It's a fair question. This is literally one sport where you can see the action just as well on a screen at home. Of course it's probably not as big as that Jumbo-Tron they have in the basement of Comcast's headquarters.
Unless there's some market for watching the antics of the actual players. I can get quite animated when I play video games.
My one and only experience with an MRI left me feeling shell-shocked for a few hours. That's probably not the best way to describe it, but I went in feeling fine and left feeling completely out of it. I probably shouldn't have been allowed to drive home.
I wasn't offered headphones. They told me it would be loud "just like a rock concert". That's got to be the absolute worst show I ever attended. It was as if AC/DC, Motley Crue, GWAR and the Ramones all got up on stage at the same time and tried to play louder than everyone else, but also forgot their own music at the same time.
The Ramones finished first of course. GWAR and Motley Crue actually sounded better having forgotten their own songs. AC/DC was indistinguishable from their normal selves.
I'm such a hipster that I stopped bragging about quitting eating Big Macs before it was cool to stop bragging about not eating Big Macs.
But let's face it, McDonald's is the closest thing humans have ever come to a machine where you could just demand food and they would give you whatever you wanted almost instantly.
Okay, it just doesn't sound right to my American ears just like Lego as a plural doesn't.
Other nouns that are the same in singular and plural are okay, like "moose" and "aircraft". I just never took a "maths" class. I took lots of math classes though.
Should Fox "News" or InfoWars be considered a terrorist recruiting sites?
I avoid InfoWars, so I won't speak to them, but while I wouldn't call Fox News content a terrorist recruiting tool no matter how slanted they can be, they do host a comment section which doesn't have a problem with comments like "Lynch Ilhan Omar". I saw that one today and it had been up far too long for them not to have had a chance to remove it..
In the last week I have seen people justifying the attack on the mosques in New Zealand and of course there's the usual drumbeat of hate towards liberals/marxists/communists/socialists/RINOs which all seem to be synonyms to the majority of people commenting there.
The idea of shooting illegal aliens...I mean "invaders" on sight is a very common and popular position (based on the "Likes" those comments get).
They do exercise editorial control over their comment section and often delete posts and even shadowban people. I've also seen them remove comments from stories altogether when they got too crazy or not even allow them in the first place (e.g. stories about Jussie Smollett). He may have perpetrated a hoax by claiming to be a victim of a hate crime, but there is no shortage of people commenting on Fox who apparently would love to see it actually happen.
But Fox stories get so many comments, they will probably just claim they can't police them . But I don't buy that. I believe they know exactly what's going on.
It gets eyeballs and I have no doubt that it gets a lot of 8chan users as well.
Does this rise to the level of a "terrorist recruiting site"? Probably not. People are just speaking their opinions. Free speech? Does calling for the lynching of an elected Congresswoman rise to the level of inciting violence? I'm not going to play lawyer, but if someone said that about the President, I would expect it would be deleted quickly and the Secret Service would follow up.
They certainly have the potential to "inspire" someone, although if you're crazy enough anything might do that.
The same type of people who NEVER turn their ringer off.
Or who are too stupid too.
I actually fancy myself to be someone who is at least somewhat tech savvy and my ringer is NEVER (intentionally) on unless I'm eagerly awaiting a call and yet today the thing made noises and vibrated. It usually doesn't. How the hell did that happen? I don't know. I just wanted to throw the phone against the wall.
It wasn't a good time. Hasn't everyone wanted to throw their phone against the wall at some point? I mean if we weren't considering the TV. I'll take destroying destroying 2 tech devices in one swift motion for $1000, Alex.
I somehow restrained myself.
It's not actually that I'm not somewhat tech savvy. It's that the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons are right next to each other and the Volume buttons are used for other purposes on my phone (e.g., Volume Down and Power takes a screen shot, if you're lucky Should be easy, right? Then why do I end up just turning up the volume when I want to take a screenshot? Maybe the Volume Up button should be on the right side of the phone while the Volume Down button could stay where it is ).
