[talaniman]

Sorry.That was aimed at Smoothy and Speech, Clete.

[paraclete]

Sorry.That was aimed at Smoothy and Speech, Clete.

That's OK Tal but the remarks still stand, I was really pointing out in a backhand way that I doubt any of us need welfare so we should seek comments from someone who does

[talaniman]

Nobody comes here but us.

[paraclete]

Exactly, and sometimes I wonder, don't we have something else to do... oh that reminds me

[smoothy]

Hey do you realise you just found a plan to fix the budget deficit, just insist on photo ID and you have solved two problems for the price of one, how is it you didn't think of this? I know, specialisation of labour, your depatments don't talk to each other or is it your politicians don't talk to each other

I thinks it both actually.

[smoothy]

Go apply for welfare as an expose, you know, like the dufus did with acorn? See if you get food stamps and a Cadillac, and come back and tell us about it.

That guy was no dufus... he was a lot smarter than the idiots at ACORN were.

[smoothy]

Nobody comes here but us.

That's because the welfare rats are out breeding... we taxpayers will pay for their offspring after all...

[paraclete]

Perhaps they are not so much out breeding as in breeding, what you need is a breeding licence, no job no breeding

[smoothy]

Perhaps they are not so much out breeding as in breeding, what you need is a breeding licence, no job no breeding

DO that and you solve the worlds overpopulation problems as well.

[paraclete]

Maybe, like it didn't work for China

[smoothy]

If you stop handing food to people so they can continue to breed... the ones who don't work or can't feed what they've got and still have more... the problem will self correct in relatively short order..

People are a lot like rats and cockroaches... give them enough food and they will breed themselves until they are piled on top of each other... make them get their own food... and they self regulate.

[speechlesstx]

Whaddya know?

Despite voter ID law, minority turnout up in Georgia

When Georgia became one of the first states in the nation to demand a photo ID at the ballot box, both sides served up dire predictions. Opponents labeled it a Jim Crow-era tactic that would suppress the minority vote. Supporters insisted it was needed to combat fraud that imperiled the integrity of the elections process.

But both claims were overblown, according to a review of by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of statewide voting patterns in the five years since the law took effect.

Turnout among black and Hispanic voters increased from 2006 to 2010, dramatically outpacing population growth for those groups over the same period.

On the other hand, Georgia’s top elections official could not point to a single case of ballot fraud the voter ID law had prevented.

“I think the rhetoric on both sides has been overstated,” said Edward Foley, executive director of an election law center at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.

“It hasn’t had the voter-suppressing effect that some people feared,” Foley said. Conversely, he said, rhetoric about voter fraud has largely proven to be a “scare tactic” with little basis in fact.

Still, the law has had real and measurable effect for some voters: Since November 2008, the ballots of 1,586 Georgians didn’t count because of the law. (They arrived at the polls without a photo ID, cast provisional ballots, and did not return later with the required ID.) Overall, 13.6 million votes were cast in the state during the same period.

Oddly enough, "elections official could not point to a single case of ballot fraud the voter ID law had prevented." Could that have been some of those 1,586 rejected votes from folks who did not return with the required ID?

In a nutshell, minority turnout up, fraud down after voter ID. Sounds like a win-win.

[talaniman]

Well I guess you can leap to a conclusion fraud is down because some provisional voters didn't come back.

[speechlesstx]

Well I guess you can leap to a conclusion fraud is down because some provisional voters didn't come back.

At least as much as the author can leap to the conclusion that there was no fraud prevented. Fact is, no fraud and minority vote up, what's not to love?

[excon]

Hello again,

This is as good a place for this garbage as any.

Jesse Helms was an unapologetic RACIST till he died. Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas, thinks we need 100 more like him in the senate.

Wouldn't that make Ted Cruz a Racist too?

excon

[smoothy]

Obamas a racist... read the books he wrote.

[excon]

Hello again, smoothy:

I notice you don't defend Cruz. You only attack Obama. Therefore, you AGREE that Cruz IS a racist.

excon

[speechlesstx]

Hello again,

This is as good a place for this garbage as any.

Jesse Helms was an unapologetic RACIST till he died. Ted Cruz, Republican Senator from Texas, thinks we need 100 more like him in the senate.

Wouldn't that make Ted Cruz a Racist too?

excon

I guess that made John Wayne a racist, too, just like Zero hanging out with Bill Ayers makes him a terrorist.

[Wondergirl]

I guess that made John Wayne a racist, too, just like Zero hanging out with Bill Ayers makes him a terrorist.

He didn't hang out with him.

[excon]

Hello again, Steve:

I guess you could say that attending a dinner that Ayers attended, and calling for 100 Bill Ayers to be in the US Senate IS the same thing, if you were batsh!t crazy.

excon