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you have been provided with the answers
it's not my fault if you are so pig-headed and monumentally stupid to comprehend
GFY
it's unconstitutional
why do you ignore that?
you have Obama Derangement Syndrome like the rest of the the right wing liars and bigots on ihub
you are a complete waste of time and very boring
go peddle your stupid lies to someone else
PN just showed you how it is unconstitutional because it's a poll tax
it's specifically designed to disenfranchise voters, particularly young, old, and poor
if you don't like living in a democracy where everyone has equal voting rights and you don't like the U.S. constitution then move to N. Korea
Republicans’ Voter Suppression Project Grinds On
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-21/republicans-voter-suppression-project-grinds-on.html
By Jonathan Alter Jun 21, 2012 6:30 PM CT
Mitt Romney was in Michigan this week trying to make it competitive in the presidential election. It’s a steep climb for the native Michigander because President Barack Obama’s auto bailout, which Romney opposed, has helped bring the state’s unemployment rate down by 5.7 points since 2009.
But Romney has a strong ally there: legislation being pushed this month by his fellow Republicans aimed at preventing the nonpartisan League of Women Voters from undertaking the voter-registration drives it has sponsored for nearly a century.
Across the country, the Republicans’ carefully orchestrated plan to make voting harder -- let’s call it the Voter Suppression Project -- may keep just enough young people and minorities from the polls that Republicans will soon be in charge of all three branches of the federal government.
Yes, both sides try to change voting laws to favor their team. The 1993 “motor voter” law that made voting more convenient by extending registration to the Department of Motor Vehicles helped mostly Democrats. That was at least in the long American tradition of expanding the franchise.
The Republican effort to restrict voting isn’t just anti- Democrat, it’s anti-democratic. No fair-minded person believes the tall tales of voters pretending they were someone else, which have been debunked by the Brennan Center for Justice and others. What fool would risk prison or deportation to cast a single vote?
Rigging System
This isn’t about stopping vote-stealing and other corruption, for which there are already plenty of laws on the books. It’s about rigging the system to keep power.
First we saw the efforts during the George W. Bush administration by Karl Rove and Justice Department officials to get rid of U.S. attorneys who refused to pursue bogus voter- fraud cases. When Republican prosecutors complained, Rove and company ran for cover.
Then came Crawford v. Marion County, the 2008 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mandatory photo-identification laws were constitutional on the basis of ballot protection. The evidence presented included not a single case of in-person impersonation fraud -- the only fraud that photo ID laws can prevent. And the millions of Americans -- mostly less-affluent seniors -- without driver’s licenses? Good luck.
The big Republican victory in the 2010 election was essential to the Voter Suppression Project. With the help of ALEC -- a conservative lobbying outfit that spreads cookie- cutter bills to state legislatures -- Republicans moved with lightning speed to implement their scheme. Since 2011, 18 states have enacted voter-suppression bills, with similar ones pending in 12 more.
In the presidential race, it’s hand-to-hand legal combat, with almost every battleground state embroiled in a struggle over voter eligibility.
Michigan’s bills attack the League of Women Voters by requiring some volunteers to attend state-approved training sessions before they can register voters. The catch is that the bill makes no provisions for such sessions. Ha! It does threaten them with penalties for registration offenses that aren’t specified.
The bill is modeled on Florida’s, parts of which a federal judge invalidated May 31 because he said they had “no purpose other than to discourage” constitutionally protected activity.
Witch’s Broomstick
In Ohio, the Obama campaign helped collect enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot repealing restrictions on absentee voting. Preferring not to face the voters directly on voter suppression, the Republican-controlled legislature repealed its own law, although it left intact a related measure that prohibits early voting on the three days before an election. That’s designed to discourage the tradition in black communities of busing worshippers from church to the polling place.
Several battleground states have new photo-ID requirements. Pennsylvania’s law allows valid student ID, but with a number of restrictions. Same in Wisconsin, which attached a series of bring-me-the-witch’s-broomstick demands for students looking to use a school ID. Fortunately, a state judge ruled against the Wisconsin law, although it’s being appealed.
