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Smiley Anders for November 10, 2009

Protection from dirty politics?
  • By SMILEY ANDERS
  • Advocate columnist
  • Published: Nov 10, 2009 - Page: 1B

Patricia Oates says a friend in Salem, Va., told her of a change in the voting method in the recent Virginia election, no doubt due to the H1N1 flu virus:

“Ordinarily, voters are given a pencil with an eraser and use the eraser end to tap their choices on a computer screen.

“This time they were given elongated cotton buds, just like a doctor would use to swab a throat.

“Perhaps our powers that be at the big bond election coming up would find this interesting. We have a high rate of this virus here in Louisiana.”

Saints alive!

Myra G. Tircuit, of Sunshine, says that with the Saints now 8-0, maybe we’re getting Hurricane Ida instead of hell freezing over.

Sign language

Father Howard Hall says that on his annual fall jaunt to Eureka Springs, Ark., he checks out messages on church signs along the way.

His favorites:

“Sign Person On Vacation: Message Inside.”

“Salvation Guaranteed — Or Your Sins Cheerfully Refunded.”

“Worry Often Gives Small Things A Big Shadow.”

Honey, I shrunk …

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