Or maybe the lesson is that the CEO of a HUGE corporation isn't a phone geek because he's involved more in business strategies and marketing and things which seem like black magic to you and I. And besides, don't such calls make ATT money? I mean at least they don't hurt them.
If you mean it killed them by leaking and corrosion after being stored too long, I just pulled an Energizer out of something that had been sitting idle for between 1 and 2 years. It didn't kill it, but it wasn't good. It was only one of the 4 batteries that did that though.
I'm not being played. I don't think Amazon Basics batteries are as good as the "premium" brands. I'm not even sure if they're as good as the other non-premium brands I've bought for years.
There should be some objective way of measuring this. Dollars per hour of usage seems like a good metric.
And I honestly don't know what the best value is. Can you point me to a source that would tell me?
You sound like either a rube or a shill for Energizer or Duracell. Both those brands put a lot of effort into convincing us that they are better, but they're also more expensive.
I haven't seen any studies on Amazon Basics batteries, but they seem to be working for me. I do remember older studies which showed that Energizer and Duracell weren't really worth it if you considered cost per how long they last.
Way back in 2002 or 2003, a couple of my friends told me about this awesome internet site called MySpace and so I started an account...and I really didn't find it that interesting, but I uploaded a stupid picture of myself partying in Las Vegas. It's nothing too scandalous. I'm just very drunk and holding up a beer with a big grin on my face.
And then I forgot about it until there seemed to be a movement to delete your MySpace account so I did.
I thought the internet never forgets, but if that picture has been lost that's just fine with me.
You're being unfair. I give her at least a 1.5% chance. With a margin of error of 1.5%.
But she is trying to get her name out there as I think you're suggesting. Name recognition matters. A year ago, had anyone even heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Beto O'Rourke? Or for that matter, Kamala Harris? Maybe those who really pay attention to politics had, but it's still doubtful for AOC.
Now they're all household names, with particular thanks to Fox News for elevating AOC to that level. She is pretty extreme, but in past years such junior representatives would have been mostly ignored as that crazy liberal who really doesn't have any significant influence in the first place. I'm thinking of one particular Democrat Congresswoman from my hometown who has been in office for 30 years or so and has had very little influence at all other than casting her vote with other Dems. She just doesn't get that much attention, but AOC is in some ways like Trump. She sometimes speaks before she thinks things through and she likes to use social media and also get in her opponent's faces.
It's like the right wants to find the most extreme Democrat they can and use them to paint the entire party with a broad brush.
And I apologize for wandering away from Kamala Harris. She's the Democratic Senator from California, right? The one who is not Dianne Feinstein? Been a Senator for a whole 2 years?
At this point in the election cycle I think many of us are waiting for candidates like Harris to drop out before we start trying to figure out who we support. And that's probably bad because if we got involved much earlier in the process maybe we'd have better candidates on both sides of the aisle and we wouldn't be trying to figure out if Trump or Hillary would be worse for our country.
In an ideal world, the Hatfields and McCoys would get along and we'd honestly be torn over who would make America even greater, but no matter who won we would still have faith in their ability to lead us.
And the reason the parents can't help is that they don't actually do that sort of math as an adult.
This is probably true. I've forgotten most of the higher math I learned in college simply because I never really had to use it in my career. I would hope I would be able to help most students who haven't yet graduated high school. I'd probably have to read the textbook if they were in calculus or maybe even advanced algebra.
Then again, I've seen people in restaurants pull tiny cards out of their wallets so they could figure out how much to tip. Nowadays, there are apps for that. And some of those people only tip 10%.
Making math fun probably helps a lot. For some reason I remember a 3rd grade teacher that had us writing story problems. I just remember some of my classmates really getting into it and being creative in ways that may not be considered appropriate for 3rd-graders, but the teacher didn't care as long as we were doing the math and getting it right.
