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[theweaselking]

Tom DeLay's office memos explain the Republican strategy in a nutshell:
"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."

Also,

Flight patterns: 24 hours of airplane flightpath data, visuallized.

Also,
Use our product to protect your banana! Available in nine ravishing colours!

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Read prop. 2 carefully.

The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.

So.. they're banning recognising *any* status identical to marriage? Like, say, MARRIAGE?

Also,
"Thief steals $75,000 worth of bull semen"

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Republicans looking at repealing 14th Amendment, making US citizenship not guaranteed to those born in the US.

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Maunsell Army Sea Forts

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Read the first sentence VEEERY carefully. That certainly brings entirely new meanings to "unhygienic"

Also,
J. M. Tyree explains the theory of "Malevolent Design"

Comments

[thathatedguy.livejournal.com]

So, the meat comes from quaker maids?

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I knew it tasted funny.

Nice set of articles, by the way. Some of the best in a while. I approve of Tom Delay admitting that the Republicans were coldly going after the "wacko" vote.

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

The ID principle that the universe might have been created by the Devil or Cthulu explains a lot about the disasters that have occurred this year.

Of course, the fundies claim that [DEITY] wiped out much of New Orleans to get rid of the wickedness there, never mind the number of innocents that were also affected like those killed in the nursing homes...

[anivair.livejournal.com]

All the more reason to assume that their god is a wanker.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Just because someone is in a nursing home now doesn't mean they weren't sinners in the twenties.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Different typo. (Not sure offhand if the company really is Quaker Maid or not, I can't remember. >< )

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I knew those garmets tasted funny, too.

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

Oh wow... Atkins-friendly edible underwear! XD

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Does that citizenship thing mean that you can go to the US on a tourist visa, give birth, and then 18 years later your kid can move to the US legally?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's in the Constitution - being born in the USA means you're a US citizen.

Canada's got the same thing. That's why there's a piece of the Ottawa Civic Hospital that's actually sovereign Dutch territory. In 1943, the current Queen of the Netherlands was born in exile, and needed to be born on Dutch soil to be a Dutch citizen - so Canada formally game them a maternity ward. (http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/OttawaNetherlands.html)

[thette.livejournal.com]

Some countries have citizenship by being born. Some have it from the mother, and some from the father.

I don't remember which nationalities were involved, but I've seen an example where a kid gets three citizenships just by having the right parents and being born in, for example, the US.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how this works out on a technical basis, but my boyfriend back in high school had dual U.S. and Irish citizenship; he was born in the States, but his mother was Irish.

Mr. Darcy is a slightly complicated case, too, because he was actually born in Germany, but on an American military base. This doesn't appear to have any real effects, aside from making passport applications more complicated.

This also means that the children who are born here of parents who immigrated here illegally are themselves American citizens with all the attendant benefits. (Personally I think anyone who wants to be here badly enough to risk getting shot, or dying in a panel truck or shipping container, ought to be allowed to stay, but that's just me.)

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

re: panties - *guffaw*
re: banning marriage - really, it's a financial measure to relieve society of the economic burden of divorce
re: citizenship - how much more respect and value do you want than someone who's willing to get themselves killed trying to make sure their child is born in a country where they hope they'll have a better life? I think the illegal immigrants respect and value the law about citizenship more than the people who want to change it.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

I wish *I* had a pair of ground beef panties.

But not the E. Coli ones.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.

Why, yes, I *will* be voting come Tuesday. Not that I think it'll make a hell of a lot of difference, compared to all the mindfucked idiots out there, but I will at least have done my part to stem the tide of madness.