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People in prison currently cannot vote. However, there are certain states that when you serve your time and are released, you can get your voting rights back. [and if you move to another state after that, you are eligible to vote in that state] Jeb Bush found that out when numerous lawsuits in the 90's and after the 2000 debocle where he tried to deny people in that situation voting rights -- and the courts said they were eligible voters every time.

You should have seen the Daily Show yesterday when they had the argument about the bigger embarassment to democracy being Florida or Ohio. They went back and forth "Black voters are disenfranchised." "Yeah well all street signs have been taken down in Ohio black neighborhoods!" "Yeah, well Florida just reinstated slavery!" It was hilarious.

I have 2 this semester. One for "Professional Issues for Teachers" -- In this class, we've learned such bombshells as "The federal government and court cases influence education.", "School boards make policy for the school district., etc. The professor so boring as well and we have these 2 50 year olds in our class who try answering rhetorical questions, laugh at bad jokes etc. My other is in "Immigrant America" -- I have gone to this class since August and I still have yet to learn one thing that I didn't already know. The Professor acts like his position is the only correct one and nobody can possibly have a differing opinion. Plus, I've had such new perspectives like "Immigrants were discriminated against." The scary thing is that these are 400 level classes.

Purdue, not all Republicans are on board with the Bush way of going about things (Ron Paul and others) so it could be a close vote either way)

Ideologically bin Laden is a f***ing nutcase [won't touch the whole invisible man in the sky telling him to do things...] but tactically, he engineered one of the most destructive attacks for mere pennies compared to what the US is doling out. I mean, think -- plane tickets and box cutters and mace [if you hear Betty Ong's phone call, she says they have mace and pepper spray]. Dumb criminals I am not worried about, but it is guys who are smart and cause problems that are the ones to worry about. Plus, according to most policy wonks bin Laden is now simply a funding and figurehead for a more ideological movement and you cannot kill an ideology unless we get into the sticky little matter of genocide. According to one of London's leading medical journals the Lancet, there have been 100,000 unnecessary civilian deaths caused by the war. 100,000. That is civilian, not "terrorist". Also, with at $400 billion defense budget why are troops not equipped with night vision, armor, radios or BULLETS http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstorie..._305195404.html According to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a member of the Armed Services Committee who speaks out against pork-barrel spending, there is a total of $8.9 billion of pork in this year's defense bill, which would go a long way toward upgrading all the equipment used by the National Guard. "I don't think that this war has truly come home to the Congress of the United States," McCain says. "This is the first time in history that we've cut taxes during a war. So I think that a lot of members of Congress feel that this is just sort of a business-as-usual situation." "The least sexy items are the mundane - food, repair items, maintenance – there's no big contract there," says McCain. "And so there's a tendency that those mundane but vital aspects of war fighting are cut and routinely underfunded."

They didn't carry Jon Stewart's "America, the book" in their stores as well. The same store that refused to carry a single mom Barbie too. But really...who goes to Wal-Mart for their book purchasing needs?

Nice one 1549, but you could have thrown some ninjas, vampires or aliens in there to make it a bit more believeable. This is totally like the South Park where they are voting for the school mascot: A giant douche or a turd sandwich. Both parties are doing this sort of stuff and the Justice Department is trying to limit who can sue for having their voting rights infringed upon after the election. South Park is so apt: This election is between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.

Also every time the BoSox win a World Series, Wilson wins the Presidency.

Calm down. Quit b****ing for f***'s sake.

Obviously one can because they did. And she was married to a guy who supported genocidal Central and South American death squads and his administration with CIA black ops helped bring crack cocaine into America's ghettos to neutralize the black population.

OMG! My neighbor at home used to give those out all the time. There are also "Hell Houses" now for fundie Christians to set up instead of Haunted Houses.

Yeah and the Mullahs in Iran endorse Bush.

MrEye, you don't have my few favorite ones from "The Boondocks" Bush/Cheney 04: Don't Change Horses Mid Apocalypse Bush/Cheney 04: C'mon...Like You Haven't Told a Lie

Nuke, it was the policies of Reagan that brought us the highly trained terrorists we all know and hate today [remember the Afghan civil war with us using OBL and the Moujhadeen as proxies to fight Russia?] Actually Clinton was hampered in his efforts by Congressional Republicans who were railing about him getting blown. Also, at least Clinton/Gore would have had a terrorism task force meeting at least once (unlike Bush/Cheney) and wouldn't want to cut anti-terror funding (like Ashcroft wanted) But nice partisan hackery Nuke.

Amsterdam -- friend lives there and it'd also be fun for other reasons.

That makes 2 of us.

Kay and the IAEA already proved that the weapons were there on April 18, 2003. The army failed to secure them and now Bush has to eat a giant s*** sandwich.

Nuke, I've met plenty of IVAtW (Iraq Vets Against the War) that were pro-war until returning home and detailing what they saw there.

If this soldier moved them, then where the f*** are they? I mean, the Bushies said they don't know where they are. And if we're to believe those DoD photos -- then they were supposedly moved before the war (except the IAEA debunked those) And wouldn't a commanding officer remember giving this order? And why trot this poor guy out after a week after making up a bunch of bunk stories? http://www.kgw.com/iraq/stories/kgw_102904...ns.4da9b88.html

Controlled, 80%+ think the US are "occupiers" and not "liberators". Yes, there were benefits but the original case for war was WMD. You get away from the case that your man Bush lied or did not investigate all the facts (like the fact that Powell's UN speech was from plagiarized grad school work written in 1991) The deaths, of 1111+ US soldiers and according to the medical magazine "Lancet", there have been over 100,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the war began. In fact, Bush was talking about invading Iraq in 1999 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-01.htm My other favorite Bush quote is this: "He told me that as a leader, you can never admit to a mistake," Herskowitz said. "That was one of the keys to being a leader." Do we hold Bush responsible at all for either being incompetent enough (and Nuke, even the CIA said their info was not a "slam dunk"...and even better in 2001, Powell and Rice were out railing that Saddam and Iraq were not a threat) to not investigate the info fully or lying to America? No...and just because Kerry gave Bush the opportunity to use force -- it's like this analogy: He gave him the car keys but didn't endorse him crashing the car into a f***ing bridge enbuntment. He thought Bush could drive and was competent.

Nuke, it was oil machinery that had the capability to be used to detonate nukes. Plus, it was sorta kind ILLEGAL for the US companies to deal with countries that we had sanctions against.

And US companies like Halliburton and men like Dick Cheney were getting rich selling him pulse generators (which could be used to detonate nukes).

Classic.

It's amazing that he went from saying early on that he didn't give a s*** about politics to this. I guess a visit from the Secret Service can do a lot to change a guy...not to mention the FCC crackdowns etc.

On Arron Brown, David Kay concludes definitively from ABC video: -at least one bunker was intact on April 17 - one of very few, and he identified the wire they cut as an IAEA seal. -after opening it, the military has an implicit obligation to guard it. "You break it, you own it" he said -the protection of these facilities SHOULD have and COULD have been anticipated. Both he and Aaron had a hard time swallowing that pill. They both then said, "I'm trying not to be political here." "Me, too!" -this would NOT be classified as a "WMD" in and of itself. I think Kay's words were "No way!" -the contents of the containers could be nothing besides HMX or RMX. Kay has never seen anything else that looks like this. -- I'm waiting for the "space aliens took it" as the next excuse for the explosive securing failure.