OBLIGATORY I VOTED POST

[bobemm]

OK!

1. Somebody put Stabenow and Granholm signs in my yard without asking (I live on a busy road kitty-corner from the polling place, so such things are to be expected). Which in principle really pisses me off, but in practice I'm not removing them.
2. The tally on the tabulator was 442, which is sort of disappointing for this precinct, but I guess we've still got a few hours.
3. And, I got in right before the line started forming, maybe lots of people will vote after work.
4. Nobody harassed me, as expected. This is a super-progressive area, the election workers actually want people to vote, even if their skin is a bit dark!
5. What are we coming to if that's remarkable?
6. All dems, except for County Commission - I wrote in qmrf, because Peterson is a right bastard and I have no idea how he won the primary BY NINE VOTES and man does that guy really piss me off.
7. Every time I pass over a Green for a Dem, it makes me sad, but I just don't think it's practical this year.

If you aren't sure that you're going to vote today, let me make a suggestion - DO IT GOD DAMMIT. Even if you're a Republican. Eew, sigh.

Comments

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

if you were black, you'd be making even less.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

Really? So all black Americans make less than I do? That's really amazing, because I'm pretty sure I know non-caucasians who make more than I do. In fact, I live with one. But he's Chinese, so I guess that's not black. And Chinese is basically white when compared to black, AM I RITE?

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Once again, you're arguing with a statement that I didn't make.

I'm saying that a black person in the same position as you would make less. So would a woman. This is a fact.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

"if you were black, you'd be making even less.

You didnt say this?

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Yes. In your position, if you were black, your salarey would be less. This is a fact.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

Curiously enough, there are black people where I work. Poor black college students like me. And strangely, we get paid the same hourly wage. It's true- the girls too! And there's more females than males. And probably more Asians than Blacks.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Aww, you guys discuss your wages with each other? How unusual, I've never had a job where such discussion wasn't taboo.

In any case, your place of employment may be an anomaly, but industry-wide, people who aren't white men make less money doing the same jobs as people who are white men. Once again, this is simply a fact.

[doombeast.livejournal.com]

It's a brave new world, chuck.

Keep reiterating that fact line and somebody who isnt you or I might believe it.

[chucknoblet.livejournal.com]

Aww, I wish I cared enough about what you think to present you with some statistics. Unfortunately, you can be as ignorant as you want, and I don't actually give a fuck. You might do yourself a favor by researching it yourself though.

[misanthropicsob.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, I hope these statistics are more recent than the decade old statistics I bitched out a special guest Ann Arbor-liberal for using. Those were about women in industry.