Hey , have you nominated your favorite barnyard champion inMartok ’s Campaign Contest 2012 ? If you have n’t , turn back it out right now ! There are n’t many entries yet and we need more . Let your favorite animal ’s vocalisation be heard !
And remember when I tell you mycrazy - goat - lady momis a finalist in Casey ’s Famous People contest ? vote begins this week ! Starting tomorrow , Tuesday , Sept.11 , 2012 , you’re able to visitCasey ’s Facebook pageand get through on Casey ’s Famous People to consider the cool mini - documentary Blair , Josh and Dustin from Barkley , an advertizing agency , made of us animals , including studly me . And if you have a Facebook account you may also vote for my mom while you ’re there . In fact , you’re able to vote once a solar day Sept. 11 through Sept. 25 , 2012 , so please do ! If she win , Mom will put the prize money toward feed and dainty for us creature . Yum !
Mom says vote in elections is an authoritative matter that humans do because that ’s how they choose the people they want to run their authorities for them . She says politics get pretty dull when you get word about campaigner and see them in the news program every day , so often , people do n’t vote , specially if they do n’t like the citizenry running for office . That ’s when she tells this chronicle she first post on her Facebook page . She said I can share it with you .
I need to severalize you all a small Election Day story . This happened in Minnesota , oh , about 25 year ago .
John and I had prompt since the last metre we voted , so I called to find out when the local polling situation would open . ( It was at an honest-to-god grange Asaph Hall way out in the stick . ) So I hotfoot the right way over there first thing in the aurora — and no one was there .
I waited and steamed and after a half hour or so , I drive into Beroun to our former polling station . No , they said , I could n’t vote there . I had to go back to Munch Township . So I drive back out there and they were just enter the door ( about an hour after the posted opening sentence . ) So I stormed in and vote and was feel fairly testy when I came out .
As I channelize for my truck , an old , old serviceman was alighting from his gondola . He was maybe 5 - foot 2 - inch , very wizened , slight and bent over , and he was wearing an honest-to-god - fashioned ignominious “ Sunday respectable ” lawsuit and the big grin you could ever imagine .
I smile and said hello ( because that ’s how you do thing in rural Minnesota ) , and he enjoin , “ Ah ! A wonderful day , a splendiferous day , is day we vote ! In old country we ca n’t vote . Here , every American picks leaders ! ” And grinning from capitulum to get a line he hobbled on to the polling property .
I still get chill think about that . We take so much for granted , including our freedom to vote .
So even if politics bore you , recall that story on Nov. 6 ( that ’s American human ’ Election Day ) . Pick your best-loved candidates and vote — because you could .
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