| The Joy of Purge |
[May. 26th, 2012|02:19 pm] |
In Florida 182,000 people are on a list to be removed from the voter rolls.
And that's how the Republicans win, maybe. Well, at least the danger. You combine GOP efforts to suppress voter turnout with liberal/progressive sorts opting out because Obama wasn't the Messiah and the Democrats are wimps and you get Republican total control of the Federal government.
(silly Conspiracy mode, activate!)
And then things really go down the tubes, the Revolution occurs, and the country becomes an semi-feudal aristocracy where the rich control everything.
Okay, actually, I think Obama will win 'cause there's enough electoral votes in states where voter suppression just won't be effective enough, and I think progressives generally understand that, no, the Republicans really and truly are different from the Demos and are too dangerous to allow such power. |
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| Thought for the Day |
[May. 22nd, 2012|07:05 pm] |
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If President Obama is such a socialist as the right claims, why is his administration essentially privatizing the Space Program?
I'm not sure that this is a good idea, mind you, but I do recall some Analog stories and other stuff suggesting that private companies were the key to really being a spacefareing society. I don't see Obama getting much credit for actually moving in that direction. |
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| Umm, So Arizona Elects Idiots? |
[May. 18th, 2012|02:04 pm] |
So the Arizona Secretary of State is now saying that President Obama might not be on the ballot there in November because he apparently thinks it's possible Obama wasn't born in the US.
Seriously. An elected official is saying this. Even though the President had the birth certificate relased and the state of Hawaii has multiple times siad that Obama was born there.
This bit is amusing:
"In the weeks since then, Bennett said, Hawaii officials have forced him to provide proof that he is who he says he is. They asked him to send them copies of the Arizona laws that prove the secretary of state really is the person in charge of handling the ballots. Admittedly, Bennett said they told him they were “tired of all the requests.” But he is continuing anyway."
I'm half thinking that the real issue is that Arizona is seem as just maybe going for Obama. Get him off the ballot and, aw shucks, no chance of him winning the state. |
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| Excessively Pleased by This |
[May. 17th, 2012|12:25 pm] |
Y'all heard about another founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, who renounced his US citizenship before he'd be liable for taxes on that Facebook stock sale? Apparently under US law he'll be barred from ever coming back to the US. Unless of course he can convince the authorities that he wasn't doing this to avoid taxes, but there doesn't seem to be any other reason for him to have done so.
Seems good and right to me, although I don't quite get why a lack of US citizenship makes it so he wouldn't have to pay taxes on income from the US or a US company. Goodness, plenty of non-citizens pay taxes on income earned here; why should he be different?
Addition: It looks like some Senators would like to do even more to such tax dodgers. The Senators are Democrats though, so there's absolutely no chance of this becoming law. |
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| But Wouldn't It Be Cool If They Were? |
[May. 16th, 2012|07:14 pm] |
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Seen on the TV Tropes Memes: Politics page:
"The Japanese Agriculture Ministry is not responsible for Gundam." - From a statement issued when the Japanese Agriculture Ministry caught two of its employees editing That Other Wiki's Gundam page on government time.
I like the idea of an Agricultural Ministry that also runs giant mecha. :) |
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| Hmm, Republicans Think Romeny Will Lose |
[May. 16th, 2012|01:13 pm] |
The TPM posting here examines the why of the House Speaker's threat to play chicken on the debt ceiling again in December.
The author suggests this shows that the Republican leadership isn't confident that Mitt Romney will win, so they're willing to force fights on issues they wouldn't need to if they really felt there was going to be a Republican victory. Makes sense really. The GOP tries to rule even though they don't legally control the government, and even if they have a big loss in the Fall they're going to try to control the path of the nation for as long and as much as possible.
Which of course is why I really think the Republican Party needs to essentially be destroyed in the election, crushed, humiliated. Maybe out of the ashes a more reasonable party can evolve, or the GOP can split int o a part of right wing ideological extremists and another party whose main concern is business. Not going to happen of course. |
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| Suing to Get Rid of the Filibuster |
[May. 15th, 2012|04:44 pm] |
Story here.
I've seen suggestions of this before; the Filibuster as used now is unconstitutional because it effectively requires 60% of the Senate for anything to pass while the Constitution declares that bills pass by fifty percent plus one and gives the Vice President a tie breaker vote. The Senate won't get rid of it on its own because it's so hard to change the rules (the article says a rules change requires a two-thirds vote) and because both parties want to be able to use it.
It would seem to me that if there are any case where a bill would pass by the Constitutional requirement but don't because of the filibuster then the filibuster is unconstitutional. And goodness yes since Obama has been President there have been a host of bills killed by the fake (that is, they don't have to stand and talk in perpetuity) filibuster.
At base the filibuster is an abuse of Parliamentary procedure that has crippled this nation. At present of course the Republican strategy is to cripple the nation; in reality probably to sabotage Obama and prevent his reelection. If one is Conspiracy Theory inclined one might guess that the wingnuts are crippling the country and proposing legislation to make the rich richer and the rest poorer out of a purpose not necessarily consciously their own; to cause a Revolution to either bring about a Marxist state or more likely an Aristocratic Oligarchy of the wealthy. That's crazy talk of course.... |
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| Rhode Island Accepts Same-Sex Marriage, But Only From Out of State? |
[May. 15th, 2012|12:36 am] |
Umm, yeah. By way of an executive order by Governor Lincoln Chafee.
I would think that would mean that gay couples can't get married in RI, but can just hop across the border to Massachusetts and then come back.
I'm guessing that actually allowing gay marriage in Rhode Island would require action by the Legislature, but recognition of out of state marriage was doable by the executive order. Presumably the ball is in the Legislature's court to change the law since Gov. Chafee's action kind of makes a ban pointless. |
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