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[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by sgtclub

Where is the evidence that voter rolls have increased? I haven't seen anything on the topic.

This is from a NYT article on the topic --

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/spec...9765572.htm?1c

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
This is from a NYT article on the topic --

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/spec...9765572.htm?1c

And this is an analysis of the New Hampshire voter registration trends: http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200441#899 Via Daily Kos.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
And this is an analysis of the New Hampshire voter registration trends: http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200441#899 Via Daily Kos.

There's a flag on the play - looks like a piling on call, Dan.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
There's a flag on the play - looks like a piling on call, Dan.

Right?

It is surprising to me, however, because the GOP block by block organization that has been touted doesn't appear to have done the trick.

That said, it's all about who get's to the polls, not who registers.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Right?

It is surprising to me, however, because the GOP block by block organization that has been touted doesn't appear to have done the trick.

That said, it's all about who get's to the polls, not who registers.

And don't forget about those 1,000,000 black Democrats that were disenfranchised in 2000.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...3&sid=96378798

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
And don't forget about those 1,000,000 black Democrats that were disenfranchised in 2000.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...3&sid=96378798

And don't forget about all the WMDs that SH may attack us with (with help from all his buddies in AQ).

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
And don't forget about all the WMDs that SH may attack us with (with help from all his buddies in AQ).

If Kerry was President today - and his French and Russian buddies succeeded in having all the UN sanctions dropped - this very well might have been a possibility.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
And don't forget about those 1,000,000 black Democrats that were disenfranchised in 2000.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...3&sid=96378798

So which is it? Are DEM voter rolls up or being surpressed? I'm confused.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Right?

It is surprising to me, however, because the GOP block by block organization that has been touted doesn't appear to have done the trick.

That said, it's all about who get's to the polls, not who registers.

Every few years, the GOP talks smack about its ground game, and every few years they don't come through. (Except in fast-growing exurbs, like in Georgia.) TNR had a great article after the '02 election about a GOP program driving Tim Johnson voters to the polls in Sioux Falls (oops).

[SlaveNoMore]

sgtclub
So which is it? Are DEM voter rolls up or being surpressed? I'm confused.

I believe it's called "pleading in the alternative"

And you'll see a lot of both in the complaint filed 11/3 by Terry McAwful.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
If Kerry was President today - and his French and Russian buddies succeeded in having all the UN sanctions dropped - this very well might have been a possibility.

there have been false starts before, but if this stuff hits- and there is a report coming up later this week- JFK might have to change field again before the next debate. and ss if this proves true, and you don't apologize, I'm telling everyone your real middle name.

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialR...20041004a.html

Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
By Scott Wheeler
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 04, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.

One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al Qaeda.

Other memos provide a list of terrorist groups with whom Iraq had relationships and considered available for terror operations against the United States.

Among the organizations mentioned are those affiliated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Ayman al-Zawahiri, two of the world's most wanted terrorists. Zarqawi is believed responsible for the kidnapping and beheading of several American civilians in Iraq and claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings in Iraq Sept. 30. Al-Zawahiri is the top lieutenant of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, allegedly helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist strikes on the U.S., and is believed to be the voice on an audio tape broadcast by Al-Jazeera television Oct. 1, calling for attacks on U.S. and British interests everywhere.

The source of the documents

A senior government official who is not a political appointee provided CNSNews.com with copies of the 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service documents. The originals, some of which were hand-written and others typed, are in Arabic. CNSNews.com had the papers translated into English by two individuals separately and independent of each other.

There are no hand-writing samples to which the documents can be compared for forensic analysis and authentication. However, three other experts - a former weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), a retired CIA counter-terrorism official with vast experience dealing with Iraq, and a former advisor to then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton on Iraq - were asked to analyze the documents. All said they comport with the format, style and content of other Iraqi documents from that era known to be genuine.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Not Bob

More importantly, can the Twinkies defeat the Evil Empire?

Hell yeah.

[Adder]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I am prohibited from defending myself and shooting these bastards in the nuts.

Interesting choice of target...

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
An extradordinary percentage of drivers in Houston are armed (see RT's post, supra), but haven't noticed that it makes Houston drivers more polite.

Armed? Yes. Uninsured? Often. Wholly indifferent to the traffic laws? Perhaps. But impolite? I wouldn't go that far.*

-TL


*Well maybe that one guy that shot at me on I-45, but that was ages ago and he's probably dead now.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by TexLex
Armed? Yes. Uninsured? Often. Wholly indifferent to the traffic laws? Perhaps. But impolite? I wouldn't go that far (except for that one guy that shot at me on I-45 one time).

Except for the fact that it seems like all y'all Texicans have been shot at on the roads, this is pretty much a perfect description of Chicago. I'd be willing to bet that more than half of the traffic fatalities in Chicago are hit and runs by uninsured drunks/uninsured jagoffs. Not trying to get all racial here, but from my recollection (e.g., of the news reports), it seems like Hispanic children in Hispanic neighborhoods are disproportionately the victims.

The way you guys describe it (and with the Death Penalty issues y'all have... appointed defense lawyers sleeping thru trials) it sounds like Texas is the gun-nut equivalent of the gun-shunning Chicago, with violence running a bit ahead in gun-shunning Chicago. Man, next time I'm thinking of saying criminals are disproportionately Democrats, I'll think of y'all oppressed Texicans and bite my tongue. That is, unless the criminals in Texas are...