Virginia’s legislation allows multiple forms of photo ID but restricts registering for an absentee ballot in person. A New Hampshire bill that required those without photo ID to fill out an onerous affidavit was thankfully just vetoed by Governor John Lynch.
The Obama campaign is obviously concerned about these ballot-access issues for political reasons. But even those with no dog in this fight should recognize that a great democracy doesn’t sully itself by suppressing the precious right to vote.
geeze, whatever gave you that idea?
lol
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Friday, September 23, 2011 10:49:29 PM
Re: fuagf post# 26907
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you FUCKING SCUMBAG IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE.............
pick up the 45 and blow your worthless brains out......PLEEEEEEESE.....
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
people cannot BE THAT FUCKIN' STUPID.....
spelling had nothing to do with it ....you communist scumbag piece of shit.....
the point about the spelling which you and that other idiot missed was that the article was written by a failed socialist foreigner....LIKE YOU....criticizing capitalism.....
DIRT-BAG FOREIGNERS CRITIZING CAPITALISM....????????!!!!!!!
WHEN THERE IS RIOTING IN THE STREETS IN THEIR SOCIALIST NATION....????????
that takes balls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND, YOU....YOU IGNORANT AGENDA DRIVEN ENEMY, APPLAUD IT....
SHOOT YOURSELF.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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it was investigated, the case was dropped
the one guy with the night stick was reprimanded by his own organization... it was an isolated incident
it's an old story and i really don't give a shit
good god, Alex Jones conspiracy crap??
Obama is coming to take ur guns?
do you take pride in your stupidity?
i don't even think Fox Lies is that retarded
what the F is wrong with u??
from what i recall it was definitely a dumb move on this one or two individuals decision to "show their presence"... but there were no voters who were not allowed to vote and even the Black Panther organization reprimanded and teporarily suspended the one or two guys
but it sure made a great photo op for the Glenn Beck and Breitbart hate crowd... Meanwhile Florida "medicare fraud" Gov Rick Scott is busy doing some REAL purging in FL... déjà vu all over again?
the Black Panther case was always much ado about nothing
well it was much ado about BLACK
there was no voter suppression
meanwhile the right wing governors association is currently busy purging the votes of minorities, poor, and elderly
all you can do is cut and paste right wing lies
are you related to extelecon?
at least come up with some new lies
the old ones are so boring
yes, if you are too stupid to tell simple truths from obvious lies then you are a liar... or would you prefer i just call you stupid?
your lie: "The decision shows that we can’t trust the Obama Justice Department to fairly administer our nation’s voting and election laws.”
you posted it... you own it
yep, another lie
why do you keep doing it?
is someone feeding you these lies to post?
you are such a monumentally clueless dolt
seriously
why do you wallow in filth?
also, that's an OLD lie... you are so boring
it's sealed with Willard's tax returns and $100M IRA
paultards and wingnuts believe every conspiracy in the book and support all lies
criticize Obama for killing Osama Bin Laden??
good god, the right wingers are BEYOND insane
nothing but hysterical hatred
congrats
Mitt Romney: true wimp or insecure weenie?
Michael Tomasky: Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem:
“…But the new values surface often enough—his fondness for firing people, the way he made fun of NASCAR fans’ ponchos, his reminders to us that his friends are the people who own the teams, and now his putdown of an entire nation, which happens to be our closest ally—to suggest that they won the argument.
“[...] In some respects, he’s more weenie than wimp—socially inept; at times awkwardy ingratiating, at other times mocking those “below” him, but almost always getting the situation a little wrong, and never in a sympathetic way. The evidence resonates across too many years to deny. What kind of teenager beats up on the misfit, sissy kid, pinning him down and violently cutting his hair with a pair of school scissors—the incident from Romney’s youth that The Washington Post famously reported (and Romney famously didn’t really deny) back in May? The behavior extends, through more sedate means, into adulthood. The Salt Lake Olympics remains his greatest triumph, for which he wins deserved praise. But to many of those in the know, Romney placed a heavy asterisk next to his name by attacking the men he replaced on the Olympic Committee, smearing them in his book, even after a court threw out all the corruption charges against them.
