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IDs to vote? Racist poll taxes meant to disenfranchise minority voters who can’t figure out where to have a picture ID taken (but CAN figure out how to get to the polling place and vote for Democrats)

Whereas, IDs for chickens? Mandatory.

No word yet on whether Justice plans to bring suit against the Agriculture Department for their outrageous, anachronistic chicken racism — or will instead just keep quiet and thank the lord for Chic-fil-A like the rest of us.

70 Replies to “IDs to vote? Racist poll taxes meant to disenfranchise minority voters who can’t figure out where to have a picture ID taken (but CAN figure out how to get to the polling place and vote for Democrats)”

  1. B Moe says:

    Government officials have not said whether they would check animals for identification at traffic stops.

    Nice.

  2. maggie katzen says:

    it’d be funnier if you said “cross the road and vote for Democrats”

    cause I’m hacky like that.

  3. McGehee says:

    Thing about getting them to the polls is, the unions send around vans to haul them to the polls.

    Though the chickens probably shouldn’t get on the van if there’s a Holstein driving it.

  4. sdferr says:

    Weren’t there occasional congressional Democrat sponsored moves to institute National I.D. cards back in the seventies and maybe early eighties, opposed by the Republicans at the time? We need to keep tabs on people, said the Dems. That’s too goddamn BigBrotherish, said the Repubs. But I don’t recall anyone among the Democrats suggesting the soul-whithering rights denying difficulty of obtaining a card as an obstacle to the imposition.

  5. leigh says:

    That was different, sdferr. Just ask them.

  6. motionview says:

    I have legitimate reasons for not wanting to go in and get an ID, even if it’s free. There’s those old parking tickets. That judgement I blew off. The student loan for that one semester of truck driving school. Maybe a little child support here and there. And there. And there. And of course my lifestyle choice of active criminality.

  7. McGehee says:

    I don’t want to get a photo ID because repairing those photographers’ cameras can be pretty damned expensive.

  8. geoffb says:

    Memories of ID past. However we do have a National ID card, it just hasn’t been fully implemented yet.

  9. William says:

    I don’t want to get an ID because I hear it steals your soul, and my soul belongs to Obama

  10. LBascom says:

    It’s just weird they demand all kinds of ID for all kinds of things, a license to drive, passports to cross the border, social security number on your tax return, some form of official ID to buy all sorts of restricted items, yet it’s a outrage to require proof of ID to vote.

    It’s so obvious they only object because they want to cheat.

  11. Jeff G. says:

    Never get a photo ID. Or post a photo of yourself to this site. It’s demoralizing.

  12. leigh says:

    What about all of the student IDs floating around out there? How are you supposed t get handy discounts at the movie theatre and the like? Not to mention trying to get into your dorm building, buy textbooks or register for classes.

    And Jeff, I have your Polaroids. Shall I mail them back regular mail or overnight them?

  13. John Bradley says:

    I have legitimate reasons for not wanting to go in and get an ID, even if it’s free. There’s those old parking tickets. That judgement I blew off. The student loan for that one semester of truck driving school. Maybe a little child support here and there. And there. And there. And of course my lifestyle choice of active criminality.

    Hell, I never even wanted to vote! The whole “not being able to vote” thing seemed a small price to pay to not live under the ever-present fear of jury duty. Still does. ‘Cept about ten years ago some dipshit Democrats pushed through an idiotic “if you have a driver’s license, you’re now registered to vote – isn’t that great!” law.

    I’ve thanked them by voting against them at every opportunity ever since. Assholes.

  14. BigBangHunter says:

    – I’d be ok with pets voting as long as they have their AKC papers.

  15. BigBangHunter says:

    – Offer a free baggie of blow when they get their ID’s and I bet the whole issue would go away.

    – And you’re exaggerating McGehee. I know that photog, and he only ruined one computer and a Cannon L lense doing your photo shoot.

  16. McGehee says:

    Sure, doing the shoot. It’s what happened afterward that got pricey.

  17. sdferr says:

    J Christian Adams on the ‘clown show’ and the probable outcome of the Texas case.

  18. Swen says:

    Jeff G. says July 14, 2012 at 11:45 am
    Never get a photo ID. Or post a photo of yourself to this site. It’s demoralizing.

    And it hurts our eyes….

    But seriously, you’ve got to show ID to buy a 40 of Olde English with your EBT card, so what’s the problem?

  19. LBascom says:

    But seriously, you’ve got to show ID to buy a 40 of Olde English with your EBT card, so what’s the problem?

