A Curmudgeonly Public Service Announcement

[gurdymonkey]

It's October 29. If you are a registered voter in the United States of America, it's likely you have made your decisions on who you're going to vote for, what ballot propositions you are going to support and so forth. This is not about to changes unless zombies suck out your brains, a candidate makes a particularly fatal blunder, death takes you or the world ends.

I'm not going to tell you that God kills a kitten every time someone votes Yes on Proposition Blah Di Blah. I'm done spackling LJ with political messages most of my F-list already agree with, because I respect your judgment and your right to vote your conscience, whether it agrees with mine or not.

EDIT: SO, political meme sheep, how about if I repost this entry to my journal two dozen times, thereby forcing YOU to read it over and over and over again when you log into your LJ? 

Perhaps not. That would be, you know, tacky. Because friends don't spam friends.

Now, peel me a grape, pleb.

EDIT The Second:   To those friends of mine who have refrained from behaving like lock-stepping politi-zombies with just enough motor skills to hit CTRL+V, my eternal thanks for behaving in a civilized fashion.

To those of you reading this journal who are playing the CTRL+V game and don't even reside in my state, pray, go put your happy clicky skills to use on your own elected state representatives and do something establishing and protecting equal rights at home (wherever home is), thank you very much.

Now get offa my lawn.

Comments

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Baaaaaaaaaaah!

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Thanks again. And again.

The things I feel strongly about, I've already voted for. Go absentee ballots!

[carbonphoenix.livejournal.com]

Hells to the yeah

[bovil.livejournal.com]

God doesn't kill kittens! Kittens kill kittens!

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

We know the truth! Cows kill kittens.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Sea kittens kill kittens! There's even artwork of this on PETA's website of sea kitten cooking a land kitten in a pie!!

[czina.livejournal.com]

No no no - Bob Barker and the 'Spay and Neuter' campaign kills kittens! Blame 'The Price is Right!'

[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

Sorry - consider a stack of grapes all having been peeled by a 30 y.o. monks with rippling muscles to have been delivered... by said monk. Or at least a chunk of the associated sentiment. It wouldn't be a meme if it didn't infect otherwise reasonable folks....

Kittens #do# kill God, btw.

[elmunadi.livejournal.com]

It's a combo of preaching to the choir and venting to the usual suspects gathered 'round the fire.

(in the case of our dog, it was more the puppy was bossed around by cats, and became one herself - which isn't much of a transition for a Basenji).

Question to the experts - how much difference is there between Grumpy and Curmudgeonly? - I'm struggling to quantify it for someone who's taken it upon themselves to de-rate my own workplace curmudgulation, and label me as "Mr Grumpypants". I haven't flensed them. yet. but deciding.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Dictionary.com considers grumpy and curmudgeonly synonymous. My Websters indicates that curmudgeon has additional connotations of age and gender, "A crusty, ill-tempered and usu. old man."

Know why I chose curmudgeon in the first place? Because nobody dismisses it as hormones when a certain gentleman of my acquaintance shakes HIS fist at the universe.

Anybody can be grumpy. Curmudgeonliness is earned.