The NSMB 2012 US Election thread

[Carl Wilco]

Originally Posted by Gran Torino

August 25, 2012
By Joy Pullmann

The order charges his new racial justice team, in part, with "promoting a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools." In plain English, that means that if different races have different incidences of disciplinary action, those of a favored race who act worse will be punished less, or those of a disfavored race who act better will be punished more, or both.

I didn't read the rest of your article because this quote is so dumb it nullifies anything written after it.

To not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools basically means to treat all races the same. In plain English, the conclusion the author of that article came to is completely wrong.

[Gran Torino]

There is only one kind of equality

[tungsten]

1. Since 2009, the Ohio GOP has purged roughly a million citizens from the state's voter rolls. This accounts for some 15% of the roughly 5.2 million votes counted for president in the state in 2008. The purge focusses on counties that are predominantly urban and Democratic.

2. Electronic voting machines have been installed throughout the state which are owned, operated, programmed and maintained -- and will be tallied -- by Republican-connected firms.

3. The GOP controls both houses of the Ohio Legislature, the governorship, the Secretary of State's office, and the state Supreme Court. Soon after the 2008 election, it imposed a draconian photo ID law designed to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of suspected Democrats, as is being done throughout the US. But Ohio is a referendum state. A statewide grassroots movement recently crushed a GOP-pushed anti-labor law, and many Republicans feared the photo ID law would also go down. Then GOP stalwart Jon Husted (now the Secretary of State) was ruled ineligible to hold office over a residency conflict. Ohio's Supreme Court re-instated his eligibility, but he was prompted to oppose the photo ID law. Today a prospective Ohio voter can use 17 different kinds of ID, but in recent elections some poll workers have demanded photo ID anyway. Without a grassroots army of independent election monitors to protect them, many more Ohioans are likely to be disenfranchised.

4. In 2004, 10.6% of the votes cast in Ohio were so-called "early votes" via absentee ballots. A voter had to be absent from the county to vote absentee. In-person Election Day voters at the 42 predominantly black inner-city precincts in Columbus waited between 3-7 hours to vote.

http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4693

[Gran Torino]

Round and round and round they go......circling the bowl.

YouTube Video

[tungsten]

Mockery, mockery. It is our last hope.

See also....

Neo-Gothic

[Pwadjo]

Originally Posted by Farmer

Done. Here's my point: I've seen what having someone pro-oil, pro-mining, and pro-busines has done in Canada. I'm 22 and thanks in part to Harper, I could easily get a job paying over 100k a year if I decided to move back, and there is actually a chance that a mine can get permitted in Canada. I'm not saying that Romney is perfect - far from it, but is he the lesser of two evils. It has been shown that under Republicans, MSHA gives out less citations than under democraps. That will directly put money in my pocket. Romneys pledge for energy independence will help the world class silver deposit that my company owns into operation by making permitting easier. That will give me the option of retiring in one of the most beautiful places in north america. I don't see that happening under the current administration.

Am I biased: Hell yes. Are the rest of you: you better believe it.

You are 22 and you think you know even the slightest thing about mining? This attitude is what make the industry (the industry in which I have worked for nearly 10 years at a professional level) horrible. You do realise that economic benefit does not automatically override environmental concerns? This disgusting and prevalent attitude of greed and personal entitlement is what makes me hate the industry sometimes.

[Gran Torino]

I saw this and laughed...Hope you do too.

[tungsten]

Originally Posted by Gran Torino

I saw this and laughed...Hope you do too.

It's a matter of record.
The Obomber has effectively served "W"'s third term in office.

[Adam West]

Cause voting fOr someone worse is sooo much better

[Gran Torino]

Originally Posted by tungsten

It's a matter of record.
The Obomber has effectively served "W"'s third term in office.

Hahahahahahaha

[tungsten]

Dear President Obama:

As you know I’ve been peddling my book Decision Points and while doing interviews, people ask me what I think of the job you’re doing. My answer is the same: He deserves to make decisions without criticism from me. It’s a tough enough job as it is.

But their inquiries did prompt me to write you to privately express my continual admiration for the job you are doing. Amazing! I say “privately” because making my sentiments public would not do either of us any good, if you know what I mean.

First, I can scarcely believe my good fortune as to how your foreign and military policies—“continuity” was the word used recently by my good friend, Joe Lieberman—has protected my legacy. More than protected, you’ve proven yourself just as able—and I may say sometimes even more so—to “kick ass” as my Daddy used to say.

