October 01, 2008

The Great Schlep Would it kill ya?
posted by Koko 15 years ago
  • I'm not the biggest Sarah Silverman fan, but that is awesome!
  • I wish my name was Manischevitz Gooberman.
  • They don't call him Mishugena McCain fer nuthin' And then there's Sharlila Palin.
  • Is she famous for something else? *can't be bothered to google*
  • She's famous for fucking Matt Damon. How would this work exactly? Aren't voters registered in a certain district? Let's say I had U.S. citizenship, could I go visit people in Florida, register at their address, and then vote? How soon before the election would I have to register?
  • I've googled her now. She was about to go on my 'would' list, until you shared that bit of info. Now she's missing out. Big time.
  • She wasn't really fucking Matt Damon. It was just a joke. But a surprisingly well-executed one. Then it turned out that Sarah Silverman's boyfriend, Jimmy Kemmel(?), was fucking Ben Affleck. I guess if we were famous celebrity types, we could have very elaborate and jolly japes. And maybe a Perview button too.
  • *re-evaluates list*
  • Wow. Sarah Silverman wasn't nearly as annoying here as she normally is. You can have her, kit. I'm not touching anything that touched Jimmy Kimmel.
  • Thanks. You can have Lindsay Lohan.
  • How would this work exactly? Aren't voters registered in a certain district? Let's say I had U.S. citizenship, could I go visit people in Florida, register at their address, and then vote? How soon before the election would I have to register? She's not saying to got to Florida and cast your vote, she's saying to go visit Nana and Pop Pop who live in Florida, and convince them they need to vote for Obama. And if you can't be bothered to do it, you are a douchenozzle.
  • The marshmallow is so named because it was originally made from the root of a plant known as the marsh mallow. *paf*
  • Oh, okay. Where do Nana and Pop Pop live?
  • And she was famous before "fucking Matt Damon" for being a very funny comedian! I think she's brilliant.
  • Where do Nana and Pop Pop live IN FLORIDA. Pay attention, Seamus.
  • You not throwing marshmallow! Only I throw marshamllow! *paf-paf-paf-paf-paf*
  • She's attractive, hilarious and effing irritating, the latter beating the former in my case. So she's off my would list. Except for the "if she'd do a sludge sandwich like Jimmy Kimmel then I too must have a chance" factor. (c.f. Pretty Woman and Lyle Lovett's hair - gives hope to us all). OK... "would" but with the mute button on.
  • Maybe we should put her in the 'would, but only once' list.
  • None of you Neanderthals are on my "Would List". HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES.
  • You're still on mine. *resumes stalking koko*
  • Lindsay Lohan reminds me way too much of Frankie Muniz, so, Monty, I'm going to pass and go for what's behind door number three.
  • *runs behind door number three*
  • *paf*
  • I always thought ottomans (ottomen?) looked like giant marshmallows.
  • I think Silverman's quite funny, but I don't find her irritating. So, where do I sign up for my adoptive Jewish Floridian grandparents?
  • It's not the Bubbies and Zaydies in Florida that need convincing, it's the Bubbas and the JimBobs. This is cute and charming, but not terribly useful.
  • It couldn't hoit!
  • Monkeyfilter: I'm not touching anything that touched Jimmy Kimmel. >>It's not the Bubbies and Zaydies in Florida that need convincing, it's the Bubbas and the JimBobs. Oh, I disagree. Age is an even greater predictor of voting in this election than, um, education level.
  • The Bubbas and JimBobs will never be convinced. At least with the grandparents there's a chance that they can be talked into voting for a schvartze.
  • Sarah Silverman is an obnoxious ass. But disregarding that, this is kind of pointless because Jews vote Democratic. Always. Ben Stein and Joe Lieberman being the exceptions that prove the rule. There's no point in me going to visit my Florida relatives, because they're not home - they're out campaigning for Obama. Oy vey, do you really think we'd vote for that shiksa Sarah Palin? Better we should have burning coals in our eyes! And that McCain, with his wife with the fancy-schmancy outifts..... an audit by the IRS he should have! And every Jew knows we all vote Dem - so methinks this is just a shameless publicity ploy.
  • Yes, there should probably be a focus on making sure the elderly know HOW to vote so they don't get rooked like in 2000.
  • Scissor Sheldon "Sarah Silverman has a proposition for Mitt Romney’s most generous supporter, Sheldon Adelson: the $100 million man." (Probably nsfw)
  • Let My People Vote "Voter ID laws aim to prevent in-person voter fraud. In person voter fraud basically never happens. So why are so many states passing these laws?" (Possibly nsfw language)
  • Gah. Here's the link.
  • Thanks. I always did think it was odd I was never asked to show my own identification in NJ, just a signature to somebody, but I see now that over the bridge in PA they say: "it allows poll workers to ask for ID, but does not say what they should do if would-be voters do not have identification. Those without are still to be given a ballot." Ok..ay. Always did like toothless dogs :)
  • I just filled out, stamped and mailed my 'absentee' ballot. This election is all over for me (except for the crying, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments after the 'votes' are 'counted'). In my congressional district, our several-term congresswoman (who 'inherited' her seat from her late husband, and who is nice enough but is not growing old gracefully, developing a rather creepy smile) is the only Democrat in Congress in California whose seat is threatened by the non-partisan reapportionment we had (They looked at the district which had been a hundred-plus-mile-long narrow strip of coastal land and made it a more normal shape, losing some Liberal beach towns and adding some Republican-dominated farmlands). Anyway, she's now neck-and-neck with a former state legislator who Schwarzennegger appointed his Lieutenant Governor and lost the next election badly - he's one of the dying breed of moderate Repubs, he earned hate from his own party by being the ONLY Rep to side with the Dems on some budget votes - just to keep the state from shutting down. I don't know how he'd deal with the GOP Masters of the House, but he did lose some respect (and MY vote) when it was revealed the IRS sent him a bill for $4MILLION for taxes he tried to avoid (still under appeal)... now how much money was he making while he was a lowly State Legislator to UNDERPAY by $4million?!? But his campaign is getting help from a SuperPAC which is running attack ads on the Democrat about her support of The Bailouts - I believe the corporations running the SuperPAC got a lot of bailout money, but, hey, that's the way you advertise... but the worst thing about those ads is the pictures of her with that... creepy... smile... One MORE reason I'm ignoring EVERYTHING political for the next 4 weeks because I ALREADY VOTED.
  • Sing it!