Must be a slow news day - Fox News is asking Donald Trump what he thinks of the idea that Muslims are praying in New York.
The publicity surrounding that incident alerted me to the fact that Ailes has weird alien eyes. In fact, he has Jabba the Hutt eyes. Which let me to create some artwork that fully fleshed out this idea, with Ann Coulter playing Slave Leia. The artwork is prolly safe for work … Roger the Hutt and Ann Coulter in a metal bikini, but the ads on the page are totally not safe for work, so I’ll spoiler it:
Freedom of religion is for other people.
[Freedom Nazi] No freedom for you! [/FN]
Republicans in Wisconsin ending same day voter registration.
Move will cost the state an additional $5.2 million.
This is the top legislative agenda item for 2013. - Even though they have promised a “laser like focus” on jobs.
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Ah, Glenn Grothman (R-Shoeleather Sandwich)…
He wants to go back to “motor voter”. Does memory fail, yet again, or did the Pubbies throw a screaming shit fit to try and stop “motor voter” because freedom? Like twenty years ago, it was the end of democracy and decency, ducks and geese, living together…
And now they’re fucking nostalgic about it. What a long strange trip its been.
Hey, a movin’ target is good as anything else. Whatever it takes to prevent them pesky nigras an’ wetbacks from votin’ in large numbers is worth it, dadgummit!
I object. We’ll take the nigras and the wetbacks, but NOT THE IRISH!
Actually, in this case, it’s not minorities at all. It’s college students. Specifically, UW-Madison. Madison is so overwhelmingly left-leaning and votes in such high numbers that it almost single handily tips the entire state of Wisconsin in the D’s favor.
It also means you get candidates for Senate coming to campaign right on Library Mall because they know the student turnout will help decide the election.
I loved the fact that as an undergrad I could just bring a water bill to the polling place and, boom, I could vote. I don’t understand why every state doesn’t allow that.
Richard “Rape is a gift from God” Mourdock has finally figured out why he lost election by a landslide in a solidly red state.
Because some students will vote via absentee ballot in their home state, AND vote in their school state?
(Personally, I think it’s ok to vote in local elections in both places you live, but since it’s illegal I don’t do it.)
It would unfairly give extra power to rich people. Rich Joe might maintain homes in twenty or thirty different communities, and vote in each of them. Your own community might be host to a few hundred out-of-towners or even out-of-staters, who maintain a residence solely to vote there.
I suppose I’m a hypocrite in this, though, because I see it okay for rich blokes to send money to local campaigns in towns and states far from where they really live. I don’t admire it, but I can’t see any way to prevent it without a constitutional amendment. I guess I can only argue that money is an influence, but not an actual vote, and, anyway, the First Amendment says I can.
Well, arguably the contribution they make to the local economies in property taxes and/or rent (depending on how this “maintenance” is arranged) has more of an impact than their individual votes. I mean, it would have to be the swingingest of swing venues for a single vote to matter.
Of course having said that, I can picture organized efforts to “reside” many people, i.e. the party rents a large house and gets 50 people (or whatever the maximum legal occupancy is) to temporarily “live” there for the purposes of voting, and the total cost is just a few months’ rent. Repeat several hundred times and a tight race in a contentious congressional district could be bought. Heck, find a party supporter who owns a vacant apartment building with 60 units, move 400 “residents” in…
The Supreme Court will soon hear a case involving gay marriage. Justice Scalia has hinted at his position:
[QUOTE=Justice Antonin Scalia]
“If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”
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Well, there goes the hope that HE’LL be the swing vote…
Seriously, I hope he DOES try that kind of whinge in whatever deliberative discussions they have. It might be just the thing to prod Kennedy into voting to affirm the Ninth’s decision.
To be ruthlessly fair, he did not actually make a comparison between homosexuality and murder. He simply noted that moral inclinations are commonly reflected in law. He might just as easily compared homosexuality to, say, shoplifting but probably enjoyed the little extra bit of inflammatory baiting. Because he is an asshole.
Please don’t make me do this again. Ever.
In October, an email was circulated accusing the school district in Irving, TX of having a radical pro-Islam bias in its curriculum. The school board, which is dominated by conservatives and opens its meetings with a Christian prayer, was so concerned that they hired an independent investigator to scour the curriculum for any sign of religious bias.
But it’s not a very good argument. If we have moral feelings against murder, can’t we have them against mixing two fibers?
The reason murder is illegal is not because it is immoral, it’s because we give up our right to legally murder a person in return for assurance we can not be murdered legally by someone else.
Well, we gotta ban homosexuality, lest somebody homosexualize you!