    The problem is, we have to show ID to buy a 40.

    Even though we’re obviously in our advanced in years, like, say, Jeff. Who doesn’t even bother to color all that grey hair.

    And then to be asked for your license, to satisfy a computer program totally unable to distinguish between individuals, intended to comply with a law tailored to not justice, but to social justice.

    It’s the same mentality that has the TSA nuking your genitals ‘cuz of the terrotists…

  20. cranky-d says:

    I see what you did there.

  21. LBascom says:

    = )

  22. LBascom says:

    I feel bad for all the Polish jokes I laughed at as a lad.

    Turns out, they’re the most sensible on the continent.

  23. serr8d says:

    Turns out, they’re the most sensible on the continent.

    I doubt they’ll charge tanks with cavalry anymore, that’s for sure.

  24. sdferr says:

    The Obama administration had for months denied Florida’s request but relented after a judge ruled in the state’s favor in a related voter-purge matter.

  25. newrouter says:

    baracky be projecting today

    And on their side, they’ve got a basic theory about how you grow the economy. And the theory is very simple: They think that the economy grows from the top down.

    link

  26. McGehee says:

    The next paycheck I get that’s signed by a poor man, will be the first.

  27. Pablo says:

    And the theory is very simple: They think that the economy grows from the top down.

    And your counter-argument is that the economy grows from the government. Because you’re fucking stupid. And, you couldn’t find “the top” with both hands and a flashlight, despite you being it. SCOAMF.

  28. leigh says:

    Buh-rock hasn’t a fucking clue about how to grow the economy. If you can stand to listen to his speechifying in Roanoke today, he contradicts himself several times. He knows as much about economics as my black lab.

  29. McGehee says:

    Leigh, I suspect your black Lab knows at least twice as much about economics as Obama does. Unlike SCOAMFOTUS, your black Lab didn’t go to college to unlearn what God hard-wired into every higher vertebrate’s head.

  30. Pablo says:

    What about all of the student IDs floating around out there? How are you supposed t get handy discounts at the movie theatre and the like?

    No, no, no, no, no. Student ID doesn’t work. It doesn’t say where you live. All sorts of hijinks ensue from that. College towns hardest hit.

    There’s a meme they’re running on Texas that goes “Hey, you’ll take a gun license but not a student ID? RAAAAACISTS!”

    Fuck that noise. Vote where you live, not where you’re visiting for school. That’s what absentee ballots are for. Your CCW permit shows where you live. Your student ID doesn’t.

  31. sdferr says:

    * Jihadi units that Mr Fares himself had helped Damascus send to fight US troops in neighbouring Iraq were involved in the string of deadly suicide bomb attacks in Syria

    * The attacks were carried on the direct orders of the Assad regime, in the hope that it could blame them on the rebel movement.
    […]

    Mr Fares’s most damaging allegation is that the Syrian government itself has a hand in the nationwide wave of suicide bombings on government buildings, which have killed hundreds of people and maimed thousands more. By way of example, he cited the twin blasts outside a military intelligence building in the al-Qazzaz suburb of Damascus in May, which killed 55 people and injured another 370.

    “I know for certain that not a single serving intelligence official was harmed during that explosion, as the whole office had been evacuated 15 minutes beforehand,” he said. “All the victims were passers by instead. All these major explosions have been have been perpetrated by al-Qaeda through cooperation with the security forces.”
    […]

    “After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the regime in Syria began to feel danger, and began planning to disrupt the US forces inside Iraq, so it formed an alliance with al-Qaeda,” he said. “All Arabs and other foreigners were encouraged to go to Iraq via Syria, and their movements were facilitated by the Syrian government. As a governor at the time, I was given verbal commandments that any civil servant that wanted to go would have his trip facilitated, and that his absence would not be noted. I believe the Syrian regime has blood on its hands, it should bare responsibility for many of the deaths in Iraq.”

  32. serr8d says:

    Just got my new voter registration card today. Explicit instructions explain that a government photo ID is required (TDL with Voter’s photo, U.S. Passport, Department of Safety Photo ID Card, State or Federal employee Photo ID Card, Any Photo ID issued by the federal or state government, U.S. Military Photo ID card (and my favorite, the one I’ll use) Handgun Carry Permit with Voter’s ID).

    Of course, since Tennessee is all but guaranteed in Romney’s column, there’s no real fight amongst the cheaters and Democrats (but I repeat myself) to change our requirements.

  33. sdferr says:

    Former Sec-State would be disastrous veep choice.”

