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Found the dog-fucking, wife beater.

I want election security, like showing ID at the polls, but all Democrats seem to be opposed to that type of basic security.

Not just democrats. The main guy selling that idea couldn't even support it in court. He failed so badly that the judge sentenced him to 6 hours of remedial law school for being incompetent. And that guy was the kansas secretary of state, in charge of elections, not just some rando right-wing nutjob on youtube.

Meanwhile we have multiple confirmed reports of attacks on election systems. For fuck's sake, the russians even secretly bought one of the companies running the show in Maryland

Hacking the displayed info is a legit issue. Its a sign that the rest of the infrastructure is likely to be similarly poorly defended. One-off systems — like tabulation and voter registration — are inherently more fragile than mass-market systems that have had hundreds millions of hours worth of real world deployment to work the bugs out.

If they can't secure the most basic stuff, the stuff that everybody knows how to secure because its all common building blocks that have been vetted in hundreds of thousands of other systems, then we should not have any confidence that the more esoteric stuff is secured.

And that's just assuming human error. When you start seeing malicious efforts by the people running the systems, it gets much worse. For example, Russians secretly bought the company handling Maryland's elections systems software.

Imagine what insiders like that could do. They don't even have to hack the vote themselves, just "accidentally" leave in security vulnerabilities that the GRU hackers come along and exploit separately.

They both exist to keep deranged Wingnuts angry and stupid so they don't wise up and turn back into Conservatives..

Apparently they succeeded. ;D

But, just for fun, here are some more links.

A Timeline Of The IRS's Scrutiny Of The Right

2011

Dec. 16: Despite being briefed about the matter six months earlier, Lerner does not divulge the flagging of conservative groups when she and others from the IRS meet staff members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss the issue, according to the staff's timeline of events.

Tea party groups call IRS process 'nightmare'
Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
It Didn’t End - The IRS is still stringing conservative groups along

Now I'm curious though, when were you last conservative?

Here is a report from Fox19 Cincinnati reporter Ben Swann that aired in March 2012 : http://www.fox19.com/story/17061342/reality-check-is-the-irs-trying-to-shakedown-hundreds-of-tea-party-groups-across-the-nation.

He's definitely not a racist http://www.fox19.com/story/16449477/reality-check-the-story-behind-the-ron-paul-newsletters

"Civil Rights Act - if repealed still doesn't make it possible for business to be racist in a free market. Would you patronize a racist business? I wouldn't. It's called voting with your wallet. At the federal level it's unconstitutional.

Either you're terribly naive or being disingenuous. Do you really think that a free market in the US will eliminate racism? Seriously, it's not happening.

Also, "There's no money in social security it's gone."? From Wikipedia:
"Assets in 2010 were $2.6 trillion, an amount that is expected to be adequate to cover the next 10 years. In 2023, total income and interest earned on assets are projected to no longer cover expenditures for Social Security, as demographic shifts burden the system. By 2035, the ratio of potential retirees to working age persons will be 37 percent — there will be less than three potential income earners for every retiree in the population. The trust fund would then be exhausted by 2036 without legislative action."
A shift from accumulating assets to spending them down doesn't equal "no money".

Ron Paul is a conservative Christian; if that's what you want, vote for him. But you better pray for some magic pixie dust too.

"He's a complete nutjob. He's opposed to practically every single government agency, including the Dept of Education, EPA, NIH, and the Social Security Administration. He's a racist who opposes the Civil Rights Act and has a pretty devoted following of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. He's against consumer legislation. He wants to go back to the gold standard. He also compared Social Security and Medicare to slavery. WTF?"

They are all unconstitutional
Dept. of Education - has caused the price of education to go up and the quality of education to go down ever since it was created. And also prevents states from deciding how their school should be run.

EPA - doesn't stop pollution. It allows a certain amount of "safe" pollution. "Safe", being something which can be changed buy lobbyist. True property rights are stricter in the sense that no one can pollute any amount of anything on any property public or private.

Social Security - There's no money in social security it's gone. He has said though he would honor the obligation of it and slowly faze it out.

He's definitely not a racist http://www.fox19.com/story/16449477/reality-check-the-story-behind-the-ron-paul-newsletters

"Civil Rights Act - if repealed still doesn't make it possible for business to be racist in a free market. Would you patronize a racist business? I wouldn't. It's called voting with your wallet. At the federal level it's unconstitutional. He wants to go back to the gold standard."

Having a follower of questionable background does not equate being like that person. to quoque http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

I don't believe he's mentioned anything about consumer legislation. Yet, I would assume that even without it one could sue in civil court and others could vote with their wallets.(thats my thoughts based on what I understand of Ron Pauls stances)

Gold and silver was money for a very long time and is very stable. Every time in history when a country used fiat money there was always rapid inflation. For instance ever since 1913 there has been an ever growing inflation due to our devaluing dollar.

"He also compared Social Security and Medicare to slavery."
I don't think I'v ever heard him say that or seen it written something like that. You might be mixing that up with his statements on student loans.

"He's an obstetrician/gynecologist who opposes abortion. That doesn't even make sense. He claims to be a libertarian, yet wants to prevent women from getting abortions? He wouldn't care for a patient who couldn't afford his services (and he pretty much said this in an earlier debate on TV). His son is an ophthalmologist who decided to quit the national opthalmology licensing board to start his own."

Abortion - He personally opposes abortion. it's a states issue and not a federal one due to the fact that it's not within the federal level to make any laws about it either way for it or not.

Not caring for patients is wildly untrue and a bald face lie. there's many stories all over about ron paul giving free care. He even did it for fresh caught shrimp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v97yr9ktqZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T77U8n0Yy34

I don't know much about his son but what I have seen he is a strait up person and for what i have seen from his speech about the ndaa i like him to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWApGqE_T-k

http://www.ronpaulmyths.com/

(ever notice how the Duke boys always manage to find that conveniently placed incline?)

I understand it's Georgia policy to place random dirt "jumpin' ramps" at old bridges, beside tall buildings, across from overpasses, near turnoffs on dirt roads, etc. While seemingly fun for them Duke boys, it has occasionally resulted in tragedy.

More importantly, though, I want to know what brand of suspension system the Dukes put in the General Lee. That has to be the best car product ever built. And, how do they keep their necks so strong?

-Eric

The guy who put on the "Wizards of Winter" display had to shut it down after it caused a vehicle accident a few weeks ago.

as it breaks up near Cincinnati.

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