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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject: US Citizens: Come Register to Vote in Itaewon (TODAY ONLY) |
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| The U.S. Embassy will have a voter registration event on Saturday, February 25th, from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm, at Tartine Bakery and Caf�, 119-15 Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 122-460. |
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thebektionary
Joined: 11 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| Damnit, I'm not getting to Seoul until Wednesday. This isn't going to happen again? We can't register by going to the Embassy? The voter's office in my city are full of a bunch of re-res and still haven't sent me my absentee ballot. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not registered to vote. I think I was last registered to vote either in Plano or Dallas. How do I know where I'm registered? I want to be ready for the November election. |
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plchron
Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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whoever you vote for is just going to screw you over just like the last 2 presidents. On a local and sometimes even state level election the candidates can really make some important changes in your everyday lives.
Unfortunately at the national level they are just puppets of the Uber rich. While they debate about wedge issues like gay rights and gun control and abortion they are also not debating about more important things that should be on our national agenda. Those important things don't show up on our national agenda because the mass media companies don't report on those issues through traditional outlets like 'the nightly news'. So most americans end up being ignorant to the fact that they are not in the loop for the really important stuff because of the agenda setting measures taken by the uber rich to not tell us how to think, but to tell us what to think about.
When is the last time you heard any public discourse on nuclear power in america (General electric, biggest nuclear producer in the world, owns NBC), or oil company price gauging as a means of inflation, or the widening gap between the rich and poor, with the middle class disappearing. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| plchron wrote: |
whoever you vote for is just going to screw you over just like the last 2 presidents. On a local and sometimes even state level election the candidates can really make some important changes in your everyday lives.
Unfortunately at the national level they are just puppets of the Uber rich. While they debate about wedge issues like gay rights and gun control and abortion they are also not debating about more important things that should be on our national agenda. Those important things don't show up on our national agenda because the mass media companies don't report on those issues through traditional outlets like 'the nightly news'. So most americans end up being ignorant to the fact that they are not in the loop for the really important stuff because of the agenda setting measures taken by the uber rich to not tell us how to think, but to tell us what to think about.
When is the last time you heard any public discourse on nuclear power in america (General electric, biggest nuclear producer in the world, owns NBC), or oil company price gauging as a means of inflation, or the widening gap between the rich and poor, with the middle class disappearing. |
It's not like I don't know all that. It's simply that I would rather not see Rick Santorum, Romney, or Gingrich in power. I'm not enthusiastic about Barak Obama. He has, essentially, kept so many Bush era policies, so the Republicans have had to be to the right of George Bush in order to not be like Obama. Funny, isn't it? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
It's not like I don't know all that. It's simply that I would rather not see Rick Santorum, Romney, or Gingrich in power. I'm not enthusiastic about Barak Obama. He has, essentially, kept so many Bush era policies, so the Republicans have had to be to the right of George Bush in order to not be like Obama. Funny, isn't it? |
Bush was not a conservative. Most of the Republicans in power now are not conservative. They all RAN on the conservative platform, and then they forgot all about it while in office.
Hence the drubbing Republicans got they got in 2008. Many of the Democrats that won that election were Conservative Democrats (aka Bluedog Dems).
And although Obama extended some of Bush's policies, Obama is no Bush. And Bush is no conservative. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| FYI most states now allow voting by e-mall as an option. I know it is available in Oregon |
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