TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE:

I Want to tell you a story, I will call this the one vote story.

I will start at the end. Texas’ statehood. Now I am assuming that my readers are all the truly intelligent people out there. So I do not need to repeat that Texas was voted in as the 28th state in 1845.

But what you may not know is that Texas was admitted… well let me put it this way, Texas needed at least 36 votes to gain statehood. The votes gave Texas Statehood by one vote.
They got admitted as a state because of ONE (1) vote. The surprise was that a senator who voted for them, one of those truly NEEDED votes was Harrigan a senator from Indiana, in fact there was surprise that he voted for Texas’ statehood because he seemed opposed. But I digress…
(“yeah but he was a congressman, my vote doesn’t count like that.”)

Well then, let’s see how Harrigan came to be a congressman.

6 years earlier, in 1839, State Legislator Madison Marsh Voted for Senator Harrigan, there was a toss up over who would be voted into congressional office as the junior senator, it was up to the state legislators, to pick the position for which Harrigan ran. There were three people running for the position and there ended up a three way tie in the legislation. Madison Marsh was THE deciding vote on Harrigan’s election. In fact the Amazing thing is that Harrigan won by ONE vote

Well, well, well… very nice but still he was a state legislator, I am just a “common man” what difference can I make?
Hmm O.K….

In 1837 Madison Marsh was running as a candidate for state legislator. And what do you know… he was elected into office based on ONE VOTE.
But for that one vote that election would have ended in a tie. AND that vote was cast by an average everyday guy. In Indiana he was probably a farmer who worked with his hands everyday, just like most of us today.

See even though we might want to say this election doesn’t matter it does. We have issues coming up to deal with and we need to make sure we are properly represented.
A long time ago One man one vote made the difference to whether Texas would be a state or not. Do you think that was the thought he had when he voted? No He was voting for the guy HE thought would best represent him, who voted for a guy who he thought would do the right thing nationally who voted for Texas.

The guy casting that vote for state legislator could never have known that that would lead to anew state being added to the union.
But that one vote that he cast helped to change a nation’s history in a way that has been recognized worldwide though he is not well remembered today. Your vote can do the same now.

ELECTION 08 NO WAIT I MEAN 2010:

Well here we are again, another election year. And things are running about par for the course (just like two years ago),indeed Mr. Obama is campaigning much like in the last election... guess someone forgot to tell him he won, he is the president, but all that aside, we need to remember as we go to cast our ballot/s that we need to make ourselves aware of the issues and the realities.
Do not pull the lever for the guy you think is “coolest” or the girl who is the “hottest” instead when you vote, vote to the issues. Don’t vote based on party or appearance or even feeling, vote based on what is right.

Too many times we seem to get caught up in the idea that I have to vote for_______________ because I registered as a ______________.

That is not true.

I would actually encourage every one out there to go watch the Kevin Costner movie “Swing Vote” before voting themselves. your vote CAN make a difference.*

So cast your ballot for the one who will do what is right. If you can look at the way your candidate/s have voted before. Did he/she vote the way YOU would vote?
What does s/he say? More importantly what does he/she DO? (actions speak louder than words!) I do not care if someone claims to be against taxes, did that person increase taxes? Then what was said is moot.

Look at the candidates! Don’t be taken in by the hyperbole. You will hear candidates of both sides telling you how evil their opponents are; and even if there is any truth to what is being said it will be blown out of proportion, like the candidate who wants to cut taxes and eats eggs for breakfast… it will be said “he/she supports defunding the army and eats baby chickens!!! OOOHHHH THOSE POOR BABY CHICKENS!!!” find out the truth, please, this year look at what they represent, look at the real issues.


*Yes I know that as a movie that would be a FICTIONAL account therefore it is NOT REAL. But that is the thing that CAN happen even though it is fictional. A guy once observed that “The thing about fiction is it has to stick with what COULD happen to be believable, truth does not.”
Still don’t believe? Study what happened to make Texas a state.

LOOKING AT IT SARCASTICALLY:

I thought I needed to make it clear that this was going to be a sarcastic posting because I think some people really think this way.

Don’t you realize how utterly evil conservatives are? I mean they are worse than Hitler or Saddam Hussein or the emperor Nero.

I mean hello they think that people ought to be responsible FOR THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR!!!!!!
THEY feel bad for the guy in the hospitwl who was attacked by a mass murderer, the guy had a good life he must have gotten what he deserved right? But then the conservatives, those evil Hateful conservatives would say that the poor mass murderer ought to pay a penalty for depriving others of their lives.
I mean come on we need to give that poor guy a break, CLEARLY he had to have been pushed into it by forces beyond his control.
Maybe he was abused as a child by a mean parent (they’re all mean don’t you know) who would not let him go out and play in the street at 1 o clock in the morning, or they wouldn’t let him eat candy for dinner instead they forced him t eat VEGETABLES so it isn’t his fault that he turned into a mass murderer.

Or maybe it is the drunk driver, hey alcoholism is a disease, we shouldn’t punish that alcoholic for driving while drunk and killing someone. It is beyond his/her control.
As for the poor family who lost their children/husband/father/wife/mother/brother/sister, because of the actions of that person well they obviously had better lives than he did so they got all the happy they deserved. The poor drunk didn’t get that so he deserves to have good happen to him now.

After all “only those who have it can lose it”. so clearly the conservatives are EVIL because they have a totally skewed way of looking at things.
They want to (GASP) ENFORCE THE LAWS… I mean HELLO what kind of nutty idiocy is that??? They want to have real Equality for everyone. Can’t you see now how bad these people are?

Liberals are right this kind of rampant craziness has got to be stopped, before we see equality, justice, common sense and integrity break out all around the place