One Man, One Vote
One Man, One Vote and I’m the one man.
(Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)
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Ah ha… ha?
(Unless, of course, I’m missing some hilarious reference or quotation.)
Not hilarious, just a sad fact
Ripping off Terry Pratchett ftl. This guy is NO Vetinari.
Totally the World’s most blatent Terry Pratchett rip-off. I’m surprised AC didn’t spot it too.
Pratchett? Doh! I fail…
But thanks for pointing it out…
It’s Kewel; the cap just howled “misquoted Pratchett rip-off” at me.
Actually sorry folks!! But that quote is older than Methuselah!!
You’ll give me that Terry is the most likely source for most people to have met it from though? Seriously, he’s the place I first met it, and I’m not sure I could come up with an older one without use of the Interwebnet.
I’ve heard of that joke in the 70’s before I even heard of Terry Pratchett, but most people here probably did get the quote off Terry Pratchett who got the quote from somewhere else.
dog botherer was always one of my favorite characters…
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“real assassins don’t wear black…”
“Vetinarii specialized in language studies… and that was *not* the soft option!”
Actually, dark green has been shown to have some interesting properties.”
Thank goodness I’m not the only one who had that as the first thought on seeing this!
I’m glad to see that so many people have read his fantastic books.
Thank you for notifying everyone before me about Pratchett, this quote’s source.
“He was the Man, and he had the Vote.”
Vetinari has way better dress sense.
Misquoted AND stolen. For shame. A black coach is waiting outside. You have an appointment with the Patrician.
((Admittedly, scenario taken from Making Money.)
Not sure what all the Iranian hubub is about- they got the same type of election we got in the US in 2000 and ‘04. Welcome to democracy. American Style.
I don’t seem to recall the National Guard shooting protesters, idiot.
Not to mention that we don’t seem to get the results within two hours after closing polling stations with paper balloting! JD is proving his/her ignorance with tap shoes on!
Nice work JD. Great job trivializing the corruption in Iran. Just capital work, d-bag.
you’re welcome.
Americans were not up in arms about the fact that the “good guy” was declaring himself victory before the polls were even closed. The voter fraud you’re hearing so much about is based on the number of ballots cast vs the number of “eligible” voters. Please, note, this doesn’t mean the stuffing of ballot boxes by government officials.
If only half of you cared as much about the US government’s corruption in the ‘00 and ‘04 elections I wouldn’t have a problem with your sudden concern about Iran. *tap tap tap* MF’er
Since it’s impossible to redo history (unless your Tyler and can rip a hole in the time/space continuum) I suggest you just move forward. Your guy won in ‘08 (I’m assuming anyway since you’re b*tching about ‘00 and ‘04) so what’s the complaint?
*whispers* But Eds, I don’t want him playing for my team. Can we put him in the outfield maybe?
Yes, Jane, the outfield is fine. Just don’t forget about him when the game is over though.. oh wait, nevermind.. let him figure it out on his own.
Is there in place further than the outfield that we can put Again. I don’t want him/her on my team either.
How about a nice institution? Again will love it at Shady Acres Home for Assholes.
It’ll be so much fun for him/her to wander about the cafeteria randomly attacking people for drinking milk!
Like a playground! Just for the mentally ill, better-than-you types!
Way to go JD, Just my thoughts. except the iranians has their sh1t together and didnt need to corrupt the legal system to carry of their ‘win’.
And to all the republicans STILL smarting about the return of democracy to the US
GET OVER YOURSELVES.
Life sucks – get a helmet.
and special mention for DHOTI – you are rite, they Didnt use the national guard, true to form they outsourced to the iraqis and afghanis.
True enough. They haven’t done that since the 60s.
nope. The national guard were, however, on hand in poorer areas of the country. Armed to discourage minority voters.
JD, I think you may have seen one too many Disney movies: just because you believe in something with all your heart doesn’t mean it’ll come true. (See also “9/11 was an inside job”.)
Unless you’re confusing the National Guard with the Black Panthers, and 2000 and 2004 with 2008. Because that one actually happened.
