The other day I marshaled the evidence against democracy gone wild, where voters are asked to make decisions on a raft of amendments and initiatives they have no business voting on in the first place. As if to make my point, I found this initiative on the ballot I filled out today during early voting:
Shall the voters for the City and County of Denver adopt an Initiated Ordinance to require the creation of an extraterrestrial affairs commission to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents and visitors in relation to potential encounters or interactions with extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles, and fund such commission from grants, gifts and donations?
The truth is out there, and Denver voters have a unique opportunity to prepare for the inevitable extraterrestrial visit scheduled for 2012.
Shall we? I said “no,” but I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Appropriately, it was the last item on the ballot; a surprise ending, if you will, that was the electoral equivalent of The Usual Suspects. It turns out that Keyser Soze was an alien all along. Fire the Grid, baby!
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are we really this stupid. if it passes . Yep
I’m guessing a lot of folks in Denver were dropped when they were children.
I don’t feel as though there should be serious funding for something like this but having an to initiative to be able to have an extraterrestrial commission on the ballot is not unfathomable or misguided. Don’t be narrow minded, the possibility is there. It’s like Missile defense, what are the chances of us actually being attacked in relation to the billions of dollars we spend on missile defense programs. Have we been targeted by missiles (real missiles, not planes)? Have we ever used our anti-missile system? NO… is the possibility there, yes…
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