Federal Judge Orders FL Gov. Rick Scott to Extend Voter Registration

Trying to take advantage of a natural disaster to deny voting rights
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Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott thought he could take advantage of Hurricane Matthew to disenfranchise Democratic voters in time for the presidential election, but yesterday a federal judge said “nope.”

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) last Thursday refused to extend the state’s voting registration deadline in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.

The Florida Democratic Party sued Scott after he refused to extended the Oct. 11 deadline.

The court order issued Monday sets a hearing for Wednesday morning to discuss the possibility of extending it even further.

“Other states ravished by Hurricane Matthew extended their registration deadline to protect voters,” Walker said in the 16-page order. “In fact, fifteen other states, including, for example, Iowa, even allow registration on Election Day. It is incomprehensible that Florida could not follow suit.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:20:17pm

When increased voter registration and voter participation is seen by the GOP as a net loss undertaking, what does that tell us about the party?

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nines09  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:21:30pm

Another Florida Man story. With a happy ending. They don’t even try to hide it do they?

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:25:42pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They’re still fighting against universal franchise, and they made the choice to be the losing side in 1964.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:25:45pm

Excellent news.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:26:33pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:26:35pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When increased voter registration and voter participation is seen by the GOP as a net loss undertaking, what does that tell us about that party?

The more honest ones like Paul Weyrich admitted that it’s good for them when less people vote and they don’t want people voting. Gee maybe there’s a reason why Republicans like voting restrictions.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:26:41pm

Now the people of FL who aren’t registered, need to do so!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:26:57pm

re: #3 jaunte

They’re still fighting against universal franchise, and they made the choice to be the losing side in 1964 1861.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:27:53pm

re: #6 HappyWarrior

The more honest ones like Paul Weyrich admitted that it’s good for them when less people vote and they don’t want people voting. Gee maybe there’s a reason why Republicans like voting restrictions.

They will insist that it is to reduce (imaginary) voter fraud…why should we make democracy easy for those lazy (blahs)?

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austin_blue  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:29:51pm

“That damn Democratic activist judge should be”

“He was appointed by Bush.”

<crickets>, then…”Shut up!”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:29:59pm

azcentral.com
Charles, did you see this?

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:31:24pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When increased voter registration and voter participation is seen by the GOP as a net loss undertaking, what does that tell us about that party?

The GOP must have great confidence that its ideas will appeal to voters, especially to recently registered voters.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:31:55pm

re: #11 HappyWarrior

azcentral.com
Charles, did you see this?

Arizona wanted Law and Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger. Joe Arpaio was the logical outcome, and wound up costing the taxpayers over $50 million in court costs…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:32:35pm

re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Arizona wanted Law and Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger. Joe Arpaio was the logical outcome, and wound up costing the taxpayers over $50 million in court costs…

Wonder if this is the election he finally goes down. Doesn’t look like McCain will unfortunately but Arpaio going down would be a great thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:37:05pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

Wonder if this is the election he finally goes down. Doesn’t look like McCain will unfortunately but Arpaio going down would be a great thing.

He has been a major embarrassment to the state.

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austin_blue  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:38:04pm

World cup qualifier, nil-nil, England at Slovenia, full time.

Oh, England…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:38:29pm

re: #16 austin_blue

World cup qualifier, nil-nil, England at Slovenia, full time.

Oh, England…

Go Slovenia!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:39:03pm

Today’s refrain of “They’ll Never Get Over Losing Me.”

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majii  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:39:37pm

re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Arizona wanted Law and Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger. Joe Arpaio was the logical outcome, and wound up costing the taxpayers over $50 million in court costs…”

What most concerns me is the idea that voters in Maricopa County will reelect him even though they know he’s now facing federal charges for violating an immigration order in the Melendres case. I imagine Judge G.Murray Snow is having a great day, though.

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austin_blue  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:40:02pm

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Go Slovenia!

They were the better side tonight in Ljubljana. Hit the woodwork twice.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:40:51pm

re: #20 austin_blue

They were the better side tonight in Ljubljana. Hit the woodwork twice.

Cool stuff. My mom’s dad’s parents were from there and they usually aren’t a sports powerhouse. Really want to visit some day.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:41:07pm

re: #19 majii

“Arizona wanted Law and Order writ big and Low Taxes writ even bigger. Joe Arpaio was the logical outcome, and wound up costing the taxpayers over $50 million in court costs…”

What most concerns me is the idea that voters in Maricopa County will reelect him even though they know he’s now facing federal charges for violating an immigration order in the Melendres case. I imagine Judge G.Murray Snow is having a great day, though.

He has successfully managed to portray himself as someone being politically persecuted by illegal immigrant-friendly liberals for standing up to his conservative ideals.

Oh yeah, he also started his own “cold case posse” to investigate Obama’s birth certificate.

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nines09  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:42:04pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

Wonder if this is the election he finally goes down. Doesn’t look like McCain will unfortunately but Arpaio going down would be a great thing.

McCain is running on his record as a war hero. Period. After that, it’s ALL downhill. Trump is even spitting on his sorry ass today. Bombs Away Johnny. Schmuck. You could have been somebody.

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austin_blue  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:42:33pm

re: #22 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He has successfully managed to portray himself as someone being persecuted for standing up to his conservative ideals.

He’s being persecuted because he acts like a racist fuckwit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:43:29pm

re: #23 nines09

McCain is running on his record as a war hero. Period. After that, it’s ALL downhill. Trump is even spitting on his sorry ass today. Bombs Away Johnny. Schmuck. You could have been somebody.

