Please vote. Thank you.
--
Efrem Stringer os2@ihatemicrosoft.com
IBM OS/2 Warp 4.52. plus Java. No need for Windows.

Sir:

OS/2 wrote:
not to vote is unforgiven.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:57:26 UTC, "William L. Hartzell"
<wlhartzell@comcast.net> opined:

Pogo's advice was "Vote early and often".

I sent mine in (only once) two weeks ago.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

William L. Hartzell wrote:
In the spirit of capitalism, I hear the first 100 voters get an extra vote.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:40:46 UTC, Marty <net@comcast.martyamodeo> wrote:

I only voted once, but was handed three "My Vote Counted!" stickers.
After a brief pause I decided to take them and wear them. It made for
some good conversations during lunch.

David

David biomed:
Another way of creating a talking point would be to put the spares on
a couple of tombstones.

--
Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)

Stan Goodman wrote:
Friday the 13th falls on a Saturday this month!

Alas alack, I do not get to cast a vote. I am only an American at heart. :-(

Dave

Sir:

Peter Moylan wrote:
some printouts and pass them around. Tombstones where visitors are one
in a great while and the only regular visitors are those paid to cut the
weeds, is a wasted effort in and of itself. OF course, we Texans know
about them tombstone voters in Duval county that elected Johnson for his
first Senate term...97 more votes than warm voters in that county.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 02:48:13 UTC, David Lewis <lewis27@sympatico.ca> opined:

It took a double take, wondering about relevance, before I recognized that
as another pogoism.

=;->8

That's a very serious admission for a Canuck. It may get you ostracized from
society.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 03:12:16 UTC, "William L. Hartzell"
<wlhartzell@comcast.net> opined:

Oh, surely he voted only those cadavers belonging to people whose initials
were "L. B. J.", no?

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

Stan Goodman wrote:
All this talk about Pogo got me thinking. A quick Google search turned
up the "Oh-fishul" Pogo website. Time to do some reminiscing...

That's okay, I'm already an outcast. I don't watch or listen to the CBC,
and I still favour OS/2!

Dave

David Lewis wrote:
the view of the results of the vote reminds me of another quote:

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"

cheers,
piersante

Sir:

piesse wrote:
Why do you say that since a majority of the voters prevailed? About
Fifteen million more Americans voted this election than the last. One
thing you can say about Kerry and not about Gore, is he has class. He
told them lawyer types to stick it in their ears when they wanted to
muddle this election in Ohio's courts. Now you should know that the
counting is not over. And the election is not final until Congress
canvases the Electors in January. But I think the Fat Lady has sung her
tune.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

In article <c1.2b5.2tNSNC$1uR@12-237-213-129.client.comcast.net>
wlhartzell@comcast.net "William L. Hartzell" writes:

It is so tempting to trot out the hairy old saying, attributed to
Phineas T Barnum, that "there's a sucker born every minute". Too
easy a shot, though.

Consider Julian Barnes...

"Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the
second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a
process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion
sandwich it swallowed centuries ago."

Now the world has a bad taste in its mouth. Anyone else note the
result of the US Election poll at www.globalvote2004.com? *wow*

OTOH, I _have_ to hope Dubya does a good job. (Think about it.)
--
Andrew Stephenson

Sir:

Andrew Stephenson wrote:
Considering that the previous guy who won the Presidency without a
majority of the Voters was shot dead, this guy got through one term and
won a large majority (any election with one vote more than half is a
large majority and a mandate).
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:19 UTC, "William L. Hartzell"
<wlhartzell@comcast.net> wrote:

Those that were allowed/were able to vote. We hear that some areas had
misleading information (you must vote before the day or it doesn't
count), etc. I'm not convinced that all those that wanted to vote,
actually got to vote!

But then you're from Texas, Bill...Bush heartland?

--
Bob Eager

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 07:55:19 UTC, "Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> opined:

There is a lot of innuendo from the sour-grapes crowd, but what has come
from the observers that have spoken on CNN for example is that the election
was clean (as US elections generally are). It is a great pity that there are
people who can't swallow defeat, and believe that they have the only magic
key to the victory and the right to govern. This would be the second
election in which the some in the Democratic party have claimed that the
election was stolen from them; it wasn't true four years ago, and it's not
true now. For the record, I am a registered Democrat in the US.

I'm dismayed at what has happened to the Party over recent years; it isn't
what it was years ago. Small "d" democrats understand that "Vox populi, vox
Dei". Some capital "D" Democrats don't anymore.

The temptation for claims of fraud were strong four years ago, because the
popular vote (which doesn't count) was won by Gore. It is not at all rare
for the electoral vote to be won by one side, the popular vote by the other
(Abraham Lincoln became President in just such an election in 186o), because
US elections are usually very close. This time around, such claims are even
harder to support, because Bush won the popular vote too, by a margin of
nearly four million -- it would require massive fraud to account for that.

Most Americans could not care less what Europeans think about who is the
American President, nor should they. I have news for Frenchmen, for example:
If US had the vote in France, M. Chirac would not be President de la
Republique. Don't start me off on what I think of European politics in
general.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

"When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17

In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-DPj9ulZDEZuC@rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
"Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> wrote:
shut up or we'll invade yer

Captain's log. On StarDate 5 Nov 2004 09:55:59 GMT received comm from "Stan
Goodman" <SPAM_FOILER@hashkedim.com> on channel comp.os.os2.misc:

[ for convenience i post a relevant quote from another poster in this thread ]

: Most Americans could not care less what Europeans think about who is the
: American President, nor should they. I have news for Frenchmen, for example:
: If US had the vote in France, M. Chirac would not be President de la
: Republique. Don't start me off on what I think of European politics in
: general.

This is totally OT, but I couldn't agree more (and I'm from Europe, Sweden).

It's an ridiculous amount of bitter and sour grapes from the losers -- to such a
high degree that it almost gets to be comical. Kerry is a man who stands up and
recolonizes facts, but a lot of people (especially people outside US who even
isn't any registered voters) doesn't seem to cope with reality very well.

Best regards,

martin törnsten

PS.

I like USA and it's great spirit of freedom and sense of life, but I'm not any
supporter of either Bush or Kerry (they have both good and bad sides, and I
personally would like to combine some of their views and ideas).

As I'm not any US voter or citizen I also wouldn't comment that it's wrong if
any of my favorites didn't win (I however don't think it's wrong to speak my
opinions about them), and that we should have some world wide election. This is
ridiculous. This is a *US election* and only *US citizen* matters (and should
matter) in the voting process.

Congratulation to Bush for winning, and also as much for Kerry standing up and
admitting it.

--
martinot@gmail.com

David Lewis (lewis27@sympatico.ca) writes:
As long as you spell "favour" correctly, you're with us.


--
"For it is only of the new one grows tired. Of the old one never tires."
-- Kierkegaard, _Repetition_

James Owens, Ottawa, Canada