TrogL
TrogL's JournalIf not McCarthy, whom?
He cannot seem to get the magic number of votes to get the Speaker position especially with Marjorie Taylor Greene getting involved.
There seems to be no viable second choice and there's talk if reaching across the aisle. Is there a Democratic Party member acceptable to enough people to carry the day?
Is there a methodology for doing a recall of Kyrsten Sinema?
Ok would you people PLEASE get your election shit together
I know I post this every two years, but still...
I'm a former employee of Elections Canada. I've worked for Federal and Provincial campaigns is a variety of positions. I'm best known as "the guy with the truck" for lugging huge campaign signs around. I'm also active at the polls.
Canada doesn't have mail in or online voting. It does have convenient early voting. There's lots of polls, they're in driving distance and on major bus routes and if you need a ride you can phone the campaign office and somebody will take you.
There's a great long list of acceptable ID including dragging your neighbour in to swear you in. Hence, ballots are pre-sorted. Unless you spoil your ballot, if it's in the box, it's valid.
On election day, the head pool person drives over and picks up a kit for each polling station. It easily fits in the trunk of a car. There are signs, cardboard ballot boxes, cardboard voting shields, bags, sticky tape and folders of valid voters. As a voter comes in they are checked off the list (as above there are ways of dealing with exceptions), given a cute little paper ballot, they vote behind one of the little cardboard partitions then put it in the ballot box.
End of the night, the boxes are opened and counted in front of scrutineers from each Party (assuming they show up), results are totted up, phoned into the central office (scrutineers phone their campaign offices), everything gets sealed in sticky tape, boxed up and returned to central office and everybody's home by 11 pm to watch the results on yhe news.
It's coming up on a week and you STILL dont have results for House OR Senate???!!!??
The right wing is dipping deep into the Thesaurus to describe the election
Debacle
Disaster
Horrific
Horrible
Outrageous
What else have you heard?
Why is nobody talking about the RINOs?
Assuming the Repugs take the House it's going to be by a slim majority. The RINOs are from districts where MAGAts are not a factor. If an attempt is made to do anything monumentally stupid, the Speaker won't have the votes.
I think Putin is planning on nuking Kherson
He's evacuating his people. It would send a message to NATO. It's far enough East that prevailing winds would take fallout away from Russia. The residual radiation would prevent further Ukrainian incursion.
I called my boss's wife an asshole in front of my boss
She called me an asshole back. Everybody laughed
I'm planning on training up my daughter in a couple of hours
No not this kind:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Train_Up_a_Child
She got a job at my workplace and we're going out on training tonight.
I just heard Pete Buttigieg at a Town Hall at Georgetown. Wow!!
https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/65cfb29a-195e-4b44-91fb-9e855ad51e03/aadb9ef2-9493-469a-b49b-9b5a04dc7893Missed the beginning but heard about half hour of him fielding complex questions from University students. His answers were well thought out, detailed and well delivered. Like Obama, he speaks in paragraphs.
Now that he's got some federal experience under his belt I see him as a viable Presidential candidate.
I did the dead parrot sketch with Telus tech support
I'm an electronic technician. I don't know how many multimeters I own. My security camera, supplied by Telus, quit working so I took it down off the pole, brought it inside and plugged it in. Nothing. No lights.
So I reached for the nearest multimeter and tested the 12 Volt power supply. Nothing. Checked the multimeter with a battery. It's fine.
Phone up Telus tech support, eventually get routed to the correct department.
TrogL: Hi I'm an electronic technician. My security camera is dead. Needs a new power supply.
Telus: I've logged into your system, the camera appears to be fine.
Trogl: Glad you think so, it's sitting on the car seat next to me.
Telus: Sometimes changing the position affects the WiFi.
TrogL: No. Stop reading from the script and listen. It is dead. IT HAS GONE TO MEET ITS MAKER.
Telus: We will need to send a technician to enter your house and check the wiring.
TrogL: No. Pay attention. It is an outdoor camera. Its power supply is dead. There is no voltage. IT IS DEAD. IT SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES. IT HAS GONE TO MEET ITS MAKER. IT IS A DEAD...errr...CAMERA.
He called his supervisor. They were unable to cope with just sending a power supply so they sent a new camera.
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