" A federal judge said Wednesday he would permanently remove harsh restrictions on third-party voter registration groups that have handicapped registration efforts in Florida this year. U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle said he would grant a motion to permanently remove the restrictions once he receives confirmation that a federal appeals court has dismissed the case (the state of Florida has agreed to dismiss their appeal).
The suit was originally filed back in December by the League of Women Voters of Florida, Rock the Vote, and the Florida Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. The Justice Department opposed the restrictions in a separate lawsuit."
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Anonymous2012-08-29 22:30
Hypothetical: I wonder, if the judge were to request the deadline be adjusted upwards in maintenance of the law, rather than outright repeal of it, would that constitute "judicial review?"
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Anonymous2012-08-30 15:41
Another victory for Biraq "Saddam" Hussein Obongonog and nigocracy more like.
Good news Ohio! Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Law Restricting Early Voting
In an opinion by Judge Peter Economus, a federal court agreed with the Obama campaign today that the Ohio anti-voter law must be suspended:
“A citizen has a constitutionally protected right to participate in elections on an equal basis with other citizens in the jurisdiction.” In Ohio, that right to participate equally has been abridged by Ohio Revised Code ‘ 3509.03 and the Ohio Secretary of State’s further interpretation of that statute with regard to in-person early voting. In 2005, Ohio expanded participation in absentee balloting and in-person early voting to include all registered Ohio voters. Now, “in-person early voting” has been redefined by the Ohio legislature to limit Plaintiffs’ access to the polls. This Court must determine whether preliminary injunctive relief should be granted to Plaintiffs on their claim that Ohio’s restriction of in-person early voti
ng deprives them of their fundamental right to vote. Following Supreme Court precedent, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have stated a constitutional claim that is likely to succeed on the merits. As a result—and as explained below—this Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction.
The court’s opinion relies on the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Bush v. Gore to reach this holding, citing Bush‘s statement that “having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person’s vote over that of another.” Judge Economus’ decision will appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a Republican-leaning court with a history of legally-challenged partisan decisions benefiting the Republican Party. So it remains to be seen whether Economus’ decision will have staying power.
"Those who do learn the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them"
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tinydropthestickgoodog2012-09-03 21:44
you prefer romney then brendan dear ?
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tinyisnotinvestinginthissite2012-09-04 7:53
brendan has been arrested for public bestiality - sadly ...for the goat
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Anonymous2012-09-04 10:45
BASTARD FROM A BASKET!!!
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Anonymous2012-09-04 12:46
"Last week, our friends from the Republican Party had their convention.
Audience: "BOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Don't boo. Vote!"
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Anonymous2012-09-07 8:04
CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention Thursday night, commanding the ultraprogressive minions in attendance to help him “destroy Jesus and usher in a new age of liberal darkness that shall reign o’er the earth for a thousand years.”
The thunderous 45-minute address—during which the president argued for a second term so that he could “finally kill Jesus once and for, as well as all those who worship him”—was well received by the frenzied, wild-eyed audience, whose piercing chants of “Four more years!” and “Slaughter the believers!” echoed throughout the Time Warner Cable Arena.
“My fellow Americans and godless infidels, I command you to join me as we cast an endless pall of far-left evil across the hills and valleys of our nation!” Obama bellowed from the stage, as thousands in attendance moaned in compliance and gyrated their hips and groins in a lascivious dance. “Together, as a barbarian people forged by the wicked flames of irreligiosity and united by visions of a liberal dystopia, we will rise up as one to scorch the earth with boundless amorality.”
“The streets shall run red with the blood of forced sodomy, performed daily upon every American man, woman, and child!” the commander-in-chief shouted, froth forming around his mouth as the crowd threw hundreds of aborted fetuses onto the stage. “Die, Christians, die!”
Slamming his fists on the lectern until his hands began to bleed, Obama proceeded to lay out a “three-point plan of sin and lechery” for his second term. If reelected, the president said, he would begin by banning organized religion entirely—starting with Christianity—and burning all churches to the ground, preferably “with their wretched, Jesus-loving congregants still huddled inside like rats.”
As members of the audience violently tugged at their genitals and howled like sex-starved, atheist wolves, Obama stated that his administration would then seek to make free, taxpayer-funded abortions legal at any stage of pregnancy, even up to one full year after birth, in order to supply his newly created “federal stem-cell harvesting plants” with raw materials.
In addition, the cackling president vowed to “end traditional marriage as we know it” by passing legislation that would allow only homosexuals to raise children, a longtime Democratic policy goal.
