Now get on your democrat representatives in red states to propose the same kind of legislation.
You don't understand. The GOP supermajorities in Red state legislatures have absolute control over which bills are presented. They've changed laws to draw new districts in years when it's not supposed to happen just to make sure they maintain supermajorities, even though by popular vote these states would be Blue. If it wasn't for gerrymandering,, the US House of Representatives would be under Democratic control, since more people voted for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates for the past several elections. This is a matter of the rights of US citizens under the US Constitution. People are being disenfranchised nationally because of the behavior of their state legislatures. It's a very touchy subject here in Texas, and one that gets a lot of attention.
Voting rights and legislative accountability have to be constitutional amendments to the US Constitution or they have to be the result of Supreme Court cases slapping down the regressive states.
As if all those students aren't doing mail in ballots through their parent's address as well as vot9ng again at school.
One vote is more than enough for the typical idiot college student.
You would have thought one of the hundreds of investigations into "voter fraud" would have turned up a single case of this happening by now, no? It's easy enough to catch. Whether or not I vote is public record.
So until you can point to this actually happening, you can fuck right off with your make-believe voter fraud by students.
So that's a good first step - support it and ask for it everywhere instead of justifying the opposition to it because it isn't already happening everywhere.
That's exactly what's been happening. Blue states are drawing fair maps and Red states are suppressing the vote.
You can let Lucy pull the ball away at the last second only so many times, you know?
Generally, college students attending college not in their home state, are ignorant of both principles and local issues. They are callow. They should not be voting in the college state.
Sod off. You don't get to decide who has rights based upon whether or not you agree with how they vote.
I don't oppose it. I'm asking where are similar initiatives in Republican-controlled states? Remember, these kind of bills are only introduced at the pleasure of the controlling party.
Wait...you seem to be doubling down on the suggestion that it would help Republicans for people to know what the fuck is happening and not have last minute shit come down and get passed without due consideration.
No, it would help everyone to know what the fuck is happening. However, these initiatives are only being pushed in Democratic states for some strange reason.
So, Republicans would benefit by everyone knowing what they are voting on, that the public know what's going on, and that the legislation be carefully considered?
If you view this law from a national perspective, you can see the problem. There are always efforts like this to make states with big Democratic majorities "more accountable", but you never see similar efforts in places like Texas or South Carolina. It's like the gerrymandering issue. You will see ALEC and the Koch Brothers pouring money into state initiatives to have "fair districts", but only in blue states. We see initiatives to have electoral college votes given proportionally, but only in blue states. In fact, many blue states have gone to an independent commission drawing legislative maps, but you don't see it happening in red states. At all.
Of course, you want legislatures to be accountable to the people they represent. You want the public engaged with the laws that their legislatures pass. But the suspicion regarding this initiative comes from the intent of the people pushing it. It's like the efforts to "prevent voter fraud", which sound great but when you look a little deeper, you see that the intent is to strictly limit the participation of minorities, students and the elderly. For example, the "voter ID law" in North Carolina, which was passed in concert with executive actions that limited the number of polling places. By eliminating the polling place at Duke University, the early voter turnout among students has gone down 70%.
Tobacco is less popular today than every drug on the DEA schedule, including heroin.
That's only because the "middle Americans" (read, "white folks") are skewing the heroin statistics into the stratosphere. I just moved out of New England, and the heroin epidemic there in white areas is booming. Nice quiet suburban towns are all getting methadone clinics because it's so out-of-control. Heroin use in black and Hispanic areas is down.
That law was never enforced or even taken seriously. If it was, the Uncle Sam "I Want You" signs would have never been allowed. When the US government cooperated with Hollywood to make pro-military movies, from pre-WWII to Vietnam right through to post-Iraq, it was not prosecuted for disseminating propaganda.
Yep, Maine does have a few of those but South Carolina wins.
I've run into some nice people in South Carolina, but there also seems to be a lot of "fake-nice" people down there. They're polite and all, but the mask is a little too tight, you know? Especially if you're not their kind.
Really? The houses here in TX tend to have absolutely shit insulation, whereas the ones in the midwest and Wisconsin where my grandparents and sister live are very well insulated (because it actually gets cold there). Their houses are always warmer in the winter than mine in N. TX,
Well we found a nice 1930's house here in Houston made out of that yellow brick that seems to radiate the stored heat outward at night, unlike the way the darker brick in our Chicago or New England places radiated the heat inward. In both Chicago and New England during the summer, the temperature inside would actually go UP for a few hours after sunset.
As far as heating goes, I haven't been in Houston for a winter yet, but judging by the climate averages for this area, heating should not be much of a problem. Many of my neighbors say they only turned their little gas space heaters on a handful of times past few years. I mean, it's November 2 and the low was like 68 last night.
Since I'm from Chicago, I can understand all of your points. I wonder if maybe in Houston it's just too hot to be an asshole, so people are mellower, kinder to each other.
I lived in Houston for 23 years. I always wondered what a "winter coat" was. I tried wearing what I considered to be a winter coat in New England and barely made it thru October, before hitting -20F one January. On the other hand, there are houses here that don't have air conditioning...at all.
I recently moved from New England to Houston, and let me tell you, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to air condition a house in the summer here than it is to heat a house in the winter there.
And here it is, November 1, and I was watching the Cubs game in the back yard with tiki torches and lemonade. I thought I would hate Houston, but I really like it a lot. Plus, there are terrific taco trucks here. I mean, tacos that can make you weep. And people are really nice, unlike the people where I was in New England, who are insular, judgmental assholes.
I live in Minnesota, where 1/3rd of the year is dark,
Maybe it's not for you. If you live in Minnesota by choice, you may not be the target market for these solar panels.
