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Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid
JakartaDean writes "Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, famed Internet regulator, has lost his Senate seat. The AP is reporting that 'Stevens was declared the loser in Alaska on Tuesday night after a two-week-long process of counting nearly 90,000 absentee and early votes from across Alaska. With this victory, Democrat Mark Begich (the mayor of Anchorage) has defeated one of the giants in the US Senate by a 3,724-vote margin, a stunning end to a 40-year Senate career marred by Stevens' conviction on corruption charges a week before the election.' It's probably too early to tell what this means for Internet regulation, but at least there's a > 0 chance that the next committee chair will understand something about the Net."
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Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.
INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.
CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat
HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You h
Notice how the WA governor race before, the Franken/Coleman race, and now this race, with each recount the vote gets closer and closer, until the Democrats decide there's no more need for recounts (when THEIR side wins). Has anyone seen recounts where the total did NOT get closer to giving the Democrats victory?
Well, I mean for most Senators the lines are kinda blurred with regards to earmarks. Rights wise, I really, really can't trust Democrats. :)
Yeah, or a worse candidate could have been appointed, and we'd have to put up with "Senator Palin"'s bullshit for years to come.
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95% of African-Americans voted for Obama.
If African-Americans did not vote on the basis of race, their percentage of support for Obama would have been 64.5%, at most. Asian and Hispanic support for Obama hovered around 64.5%. Neither Asians nor Hispanics used skin color in choosing a candidate. If 64.5% of African-Americans supported Obama, then McCain would have received 49.77% of the popular vote, and Obama would have received 49.23% of the popular vote. Obama would have lost.
Anti-white racism in the African-American community is ugly.
At this point, Afro supremacists claim that there is no racism since African-Americans typically vote for the Democratic candidates.
However, even when 2 Democratic candidates present nearly identical policies and positions, the African-Americans flock to the candidate whose skin color is black. For example, more than 90% of African-Americans supported Obama instead of Hillary Clinton even though both candidates are Democrats and both candidates presented nearly identical policies and positions.
Consider the case of North Carolina. In its Democratic primary, 91% of African-Americans voted for Obama due to the color of his skin. Check out the results of the Democratic primary in North Carolina.
By contrast, Hillary Clinton received only 7% of the African-American votes. She was handicapped by her white skin.
You will hear and read plenty of articles, written by African-Americans, defending this racist method of voting.
We should agree with them. I encourage everyone to vote on the basis of skin color. If you are White, Asian, or Hispanic, then you should always vote against the Black candidate.
Yeah, or a worse candidate could have been appointed, and we'd have to put up with "Senator Palin's bullshit for years to come
So what? You are going to have to put up with Governor Palins bullshit for years to come anyway.
While we are on the subject why would she want to run anyway. Aren't Governers > Senators?
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Well of course, after all, republicans find plenty of ways to rationalize their own use of tax money while throwing a hissy fit about anyone else using it. That's one of the reasons red states more tax money than they give.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html
Excellent show of bipartisanship! It's great to see that the election's sexism and ignorance are of the past and that we've moved ahead as a nation. Keep up the good work!
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Perhaps the Republican party of 1964 is not the same as in 2008? Those stats are laudable. However, party value systems change over time, and the GOP has been pretty shameless about its current priorities while in power.
Has it occurred to you that there haven't been any prominent, obviously named, "civil rights bills" passed since then which also happen to have wikipedia articles and voting breakdown by party?
Show me some recent votes that support your claim of "Rs were good then, but have changed now"
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Go read about what Lee Atwater did to Dukakis in the 1988 election (link). I saw a frontline special about him the other day and absolutely astounded me how long these "Rove-like"* tactics have been used and have worked. *I say Rove-like, but since Nixon the Republicans have been using similar strategies. Maybe people just haven't caught on until now?
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