Fire Your Representatives!
Fire Your Representatives!
Serious time here for a minute. If you can legally vote in the US, it’s your responsibility to read about your ballot and vote in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, or you have no right to complain about the outcome.
Who is your House Representative? Did they participate in the budget stalemate that shut down the government for 16 days? Did they vote for CISPA, a cybersecurity bill that would have allowed the NSA to bypass existing privacy laws? If so, vote against them and fire them. This includes every Representative from Ohio except Tim Ryan.
UPDATE: Every House incumbent in Ohio got re-elected. It’s like the whole state rose up in unison and said “Government shutdowns? CISPA? Sounds good; do more of that.” Way to fail, Ohio.
The blog will return to its regular goofiness next week.
Source: My Ballot — Columbus Dispatch Voters Guide, Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a lot of searching; EFF helped; image from Wikipedia
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Source: Mastodon via YouTube Music
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Source: ETIA. and YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun
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Source: Sungazer via a post on /r/ThankYouScientist
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Source: YouTube via the trivia slides for RiffTrax Live: The Room, parody of Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell
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I like to keep this blog work safe, but Botchamania contains some NSFW language.
Source: Botchamania 238 | Botchamania
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT3QYb7AN6k via Anime Hell via MisterKleenhead
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Source: Zeta Gundam montage – YouTube and ZETA PUUUUNCH – YouTube
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Source: Polygon via a DuckDuckGo search after playing Castlevania Rondo of Blood Stage 1 with bugfixes suggested after playing Waffledog’s level Monty Max: Fury Rainbow Road
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Source: TBDBITL's Hollywood Blockbuster Show With HD Sound – YouTube and HD 1080P OSUMB Video Game Half Time Show PLUS Script Ohio TBDBITL Ohio State vs. Nebraska 10 6 2012 – YouTube