But whether it's that or M&Ms, I think showing the practical applications of math makes it more interesting and helps students grasp the concepts better.
I don't think I will either. Doesn't Vizio make cheaper low-end screens? If I'm going to buy something like that the Roku TVs are cheaper and at least in the same ballpark of picture quality from what I can tell.
I just started looking for a new TV and it's frustrating because I really don't know what I want or what is a good value. My Panasonic plasma died 2 days ago and now just blinks the LED power light 5 times whenever I turn it on. This may be repairable, but is it really worth it? I'm inclined to think not.
I don't think I need 4K, but it looks like most of them are anyway. The good news is they're all cheaper than the last time I bought a TV.
I was in Walmart an hour ago looking at their TVs. It's really hard to tell what looks good in a store with fluorescent lights reflecting off all the screens. One thing I noticed is they all looked terrible when looked at from an angle which made the curved Samsung screens look attractive, but I don't think I want to spend that much.
Of course there really wasn't much information on them at all besides price, screen size and number of HDMI inputs. Some article I read says I really should get one with 4 HDMI inputs, Most of the ones I was looking at had 2 or 3.
I bought a Vizio laptop once. It was nice except the SSD was way too small and it had sat in the store's inventory so long the battery was no longer chargeable. By that time Vizio had given up on its foray into the laptop market. To their credit someone at Vizio was willing to help me get a battery, but by then I had already returned it.
And not that this can be anything but a very strange coincidence, but the Panasonic died at the very same instant I turned on an RC car. I was on the couch 8 feet away from the TV and it only takes 4 AA batteries. Right when I turned it on, the TV turned off and I think I may have heard a "pop", but I'm not sure. (maybe a capacitor blowing up?).
It was a weird enough coincidence that I actually considered how they could be connected, but I can't imagine any scenario where that makes any sense.
The confusion regarding noncitizens stems from the use of a legislative maneuver, known as a motion to recommit, that represented the last opportunity for the Republicans to amend the bill before it was passed.
On March 8, the same day the House cast its final vote on the bill, Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced a Motion to Recommit H.R. 1 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to add language condemning voting by “illegal immigrants.”
But “sense of Congress” provisions, such as the one offered by Crenshaw, have “no force of law,” as explained in a Congressional Research Service report.
“A ‘sense of’ resolution is not legally binding because it is not presented to the President for his signature,” the CRS report said. “Even if a ‘sense of’ provision is incorporated into a bill that becomes law, such provisions merely express the opinion of Congress or the relevant chamber. They have no formal effect on public policy and have no force of law.”
Federal law explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and no state has allowed it since the 1920s.
That was very generous of them to call it "confusion". I'm beginning to suspect Crenshaw isn't very honest:
Ballot harvesting is illegal in North Carolina and Mark Harris and his campaign weren't just accused of collecting ballots and turning them in. They were destroying ballots that voted against him, filling in those that were left blank and forging witness signatures.
That is ILLEGAL in EVERY state.
California law allows a mail-in voter to designate any person to return the ballot to the elections official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. . There has been no evidence to suggest any ballots were not turned in or were marked by the "ballot harvesters" in California.
Forgive us for not having heard about ballot harvesting for a county commissioner and a school board seat in a Texas town of about 17,000 people or even not having heard about an alleged scheme to harvest votes for unspecified "down-ballot candidates" in a city the size of Fort Worth. Interestingly enough, the Texas AG who is prosecuting the latter has been under criminal indictment for over 3 years. And what are those Republicans doing meeting with one of the accused in jail?
And I'd bet you didn't notice these Democrats who were convicted and sentenced in Arkansas either:
Yes, most of us didn't hear about a corrupt state legislator in Arkansas either.
BUT in North Carolina, we're talking about a candidate for the US House of Representatives in a very contentious battle between Dems and Republicans to win as many Congressional seats as possible. Of course anyone who is paying attention has heard of it.
