A Forum for Grinches and Ho-Ho-Hoes

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You're cool with people looking over the shoulder of voters and pointing to where they should vote?

You're cute when you play dumb, but not so much when you are dumb. In my prior post, I said

• I'm not saying it was right, but come on. That's a different order of magnitude of problem from what Hitchens describes. And it's a problem of enforcing the laws as written.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Hank can't think of a better comeback than "ooh, I bet you're short."

Actually, "ooh, you're Not Me" isn't bad as a put-down.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Gattigap
, several of us are waiting to hear the explanation for why, as you say, Hank, Democrats have reason to be ashamed of almost all of our votes in the 2004 elections.

You voted for a flip flopper?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Hank can't think of a better comeback than "ooh, I bet you're short."

Originally posted by Me
I answered everything but the Sidd stuff- if Sidd is 6 foot he's a short 6 foot cuz he has a bigass chip on his shoulders about sumthin. If a 6 foot tall guy has short man desease, well I don't know what to think.

Issue submitted- next!

[Spanky]

As Penske would say: ftr,fwiw,fyi - It is really weird not knowing what most of you look like and whether or not you are male or female.

[sgtclub]

• MADRID (AFX) - Spain's Islamic Commission, which groups the nation's Muslim community, said it was issuing a fatwa against Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden,
  
  'We are going to issue a fatwa (religious decree) against Bin Laden this afternoon,' Mansour Escudero, who leads the Federation of Islamic religious entities (Feeri) and co-secretary general of the Spanish governmenmt-created Commission told AFP.
  
  The Commission invited Spanish-based imams to condemn terrorism at Friday prayers, when the whole country will be remembering the 191 people who were killed in the train blasts and the 1,900 injured a year ago.
  
  The attacks have been blamed on mainly Moroccan Islamic extremists loyal to Bin Laden.
  
  'We have called on imams to make a formal declaration condemning terrorism and for a special prayer for all the victims of terrorism,' Escudero said.
  
  The Commission has also drawn up a document designed to 'thank the Spanish people and the government for their attitude towards Muslims' since last March 11, in particular for not taking 'disproportionate' measures similar to those which the Sept 11 attacks sparked in the US.
  
  The Commission called on Muslims to take part in Friday's commemorative programme being organised by Spanish authorities and community groups and to work with them to ensure terrorism was defeated.
  mdr/cw/rmb/g/ra

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Spanky
As Penske would say: ftr,fwiw,fyi - It is really weird not knowing what most of you look like and whether or not you are male or female.

Pretty much everyone on this board is male. Hank will tell you I'm really really fat.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Pretty much everyone on this board is male. Hank will tell you I'm really really fat.

No. i'm the one who says you have some weird mental problem where you denigrate yourself, but you are actually pretty aattractive- and less overweight than the average lawyer. I'll kid my sister but I won't let others dog her WTTW.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
No. i'm the one who says you have some weird mental problem where you denigrate yourself, but you are actually pretty aattractive- and less overweight than the average lawyer. I'll kid my sister but I won't let others dog her WTTW.

You call me a fattie all the time, babydoll. I think you meant to tell spankmyass that he better not call me fat or you'll, uh, spank his ass.

You are probably accurate with the weird mental problem analysis, though.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You call me a fattie all the time, babydoll.

No. You say you want donuts so I spin scenarios to help you get them. meanwhile if you really had them you'd leave them sit.

I've beenperfectly nice to everyone this entire year. It's my resolution- but I've been double nice to you!

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm sure most of them would have voted for JFK w/o the help. and most of the ones who would have voted for W w/o the help might have been a mistake, but it doesn't strike you as somewhat Saddamish that you put people to watch how poor black people voted so you could help them vote "right?"

point is there will be machine involved in 2008, and across the country there will be mistake- I assume those mistakes were unintentional- the above was intentional. yes you should be bothered that the party of protecting the people does this- or maybe I made it up/

FWIW, here's the Master's Report from the Heflin challenge in District 149. Republican secretary of state, Republican reviewer, Republican county clerk, 15 Republicans in the room when they did the recount.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Yours?

Give me enough alcohol....

But there will also be nude models.

[Spanky]

Is anyone else as shocked as me that Sony put a Gaijin (foreigner) in charge of their company? I worked for a Japanese law firm in Tokyo for three years, that represented mostly Japanese companys, and my experience told me that a Japanese company would never, at least not in the near future, put a Gaijin in charge. Does anyone know if Sony's headquarters is in Tokyo? Is this guy going to be based in Japan? Does he speak Japanese?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Spanky
Is anyone else as shocked as me that Sony put a Gaijin (foreigner) in charge of their company? I worked for a Japanese law firm in Tokyo for three years, that represented mostly Japanese companys, and my experience told me that a Japanese company would never, at least not in the near future, put a Gaijin in charge. Does anyone know if Sony's headquarters is in Tokyo? Is this guy going to be based in Japan? Does he speak Japanese?

I was pretty surprised, as was the NPR commentator who told me all about it. I think he was born in the UK but has an American citizenship.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The things that you say we need don't do anything to address the problems described in Hitchens' article.

I don't have a problem with legitimate measures to prevent vote fraud. But I'm also not convinced that there is a big problem with people showing up pretending to be someone else. Hey, persuade me. And absentee ballots clearly have a risk of fraud to them, but they also are important for ensuring that people can vote.

Too often Republicans support measures purportedly aimed at vote fraud because they will also make it more difficult to vote, and because the populations whose vote is thereby suppressed most tend to vote for Democrats.

And from where I'm sitting the magnitude of the potential problems Hitchens describes vastly exceeds the sorts of problems you're talking about.

I will agree that, with Hitchens saying this, it takes on new seriousness. No, he's no hack - and what he's saying, I had discounted as the things hacks say. So, I can't anymore.

And I agree that his suggestions should be examined, and maybe followed. So, to that extent, I agree.

I was simply reacting to the undertone of your post - that the R's were unconcerned about fraud, mostly because we're winning now. Look to Wisconsin - look to the history of some of the middle states - vote fraud has been rife throughout, recently and historically. And it's been an R topic, roundly criticized as being aimed only at stopping the vote, to which, of course, the response is, yeah, we need to stop the votes that should have never been counted.

But, like I say, when Hitchens started talking about this (weeks ago), it started to sound like something to look at.