricature of the Protestant work ethic dictating that the president can solve any national problem so long as he works hard enough and his heart is in the right place.

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Brandon: "I had casual sex this weekend." Alex: "I had sex too, with someone I love who accepts and loves me." Kodi: "I cleaned up my .emacs."

Sent in my ballot yesterday. Word.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

I wonder if anyone's written a song called, "Absentee Ballad"
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Fame is but a slow decay.
-Theodore Tilton

Clearly I voted for Romney, but this is looking very bad for my side right now.

Subtitle: I love knowing I'm part of Kodi's sig, even if it's from 2+ years ago.
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"A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing." - George Lucas

I love the fact that you and I get along as well as we do despite being like night and day. PMS FTW!

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Brandon: "I had casual sex this weekend." Alex: "I had sex too, with someone I love who accepts and loves me." Kodi: "I cleaned up my .emacs."

Brandon I've been toying with sending this article to my sad family members:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/11/obama_the_moderate_republican_what_the_2012_election_should_teach_the_gop.html

Can you read it and tell me whether you feel genuine solace?
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

And, if it makes you feel any better, I would readily agree that Obama is no liberal.

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Brandon: "I had casual sex this weekend." Alex: "I had sex too, with someone I love who accepts and loves me." Kodi: "I cleaned up my .emacs."

Oh no doubt, he's the best Republican president since Clinton.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir