Monthly Archives: April 2012

Vote Early, Vote Often

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The Media Research Center went to the Supreme Court protests to ask the question, Should Illegal Immigrants Be Allowed to Vote in America?


Cool.

The Right-Thinkers for Electoral Change (the RTEC) have a new engine to reframe the United States Congress. We’re all going to vote against Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And we can do it.

Apparently California’s requirement that “you must be a U.S. citizen; a California resident; at least 18 years of age on Election Day; not in prison or in county jail (serving a state prison sentence or serving a term of more than one year in jail for a defined “low-level” felony), or on parole, post-release community supervision, or post-sentencing probation for a felony conviction; and not judged by a court to be mentally incompetent” to register to vote is only advisory. Nevada offers similar advice.

The California voter registration deadline for the general election must be postmarked no later than October 22, 2012. The last day to request a VBM ballot by mail is October 30. Registered voters may apply for a vote-by-mail ballot for an upcoming election at any time. If you apply by mail, your application must be received no later than 7 days before an election, otherwise you will need to apply in person to get a vote-by-mail ballot for that election.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi was number five of the top 20 liberals, once the highest-ranking female politician in American history, and still the go-to Democrat in Congress according to The Telegraph in 2010. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is number nine of the top 20.

If it’s good enough for an undocumented worker, it’s good enough for me.

The general election will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The RTEC encourages all voters from the right-thinking East Coast of the United States to apply the suggestions set forth by undocumented worker supporters and register to vote in California or Nevada today. Or both.

Can’t You Read the Signs?

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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars this month (Apple marketing VP Phil Schiller immediately deleted his Instagram account and declared that Instagram had “jumped the shark”). Apple will probably buy Twitter next.Pictograms.

I take a lot of pictures both for the beauty and for the story they tell, but I tell most stories with words. 50,000 a year in newspaper columns. Nearly that many again right here. I could write a book …

That said, I just replaced my cellphone because its camera stopped initializing. When I need a quick note about a concert poster or a reminder of what that unusual car or eccentric person looks like, I prefer to snap a picture and text it to my emailbox. Sometimes I send it to one or two selected friends as well.

A quick and informal survey tells me that more than half the people I know do the same. Voice calls are down. Texting is up but texting with pictures and far fewer words is climbing exponentially.

Grocery fliers have both pictures and text, but the amount of text is dropping.

Gekko and I often Skype™ instead of “just” talking on the VOIP phone; it’s the next best thing to being there. OK, that’s not entirely true but having the (moving) picture is better than not having the (moving) picture to go with our words.

A recent story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel highlighted how our communications are changing: “On a cold October night a few years ago, I got out of bed and came downstairs because I realized my cat was still outside. I turned on the porch light, opened the main door, called him and went into the kitchen for a drink of water. When I came back, there was a young man standing in my living room.”

After worrying over the story itself, a cop friend suggested, “Put a Quarantined! Infectious Disease! sign out front.”

Private Property SignHe thinks home invaders can read. (Jeezum, what’s our school system coming to, teaching burglars to read!)

“. . . attached to an explosive charge.”

It’s not the sign that will stop the burglar or home invader. It’s not even the silhouette of a weapon on the sign. It’s the 700 security cameras that take his picture as he walks up the sidewalk, turns up the lane, and steps onto the porch.

The world is progressing back to cuneiform.

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?

I carry a 17″ ThinkPad workstation that my friend Liz Arden dubbed the “patio stone” but I do hope the next big Android isn’t a stone tablet.

Tuesday Twaddle: the Mommy Wars

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Timothy Geithner is just the latest Administration mouthpiece to try to convince American voters that the number of women laid off during Mr. Obama’s stewardship of the recession is a ridiculous, meaningless number.

Pfui.

Statisticians know the figures show that George W. Bush likes women while Barack Obama prefers men because all the men were laid off under Mr. Bush; under Mr. Obama, only 7.7 percent of those who lost their jobs were men.

Of course, statisticians also know that fewer workers of any gender would have lost jobs had Obamanation actions not lengthened the recession.