I remember standing on a corner in Portland, about 2 blocks from the train station. A policeman was talking to a hippy on a bike, who was smoking a hand rolled "cigarette".
The cop just said in a disgusted voice "Can you at least blow the smoke away from me?" I saw plenty of open smoking, and never saw a cop react. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, now that Portland has legal recreational marijuana, gay marriage, the > equal rights, the largest number of strip clubs per capita, and the best > beer scene in the United States....who wants to come by for a CF-Community > meetup? :) > > Cheers, > Judah > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:05 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > I am already dreading the election in 2 years. It will be yet another > >> > election where we need to choose form the best of bad choices. We need > >> some > >> > serious campaign reform, sadly, no one currently in office would ever > go > >> > for it. > >> > > >> > >> Actually, we need *politician* reform, hence my comment about both sides > >> fielding fresh candidates. > >> > >> And you're right, the two parties aren't that different from each other > in > >> a lot of ways. The Dems did the same thing to Bush in 2006 that the GOP > >> did to Obama in 2014 and got the exact same results. I'd have to check > >> but > >> I'm pretty sure the same thing happened with Clinton and Reagan. It > feels > >> that way at least. > >> > >> And in both Obama and Bush's case, neither their own nor their > >> administrative actions (Federal administrative groups like Justice and > >> State) helped their cause. > >> > >> I just listened to McConnell (and yes, his anthropomorphic equivalent > is a > >> turtle, you're welcome for that mental image). We'll have to see if he > is > >> able to keep most of what he said. > >> > >> Until Later! > >> C. Hatton Humphrey > >> http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > >> > >> Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do > some > >> smelting to find it. > >> > > > > The last President to not lose Senate seats in the midterm of his second > > term was FDR as it turns out. So there is that. > > > > There were structural things that were stacked against the Democrats this > > time around, no doubt, but in the end, the election was determined by the > > same thing that they always are: who showed up and voted. > > > > Democrats were roundly stomped on despite gas being under $3/gallon, > > unemployment going steadily down, the stock market being up, and more > > Americans having health insurance than ever before. Why? The people who > > showed up to vote were more pissed off at them than they were > > complimentary, believing that the country is going in the wrong > direction. > > I don't entirely disagree with them, either. > > > > The electorate skewed markedly older and the minority vote didn't break > as > > far in Democrats favor as when Obama was on the ballot. Individual > > Senators/Republicans didn't necessarily give younger voters and liberal > > minority voters a reason to turn out and vote and they didn't. > > > > In my state, we had recreational marijuana legalization (which passed), > > the ERA (which passed), GMO labeling (which failed narrowly), and driver > > licenses for undocumented immigrants (failed hard) on the ballot in > > addition to our governorship and one senate seat. The result? Pretty high > > turnout (projected to be about 70%), a younger, more liberal electorate > > than nationally, and unexpected pickups at the state level that have > > resulted in our House and Senate moving to larger Democratic majorities. > > > > I have various opinions on the ballot measures and local candidates, but > > regardless of my feelings for them, more liberal voters turned out > because > > they were given reasons to turn out and it was easy to do so (vote by > > mail). Republicans seem to be doing well at this for most elections > > (Pro-life ballot measures, anti-immigration measures, candidates that > > appeal strongly to the base) and Democrats seem to do this less > > consistently. > > > > Want people who are supposedly ideologically aligned with you to get out > > and vote? Give them a reason to. > > > > Cheers, > > Judah > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372876 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