My pleasant surprise is darn near limitless. Your Justice Department has not pursued any actions against my people—not to mention Dick Cheney and I—that the civil liberties and human rights crowd keep baying for you to do.

Overseas, all I see are five stars. You are roaring in Afghanistan, dispatching our great special forces into Yemen, saying, like me, that you’ll go anywhere in the world to kill those terrorists. When you said you would assassinate American citizens abroad suspected of “terrorism”—that news came over the radio during breakfast when I was eating my shredded wheat and I almost choked with amazement. You got cajones, buddy. I was hesitant about crossing the border into Pakistan—but you, man, are blasting away. Even Dick, who would never say it publically, told me he is impressed.

The Leftists are always trying to have your policies show me up negatively. Hah—they’re having one hell of a tough time, aren’t they?

Me state secrets, you state secrets. Me executive privilege, you executive privilege. Me stop the release of torture videos, you backed me up. Me indefinite detention, you indefinite detention. Me extraordinary rendition; you extraordinary rendition. Me sending drones, you sending tons more, flying 24/7. Me just had to look the other way on collateral damage, you doing the same and protecting our boys doing it. Me approving night time assassination raids, you’re upping the ante especially since General Petraeus took over. Me beefing up Defense, you not skipping a beat. Me letting the CIA loose, you told them operate at large. Me demanding no pictures of our fallen troops, you doing the same, but allowing the families to go to Dover which I should have done.

There is one big difference. I never cracked a law book. You are a top Harvard lawyer and teacher of constitutional law. So when you do what I did, man, it’s—what’s the word—legitimization!

Domestically, sure you rag Wall Street, but you continued the big bail out of the bankers and their supporting cast. Sure, you’re tougher with your words, but they deserve it—remember I said that the Wall Streeters “got drunk” and “got a hangover”.

What I get such a kick out of is how you handled the unions and libs who backed you with dreams of Hope and Change. How smoothly you let them learn they got nowhere to go, just as we used to tell our conservative wing the same thing (though now they’ve been reborn as growling Tea Partiers). So, cardcheck, single payer, rolling back my Party’s passage of legislation in Congress—you made them forget it!

You have been such a great president—backing me on so many things—keeping most tax cuts and shelters, support for my oil and gas buddies (my base), big loan guarantees for nukes, keeping Uncle Sam from bargaining down pharma, expanding free trade, not going tough on China (my Daddy especially liked this one), avoiding class struggle rhetoric and so on.

You want to know how confident I am about you? Even though you called waterboarding “torture,” I proudly admitted approving its use to protect our country and its freedoms. Isn’t that really what the Presidency is all about, along with honoring our troops and the entire national defense efforts?

Semper fi—
George W. Bush

P.S. My mother Barbara is a big fan. She calls your term so far Obamabush. Cute, aye, for someone who was never a wordsmith.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/11/23/obamabush/print

[switch]

CNN is showing a segment called "Mitt Romney Revealed". Commercial comes on, and it says the special is sponsored by clean coal.

"Clean coal" - now there's the misnomer of the decade.

[FlipFantasia]

Originally Posted by switch

CNN is showing a segment called "Mitt Romney Revealed". Commercial comes on, and it says the special is sponsored by clean coal.

"Clean coal" - now there's the misnomer of the decade.

clean coal is good buds with ethical oil......

more batshit crazy down south....
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4504647/

[Sethimus]

Originally Posted by FlipFantasia

clean coal is good buds with ethical oil......

more batshit crazy down south....
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4504647/

what is this i don't even

[chupacabra]

Originally Posted by tungsten

It's a matter of record.
The Obomber has effectively served "W"'s third term in office.

Not really true, congress and the senate are the ones that have extended the Bush era follies and mistakes. If you look at the what W asked for, then later received you will see that he was very effective in getting what he wanted. After 911 both sides of the aisle gave him everything he asked for, and there are too many blue dogs infecting the Democratic ranks for a democratic president to pull that off today even with control of congress or the senate.

For a conspiracy theorist you don't have your eye on the ball. The real gutting of the American political system is happening in the houses and the supreme court. Obama can only do so much with the weak support and cut throat opposition that he has, although he has been a let down in areas where he could have done more.