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Texas Voter ID Poo Pooed by the Supreme Court

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I’m not sure that I get this.

Texas, wants to reduce voter fraud so they reduce the valid forms of ID down to 5.

No longer can you bring a utility bill to prove you’re authorized to vote. It looks like Texas wanted the ID to be something with a photo. Something like a Drivers License, State Issued ID card, Passport, you know something that was state issued and verifiable.

Instead the Court found that requiring a tangible form of ID was too arduous and unfairly targeted certain segments of the population, in particular the poor who could not afford to obtain ID. What?????

$26 to obtain ID in California. Of course California has a reduced fee ID for $7. Are you fucking kidding me?

Why not make every ID cost $7 and then you wouldn’t be discriminating against the middle class? Oh RIGHT… The middle class gets to pay full pop for everything and they also get to pay via taxes for the reduced fee folks too.

Assuming that California is one of the most expensive states to get an ID then how the hell is it possible for “The Poor” in Texas to NOT be able to afford proper ID which everyone is supposed to produce upon request. 

I’m confused as hell. 

Why is it “Racist” or somehow economic discrimination to ask for a piece of identity documentation? Does this mean that I’m no longer required to carry ID? can I shred my passport? Can I call someone racist if they ask me for one of those documents?

How about this…

On those lovely little forms that new employers make you fill out where you have to produce 2 forms of ID or your passport to prove that you’re eligible to work in the US… can I now legitimately refuse to produce any of these forms of ID on the grounds that it’s clearly discriminatory? I somehow doubt it.

I thought that voting was a privilege reserved for citizens. If that’s still true then providing documentation about identity is  simply the price for admission to the voting place.  For goodness sake you have to show a ticket to get into a theater. Why is something as important as voting treated with less respect?

Moreover, why didn’t the Supreme Court see it this way?

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Something that completely Blows my mind

I had no idea that there were still separatist movements in the US.

Yeah I’ve joked about it, but I figured that ship had sailed a long time ago. I know that Kentucky still calls itself a commonwealth and that potentially could lead to Kentucky being part of a succession from the US. 

But who’d have thought of an instant that anyone would consider this with any seriousness?

And yet… Here is a list of states that have parties in support of breaking away from the US. (Thanks to Wikipedia)

Main article: Secession in the United States
See also: List of U.S. state partition proposals
Secessionist movements
Autonomist movements

Who would have thought?

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Conoleezza Rice hit a home run at the RNC

I’ve always liked her even when I didn’t understand her. She’s smart as a whip and I respect the hImagesell out of her.

I noted that she’s said she wouldn’t accept a position in Romneys government if he’s elected. I think she could do the country a lot of good, but she says she’s happy in academia.

What a great speech! She wasn’t bashing Obama, she expressed concern that we as a country have taken the wrong path.

I think she was on point and made sense. 

Gee Wolf Blitzer is getting old and stupid. The lady sitting next tom him was trying to make a point about Ms. Rices speech. Poor Wolf missed it completely and in the process shot her down too.

Her point was that Ms. Rice was deviating from her prepared speech. Ms. Rice was sticking to the themes in her prepared speech but she’d embellished and deviated a little bit.

Wolf just didn’t get it.