Reefer Madness?
Guido Vacano
nycademon at SPIRALREALM.COM
Tue Jul 31 09:55:34 EDT 2007
It's a pity we tend to be complacent about our politics. Funny how you
get a government that doesn't give a damn about you, if you don't give a
damn about it.
Guido
M Holmes wrote:
> Arjan Hulsebos writes:
>
>
>> One of the "funniest" things that happened shortly thereafter was that
>> the US sent a bunch of observers to an African country to oversee the
>> elections there. I bet quite a lot of voters must have thought "look
>> closely, you lot, this is how you do it".
>>
>
> I dunno. I think the US coes out with a lot of credit in fact. In many
> countries and at many points in history a hung election has been cause
> for civil war, coup d'etat, riots etc.
>
> The US put two armies of lawyers into three separate courts to sort it
> out and pretty much everyone else switched back to CSI or NASCAR until
> they got back with the result.
>
> That is exactly how it's all supposed to work and y'all should give
> yourselves a national pat on the back instead of beating yourselves up
> over it.
>
> FoFP
>
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