And another...as the blatent attempt by King Moffit and the court jesters to neutralize and dilute Democratic votes flames out, leaving Republicans to whine about the rules they themselves created.
Vrede wrote:
Not just "Democratic" votes, it was a cynical and deliberate effort to marginalize students' power, whatever their party.
...Warren Wilson Road is the line between District 1 and District 2 and thus divides the campus...
Of course - but in this case there are probably more wild elephants on the Warren Wilson campus than there are Republicans. It may or may not be divine justice, karma, or just old fashioned "comes around" but it sure is fun to see them gnash their teeth.
O Really wrote:And another...as the blatent attempt by King Moffit and the court jesters to neutralize and dilute Democratic votes flames out, leaving Republicans to whine about the rules they themselves created.
Florida Pubs had one come back and bite them in the ass.
After the 2000 fiasco when Jeb helped steal the election for his brother, the Pubs passed laws that forbid recounts after electronic votes have been totaled. Kind of shot down Allen West's demand for a recount.
Then there were the voter suppression laws which, I swear, steeled many people intended to be suppressed into standing in those long lines and voting anyway.
rstrong wrote:"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
- Robert Anton Wilson
20 years ago I was a liberal. I wanted equality regardless of gender, race and sexual orientation. I was in favor of same-sex marriage.
Now we have (in Canada) equality regardless of gender, race and sexual orientation. We have same-sex marriage. Once same-sex marriage was allowed, it simply and quickly disappeared as an issue. The world didn't end, religious freedoms were still protected, and there's been no noticable effect on society.
The Catholics and evangelists want to do away with all this. I want it to stay as is, because the current way works just fine.
Over 20 years I've become a conservative without changing a single idea.
For the sake of honesty: I believe that Canada should drop the constitutional monarchy aspect of our government. Even though our ties to the Queen are almost entirely ceremonial, I find them to be rather offensive in a modern democracy. In dropping those ties to the monarchy, we would by definition become a republic.
So in wanting change I could be accused of not being a conservative. Rather, it makes me a republican.
rstrong wrote:
So in wanting change I could be accused of not being a conservative. Rather, it makes me a republican.
Don't you have to get a lobotomy or something, or is that just our Republicans?
I think that's just our Republicans, but it did remind me of something funny. Remember when Iraq used to have the "feared" Republican Guard? And who were so confident in their ability to overcome all invaders? And who were "shocked" to find they had their asses handed to them and had not prepared a concession speech? Maybe there is something about the name.
Speaking of electoral votes, I have been reading some old Sunday Mountain Views sections of
the TN that I never got around to. In a January 2012 column George Will says that he just
can't see how Obama can get to 270 electoral votes without the 20 from Pennsylvania. Um
......guess again.
Bungalow Bill wrote:Speaking of electoral votes, I have been reading some old Sunday Mountain Views sections of
the TN that I never got around to. In a January 2012 column George Will says that he just
can't see how Obama can get to 270 electoral votes without the 20 from Pennsylvania. Um
......guess again.
George Will...wrong for D.C...wrong for America.
George Will . . . just plain wrong.
I gotta get a gig like that. You get it unbelieving ass-backwards wrong, lose all credibility, but you're right back the next week pontificating and pretending that you know what you're talking about.
Kind of like being Butt Ugly, except you get paid for it.
That's the fun of reading old newspaper columns--how wrong they so often are and also
how something that was thought to be a huge "crises" six months ago is hardly remembered.
They can get away with it because two weeks later who remembers what they wrote? They
know that, so they can go on with the same old bs year after year. I believe Will predicted
a Romney victory too, though he was more cautious than some of the others. Now there will
be four more years of Georgie telling us how bad Obama is, etc. Yeah, whatever.
Supsalemgr wrote:I applaud the president for this decision. I just trust this "hands off" philosophy carries over to all matters.
Speaking from both sides of my forked tongue, I applaud that decision itself, but I'm not enough of a "states righter" to think it's a good idea for states to override federal law.
