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Re: The secret's out!
Let's just say I was enlightened to the many and varied forms of
hypocrisy.... "Earle Horton" <el_anglo_burgues@usa.com> wrote in message news:455a6071$0$21225$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > Never trust a poli sci professor? > Don't send your kids to Bible College, or they'll turn out radical? > > Earle > > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message > news:HYadnYFj5rI-9sfYnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@comcast.com... >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> news:dbc90$455a538f$422afc51$4330@FUSE.NET... >> >A link to my father? >> > >> Yeah, like a newspaper article, or something? You never mentioned it was >> your dad. >> >> The first election I was old enough to vote for was '88. I was a >> sophomore >> in college. One of my professors was very adamant about voting and one >> day >> several weeks before the election (plenty of time for registrations to be >> processed) she got voter registration applications from a poli sci > professor >> to give in her classes to those who weren't registered. I wasn't > registered >> yet, so I filled it out. She turned them all in to the poli sci professor >> who promised to send them for processing. >> >> A couple weeks before the election we asked her about it since no one had >> received their voter registration cards yet. >> >> Turns out the whole batch from all her students got "lost" after she > turned >> them in to the poli sci professor, and they got "found" after she asked >> about them. By that time it was too late to process them before the >> election, when I finally got mine after the election it was dated the day >> after the election. Needless to say she was livid. >> >> This is the interesting part....the professor who encouraged us to > register >> was a music professor, and the poli sci professor who promised her she > would >> take care of it was running for a local election under on the Republican >> ticket. I never had any proof but I suspect since all these came from the >> music school, someone in the poli sci department might think they would > have >> all voted Democrat, so the applications convienently got "lost." >> >> I guess the first-time voters couldn't be trusted to vote either. I got > over >> it, your dad will too. >> >> Before anyone goes on about a left-wing pinko university, know that this > was >> Belmont University, known at the time as Belmont College, which is a > central >> college of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. When I attended there were >> no >> Greek organizations, men's and women's dorms were separate and across > campus >> from each other and off-limits to students of opposite ---, alcohol >> consumption was strictly forbidden, and mandatory chapel attendance every >> Wednesday at 11:00 for all students or you didn't pass. Now there are > Greek >> organizations (but IIRC no fraternity/sorority houses), there are two >> coed >> dorms (coed by floor, opposite --- still off limits), still no drinking >> allowed and chapel is still mandatory. >> >> >> > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> > news:KKadnZJzuqpyssfYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >> Got a link? >> >> >> >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >> news:d7373$4559e10e$422afc51$18119@FUSE.NET... >> >>> It has been a week now and the board of electrons still refuses to >> >>> contact this veteran or allow him to vote although he can document he >> >>> followed all the proper procedures. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>> news:802b4$4555211a$422afc51$31659@FUSE.NET... >> >>>> The only explanation I can imagine is that they think someone who >> >>>> joined the Merchant Marine at 16 (during WWII), enlisted in the Navy >> >>>> and completed underwater demolition training at age 17 (still during >> >>>> WWII), and then volunteered for reactivation to active service again > in >> >>>> 1950 (Korean War), and finally retired from military service can't >> >>>> be >> >>>> trusted to vote. >> >>>> >> >>>> But what the heck...... he's over 80 and a member of a generation > that >> >>>> selflessly stepped forward even before their country asked for their >> >>>> help. >> >>>> >> >>>> Someone like that cannot be trusted with a vote.... >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> >>>> news:eLOdncWdSNX1hcjYnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >>>>> Voter disenfranchising? In Ohio? Surely you jest. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>>>> news:4eb95$455512b3$422afc51$23819@FUSE.NET... >> >>>>>>I don't know about Denver but in predominately Demoncratic downtown >> >>>>>>Cincinnati they denied a hospitalized veteran of two wars the >> >>>>>>opportunity to vote even though the hospital staff have > documentation >> >>>>>>that the appropriate forms were faxed to the board of elections > within >> >>>>>>the proper time frame. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> The board of elections refuses to respond. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message >> >>>>>> news:455501E3.76042E95@cox.net... >> >>>>>>> We get the government we deserve. >> >>>>>>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O >> >>>>>>> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Earle Horton wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> And thank you, democratic voters. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/ >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Earle >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message >> >>> news:N-OdnetKfdcHR8TYnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@softcom.net... >> >>>> No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's >> >>>> my >> >>>> foil beenie? >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > |
Re: The secret's out!
