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  • #751
    Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

    It would be a nightmare to try to force everyone to vote. I suppose you could hit them with a penalty the way you do for not buying health insurance, if we want to be that heavy-handed again. But apart from a financial penalty, I don't see how you force folks to vote who, for a variety of reasons, don't want to.
    Originally posted by Priceless
    Good to see you're so reasonable.
    Originally posted by ScoobyDoo
    Very well, said.
    Originally posted by Rover
    A fair assessment Bob.

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    • #752
      Originally posted by joecct View Post
      It just occurred to me that the Soviet Union had a 90% voting rate. Draw your own conclusions.
      The Fascist Dictatorship in Australia has mandated voting. Look at how it has destroyed that country.

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      • #753
        Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

        Originally posted by bob gray View Post
        obama got it mandated you have to buy health care. Now he's interested in mandating that you vote. What's next for this guy to mandate for people? the party of reaching into your lives in every aspect they can is at it again.

        lol.

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        • #754
          Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

          Originally posted by Priceless View Post
          The Fascist Dictatorship in Australia has mandated voting. Look at how it has destroyed that country.
          That's because the sun is in the North. They get sunburned on the other side of their bodies.
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          • #755
            Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

            Originally posted by Bob Gray View Post
            With this President, who knows, he could try something like that. You heard it here first from Rover.

            Seems like you're back to your usual feisty partisan self. For a little while your postings were unexpectedly balanced and reasonable. But we're back to our regular programming.
            He must be campaigning to defend PotY.

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            • #756
              Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

              Originally posted by Rover View Post
              Those newborn twins took the edge off a little bit as I hadn't slept in 2 months. As they're sleeping longer I'M BACK BABY!
              Congrats Rover, that's awesome. The best time & energy investment you'll ever make. Trouble is it's a long-term thing, it takes 6 or 8 years before you can profitably put them to work in the salt mines.
              Huskies are very intelligent and trainable. Huskies make an excellent jogging companion, as long as it is not too hot. Grooming is minimal; bathing is normally unnecessary.
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              • #757
                Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                Originally posted by geezer View Post
                Congrats Rover, that's awesome. The best time & energy investment you'll ever make. Trouble is it's a long-term thing, it takes 6 or 8 years before you can profitably put them to work in the salt mines.
                Will the union contracts he supports allow that?

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                • #758
                  Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                  Bob, Clown, geezer - thanks guys! It was a long, looong time coming for us especially nerve wracking after we hit 40. Really the last thing I wanted to accomplish, so despite the lack of sleep and draining of funds its been great. Having kids forces you to assess things differently but I do believe they'll end up doing better than me, and will be well able to manage things with their peers in their own generation once mine departs from the scene.
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                  • #759
                    Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    It presents too much potential for people sour at the system casting a "poison" vote.
                    That's relevant. It does put a hurdle so someone has to care to vote.
                    Go Gophers!

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                    • #760
                      Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                      Do we have anyone from NH around here? This week in Republicans.

                      http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

                      Fourth graders from Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls received a warm welcome at the State House last Thursday. They and their teacher, James Cutting, were guests in the Gallery.

                      That reception quickly turned chilly as students got a glimpse of the cold, harsh realities of politics in the Granite State.

                      The idea seemed pretty straightforward. The fourth-grade class, made up of 9-and-10-year-olds from the Southeast corner of the state, worked on a proposal to make the Red Tail Hawk the official State Raptor of New Hampshire. The kids and their teacher brought their proposal to the state capitol, and it was approved by the Environment and Agriculture Committee.

                      But as the report from NH1.com’s Shari Small makes clear, on the floor of the state House, the children ran into unexpectedly fierce Republican opposition. The kids heard one GOP lawmaker argue, for example, in reference to the Red Tail Hawk, “It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”

                      Those comments, from state Rep. Warren Groen (R), were apparently the harshest of the debate, but he wasn’t alone. In fact, the Republican-led New Hampshire state House killed the proposal from the 4th graders on a 133-to-160 vote.
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                      • #761
                        Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                        If Obama forces everyone to vote, would he then support people identifying themselves with a valid ID to keep track of who has voted or who has not? But, hey, why should I expect him to make sense?
                        Originally posted by Priceless
                        Good to see you're so reasonable.
                        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo
                        Very well, said.
                        Originally posted by Rover
                        A fair assessment Bob.

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                        • #762
                          Originally posted by Bob Gray View Post
                          If Obama forces everyone to vote, would he then support people identifying themselves with a valid ID to keep track of who has voted or who has not? But, hey, why should I expect him to make sense?
                          He'll blow the trumpet and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
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                          1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

                          ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
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                          I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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                          • #763
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                            Originally posted by joecct View Post
                            He'll blow the trumpet and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.
                            And we shall be charged. Haw, haw, haw...

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                            • #764
                              Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                              I just want Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the other territories, protdctorates, and wholly-owned subsidiaries to get legit voting rights. And in the case of American Samoa, become actual citizens.

                              LWT really opened my eyes on that one.
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                              • #765
                                Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                I just want Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the other territories, protdctorates, and wholly-owned subsidiaries to get legit voting rights. And in the case of American Samoa, become actual citizens.

                                LWT really opened my eyes on that one.
                                My wife was born on Guam. You'd be amazed (or not) how small a percentage of people know that it's part of the US.
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