I even voted for him in the 2000 GOP primaries and might have considered him as an alternative to Gore. But he lost me when he took Sarah Palin on board eight years later.

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:44:39pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

Fanatics are usually bothered more by perceived apostates from their cause than by people who never believed in the first place.

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Lidane  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:45:29pm

Oh hey. Speaking of denying voter rights, look what James O’Keefe is up to these days:

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nines09  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:46:49pm

re: #25 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I even voted for him in the 2000 GOP primaries and might have considered him as an alternative to Gore. But he lost me when he took Sarah Palin on board eight years later.

And he’s never publicly apologised for that. Why would he? It’s who he is. But after King Pimp spit in his face, REPEATEDLY…..He still sits and murmurs to himself. Yep. He went off the rails with the party. And really, he could have been an advocate for the ages for Vets and minorities and all the fucked over people he says he cares for.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:46:54pm

re: #27 Lidane

Oh hey. Speaking of denying voter rights, look what James O’Keefe is up to these days:

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He still doesn’t have a real job.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:48:23pm
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lawhawk  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:48:49pm

Charles,

I’d take issue with one item above. Scott was disenfranchising all people who were trying to register to vote, D, R, or I who were thwarted as a result of the hurricane. More Democrats were likely affected due to the ongoing political race and that the state leans Democrat, but Scott’s position was antithetical to all FL residents seeking to vote in November.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:49:00pm

re: #28 nines09

And he’s never publicly apologised for that. Why would he? It’s who he is. But after King Pimp spit in his face, REPEATEDLY…..He still sits and murmurs to himself. Yep. He went off the rails with the party. And really, he could have been an advocate for the ages for Vets and minorities and all the fucked over people he says he cares for.

Yeah, going into 2008 I thought McCain while I was going to vote for the Democratic nominee was someone I respected, a decent guy but ever since he chose Palin, he’s shown himself to be a total party hack. The most maddening thing though about it all is he tries to act like he’s above party politics but he’s ultimately a huge GOP hack. He deserves to be lumped in with Trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:49:25pm

re: #27 Lidane

Oh hey. Speaking of denying voter rights, look what James O’Keefe is up to these days:

We need a goddamn mandatory national biometric photo ID for all citizens and one for all legal resident aliens.

It would cost a lot, but pay for itself in money we save on immigration control alone, not to mention reduced fraud in social services. And the voter ID issue would be over once and for all.

But I cannot imagine that we would ever get a majority to support it, there would be howls and cries from both the Right and the Left.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:50:46pm

re: #31 lawhawk

Charles,

I’d take issue with one item above. Scott was disenfranchising all people who were trying to register to vote, D, R, or I who were thwarted as a result of the hurricane. More Democrats were likely affected due to the ongoing political race and that the state leans Democrat, but Scott’s position was antithetical to all FL residents seeking to vote in November.

If the GOP thought that increased voter registration favored them rather than being neutral or negative, they would be all for extended deadlines.

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:51:38pm

re: #27 Lidane

Proponents of voter ID have failed to show that any problem exists that would be solved by stricter ID requirements.

Opponents of voter ID have shown that the stricter ID requirements are usually imposed to illegally disenfranchise people (e.g., the recent NC court decision).

Case closed.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:53:07pm

Most of the people who have been arrested for actual voter fraud have been Republicans but Republicans and conservatives continue to act like voter fraud is something happening in heavily minority and urban Democratic areas.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:54:40pm

re: #27 Lidane

Oh hey. Speaking of denying voter rights, look what James O’Keefe is up to these days:

I was actually wondering when that little shitstain was going to pop up this year. There’s a lot of competition for right-wing assholes this political season.

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nines09  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:54:51pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Trump owns him. I really do not have an answer except McCain would see his country suffer, his nation he was a POW for, before he would step out of line and lose his office because of who he has been courting. It’s really a sad story. The amazing part is the party of lip service and flag lapel pins never called Trump out on his debasement of McCain. But then again, that’s who they are. Witness Rubio. Ted. Ben. All of them. One big fucked up Cult. Trump is the culmination of all the hard work. He is the GOP.

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:55:05pm

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Most of the people who have been arrested for actual voter fraud have been Republicans but Republicans and conservatives continue to act like voter fraud is something happening in heavily minority and urban Democratic areas.

Is there anything that Republicans/conservatives do that is not a mountain of bullshit having its foundation in projection of their own pathologies?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:55:41pm

re: #39 EPR-radar

Is there anything that Republicans/conservatives do that is not a mountain of bullshit having its foundation in projection of their own pathologies?

Give me a week and I’ll get back to you.

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Anymouse  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:57:14pm

Scandal! Wikileaks Reveals Hillary Clinton to Be Reasonable (goes to the Washington Post)

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 1:58:28pm

re: #41 Anymouse

Scandal! Wikileaks Reveals Hillary Clinton to Be Reasonable (goes to the Washington Post)

They’re going to reveal one of her recipes next. That will be the true October surprise. She promised that she wouldn’t be one to bake cookies and it will be scandalous and delicious.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:01:16pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

They hate being sane.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:02:26pm
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In other words, retired Navy officer McCain literally swears like a sailor?

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:03:14pm

re: #42 HappyWarrior

They’re going to reveal one of her recipes next. That will be the true October surprise. She promised that she wouldn’t be one to bake cookies and it will be scandalous and delicious.

