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So today is an election day, with Georgia being a Super Tuesday state and all.

And now I'm going to fuss at you people, specifically, women. How many times have I heard someone say, someone female, that they aren't going to vote. Darlings, the things you enjoy today as a common practice came about because women have argued for the right to vote since the 1820's. The 1820's! These women, who had no rights under law, not even to their own bodies or their children, worked against the social values of the time to make sure that their great great great great granddaughters would have more freedom, and more rights than they have. Everytime I hear a woman say she's not going to vote I could just...kick them. Hard. The Nineteenth Amendment is all about the final recognition that women have the same rights as men, as spelled out in the Constitution. Get to the polls, damnit, and make yourself heard.

And this is for everyone else who doesn't vote:

1. If you don't vote, you've no right to complain.

2. Do you feel strongly about the right to bear arms?

3. Do you feel strongly about the deficit?

4. Do you feel strongly about foreign policy?

5. Are you pissed off because your money doesn't go as far as it used to?

6. Are you pissed off because you lost your job to someone who works across the world?

7. Are you pissed off because you can't get health insurance?

8. Are you pissed off because no one listens to you, and you think your opinion doesn't matter?

9. Are you tired of the socialization of our government?

10. Are you tired of government programs that redistribute wealth?

11. Do you really think the money you pay into Social Security will be there when you retire?

12. Are you tired of hearing about people losing their jobs because companies don't show year over year growth?

13. Don't you think we should have some kind of viable plan for Iraq? that maybe calls for a gradual withdrawal and a transfer of power into the Iraqi government?

14. Aren't you worried about the government gradually encroaching more and
more into your personal business?

15. Aren't you sick of paying taxes to support Fat Cats who do nothing but blather and filibuster?

16. Doesn't it nauseate you to see politicos rolling around in expensive cars, and living in mansions?

17. Don't you think the government should be more representative of the rest of us? Do you really think Congress actually represents the make up of the United States? I'll give you a hint: according to the last Census, there are more women in the U.S. than men....so...????

You want to have a say in what goes on in our domestic world, get your ass out and vote.

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