“A glorious new age of sinister, unconstrained liberalism is dawning! Oh, dear Satan, I can feel it coursing through my veins at this very moment!” shrieked Obama, ripping off his shirt to reveal an ornate tattoo of a pentagram, with a different homosexual act positioned at each of the star’s five points. “Agnosticism, contempt for human life, and radical sexual experimentation shall rule the day! Any good, virtuous, family-values-oriented Christian Americans who seek to topple our magnificent liberal kingdom of eternal darkness will be powerless to stop us! We will crush them!”
Added Obama, “Thank you, may Satan reward you all, and may God tremble in fear at the United States of America!”
The president was then handed an unbaptized, orphaned newborn baby drenched in the blood of 666 slaughtered Christians, which he handed over to its new, gleefully squealing homosexual parents.
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Anonymous2012-09-07 8:18
>>14
If Obama is a real nigger, he should worship Mulungu, Ngai or some how do the Bantu call their God.
There's something you have to understand about American Republicans today. Much like Clint Eastwood's routine with an invisible President Obama, there is an America only they can see: an America wherein the prosperity and values of the 1950s never quite ended. An America which consists entirely of a suburb in which houses with yards are contained by white picket fences (always white), with a family of a father who is the breadwinner and a mother who takes care of the children, of which there are always two (with one on the way!), and of course there is a dog named Spot/Rover/Fido. There is a roast in the oven, a Bible in the parlor, and a TV in the living room. This, a Republican says, is America, and they have spent so much time, over thirty years, telling themselves so, that anyone- anyone AT ALL, no matter how hateful, boring, or just plain revolting- who appeals to this vision, has their vote, and anyone who defies it (poors, homosexuals, foreigners, and anyone of a different race) is bent on america's destruction. Facts and figures fall before this vision. Why do you think so many political cartoonists made such a big deal about less Caucasian babies born in America, or still find any reason they can imagine to hate a black President? Most conservatives, I fear would genuinely take your comparison and interpret the other way, with Romney being blessed by the heavens and Obama as the herald of doom.
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Anonymous2012-09-07 21:36
The portrayal of B.Obama as a threat to national and eternal spiritual security humored me. Are there any other stories that I may read that also exaggerated to outrageous extremes? I really enjoyed how Indiana Jones made the nation of India appear to be a land filled with organ harvesters that abduct under-aged royalty as miner-minors.
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Anonymous2012-09-07 23:18
>>18 I really enjoyed how Indiana Jones made the nation of India appear to be a land filled with organ harvesters that abduct under-aged royalty as miner-minors.
Wasn't it some AD&D fantasy world? Jews love telling fantasy stories, especially about Nazis. IIRC Indiana Jones also fought some cartoon-fantasy Nazis. I doubt any serious person would accept a portrayal from a Jewish propaganda movie.
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Anonymous2012-09-08 4:06
I've watched American political conventions before, but the stark differences in diversity were so much more pronounced than any that I've ever seen before.
The republican convention seemed to be entirely populated with wealthy looking old white people and a few suit-wearing young republicans with a very very few lonely token minorities occasionally showing up on the very edges of the crowd, while the democratic convention had absolutely everyone represented from every possible walk of life in America. It was really, really striking and a bit baffling that no-one seemed to even acknowledge it from the stage.
I was always bit doubtful when Americans talk about the radical shift in politics coming with the dying off of the boomer generation, but now I completely believe it. There's no way the republicans can even hope to survive in the next couple decades appealing to such a narrow demographic. At some point soon, they are going to have to change their political rhetoric or die out with their aging demographic, so if you are looking for something hopeful in the future look to that.
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Anonymous2012-09-10 16:56
Does that mean that Republicans only know how to operate Apple brand products and that Democrats can only afford Microsoft brand products?
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Anonymous2012-09-10 23:55
>>21
Meaning, they've found yet another pair of fields to be retarded?
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Anonymous2012-09-11 11:51
The answer is that the Republican Party has developed three means of bypassing the mainstream media and its fact-checkers.
- The first is by repeating big lies so often in TV spots - financed by a mountain of campaign money - that the public can no longer recall (if it ever knew) that the mainstream media and its fact-checkers have disproven them.
- The money is the result of a series of court decisions and regulatory changes, beginning with the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. Fully a quarter of the $350 million amassed by super PACs through the end of July came from just 10 donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks such spending. And most of that money is financing negative ads targeting President Obama and other Democrats.
- The second means the GOP has developed to protect its mistruths is discrediting the mainstream media - asserting that it's run by "liberal elites" who can't be trusted to tell the truth. "I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans," Newt Gingrich charged at a Republican debate in January in what has become a standard GOP attack line. To be sure, the mainstream media hasn't always called it correctly. Initially it bought the Bush administration's claim that there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. But the mainstream media is at least committed to professional standards that separate truth from fiction, seek objective facts, correct errors and disseminate the truth.
