Jake Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Tens of thousands of poor, minority voter registrations never processed in GA, Republican SoS doesn't want to hear any of your bulls*** about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 26, 2014 -> 06:33 PM) Tens of thousands of poor, minority voter registrations never processed in GA, Republican SoS doesn't want to hear any of your bulls*** about it It's not voter fraud when we keep the correct people from voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 If we stop a million real voters from voting to prevent a few false votes, it was all worth it and the elections are far more legitimate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Next disaster, if you're thinking of giving to the Red Cross, this is probably worth a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I know Reddy, who was volunteering with the clean up, wasn't too happy with the Red Cross and other big-name groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Organizations that big I never give money to. They always seem to be run by resume-building elite who don't give a s*** about them. Closest would probably be Salvation Army largely due to family history with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 29, 2014 -> 07:43 AM) Organizations that big I never give money to. They always seem to be run by resume-building elite who don't give a s*** about them. Closest would probably be Salvation Army largely due to family history with them. :angry Not at you...just sore subject on that last company mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Honestly, not a choice at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Lindsey Graham jokes at private club gathering: "If I get to be president, white men in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency." Graham said he was making fun of the society's all-male membership, joking that they were the last such organization in existence after Augusta National Golf Club admitted women. As for the Baptist riff, Graham said he regularly teases South Carolina audiences about their various religious denominations, before making a larger point about religious liberty in the United States and warning about the threat of radical Islam overseas. The only funny joke is the one that he didn't mean to be - that he can't say a thing about religion without briefly losing his mind about the evil Muslims Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) Jim Crow returns Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge The Crosscheck list of suspected double voters has been compiled by matching names from roughly 110 million voter records from participating states. Interstate Crosscheck is the pet project of Kansas’ controversial Republican secretary of state, Kris Kobach, known for his crusade against voter fraud. The three states’ lists are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim — ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states, plus the state of Washington (which enrolled in Crosscheck but has decided not to utilize the results), are listed as under suspicion of having voted twice. This also applies to 1 in 8 Asian-Americans and 1 in 8 Hispanic voters. White voters too — 1 in 11… The sample matches he showed his audience included the following criteria: first, last and middle name or initial; date of birth; suffixes; and Social Security number, or at least its last four digits… In practice, all it takes to become a suspect is sharing a first and last name with a voter in another state. Typical “matches” identifying those who may have voted in both Georgia and Virginia include…. Matching names is enough to raise suspicion. That is absurd. But hey, good thing Roberts gutted the VRA with antebellum state's rights arguments. more A Texas voter ID law considered to be one of the most restrictive in the country is doing exactly what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned it would do: stopping Americans from voting. A disabled woman in Travis County was turned away from voting because she couldn’t afford to pay her parking tickets. An IHOP dishwasher from Mercedes can’t afford the cost of getting a new birth certificate, which he would need to obtain the special photo ID card required for voting. A student at a historically black college in Marshall, who registered some of her fellow students to vote, won’t be able to cast a ballot herself because her driver’s license isn’t from Texas and the state wouldn’t accept her student identification card. There are plenty of stories like this coming out of Texas in the early voting period leading up to Election Day. Texas’ tough voter ID law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2011, requires voters to show one of seven types of photo identification. Concealed handgun licenses are allowed, but college student IDs are not, nor are driver’s licenses that have been expired for more than sixty days. Edited October 31, 2014 by StrangeSox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Co-posting in both threads: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-...ing-the-senate/ Nate Silver's final analysis gives the Republicans a 76.2 chance of taking the Senate, with 53 Republican seats (22.5%) and 52 Republican seats (21.4%) being the most likely outcomes. Nate has the Kansas race as the only one without an at least 2:1 favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Here's the Princeton Election Consortium's probabilities: http://election.princeton.edu/ Overall giving Dems a 35% =/- 15% chance of holding the Senate. One thing that throws a wrench in the probabilities is who the Kansas independent might caucus with if he wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Wow. I can't imagine how the Minneapolis cops and the local ABC affiliate could have screwed this up more. Mayor points at black man, news station thinks she's flashing gang signs with a felon What f***ing idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 The weirdest/worst part is how quick some police jumped on board with the story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 7, 2014 -> 09:40 PM) The weirdest/worst part is how quick some police jumped on board with the story Yes, it's disgusting. There's already enough tension between North Minneapolis and the cops. You think this is really helping? I'm surprised at how angry I am about this, but this really, really bothers me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 It would not matter if it somehow turned out there actually is a Minneapolis gang that points at people as some sort of gang sign, though it sounds totally ridiculous. To try to turn the mayor pointing at someone into this is just mind-bogglingly mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pettie4sox Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 What the hell is in the water in Minnesota? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Nov 8, 2014 -> 11:59 AM) What the hell is in the water in Minnesota? The I-35 Bridge. Too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 The I-35 Bridge. Too soon? Not at all too soon, made me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Wow. I can't imagine how the Minneapolis cops and the local ABC affiliate could have screwed this up more. Mayor points at black man, news station thinks she's flashing gang signs with a felon What f***ing idiots. Wait, I thought the only black people in Minnesota were Prince and Kirby Puckett?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 11, 2014 -> 10:54 AM) Not at all too soon, made me laugh. There's a really neat memorial right along the river. It's pretty small and unobtrusive, a lot of people don't even know it's there. The new bridge is pretty impressive looking, and is always lit up at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddling Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Nov 8, 2014 -> 10:59 AM) What the hell is in the water in Minnesota? everyone knows Apollonia is in the water.....or at least in Lake Minnetonka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilMonkey Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 QUOTE (juddling @ Nov 13, 2014 -> 06:00 PM) everyone knows Apollonia is in the water.....or at least in Lake Minnetonka Wrong. That wasn't Lake Minnetonka, that's why she got mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmteam Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Mayor Hodges wrote a blog post about Pointergate, and it is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I love this mayor. I want to move to minneapolis for it's low unemployment and awesome mayor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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