Hudson Hallum was certified as the winner in the special primary runoff by 8 votes. Hudson Hallum also won the special general election held on July 12, 2011, and was subsequently certified as the winner of the House District 54 special election. At the time of the elections, District 54 included West Memphis, Marion, Earle, and Turrell, Arkansas, as well as other rural areas of Crittenden County.
Hudson Hallum and Kent Hallum tasked Carter, Malone, and others with identifying absentee ballot voters within District 54; obtaining and distributing absentee ballot applications to particular voters; determining when absentee ballots were mailed to absentee voters by the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office; and making contact with recipients of absentee ballots to assist those voters in completing the ballots. Once such absentee ballots were completed, the absentee voters typically placed their ballots in unsealed envelopes, which were retrieved by Carter, Malone and others and then subsequently delivered to either Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum for inspection to ensure that the absentee ballot votes had been cast for Hudson Hallum. After inspection by Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum, the absentee ballots that contained votes for Hudson Hallum were sealed and mailed to the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office. If a ballot contained a vote for Hudson Hallum’s opponent, it was destroyed.
I remember going to a bar after the first time I voted and was shocked to find I could NOT buy a drink to celebrate. Bars could only even open on election day if they made at least 30% of their revenue from non-alcohol sales.
Unfortunately, corruption still exists and this happened less than a decade ago:
We have mail-in ballots where I live. I like it because I can fill it out at my leisure while I carefully study the candidates and issues and then I drop it off in person. The drawback of course is that the USPS is not infallible and a rogue postal carrier could collect ballots only from those who don't vote or perhaps only vote in Presidential elections and if anyone complains about not getting a ballot? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
I don't know if that has happened, but it's a possibility.
Upon seeing this at first I thought they just put the woody breasts in frozen microwave meals, then I realized there's no way that's breast meat.
But nobody eats that garbage because it tastes good. I eat it because I'm lazy and I want my food in about 5 minutes. I don't think it matters what brand you buy. it's all the same chicken.
I don't think I've had spaghetti chicken, but I'm intrigued.
Terri Lynn Rote of Iowa voted twice. FOR TRUMP. She said she did it because Trump told her the polls were rigged.
Phillip Cook of Texas voted twice. FOR TRUMP. He claimed he was just testing the security of the electoral system.
Audrey Cook of Illinois cast a ballot on behalf of her husband. Almost certainly FOR TRUMP as she was a Republican election judge.
Gladys Coego of Florida was caught filling in votes for mayor on absentee ballots that she had been hired to open. There was no evidence she was doing anything to Presidential votes.
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Sitting in a chair?
LOL, I'm still thinking of quarter games. I don't play those sitting down.
It's a fair question. This is literally one sport where you can see the action just as well on a screen at home. Of course it's probably not as big as that Jumbo-Tron they have in the basement of Comcast's headquarters.
Unless there's some market for watching the antics of the actual players. I can get quite animated when I play video games.
I read that as self-indemnify and somehow it made just as much sense.
My one and only experience with an MRI left me feeling shell-shocked for a few hours. That's probably not the best way to describe it, but I went in feeling fine and left feeling completely out of it. I probably shouldn't have been allowed to drive home.
I wasn't offered headphones. They told me it would be loud "just like a rock concert". That's got to be the absolute worst show I ever attended. It was as if AC/DC, Motley Crue, GWAR and the Ramones all got up on stage at the same time and tried to play louder than everyone else, but also forgot their own music at the same time.
The Ramones finished first of course. GWAR and Motley Crue actually sounded better having forgotten their own songs. AC/DC was indistinguishable from their normal selves.
And at some point, Cheech Marin joined them on stage just to say "I only know three chords,Ha ha ha ha ha!"
I'm such a hipster that I stopped bragging about quitting eating Big Macs before it was cool to stop bragging about not eating Big Macs.