They already revealed Podesta’s risotto tips.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:04:03pm

re: #45 Stanley Sea

They already revealed Podesta’s risotto tips.

Game over man, game over. I’d like to get those though.

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:05:05pm

re: #38 nines09

Trump owns him. I really do not have an answer except McCain would see his country suffer, his nation he was a POW for, before he would step out of line and lose his office because of who he has been courting. It’s really a sad story. The amazing part is the party of lip service and flag lapel pins never called Trump out on his debasement of McCain. But then again, that’s who they are. Witness Rubio. Ted. Ben. All of them. One big fucked up Cult. Trump is the culmination of all the hard work. He is the GOP.

Yeah, the GOP is a fucked up cult, or at least it certainly it is now. And Donald Trump is their Rev. Jim Jones.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:05:40pm
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Lidane  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:07:03pm

OT, but this made me laugh:

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Dave In Austin  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:07:58pm

LOL!!!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:08:26pm

re: #49 Lidane

OT, but this made me laugh:

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You’ll have to excuse Mike, he wasn’t allowed to see that movie still.

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:08:56pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

So, for some reason, I just clicked through to read what ol’ Ace o’ Spades is saying these days. Granted, he was never the most stable of bloggers even back in the day, but holy shiiiiit, have they just gone completely off the deep end. Apparently, now half of the GOP are a bunch of whiny social justice warriors who are just as bad as the evil “left”.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:10:10pm

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:10:25pm

re: #50 Dave In Austin

LOL!!!

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It’s Aneurysm Time!

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:10:32pm

re: #50 Dave In Austin

LOL!!!

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Alex Jones might well drop dead of a stroke on November 9th.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:11:40pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

When increased voter registration and voter participation is seen by the GOP as a net loss undertaking, what does that tell us about the party?

This is nothing new. The Republican Party has been very active in limiting access to voting for 40 years now…. right at the time of the post-Civil Rights Movement.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:12:19pm

re: #55 Dr Lizardo

Alex Jones might well drop dead of a stroke on November 9th.

or reveal himself to be Andy Kauffman or Sasha Baron Cohen.

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nines09  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:12:46pm

THIS JUST IN FROM TRUMP ADVISOR ALEX JONES….

Seems like the steroids are working just fine..

Beat me!

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:13:36pm

re: #50 Dave In Austin

So, just to double check, that was Alex Jones in action, as opposed to some satirical comedy skit?

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:14:15pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Game over man, game over. I’d like to get those though.

Add the liquid sloooowwwwly.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:15:09pm

re: #50 Dave In Austin

Hope he pops one soon.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:16:31pm

re: #61 Nyet

Hope he pops one soon.

Can you believe he’s only 42?

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:16:35pm

re: #6 HappyWarrior

The more honest ones like Paul Weyrich admitted that it’s good for them when less people vote and they don’t want people voting. Gee maybe there’s a reason why Republicans like voting restrictions.

Or as this turd Turzai said in 2012:

Voter ID which is gonna allow Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania—done!

GOP Turzai : Voter ID allows Romney to win PA
(How’d that work out for ya fellas?)

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:16:36pm

re: #31 lawhawk

Charles,

I’d take issue with one item above. Scott was disenfranchising all people who were trying to register to vote, D, R, or I who were thwarted as a result of the hurricane. More Democrats were likely affected due to the ongoing political race and that the state leans Democrat, but Scott’s position was antithetical to all FL residents seeking to vote in November.

Yes, it affected all voters, true. But I think it’s pretty clear the main purpose of trying to block extended registration was to give Republicans an advantage, as it always is with these voter suppression efforts.

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Anymouse  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:16:38pm

I am an atheist, so I am not particularly interested in the evangelising in this article, however, Christianity Today just condemned Donald Trump in a Web-only editorial:

Speak Truth to Trump

The first page spends about half claiming they must remain neutral, then the second half slagging Hillary Clinton. The last two pages go after Donald Trump, where this line jumps out of page two:

And therefore it is completely consistent that Trump is an idolater in many other ways. He has given no evidence of humility or dependence on others, let alone on God his Maker and Judge. He wantonly celebrates strongmen and takes every opportunity to humiliate and demean the vulnerable. He shows no curiosity or capacity to learn. He is, in short, the very embodiment of what the Bible calls a fool.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:17:17pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:17:27pm

LOL

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Teukka  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:19:11pm

re: #62 HappyWarrior

Can you believe he’s only 42?

Younger than me? No way!

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:19:35pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

Today’s refrain of “They’ll Never Get Over Losing Me.”

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Whenever you post these, I feel compelled to post this:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:19:42pm
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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:20:10pm

re: #53 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:20:25pm

re: #66 jaunte

He has a samovar fetish?

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Anymouse  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:21:45pm

re: #44 De Kolta Chair

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This retired enlisted guy doesn’t “swear like a sailor.” When I was in the Navy, we slagged on the Army for that.

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KerFuFFler  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:22:31pm

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Most of the people who have been arrested for actual voter fraud have been Republicans but Republicans and conservatives continue to act like voter fraud is something happening in heavily minority and urban Democratic areas.

It’s pretty much an article of faith for them that dems commit a lot of voter fraud.

How else can you explain democrats getting elected when everyone they know votes GOP?//

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:22:44pm

Interesting thread on Trump voters as victims of a 419 scam

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:22:46pm

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:22:51pm

The average dopes who are going to vote for Donald Trump aren’t going to stage a revolution. That’s just typical wingnut couch warrior talk.

