It's really simple to find the people fitting the profile: They moved to Manchester or further south near I-93 or I-95 in the last decade, and work in Massachusetts. For example, most of the population increase in Nashua is directly attributable to this phenomenon.
I'm well aware that the Democrats have controlled the Cleveland area since forever, and I'm definitely not in the "it's all Blackwell's fault" camp. I do however find such obvious conflicts of interest problematic at the very least. One of the reasons I listed Jen Brunner's party affiliation was to make it clear that this could just be a partisan thing.
Or, of course, the Cuyahoga County Election Board being incompetent. My question in that case is why no one at the state level has done something about it.
First off, it's Cuyahoga, not Cayahoga. The county is named for the Cuyahoga River, best known for catching on fire several decades ago.
Secondly, there were lots of reasons why this particular county was scrutinized: Ohio was to the 2004 presidential election what Floriday was to the 2000 election, and there were lots of reports of irregularities in Cuyahoga County. Cuyahoga Country is by far the most liberal area of Ohio, so a few thousand votes missing were likely to swing the election. Really the question still hanging over those election results is whether they were the result of incompetent poll workers or the efforts of Ken Blackwell (then Ohio Secretary of State and Bush campaign manager in Ohio). That's what the current Ohio Secretary of State Jen Brunner (a Democrat) is trying to determine.
Some other specific issues he's created proposals for include single-payer health care and increasing the minimum wage. The reason you don't hear about most of them is that they get essentially 0 support from centrist Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi. And when you talk to the guy about what he wants to do, he knows all the details of why his policy ideas could work (some of the other politicians I've met or seen live can do that: Al Gore, Arlen Specter, Howard Dean, ).
Trust me, his constituents in the Ohio 10th district (where I vote) don't think he's a do-nothing Congressman.
The term "to table" is short for "to lay on the table", which was one of the standard motions in Robert's Rules of Order. The image you want here is placing business down on a table in front of the chairperson, to be "taken up" again later on. However, it is not infrequent that business that is laid on the table is never again taken up, and ends up in the trash can next to the table.
The first positive point of this is that AT&T didn't get any sort of exclusivity rule. If you think TW Cable is bad, try dealing with Ameritech^H SBC^H AT&T. Secondly, many of us are already stuck with TW Cable, so it won't get any worse. Although it's too bad for those areas that were previously covered by Cox Cable, which has a much better consumer reputation.
Utility monopolies are the norm in the US. Get over it. What is definitely needed, though, is a utility commission that actually regulates the businesses they're supposed to be in charge of.
The other thing you have in NH (where I used to live and my mother used to practice law) is a highly respected and quite non-partisan Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, who has kept his office throughout both Republican and Democratic state administrations. He's demonstrated time and again that his number 1 goal as far as his duties as an election official are concerned is to get the correct results (meaning the results accurately reflecting the will of the people). He's about as far from Ohio or Florida Secretaries of State when the electronic voting was put in place (Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell) as you can get.
In other words, there's a reason why NH's system is so good. Heck, I love a state government where a man I'd gotten to know as an elevator operator was elected to the state House.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
I have no problem supporting a candidate who hires and listens to advisers that tell him to talk about the value of open file formats. Heck, acknowledging there's a problem that publicly is a great step. Compare that to another candidate, say someone named Willamy Blimpton, who listens to advisers that tell her to play down the issue or waffle so they can gain the support of Microsoft, and you'll see that the "he just listens to his advisers" isn't all that useful an argument.
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Precisely what I was alluding to.
No, edible in the sense that anything made by Taco Bell or McD's is edible.
Which amounts to even a lower standard.
To quote Frank Zappa:
"Look at all the people who've been president of the United States. Could I do any worse?"
What will Strindberg do?
So can we have your liver then?
That's been already worked out for them: One on the forehead, and another on the right hand.
Of course, the true fun of this is that your link is now +5 (Insightful).
Yeah, Poland is so backwards. In the US, we don't need teenagers to derail our trains.
Because in the US, trains derail YOU!!