Dhoti, I’m not going to comment on this thread because I have to read more on the subject if I was to debate on the same level as you guys, but if I truly believe with all my heart that something is true did you know I can tear a hole in the fabric of the universe, it becomes real, and the universe refabricates according to my will?
Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
On the other hand, what my friend said the other day- thought it was pretty funny.
“I can talk to FISH! Aren’t I important? I can breathe under WATER! Aren’t I important?” – referring to Aquaman.
That’s both cute and non-sensical, just like a Disney movie. I *do* like it. Thank you. BTW- I was there. While you are *SQUEEZE*ing friends on lol sites, I was in the field working for the rights of voters in the US during what were some of the MOST corrupt elections in history.
There are stories that would boggle the mind regarding the atrocities that have taken place regarding voter rights in THIS country. I know it’s easy for those of you who’ve never had to confront it to say “not in this country you conspiracy theorizing nutjob!” That, frankly, makes me feel good. To know some of the more coddled can still say that, it means that corruption hasn’t totally won yet. So, you go back to sleep, and I’ll continue to be vigilant for you.
Gee, if voter fraud was so rife at that time, don’t you think we would have even heard just a smidgen of it? After all, look at the hubbub over ACORN in this last election and Obama still won. Personally, I think you’re full of crap and for some reason you have it in your mind that you’re a lot more important than you really are.
Actually a good portion of it was on many news sources. Just not 24/7 like the Iranian elections- which is why you missed it. I suggest reading past the headlines.
As for being that important… well, it would be impossible for me to be as important as I think I am.
That’s….not really backing anything up.
I do remember reading about folks deleted from the voting rolls in Florida for non-existent felony convictions, and also about roadblocks suddenly appearing in the same state at sunset… This is my memory (which tends to be very accurate) about reading it in the Boston Globe. I was not personally present in Florida, however.
in order to hear, youd need to pull your head out of your ass for 5 minutes, i think that splains it
Don’t insult Eddie, even if he disagrees with your opinion. He could rip your face off with his dust-farts alone, and he’s plenty nice, so you don’t need to go insulting him for ONE dissenting opinion. And I’m not going to make any comments on your opinion, frankly I don’t care until you learn to spell, capitalize and use the apostrophe correctly.
On another note, he shortly asks for citations if it’s true, so he doesn’t dismiss JD’s opinion outright.
Secondly, if what you say is true, kindly provide some citations to back up what you say.
So you say. And yet I couldn’t help but notice that you didn’t bother to mention a single verifiable detail in that self-serving diatribe — what organization you worked for, what state you were in, evidence that you actually saw what you say you saw, etc. If I didn’t already know, I’d wonder why that was.
In short: prove it, tough guy.
He can’t, it’s all in his mind. And as they say, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Ten bucks (your dollars or mine) that he goes on a tirade about Palm Beach County or Katherine Harris or something and never mentions the National Guard again.
At the current exchange rate, mine..
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But I’m sure you’re correct. I’m patiently waiting for him to back up his claim, but I hear the distant chirp of crickets.
Maybe his polling place was in a National Guard armory.
That would be one explanation.
Ooh, good call!
Seems to me most of the news I’ve heard regarding voter issues in this country involves voters who happen to be, oh, dead, or registered in more than one state….
So, you claim to have witnessed atrocities/intimidation; where most of us (with some years of experience voting in different precincts/states) have never experienced anything more than having to wait in a long line, or possibly (*gasp*) being asked for ID, or informed that we’ve gone to the wrong polling place….
I’ll just say this once: Back it up with film and/or news cites, or it didn’t happen.
And you’re probably white.
Which I’m sure according to you means I also have to be a racist.
Fine, living in a majority-black city I’m very used to it.
On the other hand, living in a majority-black city means that a better-than-average percentage of people in the fscking line with me weren’t white. And again, I haven’t witnessed anyone being intimidated or given a rough time.
You, on the other hand, keep saying that you have, but refusing to back it up.
And you’re probably a rascist.
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Back up your claims or shut the fsck up.. it’s as simple as that.