I’m more worried about the Timothy McVeigh types who might perpetrate domestic terror attacks, because those are the people Trump is really getting riled up.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:23:28pm

re: #62 HappyWarrior

Can you believe he’s only 42?

wut

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:24:04pm

re: #53 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

awesome!

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:24:11pm

OT, but if I ever run into Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham in a pub, all the rounds will be on me, though I suspect that I might have to take out a second mortgage. The man is awesome.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:24:32pm

re: #78 Nyet

wut

Yeah born 1974.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:24:38pm

re: #27 Lidane

Oh hey. Speaking of denying voter rights, look what James O’Keefe is up to these days:

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Wonder if Trump helped pay for it with his donation to Project Veritas? One article I read said it was in 2013, the other said 2015. Things that make you go hmmmm.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:25:11pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:25:30pm

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:25:33pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Yeah born 1974.

Looks at least 10 years older. Not in a good way.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:25:35pm

re: #80 De Kolta Chair

OT, but if I ever run into Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham in a pub, all the rounds will be on me, though I suspect that I might have to take out a second mortgage. He’s awesome.

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I’ve seen Liam in a couple other movies. Good character actor.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:26:03pm

re: #85 Nyet

Looks at least 10 years older. Not in a good way.

I know. All that raging can’t be healthy.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:26:40pm

re: #84 Dave In Austin

Someone swiped Ukraine’s seal.

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:27:12pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Too funny. GOP base voters are supposed to think that, but not to say it out loud.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:28:04pm
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That’s a perennial problem with the far-left. So many of them also sympathized with the USSR, even during Stalin’s time (and I’m not counting the war period, when it was excusable).

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:28:31pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He riled them up with his further answer.

This is insane.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:29:12pm

re: #90 Nyet

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That’s a perennial problem with the far-left. So many of them also sympathized with the USSR, even during the Stalin’s time (and I’m not counting the war period, when it was excusable).

The far left has a bad habit of thinking that if the mainstream left as well right is against someone then they must be alright. It was what was behind a lot of far lefties supporting Chavez in the Bush years.

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Sir John Barron  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:32:35pm

re: #62 HappyWarrior

Can you believe he’s only 42?

Looks 52. Hate’ll do that to you.

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jaunte  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:32:57pm

Republican politicians with no integrity encouraging people to believe our elections have no integrity.

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Sir John Barron  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:33:31pm

re: #91 Stanley Sea

He riled them up with his further answer.

This is insane.

But but but Rule of Law!!!!
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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:34:16pm

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Most of the people who have been arrested for actual voter fraud have been Republicans but Republicans and conservatives continue to act like voter fraud is something happening in heavily minority and urban Democratic areas.

And zombies! Don’t forget the zombies! (That’s my state rep Alan Clemmons—sigh)
18 Months Later, S.C. Law Enforcement Closes Case on ‘Zombie Voters,’ Finds No Fraud

Horry County Republican Rep. Alan Clemmons, who took much interest in the dead voter drama, proclaimed gravely in another hearing, “We must have certainty in South Carolina that zombies aren’t voting.”

free-times.com

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:36:14pm

re: #96 BeachDem

And zombies! Don’t forget the zombies! (That’s my state rep Alan Clemmons—sigh)
18 Months Later, S.C. Law Enforcement Closes Case on ‘Zombie Voters,’ Finds No Fraud

Jesus.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:37:00pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

I’ve seen Liam in a couple other movies. Good character actor.

I was a fan of his work on GOT for quite a while until I realized I’d already been a fan for years but hadn’t recognized him with the beard.

Judging by his tweets he’s a very progressive cat.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:37:09pm

re: #98 gocart mozart

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:37:24pm

re: #60 Stanley Sea

Add the liquid sloooowwwwly.

And Podesta explains why, as well. I want to eat at his house.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:37:25pm

re: #45 Stanley Sea

They already revealed Podesta’s risotto tips.

Does your dad have power yet? Mine came on this morning about 10 o’clock. Yay.

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plansbandc  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:37:39pm

re: #62 HappyWarrior

He looks to be late fifties at least. Psychotic paranoia ages a person, it seems.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:38:19pm

re: #100 De Kolta Chair

I was a fan of his work on GOT for quite a while until I realized I’d already been a fan for years but didn’t recognize him with the beard.

What did you see him in? I liked him in The Guard and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:38:45pm

[paranoid mode on]
What if Putin has a tape of Trump doing really bad things?
[off]

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:39:13pm

re: #103 BeachDem

Does your dad have power yet? Mine came on this morning about 10 o’clock. Yay.

Haven’t called him. He was supposed to call when it came back on…..

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:39:41pm

re: #53 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

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I will be there for the Cake Wars! (or I will catch it online, as I have to be up at 4 am October 25 for work)

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:40:18pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

Haven’t called him. He was supposed to call when it came back on…..

Just got his VM. So maybe not,

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:41:24pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:43:48pm

re: #105 HappyWarrior

What did you see him in? I liked him in The Guard and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

I’m not a big Ken Loach fan (way too many dated cliches for my taste, but that might just be the nature of ideological films), but I do like a few things about that one, particularly Cunningham’s performance. One of my best friends is a Ken Loach fan and we talk about that movie all the time. ;-)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:44:07pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

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Decatur Deb  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:44:22pm

re: #110 Charles Johnson

Exclusive: Trump campaign CEO wanted to destroy Ryan

Just when I thought there was nothing we could agree on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:45:00pm

*thud*

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:45:47pm

re: #91 Stanley Sea

He riled them up with his further answer.

