Posts Tagged ‘Vote’

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Makeup and Marijuana

by Seraphine Khorana on October 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Makeup and Marijuana

I’m embarrassed that it has been too long between Encore Seraphine updates. I spent a few days at Lake Tahoe on holiday and then I’ve been learning how to use an HTML Editor for an advanced markup/css class I’m taking. I haven’t been slacking off, honestly!
I voted this weekend. In California, we’re allowed to do ‘absentee’ balloting, which essentially means I can vote by mail. I voted against the initiative to legalize marijuana in California because anyone who wants to partake can already get a doctor’s prescription to legally do so. Did I do the right thing? The elections are November 2nd.

We’re kind of like anti-Wal-Mart and anti-McDonald’s. So for them to try to sneak in and turn cannabis into a corporation, that’s disgusting.
Quotation from Dragonfly de la Luz, supporting Stoners Against Prop 19

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Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

by Seraphine Khorana on November 15th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

A dating website called Beautiful People only accepts new members by a popular vote of its existing members. In the past month, its members rejected almost two million hopefuls who had posted online photos of themselves. Their verdict? Swedish men and Norwegian women are the most beautiful in the world (with 76% of them accepted). Brazilians also scored high. Meanwhile, Britons are considered among the ugliest in the world, along with Russian and Polish men. The Germans also didn’t poll very well (only 14% were accepted).

Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
Poem from John Milton, Paradise Regained

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Poem from John Keats, Endymion

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‘Ready for Martyrdom’

by Seraphine Khorana on June 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
‘Ready for Martyrdom’

The reform protestors were likened (by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) to sports fans over-reacting to a lost soccer game.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi ‘ready for martyrdom’ as Iranians defy Supreme Leader (Telegraph UK)

The study showed that in two provinces where Mr. Ahmadinejad won a week ago, a turnout of more than 100 percent was recorded.
Quotation from Chatham House, a London-based research organization

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Rebooting the Vote

by Seraphine Khorana on November 5th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Rebooting the Vote

Remember the children’s game Simon Says? “Simon says touch your nose”, and you have to touch your nose. Then “Stand on one foot” but because somebody doesn’t first say “Simon Says” -you’re out.
I hated that game. It’s a favorite game of kids who grow up to be bureaucrats. No matter how hard I tried to please, I never got to be Simon.

I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. People projected around me.
Quotation from Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

I promise you, we as a people will get there… Yes we can.
Quotation from Barack Obama, America’s next President

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Sera Will Do You Right

by Seraphine Khorana on October 7th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Sera Will Do You Right

Perhaps the most famous American political slogan was William Harrison’s “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” in 1840. Abraham Lincoln’s slogan was “Vote Yourself a Farm,” followed by “Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream” on his re-election campaign. This was the genesis of Richard Nixon’s popular (and unofficial) re-election slogan “Why change Dicks in the middle of a screw? Vote for Nixon in ’72.”

“Change We Need”
Barack Obama’s Campaign Slogan

“Country First: Reform, Prosperity, Peace”
John McCain’s Campaign Slogan

The Advertising Slogan Generator (The Surrealist)

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Vote for Change

by Seraphine Khorana on October 6th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Vote for Change

I’d like to propose a Leader Exchange Program. Instead of finding
fault with the rest of the world, America should see what’s working
elsewhere and invite successful leaders to come and “guest” lead here.

International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP.org) An example of worldwide cooperation.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others
the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Quotation from Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship and Other Essays

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Quotation from Dan Quayle, America’s 44th Vice President

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