Is it just me, or would atrocities at the polls be serious news these days? After all the mayhem we’ve experienced with elections in 2000 and 2004, wouldn’t even the slightest mishap be newsworthy? I mean after massive voter disenfranchisement in the city of St. Louis in one of the last few elections (can’t remember which one), they really had to stop and look at how to make things work out better for city voters. Why? Because the local news was ready to pounce on ANYONE that was disenfranchised (sp?).
That being said, I’m not naive enough to believe that there isn’t corruption going on in our elections. I just can’t prove it, that’s all. And I’ll admit that.
Right, but if there was one whiff of something amiss, everybody and their brother would pounce on it. I’m sure there are people that may have been disenfranchised, but in most cases it’s because the voter didn’t understand their responsibility when it comes to registering and then voting.
In the past, pure inefficiency in the city resulted in disenfranchising of voters. A lot of those problems have been ironed out now. And I’m man enough to admit that my feelings about possible corruption in elections amounts to little more than cynicism and paranoia. Maybe corruption is the wrong word. Incompetence, maybe? Is it just me or during every recount over the last several years has several votes been “found” that hadn’t been counted? I heard about it all the time during the Al Franken thing. The fact is, our current election process isn’t particularly efficient, and I’ll head off the next question and say, no, I don’t have any better ideas right now.
You know what, though? If the 2000 & 2004 elections were rigged for GWB, then why wasn’t 2008 rigged for McCain? The fact that Obama got elected shoots a hole in that theory.
What’s that saying — “never ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence”? Particularly since we have less of a single large election than ten thousand local ones.
Like the predominantly black voters disenfranchised in Florida in 2000: the state paid an outside company to handle purging the convicted felon list that year. Did they set up the deal to try to sneakily screw people over? Meh, possibly. Is it more likely that the company they picked was full of morons and they did it on the cheap? Yup.
I just wish every disenfranchisement was as well publicized. (Case in point — the deplorable tactic of systematically disenfranchising military absentee voters; it happened in Florida in 2000 and at least in Virginia in 2008.)
Wow. Even in a LOL about Iran, PK manages to have a fight about US politics.
We try not to discriminate..
We fight about what we (think we) know
I’m not prone to believing conspiracy theories, but the overwhelming evidence does show that the 2004 election was significantly tainted. The fact that the 2008 election was not stolen is a testament to the hours and hours of volunteer work that was put in by people who believed that it, in fact, could happen here.
Cite?
Could also be that the margin of votes was so much larger in 2008?
There are better out there, but I did link one to my name.
According to Rolling Stone, it says that the 350,000 votes would have given Kerry the election. In reality, it would have given Kerry Ohio, but the number of electoral votes received still wouldn’t have been enough to give it to Kerry.
Not specific to Ohio, but this one I thought you’d like just because of the crooked judge named Cletus.
heh-heh! Cletus! –Sorry, had a pre-teen moment there.
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I’m not doubting that there were voting problems–humans involved, and humans have a tendency to be either lazy or corrupt. The point that I was inadequately trying to make is that said irregularities and crimes would have had a much larger impact in 2000 and 2004, when the margin to win was much smaller. The margin and electoral college counts for 2008 were such that wrong-doing (which probably did happen) would most likely not have had a chance to influence the result.
Yeah, I hated to laugh about the guy’s name, ’cause you can’t help what your parents did to you. But today there was a comment about the nude hike from a ranger named “Woody Lipps”.
It’s simple human psychology, really. Kerry voters in 2004, particularly the fervent and the partisan, couldn’t believe that not only did Bush win, he won by a 3M+ vote margin. Rather than accept the outcome, they were more comfortable feeling that the election was instead stolen. (It wasn’t necessarily even a conscious decision; on a more unconscious level, accepting the outcome means your vote was “wrong”, and we hate to be wrong; it bubbles up.)
In reality, there were election irregularities (and, yes, some fraud) all over. Through the magic of confirmation bias, errors in favor of Republicans are turned into evidence, and errors in favor of Democrats are ignored. (Case in point: who remembers the exit poll scam?)
“(It wasn’t necessarily even a conscious decision; on a more unconscious level, accepting the outcome means your vote was “wrong”, and we hate to be wrong; it bubbles up.)”
