Re: [tlug] [WAY-OT] US politics: Dog bites man [1]

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Scott Robbins writes:
>
>  >  No doubt, we would have screamed CORRUPTION!
>
> A lot of people have screamed that.  And there were really shady
> things happening in Ohio (like Republican-controlled precincts
> destroyed about 2/3 of the ballots well before the date to which
> they're required to keep them by state law) and several other states,
> too.  But remember, in 1960 it kept Nixon out. ;-)

You write as though you think keeping a Republican from attaining office 
to be a Bad Thing (tm).  Actually, all of us kids in grade school in 
Minnesota in 1960 knew that Kennedy was in league with Orville Freeman, 
Hubert Humphrey, and Lyndon Johnson in a conspiracy to make the school 
year two weeks longer and to allow nuns from the local parochial school 
to teach us non-Catholics.

If you are old enough to recall that election, you are also old enough 
to recall Cheech and Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant."  The local 
parochial school (St. Rafael's) had several of them and the fear was 
genuine.  We saw all of our Catholic playmates with the switch marks on 
the backs of their legs and it was genuinely frightening.

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CL