- The third means the GOP uses to protect itself is its own media outlets - led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere. Even if these outlets don't spread the lies directly, they can at least spread doubt about what's true. Together, these three mechanisms are creating a parallel Republican universe of Orwellian dimensions, where anything can be asserted, where pollsters and political advisers are free to create whatever concoction of lies will help elect their candidate and where "fact-checkers" are as irrelevant and intrusive as is the truth. Whether all this helps the Republican Party in 2012 is of less consequence than the larger danger it poses to America. Democracy cannot thrive when truth becomes irrelevant.
4% still want to fund the guy who pretended to be Mexican because they are confident that he is a pure white presidential candidate focused on increasing the homeless population by increasing the wealth of the wealthy and reducing the profits of the poor. God bless America.
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– President Obama is "widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history."
– "This will be the eighth one-on-one presidential debate of his political career. For Mitt Romney, it will be his first."
– "Four years ago, Barack Obama faced John McCain on the debate stage. According to Gallup, voters judged him the winner of each debate by double-digit margins, and their polling showed he won one debate by an astounding 33-point margin."
Myers argues that Obama will "use his ample rhetorical gifts and debating experience to one end: attacking Mitt Romney."
"We fully expect a 90-minute attack ad aimed at tearing down his opponent," she writes in the memo.
Pushing back against emerging conventional wisdom, Myers concludes that the debates will not, in fact, decide the election: "It will be decided by the American people," she says.
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Anonymous2012-09-28 22:37
What if everyone was actually correct but they were too busy bitching about the context of what the other was saying instead of just being happy that everyone agrees? Besides, American football will never be planet-wide futball. http://youtu.be/68b_B-Xc1Nw
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Anonymous2012-10-01 2:57
Fillmore La November 25th 1860
Old Abe Lincoln
God damn your god damned old Hellfired god damned soul to hell god
damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned
soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god damn your god damn friends
to hell god damn their god damned souls to damnation god damn them and god dam
their god damn families to eternal god damnation god damn souls to hell god damn
them and God Almighty God damn Old Hamlin to[o] to hell God damn his God damned
soul all over everywhere double damn his God damned soul to hell.
Now you God damned old Abolition son of a bitch God damn you I want you
to send me God damn you about one dozen good offices Good God Almighty God damn
your God damned soul and three or four pretty Gals God damn you
And by doing God damn you you
Will Oblige
Pete Muggins
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Anonymous2012-10-08 0:37
Ever notice the more you point out the flaws to the libs the more they start ranting like spoiled children. It's a good thing the adults will be in charge again in a few months.
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Anonymous2012-10-10 12:12
Should people who want Obama reelected freak out already? Not really, they just need to go back to Nate's post from 10/3 and notice that 2 points Romney gained post-debate are less than what Kerry gained on Bush and even less than what Mondale gained on Reagan (to be fair, Reagan's lead was huge pre- and post-debate).
While there are obvious differences here, this race is more like 2004, not 2008 (and for a good reason, Obama is an incumbent now). Same way Kerry had a lame convention ("reporting for duty" - seriously?). Same way Bush looked like a fish out of water in the first debate (Obama looked more like he'd rather be somewhere else, but impression was the same - not passionate about this). Same way vp debate was between an "experience statesman" (Cheney/Biden) against a much younger upstart (Edwards/Ryan). Even the main incumbent message has similar mechanics - "we kept you safe from terrorists" vs "we saved you from economic calamity". So perhaps this race will follow the same pattern in its last month - incumbent regaining ground in further debates and just holding to large enough margin to win by electoral college.
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Anonymous2012-10-10 19:52
>>45
The more things change, the more that repeated scenarios stay exactly the same.
>>47
Is this the new [7]on [q]aul of 2012? It's happening. We should have listen. We didn't listen. http://youtu.be/UhtITYmL9a0
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Anonymous2012-10-24 13:04
There's an old saying in politics which, roughly translated, says "If the President walked across the Potomac, the lead story on Fox would be 'Obama Can't Swim'".
I'll give Obama is a smooth talker and probably slightly better than Romney, but the whole voting thing is a sham. Its all about making money and repaying favors for the big sponsors. Either way those scabs are getting their $$ worth
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Anonymous2012-10-25 9:21
>>49 'Obama Can't Swim'".
But that is truth! Waling on water is cheating, meaning one cannot into honest swimming.