Brilliant! I would add another criterion: you can't vote if you receive any funding from the government. Force politicians to run without using the treasury to solicit votes from the parasite classes. Make them cater to the producers in society instead of campaigning by shamelessly bidding for votes at the expense of the producer class.
I once had a doctor induce a problem I didn't actually have. I had to get a physical when I was about 12 to participate in sports. The doctor I usually went to was on vacation, so my mother took me to see another one she knew. My mother went back to work and told me to call her when it was over so she could pick me up.
They stuck me in this creepy room way in the back of his office. It was more like a supply room than exam room. He had some kind of emergency to deal with right after I got there so I had a couple hours back there by myself. One of his nurses popped in a couple times to apologize but promised they hadn't forgotten I was there.
As soon as I got in the room, I looked around and saw one of those gloves and a tube of KY on a tray.
So let me recap. I was 12, had a couple hours to think about that glove, lubricant, and what the doctor's intentions were with that.
By the time he came in and took my blood pressure, it was astronomical -- like 200/120. He checked a few other things before my mother showed up. The doctor said everything looked okay except I would need to go on medication for high blood pressure. My mother was stunned, asked if it could've been due to being in the room so long before being seen. The doctor kind of shrugged.
I said I didn't think I needed any medication because it was indeed very stressful back there. The doctor asked me why I would be so anxious. I pointed to that freaking glove on the tray. He started laughing, then apologized for leaving it out like that, that he had no need to use that to check me.
I ended up waiting around the office a little while longer so he could take my blood pressure again. It was still elevated, but he was no longer concerned that I needed medication for it.
Anyway, I've never liked going to doctors.
Even salad bars?!
I refuse to vote today.
(Don't worry. Our primary is next month.)
Definition of Hypocrisy...
Religious Right on one hand: "We must end frivolous lawsuits and keep activist judges from legislating from the bench!"
Religious Right on the other hand: "We will sue those with whom we disagree and seek out courts friendly to our positions to legislate from the bench!"
That's the last straw. Thanks for alerting us to this, Holly. It's only theft if you let them have it.
This is all subjective and depends how you approach it. I've seen people older than I am who are friskier than people half their age, I've seen younger people more jaded and cynical than people double their age. The grey hair thing hit me early -- I started getting it when I was a teen and haven't stopped. Some of my elderly neighbors have less grey than I do (and they're quick to point it out). I'm in good shape at 40, probably better than in my 20s because I was still playing basketball and tearing up my knees then. Etc.
I think age really is just a number. And I don't need someone who hasn't reached his 18th birthday yet lecturing me to the contrary.
Wow, I keep seeing so many familiar names here. Thanks for letting me in on the secret. But "left leaning"? Dude, if you "lean" any further you'll be lying down flat.
You're obviously a very smart young lady.
This is probably targeted more at eky than you, Martin. Voter initiatives like these anti-gay measures (Florida is hardly alone in this kind of stuff) are the reason I oppose things like popular vote instead of Electoral College -- they more often than not represent the worst of majorities and are usually attempts to further marginalize the rights of minorities (or in the case of the EC, to further erode the power of smaller states at the expense of larger ones). Our system of representative democracy was intended to prevent the trampling of rights that can and will occur in times of mob rule. It's not that I oppose "more democracy," I don't trust mobs any more than I trust authoritarians. The founders were brilliant for placing barriers between the capricious, transient, and dangerous whims of the majority. I favor buffers against those who use their majority status from infringing on the rights of those not in the majority. If your position doesn't hold enough sway to prevail within the existing rules, you shouldn't get to change the rules to suit your position -- and that's what I see in common between initiatives and appeals to eliminate the Electoral College.
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