Throw Away Votes

So I'm not going to vote Republican or Democrat in this race. I'm going to vote Libertarian because Bob Barr is closest in view to Ron Paul who I was rooting for before the media narrowed it down to McCain/Obama.

People tell me it's throwing away my vote.

Why have the freedom of choice when people say you throw your vote away if you don't vote for a "main" candidate? That's like letting people drink but tell them they can only have one specific beer versus one specific wine and they'd rather have a cocktail.

There is a very interesting article about how third-party voting affects government here: http://www.nolanchart.com/article252.html

We just need to go back to the beginning!

I was reading Encarta on this topic and found this very interesting:

The framers of the United States Constitution made no provision in the governmental structure for the functioning of political parties because they believed that parties were a source of corruption and an impediment to the freedom of people to judge issues on their merits. James Madison argued in his The Federalist “No. 10” paper against a system in which “factions” (his word for parties) might be able to seize control of the government. George Washington, in accordance with the thinking of his fellow Founding Fathers, included in his Cabinet men of diverse political philosophies and policies, rather than narrow his choices to those of a single political outlook.

So...to those who thinking not voting R or D is a throw-away: in the words of Ron Paul motivators: "I'd rather throw away my vote than throw away my country".

A little extra money

Things like this just crack me up...like double digit thousands is pocket change. I was reading the DDN this afternoon about gold selling so well.

Gold was selling around $910 a troy ounce by midday and silver at $11.70.

ok...

Another, an older woman, bought 20 ounces of gold last week.

that's a lot of money...$18,200

"When she has some extra money, she buys," Eckman said.

WAIT WAIT WAIT....EXTRA MONEY? WHAT THE HELLL????

Idiots...

This is all that needs to be said. Stupid people drive me crazy. Not the mentally handicapped ones...the ones that just don't have a brain at all.

See below:

The Anti-Rant for Today - Supernatural Diaper

Great story I found on the DDN. People look to scientific explanations for miracles. I don't.

By STAN LEHMAN
Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.

Caua Felipe Massaneiro survived a 30-foot (10-meter) fall because his diaper snagged on a security spike embedded in the concrete wall around his apartment building in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.

The boy dangled from the spike for a moment, then "the diaper opened and the baby fell to the ground, but at a much slower speed," a police officer said. "The diaper obviously lessened the impact of the fall and saved the baby's life."

"It was a miracle," said the officer who declined to be identified because she was not authorized to speak to the press. "He could also have been killed by one of the spikes."

The child was treated for minor fractures at the Hospital Memorial Sao Jose, where spokesman Gilberto Tenorio said he was in stable condition.

Police have opened an investigation to determine how the toddler fell out the window and "if parental negligence was one of the causes," the police officer said.

The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper quoted Caua's father, 23-year-old Alexandre Cesar Massaneiro as saying that his son climbed onto a sofa underneath the window he fell from - "something he had never done before."

"It wasn't the diaper that saved him," Massaneiro told the newspaper. "It was God."

See the last line there? If only more people would believe that. I don't things happen just for nothing. Everything happens for a reason.

Websense Piece of Useless Crap

I'm writing this from home because apparently blogger is a personal site/social networking. Since our company did an upgrade it's now blocked. Also blocked is DeviantART which is very useful in the ways of Photoshop brushes and vector shapes and stock art. Also blocked is soundsnap.com where I get sound effects for things (which I prefer over Flashkit because it's more intuitive).

So yea, my boss is pissed and so are other people in the building. I mean seriously, as an artist I need my inspirations. If inspirations and resources are blocked it's very limiting. Also, I can VPN into my computer at home to view things but we have a firewall on our emails at work so if I were to email myself what I needed (excluding sound because I can't listen to sound remotely) it would take a whole day cause the IT guy quit and there isn't anyone to bump through emails.

Annoying as sin. On the bright side, my boss said if it starts to hinder my work I can work from home.

Yay.

In the meantime....if I start screaming you know why.