'Getting Out The Vote' at Maine's Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Where I live here in NH I listen to Maine NPR because it's a stronger station than our local one.  There was a call in show this morning with a few negative comments about the WGME piece.  A couple of the callers were upset that "out-of-staters" were being allowed to vote on Maine issues.  One person got downright upset and said if Yes on 1 lost he was going to call for an "investigation".  We had the same problem here not too long ago. People don't realize that a full time student can register to vote in the college town as long as he or she does not vote back in their hometown.  

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by: Herb @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 12:56:58 PM CDT

I was just imagining the morning after the NOM defeat in 2 states

The "Value's" Voter conclave could ONLY muster 7% who thought anti-gay marriage was an issue to pursue.

HOW FAR does that 7% decrease after MILLIONS more are thrown down a rathole, more straight allies stand with us against lying Republicans, and the Vatican and Sisterhood of the Magic Undies slip in popularity?
Maggie Gallagher was already DAMAGED GOODS, not for being a propogandist, but for being a DUMB and SLOPPY propogandist who got CAUGHT.

I spit for luck so I don't cause us bad luck counting our chickens before they hatch...but it does make the mind wonder how LOW can this anti gay cr*p go, and survive?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 13:11:22 PM CDT

I'm in a college town too.

And our students just 'got the vote' a few years ago. We don't hear much about that being a problem, as our college kids seem to have really adopted our town as 'theirs' now. They come out in droves on Volunteer days etc. 

All in all it has been a great help to keep town and gown together!

Those who don't like 'others' of any stripe are just bigots anyway. 

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 13:12:03 PM CDT

I've been reading some posts at University of Maine

One real crackpot was giving a lengthy description of what he thought must be science fiction worthy means LGBTs would need to go through to propogate, which bordered on CLONING and genetic manipulation and gave psuedo-science garbage of what he imagines genetics is like.
I hated to burst his bizarro bubble (oh no I didn't) to explain to his audience, LGBTs have or don't have children quite like heterosexuals have or don't have children.
Some of OUR high tech secret equipment....bastes your Thanksgiving dinner, other than that no great mysteries.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 13:22:39 PM CDT

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Hasn't that cheeseball been banned from here?

User "Imagine" used to come in here all the time and talk about cloning and zygotes. What was his name? John unmedicated something-or-other.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 15:26:19 PM CDT

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John Harwood is his nickname at U of Maine

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 17:23:25 PM CDT

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Isn't our pet troll

named "John Howard"? AKA "Imagine"?

Awfully similar...

Best solution
The best way to get around Wisconsin's amendment is to define Civil Unions in a way that makes them substantially different, but still doesn't require enumerating some subset of rights or benefits.  The best way is to define them as "marriage minus conception rights", so that they have all the incidental benefits and protections, but lack the essential sine qua non substantial core of marriage.  The substantial core of marriage is that the couple is approved and allowed to conceive offspring together, and that would be missing.
Voila, better, stronger CU's, and Constitutional, too!

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by: Imagine @ Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 15:28:36 PM EDT
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Troll Alert:
I believe our old friend John Howard (the Egg and Sperm guy) is back.

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by: Pollyanna @ Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 15:52:58 PM EDT
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by: Louise @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 17:47:12 PM CDT

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here's John's goofy procreation stuff

John Howard says:
October 22, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Advocates for same-sex marriage are being deceitful when they claim they only want to be left alone to live the way they want to live. They never mention it, but they also demand a right to create children together using genetically modified female sperm\ and male eggs\ derived from stem cells, so they can have biologically-related children together (two men would also require a surrogate or an artificial womb to carry their baby, while two women could do it themselves, but, lacking a Y\ chromosome, could have only daughters). They don't bring up this demand themselves, because they don't need to: attempting same-sex procreation is legal, no law prohibits it. Labs could attempt it today, in spite of the enormous risk to the baby, and the disastrous effects that genetic engineering of human beings would have on society. But when I bring it up, l always get responses like this one from Liberal Angel\ a blogger at HuffingtonPost.com: If there is some procedure that can fuse male gametes together, then I will do that with my partner and God help the fool who tries to get between me and my child.\ It is, it turns out, the most essential demand of all.

Society needs to consider the ramifications of allowing labs to make children for same-sex couples before it declares that same-sex couples have the same rights as a married man and woman do. Of course, merely stopping gay marriage is not enough to stop genetic engineering of children, to do that we need a law like was recommended by the President's Council on Bioethics in 2004 (the same year that Japanese scientists created Kaguya, the first fatherless mouse created from two females) which would prohibit conceiving children that are not the union of a man's sperm and a woman's egg. But same-sex marriage would be incompatible with such a law, stripping from marriage the right to conceive children together that has always been the core meaning of marriage, and making all marriages vulnerable to genetic risk assessment and eugenic pressures. Same-sex marriage could also make such a law impossible to enact, forcing Maine to allow genetic engineering and same-sex conception, and requiring us to fund the research and the stem cell and IVF services that same-sex couples would require in order to procreate together.

So Maine should vote to stop same-sex marriage, and reject the premature idea that same-sex couples should have equal rights to procreate together that a married man and a woman have. There are better ways to give same-sex couples the protections they are asking for without inadvertently deciding the issue of same-sex procreation and genetic engineering of babies before we have had a chance to consider the issue.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 18:33:21 PM CDT

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**headdesks**

Yep, same guy. Apparently he hasn't walked in front of a bus yet.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi

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by: Keori @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 19:04:33 PM CDT

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Now now

think of the poor bus driver, dear...

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by: Louise @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 19:24:44 PM CDT

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thankfully procreation sounds like it's merely a theoretical concept to Mr Howard

He's probably one of the walking unf*ckables

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 02:33:46 AM CDT

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agree

Here when we had the problem here most of the college towns came out in support of the students also. The instigator here was the Republican Party who knew most of the kids would vote for liberal issues and they wanted to stop them from voting.  I always notice that the GOP  tries to minimize the vote more than getting out their own voters. We even had them pay some outfit to jam the telephone lines a Democratic group that was driving people to the polls.

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by: Herb @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 13:28:48 PM CDT

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