Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

Poor minority women are certainly NOT undesirable.

POTY


imagine how mad MA is going to be when they see black people tonight with gold teeth and baggy clothes chanting...making ridiculously uninformed statements...and going crazy on the news....they are going to be angrier than when those palestinians were celebrating the twin towers collapse and im gonna laugh

My mom was working as a waitress during Reagan's glory years and his indifference and outright attack on working people nearly put us in the poor house.   He screwed millions of poor and working class poor people with his trickle down bullcrap and I hope Satan is cleansing his colon with lava vigorously right now.

POTL5YR

[mussa]

i just went and there had to be 200 plus people outside. came back to grab a rain jacket just in case its going to take awhile....ugh...sucks to wait but its great to see so many people voting!

[Seabiscuit36]

IGY, any good sites for maryland voters that show the stances of opponents?  Cecil county is a joke, we get no coverage about who does what.   

[Eagles_Legendz]

Just voted.  N-Z had 0 people waiting.  My line, G-M, had 11.  Didn't take much longer than 15 minutes total though.

[phattymatty]

VA had early voting for the last 3 weeks, tried to get it done after work twice last week and was told it would be over 3 hours both times.

Apparently it was about a 2 hour wait this morning if you got there butt ass early, but I rolled in at about 8:30 and was in and out in about 45.  

Voted for Dems for the top 3, and wrote in myself for the county board.   Voted NO on taking out a debt for public schools, and YES to takling out a loan for water treatment and sewage maintenance.  I am not paying for other people's zesty kids.  

[Father Demon]

imagine how mad MA is going to be when they see black people tonight with gold teeth and baggy clothes chanting...making ridiculously uninformed statements...and going crazy on the news....they are going to be angrier than when those palestinians were celebrating the twin towers collapse and im gonna laugh

You get more and more farged up the more you spout your ignorance.

[ice grillin you]

IGY, any good sites for maryland voters that show the stances of opponents?  Cecil county is a joke, we get no coverage about who does what.   

not sure...i read the post every day and get my 411 from there


when in doubt vote liberal....thats what id do

[Seabiscuit36]

im writing in vote for Chase Utley if i dont know

[Rome]

So you're saying that your mom is a sexy low-income minority? Rowr.

She was in 1970.  Now she's gas bubbles.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Karl Rove predicts 338 electoral votes for Obama.

Did anyone on predict more than me at 311?

[Diomedes]

Voted NO on taking out a debt for public schools, and YES to takling out a loan for water treatment and sewage maintenance.  I am not paying for other people's zesty kids.  

Baltimore has $125M worth of Bond Issues up for vote:

Who: Maryland Science Center
How much: $400,000
What it's for: A green roof and 6,600 square feet of education space.
My vote:  Yes.  It's not much money.  It will provide work for smallish companies...that's not a huge contract.  Green investment is good.  So is investing in Science and Science ed.  Moreover, the Science center will always attract private donors, so I'm not worried about it going under.

Who: Walters Art Museum
How much: $350,000
What it's for: Designing and adding up to 120,000 square feet to the museum.
My vote:  Yes.  Same reasoning as above.

Who: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
How Much: $300,000
What it's for: Repairing the roof.
My vote:  Again yes.  I support the arts and so do lots of rich people.  A 300k bond to repair the roof hardly sounds like a bad investment.

Who: National Aquarium in Baltimore
How Much: $500,000
What it's for: Upgrading the animals' life-support systems.
My vote:  No.  farg aquariums and zoos.  There are other ways to study animals than caging them for our bizarre viewing pleasure.

Who: Enoch Pratt Free Library
How Much: $3 million
What it's for: Improvements to the library branches in Canton, Waverly, and Hampden.
My vote:  Yes.  Free Library, yes.  Waverly especially is due for some improvements.

Who: Port Discovery
How Much: $600,000
What it's for: Green building renovations.
My vote:  Yes.  Energy smart renovation is good investment all the way around. 

Who: Baltimore Museum of Art
How Much: $750,000
What it's for: Museum renovations.
My vote:  Yes.  Art is good.  The museum can expect support from outside government, so it's not going under.  It's wise to keep the museum in good repair.  And again, we're talking chump change here. 

Who: Lyric Opera House
How Much: $1 million
What it's for: Improvements to the technical systems, orchestra pit, and auditorium, enlarging the stage-house.
My vote:  Yes.  Similar reasons to the other arts and sciences projects I support.

Who: Baltimore City (Schools)
How Much: $43 million
What it's for: School construction and improvement.
My vote:  No.  That is a huge pile of debt for a failing system that is already gobbling up money by the millions with no appreciable results.  We may damn well need better buildings, but we certainly don't need more debt.  Moreover, the problems with the schools aren't the buildings and books--as bad as they may be, people have taught and learned with much less for centuries.  The problem in the schools is that the teachers have almost no power to deal with bad students, they don't have the power to teach what they want and how they want, and they are underpaid.  They have been reduced to line workers being held accountable for results they cannot control.  The parents of the rotten kids run the goddamn administrators around and they in turn waste all the money on teaching consultants, re-orgs, team building seminars, and beurocracy.
Give the teachers back the power to do their jobs, forget debt for new fancy buildings and chalkboards.

Who: Everyman Theatre
How Much: $500,000
What it's for: Moving to a new building on the west side.
My vote:  Yes.  Theatre is good, loan is miniscule.

Who: Baltimore City (Community Development)
How Much: $30.5 million
What it's for: Projects include mixed-income housing in Greenmount West, buying and razing properties near American Brewery, Healthy Neighborhood loans, and homeownership programs.
My vote:  Yes.  City needs to get rid of blighted buildings, attract homeowners, support neighborhood community associations.

Who: Baltimore City (Recreation and Parks)
How Much: $16 million
What it's for: Rec centers in Cherry Hill and Patterson Park, Baltimore Rowing and Resource Center, and renovating the bathhouse at Druid Hill Park pool.
My vote:  Yes.  These are the kinds of services that help keep the city civilized and connected.

Who: Baltimore City (Economic Development)
How Much: $15.3 million
What it's for: Projects including west-side redevelopment and School 33 Art Center renovation.
My vote:  No.  I don't know enough about this "redevelopment" plan, but I suspect it means locals getting farged.  I'm also not high on the idea of putting money into renovating a school, as I mentioned before.

We've also got a referendum for slots, I'm voting no.  And another for early voting, on which I'm voting yes.

yay bold

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I had a really boring ballot - no propositions or bond issues or anything - just people.

[Phanatic]

We had an item on the ballet to allow casinos to get rid of loss limits. Right now Casinos in MO limit losses at $500 I think. They hid this loss limit thing in a packaged money for education bill that will probably pass. I voted no because Atlantic City is a shtein hole ouside of the casinos and I didn't want to see the areas around the Casinos become the same thing.

Also the city I live in was asking for $50,000,000 for the sewage system. Even though sewage is important that was a really steep price tag. I voted no. I'm already full of shtein anyway.

[Diomedes]

Modern sewage systems--hell, even antiquated ones--are extremely expensive.

[mussa]

took me 40 minutes. would of taken longer but they split the lines from a-l and m-z. thankfully. what worries me is the old farts running the place.