This is insane.

Paraphrasing Pence’s reply, with a few comments added:

Don’t say that (Jesus lady, you’re sounding like a freak and we can’t have that). Time to blather about the sacred right to vote (for white, male, straight Christian property owners).

OK, Bullet dodged. Now its time to give these yokels some red meat, and encourage them to sign up as poll watchers (like that will ever happen. someone on social media all day every day isn’t about to do anything resembling work. Good. These freaks are bad for the GOP’s image.)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:50:39pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

*thud*

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You know, there’s something that really bothers me about the shit I’m hearing from Trump apologists. Well, really, there’s practically nothing beyond the indefinite articles that DOESN’T bother me about it, but what I’m referring to right now is this excuse:

“Well, when he said that, he wasn’t running for office.”

Oh, so you mean that he hadn’t learned yet that bragging about committing sexual assault with impunity is not really the done thing? So, anything he said, before he decided he had to hide his real self from the public, doesn’t count? What kind of bullshit argument is THAT?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:51:11pm

re: #105 HappyWarrior

What did you see him in? I liked him in The Guard and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

Just several Irish and British projects over the years. Not a big part, but he made quite an impression in Irish writer/director John Michael McDonagh’s very original 2011 fish out of water comedy The Guard, which starred Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson, both superb.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:51:57pm

re: #106 Nyet

[paranoid mode on]
What if Putin has a tape of Trump doing really bad things?
[off]

Speaking of paranoia—can’t remember if somebody here recommend it or I found it on my own, but I’ve been reading “Tales of Tinfoil:Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy” and it’s quite interesting:

We’ve all heard the theories: the moon landing was fake; Elvis still lives; the CIA is secretly behind… well, pretty much everything. In this sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always irreverent short story collection, today’s top authors spin their own imaginative tales around the theories you know (and some you don’t). Explore the JFK assassination, Area 51, the moon landing, the surveillance state. Meet a French spy posing as Abraham Lincoln, play a video game designed by the CIA, watch “Suicide Mickey.” Learn the truth about Adolf Hitler and Elvis Presley. Did any of this really happen? Probably not. But you never know…

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KingKenrod  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:52:32pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

*thud*

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I also saw this tweet earlier today, something I never heard before: Trump once suggested Tyson should be able to buy his way out of jail.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:52:40pm

re: #120 De Kolta Chair

Just several Irish and British projects over the years. Not a big part, but he made quite an impression in Irish writer/director John Michael McDonagh’s very original 2011 fish out of water comedy The Guard, which starred Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson.

I loved the one bit between him and Mark Strong about Bertrand Russell and the Welsh.

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piratedan  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:53:02pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

seems pretty obvious that the media members that “sniff” at Clinton’s deplorable comments have never ventured into a Breitbart comment thread or even bothered to read anything from a local paper Op-Ed page commentary section.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:54:20pm

re: #121 BeachDem

Speaking of paranoia—can’t remember if somebody here recommend it or I found it on my own, but I’ve been reading “Tales of Tinfoil:Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy” and it’s quite interesting:

Might have been me. It was free Kindle book back in August last year and I mentioned it here at LGF.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:54:34pm

re: #109 Stanley Seis la

Just got his VM. So maybe not,

Ugh—bummer. It seems they’re making progress—some people who were told it would be Friday before they got power got it this morning. I think MB lost half of its foliage. There are trees down everywhere, and every street seems to be lined with limbs and branches by the curb.

Haven’t been down to see what the piers look like, but there sure is a lot of mess around.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:54:44pm

re: #124 piratedan

seems pretty obvious that the media members that “sniff” at Clinton’s deplorable comments have never ventured into a Breitbart comment thread or even bothered to read anything from a local paper Op-Ed page commentary section.

Yeah. Jesus, “deplorable” is being exceptionally nice about it!

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:55:33pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

It’s like he doesn’t understand how or why “never read the comments” became an internet rule in the first place.

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FormerDirtDart  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:55:47pm

Not much specific info at tweet link…

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The poll released on Tuesday showed Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had increased her lead over Trump, the Republican nominee, to 8 percentage points on Monday from 5 points last week.

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:55:56pm

re: #124 piratedan

seems pretty obvious that the media members that “sniff” at Clinton’s deplorable comments have never ventured into a Breitbart comment thread or even bothered to read anything from a local paper Op-Ed page commentary section.

Or they have, but discard that information because it doesn’t fit with the narrative they want to push that day. Either possibility is a dereliction of duty for a media professional.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:56:27pm

re: #122 KingKenrod

I also saw this tweet earlier today, something I never heard before: Trump once suggested Tyson should be able to buy his way out of jail.

Yeesh, I remember that. There was no excuse for the press to forget about it.

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KingKenrod  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:57:07pm

re: #130 FormerDirtDart

Love that photo!

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:57:31pm

re: #128 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. Jesus, “deplorable” is being exceptionally nice about it!

As well as it only being the half of them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:57:40pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Ugh—bummer. It seems they’re making progress—some people who were told it would be Friday before they got power got it this morning. I think MB lost half of its foliage. There are trees down everywhere, and every street seems to be lined with limbs and branches by the curb.

Haven’t been down to see what the piers look like, but there sure is a lot of mess around.