But let's face it, McDonald's is the closest thing humans have ever come to a machine where you could just demand food and they would give you whatever you wanted almost instantly.
FISH!
And we haven't advanced any further on the evolutionary scale than Cat! And Trout a la creme is just a fancy name for Filet-O-Fish.
They never showed it that I can recall, but you have to know Lister was cleaning up cat puke for days after Cat found that device.
Finally, George Clinton may get an answer to that age old question, "Do Fries Go With That Shake?:"
Baby, can I cut your cake?
Oh can I have it my way?
Don't I deserve a break today?
Okay, it just doesn't sound right to my American ears just like Lego as a plural doesn't.
Other nouns that are the same in singular and plural are okay, like "moose" and "aircraft". I just never took a "maths" class. I took lots of math classes though.
This song just popped into my head:
Mos Def - Mathematics
The same people who did maths in school?
I called them Legos as a kid. It's a hard habit to break.
And I just really want to say...
Leggo my Eggo!
Should Fox "News" or InfoWars be considered a terrorist recruiting sites?
I avoid InfoWars, so I won't speak to them, but while I wouldn't call Fox News content a terrorist recruiting tool no matter how slanted they can be, they do host a comment section which doesn't have a problem with comments like "Lynch Ilhan Omar". I saw that one today and it had been up far too long for them not to have had a chance to remove it..
In the last week I have seen people justifying the attack on the mosques in New Zealand and of course there's the usual drumbeat of hate towards liberals/marxists/communists/socialists/RINOs which all seem to be synonyms to the majority of people commenting there.
The idea of shooting illegal aliens...I mean "invaders" on sight is a very common and popular position (based on the "Likes" those comments get).
They do exercise editorial control over their comment section and often delete posts and even shadowban people. I've also seen them remove comments from stories altogether when they got too crazy or not even allow them in the first place (e.g. stories about Jussie Smollett). He may have perpetrated a hoax by claiming to be a victim of a hate crime, but there is no shortage of people commenting on Fox who apparently would love to see it actually happen.
But Fox stories get so many comments, they will probably just claim they can't police them . But I don't buy that. I believe they know exactly what's going on.
It gets eyeballs and I have no doubt that it gets a lot of 8chan users as well.
Does this rise to the level of a "terrorist recruiting site"? Probably not. People are just speaking their opinions. Free speech? Does calling for the lynching of an elected Congresswoman rise to the level of inciting violence? I'm not going to play lawyer, but if someone said that about the President, I would expect it would be deleted quickly and the Secret Service would follow up.
They certainly have the potential to "inspire" someone, although if you're crazy enough anything might do that.
The same type of people who NEVER turn their ringer off.
Or who are too stupid too.
I actually fancy myself to be someone who is at least somewhat tech savvy and my ringer is NEVER (intentionally) on unless I'm eagerly awaiting a call and yet today the thing made noises and vibrated. It usually doesn't. How the hell did that happen? I don't know. I just wanted to throw the phone against the wall.
It wasn't a good time. Hasn't everyone wanted to throw their phone against the wall at some point? I mean if we weren't considering the TV. I'll take destroying destroying 2 tech devices in one swift motion for $1000, Alex.
I somehow restrained myself.
It's not actually that I'm not somewhat tech savvy. It's that the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons are right next to each other and the Volume buttons are used for other purposes on my phone (e.g., Volume Down and Power takes a screen shot, if you're lucky Should be easy, right? Then why do I end up just turning up the volume when I want to take a screenshot? Maybe the Volume Up button should be on the right side of the phone while the Volume Down button could stay where it is ).
Or maybe the lesson is that the CEO of a HUGE corporation isn't a phone geek because he's involved more in business strategies and marketing and things which seem like black magic to you and I. And besides, don't such calls make ATT money? I mean at least they don't hurt them.
If you mean it killed them by leaking and corrosion after being stored too long, I just pulled an Energizer out of something that had been sitting idle for between 1 and 2 years. It didn't kill it, but it wasn't good. It was only one of the 4 batteries that did that though.
