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message 1: by [deleted user] (last edited Oct 21, 2008 11:20AM) (new)

Okay, so you know how that voter pamphlet thing comes out to help you complete your ballot? Well, I have to say that I read it, pretty well cover to cover. I don't vote party line or any of that rubbish and I honestly don't know who the hell the three people running for City Council Position 5 are! Anyway, I have to share with you what one of our illustrious candidates for Oregon State Treasurer had to say to the constituency in an attempt to garner their vote:

America is in danger and Oregon on the verge of collapse. Leaders of the Democrat and Republican parties with their Ivy League educations are either incredibly stupid or are deliberately destroying us. It is time to return to Constitutional Government and become once again a land of opportunity for Americans. We have entered, voluntarily, into a slave relationship, with our government masters.

Government licenses our activity from travel to marriage, they tax us to drain us of our sustenance, and then use our money to hire police and bureaucrats to come into our homes with warrants to kidnap our children, steal our property and deprive us of our liberty with no remedy-at-law.

In 2007 the legislature, including Ben Westlund, voted to put a toll on every road, bridge and bike path in Oregon with photo tracking devices. Once the Federal Real I.D. Act, which puts everyone into Biometric data base, is completed the Democrat/Republican leadership plan to merge the banks with the States and Federal treasury into one entity with all financial transactions being done by computer. Anyone who objects to any government policy will have their identification suspended and be unable to buy groceries and pay rent.

As State Treasurer, I will uphold and defend the Oregon Constitution.


His qualifications are listed as:

Occupation: Maintenance
Occupational Background: A variety of jobs.
Educational Background: Some College.
Prior Government Experience: None. (No, really?)

Holy crap, it's fantastic to live in a free country where, literally, anyone can run for public office! :)


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

Wait, was there really a vote to put a toll on every road, bridge and bike path in Oregon?! With photo tracking devices?!!! What a waste of time--how could that possibly pass? That seems like science fiction to me.


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Please...every? As if. They can't even get more that three cameras up on the freeway, Mo!

The guy is bonkers!


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

And bike paths?! What the hell? That guy sounds (I want to type retarded, but I don't want to offend. Insert non-offensive term here).


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

I doubt very much that the Dems and Repubs are going to join together in order to force me to pay for my bread and milk by scanning my DNA at the Safeway either...


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

He's a conspiracy theorist, janitor, Mo! I just thought his tirade was funny...and kinda cool, in a way, just because he has the freedom to do it in America. But, he's clearly nutso. No PC attempt here, he's fuckin crazy.


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

Imagine being his wife and having to listen to that! His ridiculous rants paired with his delusion that he can "make a difference" in the political realm. I'm tired just thinking about it.


message 8: by [deleted user] (new)

I used to date a conspiracy theorist. It's tiring.


message 9: by [deleted user] (new)

I work for one...not quite as bad as this guy, but still a nutter. :) Four out of Five isn't too bad tho.


message 10: by Lori (new)

Lori Sarah, who haven't you dated???


message 11: by Chloe (new)

Chloe (countessofblooms) | 347 comments Gandhi.


message 12: by RandomAnthony (new)

RandomAnthony | 14536 comments Who can resist a girl with a tamborine?


message 13: by Meen (new)

Meen (meendee) | 1733 comments We have entered, voluntarily, into a slave relationship, with our government masters.

As long as it's "safe, sane, and consensual"!

:)


message 14: by [deleted user] (new)

I like the way we're all going to be biotagged to buy groceries myself. That way, they can starve us if we give them any trouble...you know, "The Man"!


message 15: by Jane (new)

Jane Amelia, I'm also an Oregon voter, and I can't shake the feeling that it was a joke, though I don't doubt there are people out there who believe stuff like that. Did you see the guy's photo? He definitely wasn't going for looks, that's for sure.


Reads with Scotch  | 40 comments Inbreeding perhaps? I thought that was something decisively contained to West Virginia


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

Lori, I'm usually talking about only two guys when I say "a guy I dated." My entire 20s were dedicated to just one.


message 18: by [deleted user] (new)

But my entire 20s were not dedicated to the conspiracy theorist. Just this Spring.


message 19: by Chloe (new)

Chloe (countessofblooms) | 347 comments A decade spent dating a conspiracy theorist could well warp you for life.


message 20: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (randymandy) Good thing it was only one season then, huh Sarah?


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message 22: by Phil (new)

Phil | 11837 comments Amelia wrote: I have to share with you what one of our illustrious candidates for Oregon State Treasurer had to say to the constituency in an attempt to garner their vote:

"America is in danger and Oregon on the verge of collapse. Leaders of the Democrat and Republican parties with their Ivy League educations are either incredibly stupid or are deliberately destroying us. It is time to return to Constitutional Government and become once again a land of opportunity for Americans. We have entered, voluntarily, into a slave relationship, with our government masters."


Where I live, these thoughts are the norm. Not a day goes by that you don't read something like this in the LtE of our local paper. I've almost taken to playing "Dueling Banjos" each morning while I read the latest.

Thus have I accepted (and accomplished) Sally's challenge to resurrect a thread that died a year ago.

::bows to the crowd


message 23: by [deleted user] (new)

::Genuflects to Phil::


message 24: by RandomAnthony (new)

RandomAnthony | 14536 comments Holy hell! Way to dig deep, Phil!


message 25: by Sally, la reina (new)

Sally (mrsnolte) | 17373 comments Mod
Absolutely!

::Rewards Phil with a fresh-drawn bubble bath, fruit hat, cheese platter, and baby ficus cutting::


message 26: by Phil (new)

Phil | 11837 comments Sally wrote: "Absolutely!

::Rewards Phil with a fresh-drawn bubble bath, fruit hat, cheese platter, and baby ficus cutting::"


Ahhhhhh.

Now that I'm relaxed, let me provide an example of what I was talking about.


message 27: by janine (last edited Feb 11, 2010 04:28AM) (new)

janine | 7709 comments "Yet, with this in mind, I have noticed many Dems die or leave office lately. It seems that it started with that formidible traitor, Teddy Kennedy, and has moved on to other great destroyers of America's financial world, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. Of course, one could argue it started a few years earlier with Tom Daschle, one of the most anti-Americans who have ever lived- next to Kennedy, of course, until Pelosi and reid came up the ranks, that is.

But, is this all a coincidence or is it, as I'm starting to wonder, a real, honest-to-goodness, act of God. Well, I'd like to beat my chest and say I did it but we all know that it probably wasn't my doing...or was it?"


thank you for that fine example.


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