Here in Houston, they sound mighty good. Can you imagine? There are products that are appropriate for one place that are not for another? By the way, North Face down coats and mukluks are useless to me. They simply don't work here in Houston.
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Does somebody want to tell him or should I?
I just googled it. Number of prosecutions for students voting twice = 0.
You don't understand. The GOP supermajorities in Red state legislatures have absolute control over which bills are presented. They've changed laws to draw new districts in years when it's not supposed to happen just to make sure they maintain supermajorities, even though by popular vote these states would be Blue. If it wasn't for gerrymandering,, the US House of Representatives would be under Democratic control, since more people voted for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates for the past several elections. This is a matter of the rights of US citizens under the US Constitution. People are being disenfranchised nationally because of the behavior of their state legislatures. It's a very touchy subject here in Texas, and one that gets a lot of attention.
Voting rights and legislative accountability have to be constitutional amendments to the US Constitution or they have to be the result of Supreme Court cases slapping down the regressive states.
You would have thought one of the hundreds of investigations into "voter fraud" would have turned up a single case of this happening by now, no? It's easy enough to catch. Whether or not I vote is public record.
So until you can point to this actually happening, you can fuck right off with your make-believe voter fraud by students.
That's exactly what's been happening. Blue states are drawing fair maps and Red states are suppressing the vote.
You can let Lucy pull the ball away at the last second only so many times, you know?
Sod off. You don't get to decide who has rights based upon whether or not you agree with how they vote.
I don't oppose it. I'm asking where are similar initiatives in Republican-controlled states? Remember, these kind of bills are only introduced at the pleasure of the controlling party.
No, the intent is everything. The intent of a shrinking Republican minority seeking to hold on to power.
You have to look not just at this one initiative, but at the "suite" of initiatives with which these are always included (voter suppression, etc).
What good is "public accountability" when an increasing percentage of the population is disenfranchised?
No, it would help everyone to know what the fuck is happening. However, these initiatives are only being pushed in Democratic states for some strange reason.
I'm pretty sure you get the implication.
If you view this law from a national perspective, you can see the problem. There are always efforts like this to make states with big Democratic majorities "more accountable", but you never see similar efforts in places like Texas or South Carolina. It's like the gerrymandering issue. You will see ALEC and the Koch Brothers pouring money into state initiatives to have "fair districts", but only in blue states. We see initiatives to have electoral college votes given proportionally, but only in blue states. In fact, many blue states have gone to an independent commission drawing legislative maps, but you don't see it happening in red states. At all.
Of course, you want legislatures to be accountable to the people they represent. You want the public engaged with the laws that their legislatures pass. But the suspicion regarding this initiative comes from the intent of the people pushing it. It's like the efforts to "prevent voter fraud", which sound great but when you look a little deeper, you see that the intent is to strictly limit the participation of minorities, students and the elderly. For example, the "voter ID law" in North Carolina, which was passed in concert with executive actions that limited the number of polling places. By eliminating the polling place at Duke University, the early voter turnout among students has gone down 70%.
Reservations is the answer. Put them where they can't do too much damage.
Nicotine is a really good recreational drug. Nothing wrong with vaping.
That's only because the "middle Americans" (read, "white folks") are skewing the heroin statistics into the stratosphere. I just moved out of New England, and the heroin epidemic there in white areas is booming. Nice quiet suburban towns are all getting methadone clinics because it's so out-of-control. Heroin use in black and Hispanic areas is down.
Here's a better article, with photographs of the vote fraudster actually caucusing for Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I know I'm not buying a Samsung until I see the report from Underwriters Laboratory.
Just when I thought the presidential race couldn't get any weirder.
That law was never enforced or even taken seriously. If it was, the Uncle Sam "I Want You" signs would have never been allowed. When the US government cooperated with Hollywood to make pro-military movies, from pre-WWII to Vietnam right through to post-Iraq, it was not prosecuted for disseminating propaganda.
I've run into some nice people in South Carolina, but there also seems to be a lot of "fake-nice" people down there. They're polite and all, but the mask is a little too tight, you know? Especially if you're not their kind.
Well we found a nice 1930's house here in Houston made out of that yellow brick that seems to radiate the stored heat outward at night, unlike the way the darker brick in our Chicago or New England places radiated the heat inward. In both Chicago and New England during the summer, the temperature inside would actually go UP for a few hours after sunset.
As far as heating goes, I haven't been in Houston for a winter yet, but judging by the climate averages for this area, heating should not be much of a problem. Many of my neighbors say they only turned their little gas space heaters on a handful of times past few years. I mean, it's November 2 and the low was like 68 last night.
Since I'm from Chicago, I can understand all of your points. I wonder if maybe in Houston it's just too hot to be an asshole, so people are mellower, kinder to each other.
I meant it's "now" on my to-do list.
I'm in Midtown, so I'll have to figure out how to get there, but it's not on my to-do list. Thank you.
I recently moved from New England to Houston, and let me tell you, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to air condition a house in the summer here than it is to heat a house in the winter there.
And here it is, November 1, and I was watching the Cubs game in the back yard with tiki torches and lemonade. I thought I would hate Houston, but I really like it a lot. Plus, there are terrific taco trucks here. I mean, tacos that can make you weep. And people are really nice, unlike the people where I was in New England, who are insular, judgmental assholes.
Maybe it's not for you. If you live in Minnesota by choice, you may not be the target market for these solar panels.
Here in Houston, they sound mighty good. Can you imagine? There are products that are appropriate for one place that are not for another? By the way, North Face down coats and mukluks are useless to me. They simply don't work here in Houston.
Propaganda has never been illegal.