The longer I live, the more I appreciate cats and computers, as compared to people.
]]>What to think of that… I try not to.
– Badtux the Not-a-chicken Penguin
]]>When was discrimination ever right and moral?
Maybe we should start labeling water fountains “Straight” and “Gay” to remind members of the minority community what this is really all about. When I was growing up they were labeled “White” and “Colored”.
Do these people think penguins make a “lifestyle choice” or anyone would volunteer to get the crap beat out of them all through school?
]]>I can’t believe people would actually think adding an amendment that takes away civil rights would be a good thing. We even voted to let chickens have more cage space! But turning our backs on gays? Where is our humanity?
]]>Having lived in a city in New York that used the mechanical voting machines, I can tell you that it was easier to control the votes in the current system, than a mail system. You only had to station people at the polling locations, not visit them individually. It’s a lot easier to intimidate people at polling locations and prevent them from voting if you think they will vote “the wrong way”.
It’s all about control, Hipparchia. Every reform gets modified into a new method of control.
]]>On the other hand, what might have been an issue in the crowded ghettos of the 19th century which were ruled with an iron hand by corrupt ward bosses in the pay of the city machine probably is not a problem with today’s wide-flung urban areas and the easy communications that allow such abuses to quickly show up on YouTube. So I think the original impetus behind the secret ballot done on a specific day is no longer operative. But it’s tradition now, so… (shrug). Luckily it’s an *optional* tradition here in California now. I voted by mail the week before the election.
– Badtux the Voting Penguin
]]>My gut feeling is that we have a lot of education to do in the black community before they stop treating gay like it was evil and stuff and vote for equal rights for all Americans, not just straight ones…
– Badtux the Numbers Penguin
]]>Marriage licenses generate revenue, so you make them available to everyone.
Single payer would save huge amounts of money, so you switch to single payer.
Voting by mail has got to be cheaper than staffing hundreds of polling stations, so you vote by mail.
It’s amazing how many “liberal” ideas are cheaper than the way “conservatives” want to do things. You would think they would be familiar with the concepts of “return on investment” and “cost-benefit ratio”.
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