"If ya don't vote, ya can't bitch."
    - me

I call that little stub I get when I vote my "license to bitch."

Tony Smith wrote:
>> Rolf wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The correct conclusion (the one I intended to convey) is that the 
>>> naive should not vote, and the enlightened should vote to 
>>>       
>> do the least 
>>     
>>> damage .... ;-)
>>>       
>> How about this: instead of complaining that all politicians 
>> are corrupt, start by joining a party, do some base line work 
>> and make what you consider decent people show up on ballots?
>>
>>     
>
>
> What, stop whinging & actually do something?  Where's the fun in that?
>
> I had an amusing conversation yesterday regarding Americans & voting.  They
> complain about the goverment, don't vote, are amazed that Australians have
> compulsory voting (that's a violation of your rights) and live in a
> democracy.  Right.  (No Americans were about to defend themselves,
> unfortunately.)
>
> You can pigeon-hole people into 3 categories:
>
> A: Whingers
> B: Doers
> C: Don't care
>
> There's really only 2 categories, the "Don't care" folk become whingers at
> the drop of a hat.
>
> I've found that I don't have much time for the more rabid whingers these
> days.  Those who state:  "xxx is xxx as xxx is caused by xxx. If xxx was to
> xxx the xxx would xxx. These are just my opinions, but only a complete moron
> would think otherwise."
>
> You can fill in the gaps with cats, religion, jews, Windows, Unix, 16F84,
> token-ring, chocolate, taxes, heat, oil, MS BOB, guns, lead-free solder,
> conspiracy, cigarete smoke, porn, Volkwagon, Coke, cancer, single button
> mice, arabs, government, liquid paper, soduko, rednecks, CapsLock, orange
> underwear, Zune, spam, terrorists, Fiji, global warming, plastic, copper etc
> - any combination works.
>
> Here's a typical rant: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned
> Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the
> earth". "These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on
> the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their
> power"
>
> Replace "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "Western leaders" & "God" with "RMS",
> "Windows Users" & "GNU", (you figure out the rest) and it still works.  (Ok,
> a bit harsh on RMS.  ESR?  Then you can toss in guns)
>
> There doesn't seem to be any overlap or crossover between Groups A & B.
>
> I'm also forming a theory regarding those whose mail program fail to handle
> quoting properly, but I need a few more data points.
>
> Tony
>
>
>   

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