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Voter fraud is not an issue. First, I need to define this term. Voter fraud is when a person votes or attempts to vote as somebody different than who they are. It is hard to imitate a different voter and not very efficient. Republicans have been trying to prove massive voter fraud for many years, at least since George W. Bush has been in office. I don't have exact statistics handy, but there has been less that two people per state per year. It is not a problem.

Remember the poll worker that voted on behalf of her friends and family members, insisted it wasn't actually a crime, was convicted of voter fraud, and then was cheered as a hero at a democrat political rally?

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do.

Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.

Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do. Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are elective too. Remember, if it was legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting it down.

The Catholic Church is against contraceptives, so they don't want to pay from health insurance which pays for contraceptives, but that doesn't stop their employees from buying supplemental insurance or paying retail for contraceptives.

The Catholic Church doesn't get to decide what healthcare I get, even if they employ me. They are a church. We do not let churches govern lives. And you won't find an insurer that doesn't want to cover contraceptives. It's actually cheaper. Why does the Catholic Church get to increase my costs as a potential employee, or an insurer's costs?

What gives them that right to impose expenses upon me do to their religious dogma?

And the Catholic Church isn't even as bad a bunch of liars as the Quiverful movement. Now that group is taking a lot of welfare money. Not to mention the whole adoption business they want to control.

The country is so divided that you parrot your party's talking points without determining the validity of the claims.

Your mind is so blinded that you can't even admit the Republican Party's own dogma or how invalid its claims are.

They are committed to their agenda, and they brazenly lie about it. And it's not limited to abortion, they do the same with immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, public schools, and more.

Maybe you need to do some checking. Here's a suggestion, contact some Republic

You think standing matters to ICE or Border Patrol?

How credulous can you be?

And seriously, they carted him to the ER? It was within golf cart distance? Or was that just an inappropriate choice of words? Maybe the problem isn't limited to the golf crowd at your job...

It's a known turn of phrase at least in American English. 'Hauled off' would have also worked, 'carted off' tends to imply an ambulance to me. IE he was treated as cargo. Then again - being carried off a sporting field after injury seems appropriate:

http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...
http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...
http://www.cincinnati.com/stor...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08...

There's a fairly good chance that he was indeed carted off, at least initially - by another golf cart.

Apparently you have no idea about the sorts of things that have been going on due to the fits and starts with Obamacare.

Maybe you missed that President Obama recently decreed that insurance policies didn't have to be cancelled, that enforcement would be pushed out? And that various states are or aren't buying into this? And that there is a controversy about the president doing this since there isn't any authority in the ACA to do that?

Obamacare cancellation fix likely to have limited effect

Eleven days after President Barack Obama urged insurers to renew policies that don’t meet all the requirements of the health law, it’s still not clear how many people might be affected by the proposed fix.

That’s because regulators in at least a half dozen states, including Indiana, say they won’t allow insurers to do it and many more have yet to decide, Kaiser Health News reports.

Even if states give insurers a green light to reinstate the policies for a year – and both Ohio and Indiana have done so – many insurers say they’re not sure if they can pull it off in time. Finally, no one knows how many customers who received the cancellations will want to renew.

“The president’s plan is certainly not a guarantee” that people who received discontinuation notices earlier this fall will now be able to renew, Chris Jacobs, senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, told Kaiser’s Julie Appleby.

I've got news for you, very little of the clusterf*ck that is Obamacare's rollout is owned by the "right wing." Nancy Pelosi said they would have to pass the bill to find out what is in it.... well, we're finding out now. You better hope your health insurance isn't going to be cancelled due to it. And guess what? There are probably about another 93,000,000 cancellations coming down the road.

Believe me. They already know they are not welcome.

Reminds me of the time when I gave incorrect directions to a group of Dutch tourists in downtown Cincinnati to one of the worst neighborhoods ever. It was fucking epic. I sabotage the Europeans every chance I get because they are pretentious pricks.

He violated a restraining order. He could have simply had filed for a mirror order put in to restrain HER behavior as well as his (so they are both in the same situation), and then they BOTH follow the judge's orders.

Instead, he ignored the court's order. When someone does that, it's called contempt of court and you can indeed go to jail for it. We do not have "free speech" to speak out in public in violation of a court-issued restraining order. This has nothing to do with "free speech" and everything with following a judge's orders.

The link to TFA is broken, here's the correct link:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20120222/NEWS010702/302210147/

http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20120221/NEWS/302210147/Judge-Jail-Facebook-rant?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7Ccommunities%7Cs

http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20120221/NEWS/302210147/Judge-Jail-Facebook-rant?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7Ccommunities%7Cs

Maybe just moved. Try this alternative link that works now. Article

TFA appears to have been removed, all I can find are /. copiers, except for this on the TFA site. It is a scan of the protective order and includes domestic abuse allegations and some of the text from the facebook wall posts.

And who would enforce that law, if the state said "go take a jump, we're keeping it"?

lol, they can do that even if you're living in the state, and several are threatening to do just that: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2011/01/27/state-pensions-well-cut-benefits/

But what you ask is exactly one critical role of the federal government: regulating interstate commerce. I would imagine in a case where more and more services are being pushed down to the state level, legal clauses would be built in to protect earned benefits and that law would be upheld by the federal government. There's no reason the implementation of the program itself has to rest at the federal level. They just need to step in to make sure everyone plays nice. And frankly, it's not that all uncommon in decentralized governments. Take a look at Canada. Each province ("state") has its own healthcare law. However, their federal government has a set of guidelines and stipulations that each program must meet. They don't run things at the federal level, they merely moderate.

