Time for yet another open thread. You all must not like structure.
Where is good leave watching? Does anyone have a favorite spot?
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Open Thread Mid-week October 20
Time for yet another open thread. You all must not like structure.
Where is good leave watching? Does anyone have a favorite spot?
Comments are closed.
You’ve cracked the code. Liberals snookered the Gipper and Dubya and got them to appoint “sleeper libs” to the court who had quietly spent a lifetime in the Republican party pretending to be conservatives so one day they could go rogue and let illegals vote. Thanks to “e” now we’ve got to come up with a new plan.
And to think Sandra Day O’Connor could be still sitting on the court if it weren’t for that rascally husband who died shortly after she got off and we got Alito. I have never forgiven him for that. (Mr. O’Connor)
Ok , paying attention now. I keep reading ‘illegals’ have been given the vote like they were just added to the 15th amendment or something. Yup, I see it right there….
AZ can’t do that because the law was not consistent with the the National Voter Registration Act.
It seems like the right thing to do would be to petition Congress to shore thing up if our voting laws aren’t strong enough. Once again, AZ just tries to make its own laws rather than working through the system.
It is like a recalitrant school child. It assumes that the laws and rules are there for everyone else but Arizona. Then it gets mad and pouts when it gets sent to the corner or corrected.
@Moon-howler
These people who want to be me must be terribly discontent with their own realities.
The Flags by Mr. F are an intersting mix – as noted previously, most are from Countries Central and South America. Has a few in there too from Islamic Countries.
One caught my eye – yellow background, three red stripes in the center. Memory moment – the flag of South Vietnam. Pondered that one…guess it was in the collection he bought or did not know what it was.
Then again, what he is possibly doing is having a display of all the countries immigrants have come from.
Very interesting. Thanks for letting us know. I will try to get over there and take a pic. I actually think flags are beautiful. I hope these are, since there isn”t much anyone can do about it anyway.
Tea party antics could end up burning Republicans
By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 28, 2010; 12:32 AM
The tea party’s volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans’ chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins are now stumbling in the campaign’s final days.
In Kentucky, a volunteer for tea-party-backed Senate candidate Rand Paul was videotaped stepping on the head of a liberal protester. In Delaware and Colorado, Senate hopefuls Christine O’Donnell and Ken Buck, respectively, are under fire for denying that the First Amendment’s establishment clause dictates a separation of church and state. In Nevada, GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle is drawing rebuke for running TV ads that portray Latino immigrants as criminals and gang members.
Perhaps the most dramatic tea party problems are in Alaska, where Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller is suffering another round of unfavorable headlines after it was revealed late Tuesday that he had admitted lying about his misconduct while working as a government lawyer in Fairbanks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102707428.html?hpid=topnews
Stepping on peoples’ heads, calling Latinos criminals, and using government computers for personal gain are not good ways to win votes.
What is wrong with Alaskans? I just don’t see how some of these people are getting on the ballot.
Could we go back to Arizona and the 9th for a minute. What you talking about Willis, you mean you don’t have to be an American citizen to vote this time around? All you need is an address? Those dems are gonna steal this election one way or the other and it looks like they are going after several different ways. Cato, check the rising price of ammo – good investment?
So what value is citizenship again other than the joy of paying taxes.
@PWC Taxpayer
I’ll say this much, if people were really paying attention to what’s happening to them, we’d have a real problem on our hands, ammunition-wise.
Where is today’s Daily Show clip M-H? It has the President on it? But the best part, is the whole clip on the WP that goes from the laughter right into the China owns us add. If I were a Dem, I might be afraid, very afraid of the insantity rally.
I am feeling it – very Novemberish. Its coming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102707734.html?hpid=artslot
This silly-season has left me cold. We’ve had almost 100% negative political ads, each one more ridiculous than the one before it. Both sides. Each ad leaves me thinking “probably all BS” no matter whose ad it is. My overarching thought is: people really do get the government they deserve.
Scientists Find Liberal Gene!
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Scientists-May-Have-IDd-Liberal-Gene-105917218.html
@e
e, you beat me to it! I’ve got the link on my clipboard ready to paste it, but you’re faster! I think this is an important first step toward finding a cure for the most destructive form of dementia in our collective human experience!
Arizona has the same laws you all have here in Virginia. Why do you think they have differnet laws regarding elections. Illegal immigrants haven’t been given voting rights.