I'm not being played. I don't think Amazon Basics batteries are as good as the "premium" brands. I'm not even sure if they're as good as the other non-premium brands I've bought for years.
There should be some objective way of measuring this. Dollars per hour of usage seems like a good metric.
And I honestly don't know what the best value is. Can you point me to a source that would tell me?
Those who think Amazon Basics are garbage should just buy Monster cables for everything.
Does Monster make AAA batteries that cost $10 apiece too?
You sound like either a rube or a shill for Energizer or Duracell. Both those brands put a lot of effort into convincing us that they are better, but they're also more expensive.
I haven't seen any studies on Amazon Basics batteries, but they seem to be working for me. I do remember older studies which showed that Energizer and Duracell weren't really worth it if you considered cost per how long they last.
Way back in 2002 or 2003, a couple of my friends told me about this awesome internet site called MySpace and so I started an account...and I really didn't find it that interesting, but I uploaded a stupid picture of myself partying in Las Vegas. It's nothing too scandalous. I'm just very drunk and holding up a beer with a big grin on my face.
And then I forgot about it until there seemed to be a movement to delete your MySpace account so I did.
I thought the internet never forgets, but if that picture has been lost that's just fine with me.
You're being unfair. I give her at least a 1.5% chance. With a margin of error of 1.5%.
But she is trying to get her name out there as I think you're suggesting. Name recognition matters. A year ago, had anyone even heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Beto O'Rourke? Or for that matter, Kamala Harris? Maybe those who really pay attention to politics had, but it's still doubtful for AOC.
Now they're all household names, with particular thanks to Fox News for elevating AOC to that level. She is pretty extreme, but in past years such junior representatives would have been mostly ignored as that crazy liberal who really doesn't have any significant influence in the first place. I'm thinking of one particular Democrat Congresswoman from my hometown who has been in office for 30 years or so and has had very little influence at all other than casting her vote with other Dems. She just doesn't get that much attention, but AOC is in some ways like Trump. She sometimes speaks before she thinks things through and she likes to use social media and also get in her opponent's faces.
It's like the right wants to find the most extreme Democrat they can and use them to paint the entire party with a broad brush.
And I apologize for wandering away from Kamala Harris. She's the Democratic Senator from California, right? The one who is not Dianne Feinstein? Been a Senator for a whole 2 years?
At this point in the election cycle I think many of us are waiting for candidates like Harris to drop out before we start trying to figure out who we support. And that's probably bad because if we got involved much earlier in the process maybe we'd have better candidates on both sides of the aisle and we wouldn't be trying to figure out if Trump or Hillary would be worse for our country.
In an ideal world, the Hatfields and McCoys would get along and we'd honestly be torn over who would make America even greater, but no matter who won we would still have faith in their ability to lead us.
I can dream anyway.
And the reason the parents can't help is that they don't actually do that sort of math as an adult.
This is probably true. I've forgotten most of the higher math I learned in college simply because I never really had to use it in my career. I would hope I would be able to help most students who haven't yet graduated high school. I'd probably have to read the textbook if they were in calculus or maybe even advanced algebra.
Then again, I've seen people in restaurants pull tiny cards out of their wallets so they could figure out how much to tip. Nowadays, there are apps for that. And some of those people only tip 10%.
Making math fun probably helps a lot. For some reason I remember a 3rd grade teacher that had us writing story problems. I just remember some of my classmates really getting into it and being creative in ways that may not be considered appropriate for 3rd-graders, but the teacher didn't care as long as we were doing the math and getting it right.
But whether it's that or M&Ms, I think showing the practical applications of math makes it more interesting and helps students grasp the concepts better.
I don't think I will either. Doesn't Vizio make cheaper low-end screens? If I'm going to buy something like that the Roku TVs are cheaper and at least in the same ballpark of picture quality from what I can tell.