It's really simple to find the people fitting the profile: They moved to Manchester or further south near I-93 or I-95 in the last decade, and work in Massachusetts. For example, most of the population increase in Nashua is directly attributable to this phenomenon.
I'm well aware that the Democrats have controlled the Cleveland area since forever, and I'm definitely not in the "it's all Blackwell's fault" camp. I do however find such obvious conflicts of interest problematic at the very least. One of the reasons I listed Jen Brunner's party affiliation was to make it clear that this could just be a partisan thing.
Or, of course, the Cuyahoga County Election Board being incompetent. My question in that case is why no one at the state level has done something about it.
First off, it's Cuyahoga, not Cayahoga. The county is named for the Cuyahoga River, best known for catching on fire several decades ago.
Secondly, there were lots of reasons why this particular county was scrutinized: Ohio was to the 2004 presidential election what Floriday was to the 2000 election, and there were lots of reports of irregularities in Cuyahoga County. Cuyahoga Country is by far the most liberal area of Ohio, so a few thousand votes missing were likely to swing the election. Really the question still hanging over those election results is whether they were the result of incompetent poll workers or the efforts of Ken Blackwell (then Ohio Secretary of State and Bush campaign manager in Ohio). That's what the current Ohio Secretary of State Jen Brunner (a Democrat) is trying to determine.
Will they try to sue Steve Martin?
They'd have a better time causing traffic jams with creative road designs.
I've actually gotten pretty good and figuring which jams are accident related and those that are just people being retarded.
Most accidents are also due to people being retarded.
Some other specific issues he's created proposals for include single-payer health care and increasing the minimum wage. The reason you don't hear about most of them is that they get essentially 0 support from centrist Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi. And when you talk to the guy about what he wants to do, he knows all the details of why his policy ideas could work (some of the other politicians I've met or seen live can do that: Al Gore, Arlen Specter, Howard Dean, ).
Trust me, his constituents in the Ohio 10th district (where I vote) don't think he's a do-nothing Congressman.
The term "to table" is short for "to lay on the table", which was one of the standard motions in Robert's Rules of Order. The image you want here is placing business down on a table in front of the chairperson, to be "taken up" again later on. However, it is not infrequent that business that is laid on the table is never again taken up, and ends up in the trash can next to the table.
The first positive point of this is that AT&T didn't get any sort of exclusivity rule. If you think TW Cable is bad, try dealing with Ameritech^H SBC^H AT&T. Secondly, many of us are already stuck with TW Cable, so it won't get any worse. Although it's too bad for those areas that were previously covered by Cox Cable, which has a much better consumer reputation.
Utility monopolies are the norm in the US. Get over it. What is definitely needed, though, is a utility commission that actually regulates the businesses they're supposed to be in charge of.
What if the sharks have friggen' laser beams attached to their heads?
The other thing you have in NH (where I used to live and my mother used to practice law) is a highly respected and quite non-partisan Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, who has kept his office throughout both Republican and Democratic state administrations. He's demonstrated time and again that his number 1 goal as far as his duties as an election official are concerned is to get the correct results (meaning the results accurately reflecting the will of the people). He's about as far from Ohio or Florida Secretaries of State when the electronic voting was put in place (Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell) as you can get.
In other words, there's a reason why NH's system is so good. Heck, I love a state government where a man I'd gotten to know as an elevator operator was elected to the state House.
If you can find the -15 ways to leave your robot lover, I'll buy you a drink.
But remember the rule about all digital surveys:
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
You forgot to pick up your cup of coffee with the other hand.
But cement is useful, robust, hard to take down, and immune to viruses, none of which describe Windows.
I always think more about his society that votes for lizards, because if they don't the wrong lizard might end up in charge.
I have no problem supporting a candidate who hires and listens to advisers that tell him to talk about the value of open file formats. Heck, acknowledging there's a problem that publicly is a great step. Compare that to another candidate, say someone named Willamy Blimpton, who listens to advisers that tell her to play down the issue or waffle so they can gain the support of Microsoft, and you'll see that the "he just listens to his advisers" isn't all that useful an argument.