So does that mean that a lot of the conservatives on this blog were socially challenged during high school?
@Moon-howler
That could very well be the case! I wasn’t popular in high school, and I wasn’t a big fan of the popular kids. But I got through it without offing myself. I don’t know what that’s about.
Well, I was being a smarta$$ when I asked the question but is there really anything to it? Are the quieter, less social kids conservative?
I am not even sure how you classify popularity these days. Being a jock, being a cheerleader type, dating alot, having boyfriends/girlfriends. I think popularity nowadays is so alien to what I would consider popular back in my day, I wouldn’t be able to relate. People go out together but they never leave their house. I don’t get it.
the problem is the enforcement – many people do not have a document of any sort that proves identity and citizenship.
What form of documentation should be provided to vote? Don’t create a law that cannot be enforced.
I have a voter registration card but it doesn’t have any id on it really. I suppose the voter registration lists are as good as it gets. But…AZ has the same laws we do. They tried to alter theirs and got their hands slapped, again.
Every time that I vote, I am asked for ID to prove my identity. I use my driver’s license or my retired military ID. I’ve never understood the objections to providing id when voting.
This is a bit dated but appropos for the upcoming elections
GORDON DUFF: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ARREST OF 5 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
FOR TREASON
January 22, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff
THE FIVE THAT STAND AGAINST ALL AMERICANS, THE “MAFIA” JUDGES
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a
person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws,
subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over
our lives, a power awarded by judges who seem themselves as grand
inquisitors in an meant to hunt down all heretics who fail to serve
their god, the god of money.
Their ruling has made it legal for foreign controlled corporations
to flush unlimited money into our bloated political system to
further corrupt something none of us trust and most of us fear.
The “corporation/person” that the 5 judges, the “neocon” purists,
have turned the United States over to isn’t even American. Our
corporations, especially since our economic meltdown are owned by
China, Russia and the oil sheiks along with a few foreign banks.
They don’t vote, pay taxes, fight in wars, need dental care, breathe
air, drive cars or send children to school. Anyone who thinks these
things are people is insane. Anyone who would sell our government
to them is a criminal and belongs in prison. There is nothing in
the Constitution that makes this “gang of five” bribe sucking clowns
above the law. There is nothing in the Constitution that even
mentions corporations much less gives them status equal to or
greater than the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of
government.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/22/call-for-immediate-arrest-
of-5-supreme-court-justices-for-treason/”
A driver’s license is still just a voting district address – although it is now more difficult to get since 9/11. Pat’s right – some folks cannot produce a birth certificate and yet have a social security card, which would be my next response. Every bit helps, but some official, government issued ID must be required.
BTW felons cannot vote either- right? How do they enforce that one.
If you can’t trust Reagan and Bush to appoint real republicans to the court to keep the dems from stealing then who can you trust?
Had this been a decision by a panel made up of all dem judges then the conspirary theorists among you (I see you out there hiding behind your pseudonyms) would at least have some arguable basis for that cask of whine you’ve opened, but this was a panel of ALL republicans who apparently didn’t have the benefit of that 5-day constitutional law seminar Christine O’Donnell attended where she learned that partisan politics trumps the law.
I don’t think anyone resents showing their govt. picture ID when they vote. I have not heard anyone on this blog say that either.
It appears that scientists have studied inherent conservative political leanings as well as liberal ones. Here’s a link which leads to other links that make the case that conservatives are more fearful of death and prefer their songs, paintings, and poems to be simple and unambiguous. 😉
http://thinkbridge.blogspot.com/2008/02/now-that-politics-are-really-heating-up.html
@Censored bybvbl ” conservatives are more fearful of death and prefer their songs, paintings, and poems to be simple and unambiguous. ”
Tell that to my largely conservative reading group that favors Faulkner and recently worked our way through The Divine Comedy.
Emma, I don’t make the news – just report it. Here’s the Boston Globe’s article on the subject:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/02/born_to_party/?page=1
But, I’ll agree that your reading list contradicts the scientists’ findings. Maybe you’re all a bunch of closet liberals. 😉
@Censored bybvbl Shhhhhh….
I don’t think Emma is pure conservative. She seems more like a hybrid. Not a moderate….a hybrid. Emma, you are either one way or the other, depending on the topic.
@Cato the Elder
I would if you had any…