In NC a major problem is all the flooding so the guys can’t get to a lots of places to fix things. A lot of major transmission lines and substations were also taken out and until those are repaired it doesn’t matter how many broken poles and regular lines are replaced.
I’m not expecting MrBWS home for at least another week or so.

:(

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:58:11pm

re: #133 KingKenrod

Love that photo!

“Please, proceed.”

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EPR-radar  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:58:15pm

re: #128 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. Jesus, “deplorable” is being exceptionally nice about it!

Truth telling often doesn’t work well in US politics. Obama’s comments about people clinging bitterly to their guns and religion were true, but didn’t work well. Similarly for Hillary Clintons ‘deplorables’ statement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:59:14pm

re: #130 FormerDirtDart

Not much specific info at tweet link…

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 2:59:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:00:32pm

re: #139 Charles Johnson

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:00:37pm

re: #137 EPR-radar

Truth telling often doesn’t work well in US politics. Obama’s comments about people clinging bitterly to their guns and religion were true, but didn’t work well. Similarly for Hillary Clintons ‘deplorables’ statement.

The gun clinging comment was another example of how the so called anti PC right is PC as hell when they’re being talked about. Deplorables too.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:00:42pm

re: #126 Charles Johnson

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Okay, so since the Primaries ended, we’ve seen a bit of to-and-fro in the polls, with the gap shrinking to near zero (immediately post-pneumonia), and expanding to double digits (post-Dem Convention, last weekend)

But as I understand it, essentially the closer you get to the election, the more hardened peoples’ choices become. Thus, the closer it gets, the less it’s likely to change, outside of extreme events, which I’d argue Trump is currently managing to engineer against himself.

I find this comforting, and in many ways Trump’s descent into madness clearly makes it ever less likely he can recover. But it also makes the prospect of the Black Swan Event all that more frightening.

This is not a good election for those of us with unmedicated anxiety disorders!

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:01:20pm

re: #73 Anymouse

This retired enlisted guy doesn’t “swear like a sailor.” When I was in the Navy, we slagged on the Army for that.

Good thing you weren’t in the Air Force, or you’d still be neck-deep in manuals explaining the nomenclature.

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:01:22pm

re: #127 BeachDem

Ugh—bummer. It seems they’re making progress—some people who were told it would be Friday before they got power got it this morning. I think MB lost half of its foliage. There are trees down everywhere, and every street seems to be lined with limbs and branches by the curb.

Haven’t been down to see what the piers look like, but there sure is a lot of mess around.

What happened to my name in that reply?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:01:31pm

Trump is GOING DOWN, folks.

Jeff Beck Group - Going Down

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451_Montag  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:01:56pm

re: #121 BeachDem

Speaking of paranoia—can’t remember if somebody here recommend it or I found it on my own, but I’ve been reading “Tales of Tinfoil:Stories of Paranoia and Conspiracy” and it’s quite interesting:

If you fancy a good read try “Them” byJon Ronson. He meets with extreme characters, including Alex Jones. Also a British jihadist and David Ike.

Eye opening and just a bit scary.
He also wrote “Men who stare at goats”. Witty writer and a Frank Sidebottom fan.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:02:16pm

re: #134 Nyet

As well as it only being the half of them.

Like I’ve said - if you support Trump, you’re either an open racist; you’re okay with open racism; or you’re a “Not A Racist, But…”

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:02:19pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

Might have been me. It was free Kindle back in August last year and I mentioned it here at LGF.

Have you read it yet? I’m enjoying it—about 1/2way through—so far my favorites are the JFK and the moon landing stories.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:03:27pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

Might have been me. It was free Kindle back in August last year and I mentioned it here at LGF.

Just checked and I also got it in August of last year—just hadn’t read it yet.

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:04:22pm

re: #139 Charles Johnson

538 has Clinton’s chances of winning Florida and Nevada each near 75% in the Nowcast. They also have her winning Arizona (51%) and Iowa (55.8%). Next states up are Alaska at 31%, Georgia at 27.6%, Missouri at 19.2%, South Dakota at 18.7%, Montana and South Carolina at 12% (and change), and Texas at 10.4%.

The Polls-only forcast moves Arizona back into Trump’s category, but that’s about the only significant change.

What a world we’re living in, where Arizona is a swing state.

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:04:30pm

re: #139 Charles Johnson

Fox is crap, but that team seems reasonable enough (also from 2012).

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Decatur Deb  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:05:15pm

re: #143 De Kolta Chair

Good thing you weren’t in the Air Force, or you’d still be neck-deep in manuals explaining the nomenclature.

There are Army terms the USAF never understood—just treat them as a Black Box.

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Bass Reeves  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:06:35pm

I had a very frustrating conversation with one of my little brother’s colleagues. He actually wrote the phrase ‘I don’t care if the source is credible or not, I care about what the source says’. He views the Russian angle as a distraction.

He’s a Berniebro turning towards Jill. We won’t get past this, America.

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:06:46pm

re: #144 Stanley Sea

What happened to my name in that reply?

Hey Charles - see BD’s 127 reply

My screen name is…..odd

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:06:54pm

re: #155 Blind Frog Belly White

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:07:25pm

re: #145 Charles Johnson

Trump is GOING DOWN, folks.

And it’s a beautiful thing.

Btw, I do believe that’s Bobby Tench sitting in with the band. Good player, that Bobby.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:08:07pm

re: #156 Bass Reeves

I had a very frustrating conversation with one of my little brother’s colleagues. He actually wrote the phrase ‘I don’t care if the source is credible or not, I care about what the source says’. He views the Russian angle as a distraction.