I just started looking for a new TV and it's frustrating because I really don't know what I want or what is a good value. My Panasonic plasma died 2 days ago and now just blinks the LED power light 5 times whenever I turn it on. This may be repairable, but is it really worth it? I'm inclined to think not.
I don't think I need 4K, but it looks like most of them are anyway. The good news is they're all cheaper than the last time I bought a TV.
I was in Walmart an hour ago looking at their TVs. It's really hard to tell what looks good in a store with fluorescent lights reflecting off all the screens. One thing I noticed is they all looked terrible when looked at from an angle which made the curved Samsung screens look attractive, but I don't think I want to spend that much.
Of course there really wasn't much information on them at all besides price, screen size and number of HDMI inputs. Some article I read says I really should get one with 4 HDMI inputs, Most of the ones I was looking at had 2 or 3.
I bought a Vizio laptop once. It was nice except the SSD was way too small and it had sat in the store's inventory so long the battery was no longer chargeable. By that time Vizio had given up on its foray into the laptop market. To their credit someone at Vizio was willing to help me get a battery, but by then I had already returned it.
And not that this can be anything but a very strange coincidence, but the Panasonic died at the very same instant I turned on an RC car. I was on the couch 8 feet away from the TV and it only takes 4 AA batteries. Right when I turned it on, the TV turned off and I think I may have heard a "pop", but I'm not sure. (maybe a capacitor blowing up?).
It was a weird enough coincidence that I actually considered how they could be connected, but I can't imagine any scenario where that makes any sense.
You want non-Snopes sources then?
Q: Did House passage of H.R. 1 allow noncitizens to vote?
A: No. That bill would enact a host of changes to election laws, but it does not permit noncitizens to vote.
Misinformation Follows House Approval of H.R. 1
The confusion regarding noncitizens stems from the use of a legislative maneuver, known as a motion to recommit, that represented the last opportunity for the Republicans to amend the bill before it was passed.
On March 8, the same day the House cast its final vote on the bill, Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced a Motion to Recommit H.R. 1 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to add language condemning voting by “illegal immigrants.”
But “sense of Congress” provisions, such as the one offered by Crenshaw, have “no force of law,” as explained in a Congressional Research Service report.
“A ‘sense of’ resolution is not legally binding because it is not presented to the President for his signature,” the CRS report said. “Even if a ‘sense of’ provision is incorporated into a bill that becomes law, such provisions merely express the opinion of Congress or the relevant chamber. They have no formal effect on public policy and have no force of law.”
Federal law explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and no state has allowed it since the 1920s.
That was very generous of them to call it "confusion". I'm beginning to suspect Crenshaw isn't very honest:
Crenshaw falsely says HR1 would legalize the type of election fraud found in NC
And it seems Republicans don't want people to vote:
Republicans freak out over HR1: They don't want America to have fair elections
Ballot harvesting is illegal in North Carolina and Mark Harris and his campaign weren't just accused of collecting ballots and turning them in. They were destroying ballots that voted against him, filling in those that were left blank and forging witness signatures.
That is ILLEGAL in EVERY state.
California law allows a mail-in voter to designate any person to return the ballot to the elections official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. . There has been no evidence to suggest any ballots were not turned in or were marked by the "ballot harvesters" in California.
In Texas, it looks like the harvesters pleaded guilty or are currently awaiting trial.
Forgive us for not having heard about ballot harvesting for a county commissioner and a school board seat in a Texas town of about 17,000 people or even not having heard about an alleged scheme to harvest votes for unspecified "down-ballot candidates" in a city the size of Fort Worth. Interestingly enough, the Texas AG who is prosecuting the latter has been under criminal indictment for over 3 years. And what are those Republicans doing meeting with one of the accused in jail?
And I'd bet you didn't notice these Democrats who were convicted and sentenced in Arkansas either:
Hallum pleaded guilty last September to felony conspiracy to commit election fraud, resigning his seat on the day of his plea.