Let's just say I was enlightened to the many and varied forms of
hypocrisy.... "Earle Horton" <el_anglo_burgues@usa.com> wrote in message news:455a6071$0$21225$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > Never trust a poli sci professor? > Don't send your kids to Bible College, or they'll turn out radical? > > Earle > > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message > news:HYadnYFj5rI-9sfYnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@comcast.com... >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> news:dbc90$455a538f$422afc51$4330@FUSE.NET... >> >A link to my father? >> > >> Yeah, like a newspaper article, or something? You never mentioned it was >> your dad. >> >> The first election I was old enough to vote for was '88. I was a >> sophomore >> in college. One of my professors was very adamant about voting and one >> day >> several weeks before the election (plenty of time for registrations to be >> processed) she got voter registration applications from a poli sci > professor >> to give in her classes to those who weren't registered. I wasn't > registered >> yet, so I filled it out. She turned them all in to the poli sci professor >> who promised to send them for processing. >> >> A couple weeks before the election we asked her about it since no one had >> received their voter registration cards yet. >> >> Turns out the whole batch from all her students got "lost" after she > turned >> them in to the poli sci professor, and they got "found" after she asked >> about them. By that time it was too late to process them before the >> election, when I finally got mine after the election it was dated the day >> after the election. Needless to say she was livid. >> >> This is the interesting part....the professor who encouraged us to > register >> was a music professor, and the poli sci professor who promised her she > would >> take care of it was running for a local election under on the Republican >> ticket. I never had any proof but I suspect since all these came from the >> music school, someone in the poli sci department might think they would > have >> all voted Democrat, so the applications convienently got "lost." >> >> I guess the first-time voters couldn't be trusted to vote either. I got > over >> it, your dad will too. >> >> Before anyone goes on about a left-wing pinko university, know that this > was >> Belmont University, known at the time as Belmont College, which is a > central >> college of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. When I attended there were >> no >> Greek organizations, men's and women's dorms were separate and across > campus >> from each other and off-limits to students of opposite ---, alcohol >> consumption was strictly forbidden, and mandatory chapel attendance every >> Wednesday at 11:00 for all students or you didn't pass. Now there are > Greek >> organizations (but IIRC no fraternity/sorority houses), there are two >> coed >> dorms (coed by floor, opposite --- still off limits), still no drinking >> allowed and chapel is still mandatory. >> >> >> > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> > news:KKadnZJzuqpyssfYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >> Got a link? >> >> >> >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >> news:d7373$4559e10e$422afc51$18119@FUSE.NET... >> >>> It has been a week now and the board of electrons still refuses to >> >>> contact this veteran or allow him to vote although he can document he >> >>> followed all the proper procedures. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>> news:802b4$4555211a$422afc51$31659@FUSE.NET... >> >>>> The only explanation I can imagine is that they think someone who >> >>>> joined the Merchant Marine at 16 (during WWII), enlisted in the Navy >> >>>> and completed underwater demolition training at age 17 (still during >> >>>> WWII), and then volunteered for reactivation to active service again > in >> >>>> 1950 (Korean War), and finally retired from military service can't >> >>>> be >> >>>> trusted to vote. >> >>>> >> >>>> But what the heck...... he's over 80 and a member of a generation > that >> >>>> selflessly stepped forward even before their country asked for their >> >>>> help. >> >>>> >> >>>> Someone like that cannot be trusted with a vote.... >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> >>>> news:eLOdncWdSNX1hcjYnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >>>>> Voter disenfranchising? In Ohio? Surely you jest. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>>>> news:4eb95$455512b3$422afc51$23819@FUSE.NET... >> >>>>>>I don't know about Denver but in predominately Demoncratic downtown >> >>>>>>Cincinnati they denied a hospitalized veteran of two wars the >> >>>>>>opportunity to vote even though the hospital staff have > documentation >> >>>>>>that the appropriate forms were faxed to the board of elections > within >> >>>>>>the proper time frame. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> The board of elections refuses to respond. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message >> >>>>>> news:455501E3.76042E95@cox.net... >> >>>>>>> We get the government we deserve. >> >>>>>>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O >> >>>>>>> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Earle Horton wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> And thank you, democratic voters. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/ >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Earle >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message >> >>> news:N-OdnetKfdcHR8TYnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@softcom.net... >> >>>> No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's >> >>>> my >> >>>> foil beenie? >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > |
Re: The secret's out!
