Michael Moore did some research on the voting on Tuesday thing and it dates back to the 19th century (or earlier?), when most people lived on farms, miles away from town and the polling places. They voted on Tuesdays because many of these farmers came to town on Monday to do their business, stayed the night, voted and went home. Something like that. Point is, we’ve been doing it this way because we’ve ALWAYS done it this way.
Voting on Tuesday also avoids having to travel on a Sunday. Having elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday means elections will never occur on the first of the month, when businesses did their books.
First Tuesday after first Monday also prevented elections being on the first of November, which was (and still is, I guess) a religious holiday.
The first of November can be more than 34 days from the first Wednesday in December, and it used to be law that the time between the election and the electoral college doing their thing was 34 days or fewer.
Congressman says firing gay people is one of the freedoms we enjoy.
Also, he’s apparently unaware that his state (NC) allows firing gay people for being gay.
Because the Pubs will block anything that makes it easier to vote.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight. If we define secularism as a religion, and we ban all religions, then we’ve banned the absence of religion…therefore we have to include all religions, including the absence of religion…
We’re getting into Bertrand Russell “who shaves the barber” territory, and my head hurts.
It’s hurdles all the way down.
If Rick Santorum wipes the feces-lube mixture from the backsides of all people, and only those people, who do not wipe themselves…
Requiring that health insurance plans include contraceptive coverage is equivalent to mandating that parents keep an open liquor cabinet stocked and available for their children to use while they (the parents) are away from home.
Yeah, sure, I can see that.
:dubious:
I’m late to the party, but it is worth pointing out that the 2nd Amendment’s primary purpose was to protect the slave patrols. If the patrols weren’t armed, they weren’t effective and the slaves could rebel, and disarming them was a feared method the Federal government might try to undo slavery. The 2nd Amendment was a kind of compromise.
Then there is the standing army/militia thing, yes. In the South, slave patrols were often the same thing as the militia. But the 2nd isn’t about overthrowing the government.
She wasn’t voted in, her job is to be quiet and look good. over the years the first lady position has become more power full which is incrementalism. I hope anybody would put a gag in the first ladies mouth no matter who she is or who is gagging her. repub or demo
That would violate the first amendment to the constitution, doncha think?
What I like to do when I join a community is to respond directly to a conversation that was started nearly five and a half years ago, ignoring the 16,647 additional comments and the thousands of separate discussions and arguments made since the first comment in order to make an outdated, trite and intentionally sexist point. But I always go for the bonus points by throwing in a little transparent Broderist “balance.”
So I got that goin’ for me.
The first doesn’t apply to a position of power needs to be elected to make policy. Kids lunch in schools comes to mind. do you think
What?
The First Amendment applies equally to elected and unelected citizens. You either support the Constitution, or you don’t. You can’t gag people just because their speech offends you.