He’s a Berniebro turning towards Jill. We won’t get past this, America.

It should trouble people that a foreign state is trying to influence our election.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:08:09pm

re: #154 Decatur Deb

There are Army terms the USAF never understood—just treat them as a Black Box.

;-[)

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:08:11pm

re: #157 Stanley Sea

Stanley La Isla Bonita :)

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Cheechako  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:10:21pm

re: #158 HappyWarrior

Rush doesn’t want to win either.

You’re right. Hillary winning is money in the bank for Rush, Lumpy, etc.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:10:53pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

In NC a major problem is all the flooding so the guys can’t get to a lots of places to fix things. A lot of major transmission lines and substations were also taken out and until those are repaired it doesn’t matter how many broken poles and regular lines are replaced.
I’m not expecting MrBWS home for at least another week or so.

:(

Yeah—the flooding caused some real problems here as well, ironically more so inland than at the shore. Sorry you have to be without Mr. BWS, but I know there are a shit-ton of people who are really thankful he’s where he is, doing what he’s doing.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:11:06pm

re: #157 Stanley Sea

Hey Charles - see BD’s 127 reply

My screen name is…..odd

Looks like an editing mishap.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:11:19pm

re: #144 Stanley Sea

What happened to my name in that reply?

It’s yer sekrit code name.

Shhh…mum’s teh word…

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:12:16pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

It should trouble people that a foreign state is trying to influence our election.

And one candidate is trying to his hardest to illlegitimize the outcome of it at the same time.

They want to burn it down.

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KGxvi  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:12:24pm

re: #158 HappyWarrior

Rush doesn’t want to win either.

I vaguely recall him admitting on the air once that his job is easier/more fun when Democrats win because he just gets to sit back and throw bombs. Whereas when the Republicans are in control he has to defend shit that they do, even if he disagrees with it. In a parliamentarian sense, this is the advantage of being the opposition.

Granted, I’ve been hearing since I was in high school that the break up of the Republican Party was imminent, but I am starting to wonder if it is really happening this time. And if so, how things play out from here.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:12:30pm

re: #123 HappyWarrior

I loved the one bit between him and Mark Strong about Bertrand Russell and the Welsh.

God yes. Too funny.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:13:05pm

re: #169 KGxvi

I vaguely recall him admitting on the air once that his job is easier/more fun when Democrats win because he just gets to sit back and throw bombs. Whereas when the Republicans are in control he has to defend shit that they do, even if he disagrees with it. In a parliamentarian sense, this is the advantage of being the opposition.

Granted, I’ve been hearing since I was in high school that the break up of the Republican Party was imminent, but I am starting to wonder if it is really happening this time. And if so, how things play out from here.

Surprised he admitted it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:13:41pm

re: #150 BeachDem

Have you read it yet? I’m enjoying it—about 1/2way through—so far my favorites are the JFK and the moon landing stories.

yes…it’s a lot of fun!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:17:58pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

That’s just like a horrible 80s wrestling promo.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:18:42pm

re: #156 Bass Reeves

I had a very frustrating conversation with one of my little brother’s colleagues. He actually wrote the phrase ‘I don’t care if the source is credible or not, I care about what the source says’. He views the Russian angle as a distraction.

He’s a Berniebro turning towards Jill. We won’t get past this, America.

my sincere condolences.

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Anymouse  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:19:04pm

re: #169 KGxvi

I vaguely recall him admitting on the air once that his job is easier/more fun when Democrats win because he just gets to sit back and throw bombs. Whereas when the Republicans are in control he has to defend shit that they do, even if he disagrees with it. In a parliamentarian sense, this is the advantage of being the opposition.

Granted, I’ve been hearing since I was in high school that the break up of the Republican Party was imminent, but I am starting to wonder if it is really happening this time. And if so, how things play out from here.

The nation has endured the breakup of five distinct party systems. It will endure the GOP breakup if it occurs. Eventually, another party will form (or the GOP will reform), or one of the existing third parties (most likely the Libertarian Party since they already exist in all fifty states) will take over as the opposition.

If you are interested in each of the party systems and why they arose and subsequently broke up, you can start at Wikipedia with the First Party System:

en.wikipedia.org

and go through each of the articles to our present, the Sixth Party System.

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:19:22pm

News from Lubbock, horse thieves caught, police firing range closed after ADs.

Refuge Services Barn Finds Their Five Stolen Horses With The Help Of Facebook Teen-age pissants caught riding stolen horses in the middle of town in the middle of the night. Riders arrested, horses returned. Horses have chipped hooves, they were unshod and these morons rode them several miles on asphalt.

Lubbock Police Department Addresses Recent “Negligent Firearm Discharges” at Firing Range
Summary: Two accidental discharges in recent weeks, range temporarily closed.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:19:57pm

re: #144 Stanley Sea

What happened to my name in that reply?

I don’t know—I might have hit a key that put some letters up in your name (happens a lot on my laptop)—sorry, but I kinda like Stanley Seis la—(kind of Simon Says-ee)

I know I’m rambling on this thread, but it’s like I’ve been in a 3-1/2 day time-out and finally free!

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Nyet  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:20:14pm

re: #167 Charles Johnson

Those hands tho.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:20:57pm

re: #156 Bass Reeves

I had a very frustrating conversation with one of my little brother’s colleagues. He actually wrote the phrase ‘I don’t care if the source is credible or not, I care about what the source says’. He views the Russian angle as a distraction.

