(1) As C E pointed out, it's possible, but isn't legal. Granted, that hasn't stopped The Simp Chimp yet...
(2) I've been pondering this very thing for a while. I suppose you could gather a bunch of like-minded thuggish types and storm the counting stations. Worked in Broward County, FL, after all...
(3) I could spawn a flamewar by drawing some comparisons to a middle-European government's actions in the last century, but I think it was basically a combination of a directive from above to "git tuff" and a desire from below to cloak said "gittin' tuff" in a flimsy veil of rationalized permission.
Well, dammit! They specifically left me off the list of folks getting blamed.
See if I stand outside their store and physically prevent customers from entering anymore.
Hmph.
Good point.
I think I still have the issue of Micronauts in which the Sanskrit-looking alphabet of the Microverse is laid out, so I could always make notes for Baron Karza's imminent invasion of the Macroverse, as well.
I'm doing the same, Xopher. In fact, I might make random notes in dwarven runes in the margins just to fuck with authority figures.
Well, I wasn't so foolish as to crack wise to Dr. Chopp about his name. The man will be operating on my genitals, after all. I'll call him whatever he wants, at least until everything's all done.
I don't think Victor Doom is really a Dr. I mean, he got kicked out of school after he blew himself up, right? Shouldn't he be called "All-but-dissertation" Doom or some such?
Unless he had Latveria Polytechnic award him an honorary doctorate once he took over.
Regarding Doctor names, I'm seeing a "Dr. Chopp" for my vasectomy. I figured that with a name like that, in his area of specialty, he'd have to be very, very good at what he does.
Kellie:
I have no problem with a president getting a haircut. But a $200 haircut that disrupts national air traffic? Why is that necessary?
It's been established that there was no disruption of air traffic, nationally or locally for this haircut.
Why did we care about this non-issue in the first place?
Why is it a big deal now?
I'd say that things like the national disruption of travel schedules due to increased security at airports (security that, BTW, does diddly-fucking-squat, as recently shown us by a college student) is of more concern. The fact that Shrub is laying off airport screeners, and that TSA is still not properly funded, is of more concern, if you want to get all worked up about transportation issues.
I don't think Shrub is an idiot - it's comforting to think that, but he's not. He's managed to avaoid actuallly educating himself about reality, but he strikes me as a shrewd manipulator and cunning little rodent.
He's not even arrogant - he is simply unable to empathize or connect with anything beyond his limited experience of relaity. I think that, like Reagan, he really believes the lies he tells about himself. That's why he's dangerous.
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