No, accepting that outcome meant everyone else’s vote was wrong
Yes, that’s another common coping mechanism.
To me, it means I’m going to have to go back in time and steal the winning candidate with my mind, take him to the future and use my super mental abilities to drop a mountain on him.
Have I mentioned yet, Heroes is a real, historically accurate show?
(I’m kidding, of course, whenever I’m wrong in who I would’ve voted for in an election I take it as oh, not as many people like the candidate as much as they do the other’s.)
It WAS an inside job, dumbass.
Historical recollection FAIL.
Owned!
Who? JD’s comment was nothing more than toilet fodder..
Don’t take off your aluminum helmet. you need the protection from the real world.
Just as I suspected.. nothing more from you but crickets.
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You make some serious allegations and then choose to ignore everything that comes after. You’re nothing more than a sh*t-stirring trolling twit.
Weird proportions. He looks like a bobblehead. A weird, fanatical, terrifying bobblehead.
The turban adds 10 pounds to your head on TV. Or so I’ve heard.
Score one for Mr. The Mildly Annoying.
When did Santa start wearing a black headdress?
it’s his off season colors
Slimming, you know…
he is obi wan? `_` that are not the vote youre looking for
This made me snort.
Well, since we appear to be ignoring a lame Terry rip-off:-
1) You know the “6 degrees of separation” thing; You now all have a Terry Pratchett number of 1 (if you’ve met him yourself) or 2, since I have met him, and even had a drink with him (him G&T, me real ale), and you’ve all virtually met me.
2) Barrack Obama is a West Ham fan.
today has just become that much awesomer, thanks paws
Bobby Fischer is NOT dead!! He moved to Iran and put on a turban!! {link}
I think he is saying that the LA Lakers are number one.
Their supreme leader appointed a fool as their Presidident.
Our supreme court appointed a fool as our president.
Sounds to me like it belongs on the ‘Totally looks like’ page.
Presidident?
Grah.
Possibly typists stutter?
Eddie, you mean typististists’ stutter, right?
No, I LOVE the word presididen’t… that’s ROFL!
Oh no he Presididn’t! *finger snap*
I just know there’s going to be an opportunity to use that line in the future! Nice one Jane!
Obscure reference?
Inside joke?
A comment could have been made about a turban and genies or some such….but no…we get this crap.
for all you of illiterate bastards who have never heard of terry pratchett and the discworld series (that was sarcasm, for more information on sarcasm go read his books) here’s the quote:
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Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
“One man, one vote. So long as I’m that man.”
yet another attributed quote, 90% of whats in tp (and i love it and have read everything) is borrowed, i mean 1/2 the plotlines come from elsewhere. start there and work down
My goodness, that’s exactly what I was going to comment on! I love the Discworld series. At least the Patrician who rules during the time of the series is insanely capable at fixing things.
Words of wisdom from Terry Pratchett.
Actually words of wisdom from Mr A Nonny Mouse. As I said this quote is older than Methuselah.
Um, Ubr? Not knowing who Terry Pratchett is doesn’t make one an “illiterate bastard.” It only makes one NOT a fan of fantasy novels. Or, as in my case, not a fan of his writing…period.
Um, Mel? I think ubr he was being sarcarstic (what with him mentioning it and all – though Terry Pratchett is more satirical than sarcastic) – but knowing who Terry Pratchett is and being proud of not reading him is, um, lame, narrow minded snobbishness
And for the record, yes, Vetinari is the Man and I would not say a word against him (due to his highly efficient spy network)
Fantasy novels? Yeah, sure, like “Gulliver’s Travels” was a fantasy novel. Pratchet’s novels are sharp edged satire and social commentary, among other things, and some of the funniest stuff out there. To say you don’t like it is legitimate (tastes differ), but to dismiss it as simply fantasy, now that IS the mark of an illiterate bastard. Hurr, hurr, hurr……
Well sort of. “The Colour of Magic” and “The Light Fantastic” are satires of heroic fantasy, but the later (not that much later) novels, certainly from “Soul Music” and “Moving Pictures” on are very much satire and/or social commentary of aspects of our society, or even our society as a whole.
Hmm not really that munch funny.