On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 03:36:52 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote:

Seriously,
fellows, you can get it out of your system just by voting on Tuesday.

Hi Tom,

DOING better than that. I got myself involved, been working 70 hour
weeks for a month, helped register 2800 voters, and collected about
100 ballots BEFORE November 2nd. And then there is Poll Watching to
be done ON the 2nd.

Come what may - either way - it isn't what is going to happen on the
2nd that counts, it is going to be what happens every day AFTER
Tuesday for very many years.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

In message , Richard Clark
writes
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 03:36:52 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote:

Seriously,
fellows, you can get it out of your system just by voting on Tuesday.

Hi Tom,

DOING better than that. I got myself involved, been working 70 hour
weeks for a month, helped register 2800 voters, and collected about
100 ballots BEFORE November 2nd. And then there is Poll Watching to
be done ON the 2nd.


Why can't you Mercans realise you only have ONE ballot for the
president. And it can't be 'cast', it can only be held.

Unfortunately, the interchangeability of 'ballot' and 'vote' has now
entered BBC English.

We Limeys have a lot the thank Uncle Sam for, but not, sadly, your
despoilation of our language (and your present President, of course).

Sorry, I just HAD to complain.
Cheers,
Ian.
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:33:17 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

Why can't you Mercans realise you only have ONE ballot for the
president. And it can't be 'cast', it can only be held.

Unfortunately, the interchangeability of 'ballot' and 'vote' has now
entered BBC English.


Hi Ian,

According to my OED, Ballot has existed in the sense we all use it
since 1549. I can't imagine which "Mericans" you could blame then.
The notion of not being cast is foreign given the word Ballot derives
from Ball, and if anything, for it to work as a secret vote (the
meaning of Ballot according to the OED) it had to be placed into a
Ballot Box (and having had stood next to one for these several weeks
makes me a Balloteer) about as remote to being held as any.

Others may appreciate that this all devolves to the idiom "Black
Ball." That is, the Ballot indicated if you voted For or Against and
you held it hidden in your hand and deposited it unseen by others into
the pool of other Ballots which were then reckoned after the
completion of the process. If the majority were black, the candidate
was defeated.

Anyway, back to my Ballotist activities. I've got more Ballots to
collect.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 03:36:52 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote:


Seriously,
fellows, you can get it out of your system just by voting on Tuesday.


Hi Tom,

DOING better than that. I got myself involved, been working 70 hour
weeks for a month, helped register 2800 voters, and collected about
100 ballots BEFORE November 2nd. And then there is Poll Watching to
be done ON the 2nd.

Come what may - either way - it isn't what is going to happen on the
2nd that counts, it is going to be what happens every day AFTER
Tuesday for very many years.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Hi Richard,
the present administration sure has revivified the
democratic process by angering everyone it could, and re-starting
the culture wars. I don't think a different president will change
foreign policy much, though. Once a nation gets as mighty as
ours, it seems to get power-drunk therefrom and blows all its resources
on controlling the world. The next four years should be interesting, but
painful, no matter who controls the White House.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:03:09 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote:

Once a nation gets as mighty as
ours, it seems to get power-drunk therefrom and blows all its resources
on controlling the world. The next four years should be interesting, but
painful, no matter who controls the White House.

Hi Tom,

I agree, and that is why I said it was going to take YEARS and not one
day. We live in a decadent society that has lost all proportion of
integrity, commitment, and service. When one party rails against a
dope smoking president to offer us a crack smoking president; then you
know their (plural) system has all the morality of Sodom.

Well, I've finished my rounds for this cycle of registration/voting.
It's time to move on to my next project in starting another non-profit
(my buddies chuckle that I can now lose MORE money legally).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:03:09 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote:


Once a nation gets as mighty as
ours, it seems to get power-drunk therefrom and blows all its resources
on controlling the world. The next four years should be interesting, but
painful, no matter who controls the White House.


Hi Tom,

I agree, and that is why I said it was going to take YEARS and not one
day. We live in a decadent society that has lost all proportion of
integrity, commitment, and service. When one party rails against a
dope smoking president to offer us a crack smoking president; then you
know their (plural) system has all the morality of Sodom.

Well, I've finished my rounds for this cycle of registration/voting.
It's time to move on to my next project in starting another non-profit
(my buddies chuckle that I can now lose MORE money legally).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Hi Richard,
good luck with your non-profit. Around here, selfishness,
unbridled acquisitiveness, social paranoia, and soul-deforming greed,
are all considered to be the real manifestations of morality. I hope
the American people will stop shooting each other in the back and
learn to get along some day.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH