The pedophile ads are NOT the nastiest weapons in the Republican arsenal, if this article is correct. It states that the GOP in Macomb County Michigan plans to challenge the eligibility of voters whose houses have been foreclosed upon.
The attack ads are foul, but their intent is to convert voters, which is an allowable strategy. This voter-challenge idea looks to me like an attempt to disenfranchise the poor and unfortunate because they might vote Democratic. In other words, the Republicans -- at least in Michigan -- are planning to unstuff ballot boxes by keeping the potentially-Democratic votes from being cast in the first place. I'm a Canadian and don't know the details of the American electoral process, but I don't see how this can be anything but a subversion of it, in spirit if not in letter.
Obama's campaign needs to find out more about this, and advertise, heavily, what the Republicans are doing, and what it means in terms of their respect for the democratic process and the Constitution. If America won't get into a state of righteous indignation over the Republicans trying to defraud the public of its constitutional right to vote, the cornerstone of the nation, the right that their founding fathers fought and died for, I don't know what it will take. Obama also needs to educate voters on how to counter this ambush at the polling booth, so that nobody gets pressured into not voting, regardless of party affiliation.
Happily for me, I live in Canada, where we record votes on paper and humans count them in plain sight.
Am I the only one who feels like Nehemiah Scudder will be showing up soon?
I got to play with an old treadle Singer sewing machine when my dad
was fixing it for my aunt. (Inherited from her mother or grandmother.)
Once you get in the rhythm with the treadle, it goes at an impressively
fast clip! It had a box full of attachments that let it do dozens and
dozens of kinds of frills and furbelows. I don't remember if there was
a buttonhole attachment but I would be surprised if there was not.
One of our fundamental problems right now is that we have lots of
ways to put materials together, and very few ways to take them apart
again for reuse. If we can figure out how to make something that does
*that* the green revolution will become immensely easier and more
popular. Plastics, metals, and so on do certain jobs that natural
materials just can't, so people are not going to give them up.
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