“And what kind of presidential candidate whines about a few attacks and demands an apology when the going starts to get rough? And tries to sound tough by accusing the president who killed the world’s most-wanted villain of appeasement? That’s what they call overcompensation, and it’s a dead giveaway; it’s the “tell.” This guy is nervous—terrified—about looking weak. And ironically, being terrified of looking weak makes him look weaker still.
“[...] In a similar vein, it was breathtaking, and a meaningful window into his thinking, that he thought denouncing “Obamacare” to the NAACP constituted courage. That was the opposite of courage—an easy shot aimed at people who aren’t voting for him anyway. Going to the Southern Baptist Convention and telling them they’re all wet about Mormonism? Now that would be courage. Can anyone picture Romney doing that in a million years? The Mormon God will come down from Kolob before that happens.”
well of course the CIA and the U.S. govt did create bin Laden in the sense they used him for their own purposes to help defeat the Russians in Afghanistan... but when Laden's usefulness was finished they cast him aside and basically left Afghanistan to become a haven for extremism... just like we were "friends" with Saddam in the 80's only because we currently hated the Iranians more
of course the various conspiracy nitwits like to spin it that there is no such thing as al Qaeda... it's all supposedly a U.S. govt homegrown operation... there's just no limit to the stupidity of stuff posted on the internet tubes, especially on ihub pol boards
"People are free to be fat and eat what they want. This is America. You need to realize that and get over it."
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77976887
as dumb and irresponsible as laughing off obesity with retarded and irresponsible comments as this one
yep, well that IDIOT should be forced to pay higher health insurance premiums
yeah, the dumbass is free to be a fat pig if he wants, but why should the rest of us subsidize his LAZY lard ass?
paultards and wingnuts telling lies??!
gasp!!
how gullible or stupid does one have to be to still be pushing the birther crap
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77970477
as predicted
what lie will you tell next?
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77954455
better yet i give you the actual BLS data which u hung your hat on via your wingnut blog
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceshighlights.pdf
go to page 14
it proves u are a liar... only a temporary spike due to once every decade census workers, the overall govt workforce has been trending down since late 2009
what lie will you tell next?
once again, go fuck yourself
oops i said a wordy dird
you obviously didn't read the BLS data because it proves u are a liar
go fuck yourself, you are a waste of time
yes, name calling... you earned it, it's not my fault you are a clueless liar
better yet i give you the actual BLS data which u hung your hat on via your wingnut blog
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceshighlights.pdf
go to page 14
it proves u are a liar... only a temporary spike due to once every decade census workers, the overall govt workforce has been trending down since late 2009
what lie will you tell next?
you still haven't provided a chart directly from BLS, even tho your right wing blog claims it is
and this is at least the THIRD time someone has tried to inform you about the 2010 blip from census workers... yet you continue spewing your cowpies
another thing i'm sure u don't realize is the 1st year of any new potus' budget doesn't kick in until almost a yr down the road
try reading something credible for a change
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/07/spot-the-socialists/
i failed to read that entire post by conix, her posts are so boring
i was only responding to the 1st part about Bush tax cuts expiring
i sh have read the rest because it was of course packed with lies
Heritage Foundation, lol, surprise surprise... thx for the sleuthing
yes, i agree... when i go to the gym a large percentage of people (not kids) are spending more time mesmerized by their smart ph than actually getting some exercise
24 hr access to unlimited communication is a great thing and has made so many aspects of life and business activities much more productive, yet it can be a time waster
meanwhile me and you are harping on our internet machines... LOL
so did you manage to get your grass cut without cell ph and internet access? LOL
would Rmoney continued the govt HAARP program of depopulation via self-induced earthquakes and hurricanes? what's the latest from Alex Jones?
Money for Nothing
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 26, 2012 475 Comments
For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are overwhelmingly the result of our ongoing economic crisis. In May 2009, Niall Ferguson of Harvard declared that the “tidal wave of debt issuance” would cause U.S. interest rates to soar. In March 2011, Erskine Bowles, the co-chairman of President Obama’s ill-fated deficit commission, warned that unless action was taken on the deficit soon, “the markets will devastate us,” probably within two years. And so on.
