Thread: I Voted....

Originally Posted by earcutter

^^^ Sorry if that was a bit too mushy... :P ^^^

No group hugs in the showers!!!

Originally Posted by regularjoe

Sadly, I did not vote. I attempted to vote. I found out voting at the clerks office closed yesterday..hmm. So then they said I could go to my precint and vote. But they didn't have me on record as registering. So, after a couple hours of dogged determination that I was registered, and entitled, they produced a document I had signed in 2011, declining voter registration. So..I'm not feeling especially smart right now....But do I get any rights to complain later? Not that I'm much of a complainer..I just like to have the option.

I have a feeling this will be the first of many stories along these lines....

Ryan82: Funny that you'd have that premonition. It was 230 pm by the time it was settled that I could not vote. The woman who finally convinced me, said that there were many of us who'd done the same stupid thing. Only she didn't call it a stupid thing. I did that all by myself. So while I doubt too many SRP members forgot that they declined to register to vote, and then publicly pointed out their own failure on an international shaving forum, I do believe it's more common than we might imagine. lol.

Originally Posted by earcutter

I have lived in lets see... 6 country's. And by live I mean spent more than two years there. In every country I have ever been in, bitching, moaning, and griping has been a national pass-time. Just read a newspaper.

It's a good thing me thinks. It shows involvement. It's those people who don't gripe, bitch, and moan that bother me. Complacency is exactly whats wrong with so many institutions from mom and pops stores, to big business, to government.

As a Canuck in the USA, I bitch and moan but I would hope that no one would ever take that to mean I don't love this country and want the best for it, and all it's citizens including my two Yankee kids! I have paid HUGE to be here, and I wouldn't ever change that though at times it's trying. I came here by choice, and Kansas has been very good to me... very good.

That's all to say thank you to all those people who have made me feel welcome here - I hope I can help make America a better country for all.

As a vet, i defend your right to bitch... That is why this country is great.,

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

What about those of us on the path to citizenship? I pay a boatload+ in taxes, yet have no say! Don't I get to speak/gripe/bitch??? Besides, the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants everyone in the U.S.A. the right to freedom of speech. Citizenship is not a requirement for griping.

You can't vote because everyone knows Canadians are massing on the border for the attack... We are just waiting for you to launch so we can start the camps again..

Originally Posted by Wintchase

You can't vote because everyone knows Canadians are massing on the border for the attack... We are just waiting for you to launch so we can start the camps again..

OK, who blabbed... that was supposed to be a secret!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

OK, who blabbed... that was supposed to be a secret!

The Unitedstatesians are after our strategic hockey stick stockpile and the secrets of Zamboni technology!

Originally Posted by regularjoe

Sadly, I did not vote. I attempted to vote..But do I get any rights to complain later? Not that I'm much of a complainer..I just like to have the option.

Yes, you certainly can complain. If someone listens or not I have not clue!

Originally Posted by Wintchase

As a vet, i defend your right to bitch... That is why this country is great.,

Well said. With no bitching, we stand still.