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2005-12-19 Iraq

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Posted by Super Hose 2005-12-19 19:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't know of a good way to get around the thug problem in Iraq or in Middle Eastern culture as a whole.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-12-19 19:18|| 2005-12-19 19:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The irony of women voting that frustrates those who advocate the vote for women, is that women invariably tend to vote for whoever their husbands and family vote for.

That is, the suffragists expect the women to vote the radical ticket, but when given the chance, they tend to vote conservative.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-19 20:05|| 2005-12-19 20:05|| Front Page Top

#3 invariably

I guess I'm really a man, then, Anonymoose, and Mr. Wife needs to add an S to his first name.

Try instead, people who marry one another tend to have certain key goals in common, and this often enough leads them to the same point politically. In many of that subset, the husband chose a political party/leader to do his thinking for him in the same way he became a fan of a certain football team (World or American, the team-choosing behaviour is the same) when he was 10, and has cheered for them ever after. And the wife lets her husband's party think for her as well, because she chose her husband a long time ago, and that was quite enough thinking, thankyouverymuch.

Or are you suggesting that all men seriously research all the possibilities before each election in order to choose the one best suited to handle the current situation? And the women close their eyes and vote for the one their hatpin landed on?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-19 22:34|| 2005-12-19 22:34|| Front Page Top

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