Well, I guess Mr. Bowles has a few months left. But a funny thing happened on the way to the predicted fiscal crisis: instead of soaring, U.S. borrowing costs have fallen to their lowest level in the nation’s history. And it’s not just America. At this point, every advanced country that borrows in its own currency is able to borrow very cheaply.
The failure of deficits to produce the predicted rise in interest rates is telling us something important about the nature of our economic troubles (and the wisdom, or lack thereof, of the self-appointed guardians of our fiscal virtue). Before I get there, however, let’s talk about those low, low borrowing costs — so low that, in some cases, investors are actually paying governments to hold their money.
For the most part, this is happening with “inflation-protected securities” — bonds whose future repayments are linked to consumer prices so that investors need not fear that their investment will be eroded by inflation. Even with this protection, investors used to demand substantial additional payment. Before the crisis, U.S. 10-year inflation-protected bonds generally paid around 2 percent. Recently, however, the rate on those bonds has been minus-0.6 percent. Investors are willing to pay more to buy these bonds than the amount, adjusted for inflation, that the government will eventually pay in interest and principal.
So investors are, in a sense, offering governments free money for the next 10 years; in fact, they’re willing to pay governments a modest fee for keeping their wealth safe.
Now, those with a vested interest in the fiscal crisis story have made various attempts to explain away the failure of that crisis to materialize. One favorite is the claim that the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates artificially low by buying government bonds. But that theory was put to the test last summer when the Fed temporarily suspended bond purchases. Many people — including Bill Gross of the giant bond fund Pimco — predicted a rate spike. Nothing happened.
Oh, and pay no attention to the warnings that any day now we’ll turn into Greece, Greece I tell you. Countries like Greece, and for that matter Spain, are suffering from their ill-advised decision to give up their own currencies for the euro, which has left them vulnerable in a way that America just isn’t.
So what is going on? The main answer is that this is what happens when you have a “deleveraging shock,” in which everyone is trying to pay down debt at the same time. Household borrowing has plunged; businesses are sitting on cash because there’s no reason to expand capacity when the sales aren’t there; and the result is that investors are all dressed up with nowhere to go, or rather no place to put their money. So they’re buying government debt, even at very low returns, for lack of alternatives. Moreover, by making money available so cheaply, they are in effect begging governments to issue more debt.
And governments should be granting their wish, not obsessing over short-term deficits.
Obligatory caveat: yes, we have a long-run budget problem, and we should be taking steps to address that problem, mainly by reining in health care costs. But it’s simply crazy to be laying off schoolteachers and canceling infrastructure projects at a time when investors are offering zero- or negative-interest financing.
You don’t even have to make a Keynesian argument about jobs to see that. All you have to do is note that when money is cheap, that’s a good time to invest. And both education and infrastructure are investments in America’s future; we’ll eventually pay a large and completely gratuitous price for the way they’re being savaged.
That said, you should be a Keynesian, too. The experience of the past few years — above all, the spectacular failure of austerity policies in Europe — has been a dramatic demonstration of Keynes’s basic point: slashing spending in a depressed economy depresses that economy further.
So it’s time to stop paying attention to the alleged wise men who hijacked our policy discussion and made the deficit the center of conversation. They’ve been wrong about everything — and these days even the financial markets are telling us that we should be focused on jobs and growth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/opinion/money-for-nothing.html?_r=1
oh connie dear, why did u run and hide?
yeah, i saw the photo properties,, so it's from some publication is Arizona i think
CONix doesn't want to share her "fact-checking" LOLOL
that poster reminds me of "dimcat" who used to post lies here
well then throw away your cell ph, no one is forcing it upon you
jeesh...
you need a tax deduction for credit card interest??
here's a hint, pay off your credit card every month
don't buy crap you can't afford and then by 15% interest
jeesh, if only we could go back to the days when we didn't have to pay taxes on cell phones... ya know, back in the days before there were cell phones... you could always go back to using smoke signals
income taxes are the lowest in 65 years
why are you whining about taxes?
u could always move to N. Korea... no income tax