Yes, most of us didn't hear about a corrupt state legislator in Arkansas either.
BUT in North Carolina, we're talking about a candidate for the US House of Representatives in a very contentious battle between Dems and Republicans to win as many Congressional seats as possible. Of course anyone who is paying attention has heard of it.
Or maybe a few political bosses around the country harvesting ballots.
Hudson Hallum further told Carter that $20 to $40 was too much to pay for one vote, but that this amount was acceptable to pay for the votes of multiple members of a household. On that same date, Hudson Hallum also told Carter, “We need to use that black limo and buy a couple of cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote.” Two days later, Carter and Kent Hallum spoke with an individual in Memphis, Tennessee about getting a discounted price for the purchase of 100 half pints of vodka for the campaign.
Hudson Hallum was certified as the winner in the special primary runoff by 8 votes. Hudson Hallum also won the special general election held on July 12, 2011, and was subsequently certified as the winner of the House District 54 special election. At the time of the elections, District 54 included West Memphis, Marion, Earle, and Turrell, Arkansas, as well as other rural areas of Crittenden County.
Hudson Hallum and Kent Hallum tasked Carter, Malone, and others with identifying absentee ballot voters within District 54; obtaining and distributing absentee ballot applications to particular voters; determining when absentee ballots were mailed to absentee voters by the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office; and making contact with recipients of absentee ballots to assist those voters in completing the ballots. Once such absentee ballots were completed, the absentee voters typically placed their ballots in unsealed envelopes, which were retrieved by Carter, Malone and others and then subsequently delivered to either Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum for inspection to ensure that the absentee ballot votes had been cast for Hudson Hallum. After inspection by Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum, the absentee ballots that contained votes for Hudson Hallum were sealed and mailed to the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office. If a ballot contained a vote for Hudson Hallum’s opponent, it was destroyed.
Seven States Still Force Prohibition-era Bans on Election Day Alcohol Sales
I remember going to a bar after the first time I voted and was shocked to find I could NOT buy a drink to celebrate. Bars could only even open on election day if they made at least 30% of their revenue from non-alcohol sales.
Unfortunately, corruption still exists and this happened less than a decade ago:
Hudson Hallum further told Carter that $20 to $40 was too much to pay for one vote, but that this amount was acceptable to pay for the votes of multiple members of a household. On that same date, Hudson Hallum also told Carter, “We need to use that black limo and buy a couple of cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote.” Two days later, Carter and Kent Hallum spoke with an individual in Memphis, Tennessee about getting a discounted price for the purchase of 100 half pints of vodka for the campaign.
We have mail-in ballots where I live. I like it because I can fill it out at my leisure while I carefully study the candidates and issues and then I drop it off in person. The drawback of course is that the USPS is not infallible and a rogue postal carrier could collect ballots only from those who don't vote or perhaps only vote in Presidential elections and if anyone complains about not getting a ballot? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
I don't know if that has happened, but it's a possibility.
Upon seeing this at first I thought they just put the woody breasts in frozen microwave meals, then I realized there's no way that's breast meat.
But nobody eats that garbage because it tastes good. I eat it because I'm lazy and I want my food in about 5 minutes. I don't think it matters what brand you buy. it's all the same chicken.
I don't think I've had spaghetti chicken, but I'm intrigued.
Now let's be fair.
There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election
Terri Lynn Rote of Iowa voted twice. FOR TRUMP. She said she did it because Trump told her the polls were rigged.
Phillip Cook of Texas voted twice. FOR TRUMP. He claimed he was just testing the security of the electoral system.
Audrey Cook of Illinois cast a ballot on behalf of her husband. Almost certainly FOR TRUMP as she was a Republican election judge.
Gladys Coego of Florida was caught filling in votes for mayor on absentee ballots that she had been hired to open. There was no evidence she was doing anything to Presidential votes.