He’s a Berniebro turning towards Jill. We won’t get past this, America.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:21:09pm

re: #164 BeachDem

Yeah—the flooding caused some real problems here as well, ironically more so inland than at the shore. Sorry you have to be without Mr. BWS, but I know there are a shit-ton of people who are really thankful he’s where he is, doing what he’s doing.

Well, he finally got a motel room and it had free laundry facilities. The guys have been sleeping in their trucks because “no room at the inn” and all his stuff got soaked because they were stuck in an active hurricane surrounded by floods for two freaking days.

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Belafon  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:22:34pm

re: #175 Anymouse

The nation has endured the breakup of five distinct party systems. It will endure the GOP breakup if it occurs. Eventually, another party will form (or the GOP will reform), or one of the existing third parties (most likely the Libertarian Party since they already exist in all fifty states) will take over as the opposition.

If you are interested in each of the party systems and why they arose and subsequently broke up, you can start at Wikipedia with the First Party System:

en.wikipedia.org

and go through each of the articles to our present, the Sixth Party System.

Two things have kept the current version of the GOP going well beyond their sell by date: Citizens United and gerrymandering. The party has been in power for longer than it should be. It should be wondering through the wilderness, trying to figure out how it wants to be structured to work in the 21st century.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:23:44pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

It should trouble people that a foreign state is trying to influence our election.

That’s not unexpected. What should really be troubling is the willingness of one campaign to embrace that attempt. It should be doubly troubling that the party is the Republican Party, which for decades saw Russia - even post-Soviet Russia - as a dangerous potential adversary.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:25:02pm

re: #80 De Kolta Chair

Liam Cunningham was also a Soviet Submarine Captain in the Doctor Who episode, Cold War.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:25:54pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

Looks like an editing mishap.

Thank you for calling it an editing mishap rather than a “Beach Dem doesn’t know how to type on her laptop” mishap.

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Maxwell Not So Smart  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:26:09pm

OT just thinking how Trump used to say he was going to self fund his presidential bid. At this point where the party has walked on him I’m wondering how much if any of his own money he spent on his run so far?

I’d be willing to bet if checking was done he has used campaign money to pay for the use of his own jet, taken money for all sort of personal use etc etc etc. Just saying.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:27:09pm

re: #182 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s not unexpected. What should really be troubling is the willingness of one campaign to embrace that attempt. It should be doubly troubling that the party is the Republican Party, which for decades saw Russia - even post-Soviet Russia - as a dangerous potential adversary.

The same party that invited Bibi to address Congress for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass President Obama.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:27:52pm

A couple I know who have a weekend place in upstate New York state northwest of the Catskills (don’t you hate them already?) report that the Trump lawn signs that flourished in their area during the summer have diminished into a handful. “Their houses look embarrassed,” says my poetic buddy Pam.

Not that NY won’t go Hillary in a landslide, but it’s a telling bit o’ political trivia.

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makeitstop  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:28:16pm

Trump to Apollo Theater: Hey, can I do a rally there?
Apollo Theater: Nope.

Sources close to those discussions — or lack of — tell Confidential that at one point recently, Trump’s team had been reaching out “every day,” but thus far, all he has to show for it are the tears of a clown.

“They don’t want him there,” says one insider familiar with The Donald’s dealings with the 102-year-old concert hall, which became the Apollo in 1934.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:29:06pm

re: #186 Maxwell Not So Smart

OT just thinking how Trump used to say he was going to self fund his presidential bid. At this point where the party has walked on him I’m wondering how much if any of his own money he spent on his run so far?

I’d be willing to bet if checking was done he has used campaign money to pay for the use of his own jet, taken money for all sort of personal use etc etc etc. Just saying.

Yesterday he told a rally that he has already spent $100 million of his own money.

BWAHAHAAAAAA

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:30:21pm

re: #156 Bass Reeves

I had a very frustrating conversation with one of my little brother’s colleagues. He actually wrote the phrase ‘I don’t care if the source is credible or not, I care about what the source says’. He views the Russian angle as a distraction.

He’s a Berniebro turning towards Jill. We won’t get past this, America.

My very Republican dental hygienist, who hates Hillary (the Clintonssss) but really can’t wrap her head around Trump, said she’s going to “Let God decide.” I just inwardly shook my head and rolled my eyes. She had sharp instruments near my face, so I didn’t want to rile her up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:30:38pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

The same party that invited Bibi to address Congress for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass President Obama.

And sent a letter to the Iranian Government telling them our word is not to be trusted.

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:31:24pm

Old news kind of but I missed this clip & it succinctly describes how Trump reacted to Hillary at the town hall. I recommend you watch.

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Skip Intro  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:33:07pm

re: #169 KGxvi

How much easier does his job have to be? He hasn’t come up with any new material in decades. His entire show could consist of bits from the past decade and no one would be the wiser.

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BeachDem  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:33:51pm

re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, he finally got a motel room and it had free laundry facilities. The guys have been sleeping in their trucks because “no room at the inn” and all his stuff got soaked because they were stuck in an active hurricane surrounded by floods for two freaking days.

Dayum—isn’t this where we came in, you and I?

If they move them down my way, let me know and I’ll make certain they have nice accommodations.

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Stanley Sea  Oct 11, 2016 • 3:34:41pm

haha, I got CL’d


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