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Spin Zone / Re: Now, for something completely different
« on: September 25, 2016, 06:13:06 PM »
A good bunch.  You should tell the Mooney guys I got one.  Hopefully I'll come visit some time after my poor thing gets outa the shop.

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Spin Zone / Re: Dead People Voting
« on: September 25, 2016, 06:09:22 PM »
Actually, I recall this very thing happening in North Carolina.  All the politicians wailed and screamed about voter ID laws.  But a funny thing happened.  Just about all the instances turned out to be miscommunication between agencies.  I think 200 got winnowed down to two.  Early yet, but what do you want to be that the same exact thing winds up happening in Colorado?

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Spin Zone / Re: Goodbye 4th Amendment
« on: September 25, 2016, 06:07:14 PM »
Nice attempted deflection.

Should the government have the right to ban movies?

The the POTUS should be able to make campaign movies using public funds.  Sorry, no deflection.  The point isn't the movie, it's how it's funded.  I don't think there should be a free flow of money into politics, it presents ready conflicts of interest, reduces faith in Democracy and is highly corrupting.  It would take a Constitutional Amendment to stop it, but that's what Constitutional Amendments are there for.  Problem is all the politicians are happy with the status quo and don't want to see any changes.  The ones if would benefit are the electorate.

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Spin Zone / Re: Toy guns vs replicas vs real firearms
« on: September 25, 2016, 11:58:32 AM »
I pray you never live to regret that decision.
The odds of my home being victim to some sort of armed incursion are laughably small.  And I am not sufficiently stupid to risk my life defending insured property.

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Spin Zone / Re: Black man shot "for being black"
« on: September 25, 2016, 11:33:54 AM »
The strangest thing is I always hear about LEOs saying they fear for their lives and how their job is so dangerous.  Don't get me wrong, I think being an LEO is a crap job and they deserve lots of respect.  But being an LEO is not the most dangerous professions, indeed a long way from it.  More dangerous to be a longer, a roofer, and yes even a pilot.

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Spin Zone / Re: Toy guns vs replicas vs real firearms
« on: September 25, 2016, 11:30:40 AM »
I had a bike once with a painted exhaust, worked fine for years.  Bike exhausts get hot enough to blue metal, too.

Someone tried to offer me firearms for my Goldwing, but I turned him down.  Don't know enough about them to assess any kind of value, and I'm not at all interested in owning them.

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Spin Zone / Re: Ted finally does it
« on: September 25, 2016, 11:27:08 AM »
If someone accused my Old man of murder I'd not endorse no matter what pledge I'd signed.  My Old Man fought in WWII so these guys could say whatever they wanted.  A pity Cruz didn't stick to his principles.  To be honest, I think this will hurt him a lot more in the long term than staying the course.  He had damn good reason.

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Spin Zone / Re: voter id alternative
« on: September 25, 2016, 10:55:17 AM »
From the Horses mouth:






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Spin Zone / Re: Dead People Voting
« on: September 25, 2016, 10:40:08 AM »
I am sorry to hear about your wife Mase.  I had a previous wife pass away as well.

I am genuinely sorry.

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Spin Zone / Re: Goodbye 4th Amendment
« on: September 25, 2016, 09:35:30 AM »
Direct question:

Should the federal government have the power to stop distribution of a movie about a political candidate?

As in many things, it depends on the circumstance.  Should the POTUS be allowed to use federal money to make a movie about him or herself for the purposes or campaigning?

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Spin Zone / Re: voter id alternative
« on: September 25, 2016, 09:34:11 AM »
You're making a statement of fact.  How do YOU know?  I want to believe in the integrity of the voting system, please share your knowledge.

Because the gain (1 vote) is offset by HUGE penalties (felony record and incarceration).  The only way to really offset and election is conspiracy to commit identity fraud en masse, and criminal conspiracies tend to be undone.  GOPers have looked for this sort of voter fraud extensively and never found it.  Last I saw were 31 incidents in a billion votes cast.

There are all kinds of election fraud that can indeed change results that have been used extensively in the past and will never be detected by the current crop of laws.  Vote buying, coercion, ballot stuffing, and others have been used in the past and are likely in play now.  But the laws designed to prevent identity fraud are an expensive fix for a nearly non-existent problem.  They're real purpose is to reduce African American Democratic voting.  At that they are quite effective, as has been stated by their purveyors and by the judiciary.

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Spin Zone / Re: Dead People Voting
« on: September 25, 2016, 09:27:06 AM »
So how do you propose removing dead people from voter rolls?   Should the coroner be required to send a copy of the death certificate to voter registration? 

Not the worst idea.  Or local election boards routinely communicating with coroners and social security?  It really shouldn't be all that difficult.

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Spin Zone / Re: Dead People Voting
« on: September 25, 2016, 08:00:08 AM »
On wonders what all those dead people were doing on the registration rolls.  But I suppose removing the deceased from voter registrations is just too difficult.

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Spin Zone / Re: Goodbye 4th Amendment
« on: September 25, 2016, 07:57:13 AM »
Free speech as long as it's my speech, huh, Doc?

Only if you equate money with speech, something I myself don't see.

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Spin Zone / Re: voter id alternative
« on: September 25, 2016, 07:56:36 AM »
You misunderstand.  The problem is confidence in the voting system.  It is way too easy to commit fraud in this system, virtually impossible to detect it and a very small likelihood of suffering any consequences for doing it. 

First, the gain in voter fraud is minimal (at least for identity fraud, for which these laws are designed) and the penalty huge.  It truly is a Federal offense.  Second, most of the laws counteracting it have been passed by politically motivated Republicans to suppress Democratic, particularly African American voting.  This has been stated publicly and privately by some of the laws promoters.  The only reason you're worried about it is you've been made to be worried about it.  The Force has a strong effect on the weak-minded.

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