  34. leigh says:

    McGehee, my black Lab does understand that rewards are tied to performance. If she doesn’t sit before I open the door, she doesn’t get to go out until she does sit. If she comes back when I call her she gets a treat.

    The Wonce seems never to have learned that and heads straight for the treats while leaving his room a big mess.

  35. leigh says:

    bare responsibility ?

    Could lead to stoning.

  36. Pablo says:

    Fascinating yet unsurprising stuff, sdferr. Say, whatever happened to Saddam’s WMD’s anyway?

    We live in extremely interesting times.

  37. newrouter says:

    “Former Sec-State would be disastrous veep choice.”

    give it a week that “idea” will go away

  38. newrouter says:

    i think the condi thing was using a “real” black to attack a harvard “black” – hi fauxchohontas

  39. sdferr says:

    An American president with the tiniest concern for justice would be seeking to annihilate Bashar Assad. As it is, we’ve an un-American president who couldn’t care less about the suffering of Iraqis and Americans in Iraq from 2003 – 2010, who practically applauds Assad’s treacheries.

  40. newrouter says:

    the tiniest concern for justice would be seeking to annihilate Bashar Assad.

    when you bow to the saudi king funny stuff happens

  41. Pablo says:

    As it is, we’ve an un-American president who couldn’t care less about the suffering of Iraqis and Americans in Iraq from 2003 – 2010…

    Au contraire, he delights in it. It’s a lot of what got him elected, after all. Syria is merely a distraction from the hopenchange.

  42. sdferr says:

    He doesn’t bow to Mittens: “New Obama campaign ad mocks Romney’s call for an apology”.

  43. newrouter says:

    baracky be the the Stepin Fetchit for the trans national proggtards

  44. leigh says:

    Stepin Fetchit was actually a clever guy, nr. Don’t malign beloved stereotypes lke that by comparing them to the Wonce.

  45. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Never get a photo ID. Or post a photo of yourself to this site. It’s demoralizing.

    Huh. I sort of assumed you looked like Malcolm McDowell. And here I find out it’s Roddy you resemble.

  46. leigh says:

    That was mean, Ernst. Hilarious but mean.

  47. newrouter says:

    Don’t malign beloved stereotypes lke that by comparing them to the Wonce.

    baracky is an effin’ stereotype. read his book.

  48. newrouter says:

    beloved stereotypes

    right

    wiki
    Perry also found himself in conflict during his career with civil rights leaders who criticized him personally for the film roles he portrayed. Nonetheless, in 1976 the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP awarded him a Special NAACP Image Award. Two years after that, Perry was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

    In April 1969, Perry’s son, Donald Lambright, traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting people. He injured 15 and killed 3 before turning the gun on himself.[8][9][10]

  49. leigh says:

    Of course he is, but he’s no Stepin Fetchit. Besides, I have a stack of thrillers to read not fantasies written in bad prose.

  50. leigh says:

    First black to receive a screen credit. First black millionaire. He trucked with the Islam so he could hang out with Mohammed Ali and he was an old man then, seeing as he was born in 1902. He’s also not responsible for his kid being a whack job. Living in PA will do that to a brutha.

  51. newrouter says:

    First black millionaire.

    no wiki

    Madam C.J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), born Sarah Breedlove, was an American businesswoman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, commonly regarded as the first African-American millionaire. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company.

  52. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I’m a mean drunk coming off a two week bender leigh.

  53. newrouter says:

    He’s also not responsible for his kid being a whack job. Living in PA will do that to a brutha.

    let’s go kill whitey while dad goes for the black lib stuff. gotcha.

  54. leigh says:

    Eat something greasy and half a hair of the dog that bitcha. And about four aspirin. You’ll be right as rain.

  55. leigh says:

    Black film star millionaire. No need to get technical since Ms. Walker made haircare products.

    Chill out.

  56. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Was that greasy food & n eye-opener prescription meant for newrouter or me?

  57. leigh says:

    Well, it was originally jokingly for you since you mentioned a bender, but I think our friend nr could use it.

  58. newrouter says:

    First black millionaire.

    Black film star millionaire.

    thanks for the clarification. thinkprogress has a propagandist opening

  59. leigh says:

    G’night nr.

  60. newrouter says:

    G’night nr.

    the truth has no agenda

  61. newrouter says:

    since Ms. Walker made haircare products.

    and what the eff does Oprah make at a billion?

  62. BigBangHunter says:

    – An effin shitload of money?

  63. McGehee says:

    Oprah? Is she even still around?

  64. John Bradley says:

    Probably a’rounder than ever.

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