Let's just say I was enlightened to the many and varied forms of
hypocrisy.... "Earle Horton" <el_anglo_burgues@usa.com> wrote in message news:455a6071$0$21225$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. . > Never trust a poli sci professor? > Don't send your kids to Bible College, or they'll turn out radical? > > Earle > > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message > news:HYadnYFj5rI-9sfYnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@comcast.com... >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> news:dbc90$455a538f$422afc51$4330@FUSE.NET... >> >A link to my father? >> > >> Yeah, like a newspaper article, or something? You never mentioned it was >> your dad. >> >> The first election I was old enough to vote for was '88. I was a >> sophomore >> in college. One of my professors was very adamant about voting and one >> day >> several weeks before the election (plenty of time for registrations to be >> processed) she got voter registration applications from a poli sci > professor >> to give in her classes to those who weren't registered. I wasn't > registered >> yet, so I filled it out. She turned them all in to the poli sci professor >> who promised to send them for processing. >> >> A couple weeks before the election we asked her about it since no one had >> received their voter registration cards yet. >> >> Turns out the whole batch from all her students got "lost" after she > turned >> them in to the poli sci professor, and they got "found" after she asked >> about them. By that time it was too late to process them before the >> election, when I finally got mine after the election it was dated the day >> after the election. Needless to say she was livid. >> >> This is the interesting part....the professor who encouraged us to > register >> was a music professor, and the poli sci professor who promised her she > would >> take care of it was running for a local election under on the Republican >> ticket. I never had any proof but I suspect since all these came from the >> music school, someone in the poli sci department might think they would > have >> all voted Democrat, so the applications convienently got "lost." >> >> I guess the first-time voters couldn't be trusted to vote either. I got > over >> it, your dad will too. >> >> Before anyone goes on about a left-wing pinko university, know that this > was >> Belmont University, known at the time as Belmont College, which is a > central >> college of the Tennessee Baptist Convention. When I attended there were >> no >> Greek organizations, men's and women's dorms were separate and across > campus >> from each other and off-limits to students of opposite ---, alcohol >> consumption was strictly forbidden, and mandatory chapel attendance every >> Wednesday at 11:00 for all students or you didn't pass. Now there are > Greek >> organizations (but IIRC no fraternity/sorority houses), there are two >> coed >> dorms (coed by floor, opposite --- still off limits), still no drinking >> allowed and chapel is still mandatory. >> >> >> > "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> > news:KKadnZJzuqpyssfYnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >> Got a link? >> >> >> >> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >> news:d7373$4559e10e$422afc51$18119@FUSE.NET... >> >>> It has been a week now and the board of electrons still refuses to >> >>> contact this veteran or allow him to vote although he can document he >> >>> followed all the proper procedures. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>> news:802b4$4555211a$422afc51$31659@FUSE.NET... >> >>>> The only explanation I can imagine is that they think someone who >> >>>> joined the Merchant Marine at 16 (during WWII), enlisted in the Navy >> >>>> and completed underwater demolition training at age 17 (still during >> >>>> WWII), and then volunteered for reactivation to active service again > in >> >>>> 1950 (Korean War), and finally retired from military service can't >> >>>> be >> >>>> trusted to vote. >> >>>> >> >>>> But what the heck...... he's over 80 and a member of a generation > that >> >>>> selflessly stepped forward even before their country asked for their >> >>>> help. >> >>>> >> >>>> Someone like that cannot be trusted with a vote.... >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt@nospamplease.com> wrote in message >> >>>> news:eLOdncWdSNX1hcjYnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@comcast.com. .. >> >>>>> Voter disenfranchising? In Ohio? Surely you jest. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message >> >>>>> news:4eb95$455512b3$422afc51$23819@FUSE.NET... >> >>>>>>I don't know about Denver but in predominately Demoncratic downtown >> >>>>>>Cincinnati they denied a hospitalized veteran of two wars the >> >>>>>>opportunity to vote even though the hospital staff have > documentation >> >>>>>>that the appropriate forms were faxed to the board of elections > within >> >>>>>>the proper time frame. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> The board of elections refuses to respond. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message >> >>>>>> news:455501E3.76042E95@cox.net... >> >>>>>>> We get the government we deserve. >> >>>>>>> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O >> >>>>>>> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/ >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Earle Horton wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> And thank you, democratic voters. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/ >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Earle >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message >> >>> news:N-OdnetKfdcHR8TYnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@softcom.net... >> >>>> No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's >> >>>> my >> >>>> foil beenie? >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > |
Re: The secret's out!
"Siezed?" It's not like the Supreme Court decided the outcome of the
election, or anything.... "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message news:c938e$455a7518$422afc51$26759@FUSE.NET... > "noneofyourbusiness" <top.secret@needtoknow.org> wrote in message > news:5kmkl211mmfrhql8qlmtdvusto6k4c4jve@4ax.com... >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:00:33 -0800, Outatime <WhoKnows@here.com> >> wrote: >> >>>No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's my >>>foil beenie? >> >> Hold up...when did this become alt.autos.toyota? >> ;-) >> > Right after the Demoncrats seized power. > |
Re: The secret's out!
"Siezed?" It's not like the Supreme Court decided the outcome of the
election, or anything.... "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message news:c938e$455a7518$422afc51$26759@FUSE.NET... > "noneofyourbusiness" <top.secret@needtoknow.org> wrote in message > news:5kmkl211mmfrhql8qlmtdvusto6k4c4jve@4ax.com... >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:00:33 -0800, Outatime <WhoKnows@here.com> >> wrote: >> >>>No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's my >>>foil beenie? >> >> Hold up...when did this become alt.autos.toyota? >> ;-) >> > Right after the Demoncrats seized power. > |
Re: The secret's out!
"Siezed?" It's not like the Supreme Court decided the outcome of the
election, or anything.... "billy ray" <billy_ray@SPAMfuse.net> wrote in message news:c938e$455a7518$422afc51$26759@FUSE.NET... > "noneofyourbusiness" <top.secret@needtoknow.org> wrote in message > news:5kmkl211mmfrhql8qlmtdvusto6k4c4jve@4ax.com... >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:00:33 -0800, Outatime <WhoKnows@here.com> >> wrote: >> >>>No wonder Democrats won the election! It's a conspiracy! Where's my >>>foil beenie? >> >> Hold up...when did this become alt.autos.toyota? >> ;-) >> > Right after the Demoncrats seized power. > |
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