{"id":1044,"date":"2005-11-05T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/11\/05\/voting-day-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2005-11-05T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-05T15:18:09","slug":"voting-day-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/voting-day-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Day Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I voted last weekend when I stopped by Ruiz Library to return some books. It was there and there wasn&#8217;t a line.<br \/>\nAs many have already mentioned, Tuesday is the big day. There are three bond proposals and, if I remember correctly, nine proposed amendments to our dysfunctional state constitution. The Chronicle&#8217;s advocating &#8220;yes&#8221; on all the bonds and &#8220;no&#8221; on all of the amendments. Easy to remember, I guess. I&#8217;m with them on the argument that it&#8217;s bullshit to write every goddamn thing into the constitution. How did we get started doing that anyway?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also already been pointed out that if you vote for prop. 2, you&#8217;re aligning yourself with those wonderful people in the pointy white hats and robes who&#8217;ll be gracing city hall today with their erudite presence. There seem to be two schools of thought on what to do about them: ignore them or moon them. I can see the merits of both. I just noticed in reading up on them that these particular KKK members are from Georgia. On top of everything else, shouldn&#8217;t we all be annoyed that they&#8217;re here and not in their own damn state?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some links on the gay marriage debate that I happened across over the last couple of weeks. I think they&#8217;re all well-written and I agree with some things and disagree with others. Ultimately, I had plenty of reasons to vote against the amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/005244.html\">Jane Galt<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gideonsblog.blogspot.com\/2003_07_01_gideonsblog_archive.html#105952165206390107\">Gideon&#8217;s Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagedebate.com\/mdblog\/2005_10_23_mdblog_archive.htm#113012894064172428\">Marriage Debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted last weekend when I stopped by Ruiz Library to return some books. It was there and there wasn&#8217;t a line. As many have already mentioned, Tuesday is the big day. There are three bond proposals and, if I remember correctly, nine proposed amendments to our dysfunctional state constitution. The Chronicle&#8217;s advocating &#8220;yes&#8221; on <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/voting-day-thoughts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-gQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}