I'm sure the cops pull over the nice black fellow wearing a suit on his way to the office.

The cops in my home town recently beat and Tasered a black marketing executive who was in diabetic shock. So, yes.

"Grant County Judge-Executive Darrell Link told reporters that residents of his county are proud to have the park locate there."

When it comes to building a Mosque:

"The announcement that a mosque is being planned near Mall Road in Florence has drawn a strong reaction from some in the community."
http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100816/NEWS0103/8150392/Mosque-proposal-criticized

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported on May 31st that http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100531/NEWS01/6010323/Forger-s-company-got-562K-stimulus-contract/ a local company, Tekreation Center LLC, recieved $562K in federal stimulus money to provide installation demonstration services to those who needed help getting the converter boxes to work. Demonstrations! Not actual installations. Tekreation reportedly performed 1,453 demonstrations for installing a digital-to-analog converter. $562,000/1453=$386.79 per demo. The could have bought a decent digital TV for that price. Another massive waste of your tax dollars.

Well, our 2nd most publicized "Sexting" case finished yesterday here in Cincinnati.
In a stunning case of "The guy must be the bad influence" the girl who took the pics was given probation and ordered to write a paper, her friend who sent the pics was not charged, and the guy who RECEIVED the pics was put under house arrest.
All minors, and yes... you read that right.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090511/NEWS0107/305110014/Mason+teens+sentenced+for++sexting+ Here is the link.

(Sorry for the lack of HTML, stuck at work)

Walter Sartory was a brilliant but mentally ill 73 year old retired mathematician living quietly in a small Kentucky town near Cincinnati. He was retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and was an expert on centrifuges, holding two patents related to them. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic who was uncomfortable around others and suspicious of strangers. But not suspicious enough, it seems. Cops say that two blacks, 47 year old Willa Blanc and her 27 year old son Louis Wilkinson befriended Sartory, and then kidnapped him. They duct taped him to a chair in Blanc's basement, drugged and starved him until he signed over power of attorney to them for his bank account. After transferring some $200,000 of Sartory's money to themselves, they shot him in the head and threw his body in a trash can. They then drove to Indiana and paid some friends $1000 to help them burn and bury his corpse.

If you live outside the Cincinnati area, this is probably the first you're hearing about this horrific murder. If the races were reversed, it's all the national media would be talking about. But the killers are black, and the victim was an old white man, so it's not news.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090321/NEWS0103/303210049

I wish it caused people like that to lose sleep at night. The really sick thing is that it is unlikely that it causes the people who push these cases to lose any sleep.

Guess they didn't like my submission of this story, so here's the original news story and one from Faux News.
Similar incidents in Ohio and Indiana.

If you still have a small penis, simply get a notarized note from your doctor stating it is so, and you can get your money back!

My favorite recent scam (not TFA mentioned above), as reported in the press:

Warshak told him that customers seeking a refund should be required to get a notarized statement from a doctor certifying that their penis had not increased in size.

I'd be rich as hell with a giant penis!

If you still have a small penis, simply get a notarized note from your doctor stating it is so, and you can get your money back!

My favorite recent scam, as reported in the press:

Warshak told him that customers seeking a refund should be required to get a notarized statement from a doctor certifying that their penis had not increased in size.

Again, I would like to see a well-written, well-supported critique of this bailout,

Try this one.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20060321/NEWS01/603210334/-1/CINCI

http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-shawnlawn,0,723987.s tory?coll=ktla-news-1

There is information about CityWatcher and a photo of the guy quoted in the story here: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20050925/NEWS01/509250409/-1/CINCI/

There's a press release quoting one of the other guys in that photo here:
http://cincinnati.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?n ewsid=61044&type_news=latest/

The doctor mentioned in the press release is an authorized Verichip minion:
https://authctr.4verichip.com/ph_brow.asp?sortby=p r_city&ph_state=*/

Whenever Microsoft has a major new thing, they tout their $100 million marketing budget. Whether it's the new MSN Search, Media Center PCs, a campaign to maintain interest in Win XP as OS X Tiger was released or Windows Longhorn Vista, Microsoft marketing is at the ready with the $100 million check to buy mindshare (except for MSN 8, back in 2002. They got a $300 million budget. Remember that campaign? Me either). The best part is that, as this Slashdot article can attest, just saying you're going to spend $100M is enough to start getting some free press, though maybe not as much press as the $1 billion Windows 95 campaign.

Oh, to be fair, Apple isn't much better.

Even when the person has done something wrong there are immoral, ignorant people out there who turn their rage into action.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20050623/NEWS01/506230368/-1/CINCI

In this case, the entire thing has escalated into something amazing. The linked story doesn't explain what happened, but basically someone spray painted "RAPEST" on the offenders house and then it was set on fire. Ok, fine the guy might have done it, seems so. But it is totally wrong for the house to be set of fire. What if someone would have died? Well, knowing my city, no charges would have been filed against the white people - but is murder okay?

Fight over the fine points if you want, but this is freaking America!

There is a much simpler solution. Someone else said that maps should be used for things like auto thieves, but what purpose is there besides vigilantism? Most cities already tell you what crimes happen in certain neighborhoods:

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/police/downloads/poli ce_pdf10077.pdf

And Google tells us that many cities have the same online:

http://www.google.com/search?q=neighborhood+crime+ statistics

Fuck it, ask your real estate agent before you buy. Really, what does it matter? There is only so much you can do to keep yourself from being a victim - educate yourself and be mindful. Anything you do after becoming a victim is morally wrong - revenge is wrong, no matter how good it feels. Otherwise what is the point of scareing everyone? Sex offenders aren't the only reason to keep your kids close, and educated btw.