Bullet points from today
Oct. 20th, 2008 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrl- I love voting by mail with a permanent absentee ballot!
- With all my attention focused on prop 8 and the presidential race, I wasn't aware of all the other state and county propositions on the ballot this time. Doesn't it seem like propositions to decriminalize sex work and to make possession of less than an ounce of marijuana an infraction rather than a misdemeanor would attract some attention? Not in California, I guess.
- Infraction = fine only, misdemeanor = possible jail time + fine. I had to look it up.
- This time I didn't vote entirely in lockstep with my local pinko rag. I feel that nearly anything that encourages the development of renewable energy needs to be supported right now--it's symbolic. Also, I almost always vote for bond measures for hospitals and health care providers. I've worked in a lot of hospitals, and none of them were rich.
- Can you imagine what would happen if prop K passed and actually had its intended effect? If police stopped arresting sex workers, instead focusing on arresting their abusers? Just imagine that for a second.
- If you can't understand why I would say what I just said, read "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do." I linked to it in my profile. I am pro decriminalization for any consensual, victimless act. Crazy, huh?
- I love that the proposition to raise taxes on high-end property sales includes a tax discount for buildings with solar energy systems.
- Oh wait, I forgot about my favorite one. We actually get to vote on whether to rename our giant sewage plant after George W Bush. Seriously. My commie pinko rag says no--on the grounds that it would be an insult to the fine facility and the great work that the employees do there. They say "Let's name something truly awful after W." LOL
- What?! They want to bring back the JROTC? Uh, no.
- With all my attention focused on prop 8 and the presidential race, I wasn't aware of all the other state and county propositions on the ballot this time. Doesn't it seem like propositions to decriminalize sex work and to make possession of less than an ounce of marijuana an infraction rather than a misdemeanor would attract some attention? Not in California, I guess.
- Infraction = fine only, misdemeanor = possible jail time + fine. I had to look it up.
- This time I didn't vote entirely in lockstep with my local pinko rag. I feel that nearly anything that encourages the development of renewable energy needs to be supported right now--it's symbolic. Also, I almost always vote for bond measures for hospitals and health care providers. I've worked in a lot of hospitals, and none of them were rich.
- Can you imagine what would happen if prop K passed and actually had its intended effect? If police stopped arresting sex workers, instead focusing on arresting their abusers? Just imagine that for a second.
- If you can't understand why I would say what I just said, read "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do." I linked to it in my profile. I am pro decriminalization for any consensual, victimless act. Crazy, huh?
- I love that the proposition to raise taxes on high-end property sales includes a tax discount for buildings with solar energy systems.
- Oh wait, I forgot about my favorite one. We actually get to vote on whether to rename our giant sewage plant after George W Bush. Seriously. My commie pinko rag says no--on the grounds that it would be an insult to the fine facility and the great work that the employees do there. They say "Let's name something truly awful after W." LOL
- What?! They want to bring back the JROTC? Uh, no.
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Date: 2008-10-20 11:00 pm (UTC)FWIW, I'm for JROTC right now. I'm not in love with the military, and I understand the problems with "don't ask, don't tell" but it's an existing leadership program that gets kids scholarships without requiring that they go into the military after high school. We could reinvent a new leadership program (if we had the $), but we don't have one right now, and colleges and funders know what ROTC is. This might be because I grew up in Virginia, I suppose...
I'll vote on the 4th, though. I like waiting in line and seeing people vote.
(I'm with you on decriminalizing prostitution and on prosecuting possession as an infraction. And obviously I'm against prop 8. I haven't worked out the environmental props, yet. I need to weigh budget vs. actual effect...)
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Date: 2008-10-20 11:07 pm (UTC)I like waiting in line too, get a charge out of being a good citizen and all, but if I don't do permanent absentee I'm in danger of not voting at all! Half the time I end up driving my ballot in anyway. Not this time though! Yay.
Voting is fun.
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