Or, as Obama says, "Happy Cinco de quatro!"
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
California Proposes Open Primary Amendment
I got my sample ballot for the June California primary today, and while I was reading through the ballot propositions, I came across this gem:
Prop 14 Elections. Increases Right to Participate in Primary Elections.
Excuse me! Right??? Democrats Independents and fringe party whackos have the right to vote in my party primary???
Changes the primary election process for congressional, statewide, and legislative races. Allows all voters to choose any candidate regardless of the candidate's or voter's political party preference. Ensures that the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes will appear on the general election ballot regardless of party preference.
Fiscal impact: No significant net change in state and local government costs to administer elections.
I suppose you could call this the "Minority Party Disenfranchisement Act of 2010". If your candidate is Green, or Peace and Freedom, or even Communist, will your candidate even make it to the ballot? Doubtful. This amendment prohibits write in candidates in the general election. That seems unConstitutional to me. Certainly against the spirit of democracy.
Proposition 14 also allows candidates to hide their party affiliation, to deceive voters into thinking they are "independent" when they are nothing but party hacks.
I don't think so. Not just "no", but "Hell, no!"
Pardon my French!
Cross posted at Say Anything
Monday, May 3, 2010
Breaking News: Suspect Arrested in Times Square Bomb Case
...as he attempted to leave the country.
More as it unfolds.
Federal authorities arrested a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent Monday night at New York's JFK Airport in connection with the attempted Times Square car bombing, Fox News has learned.
The man was identified as Shahzad Faisal, 30, of Connecticut, according to NBC News.
Police had interviewed the registered owner of the bomb-laden sports-utility vehicle. They said he was not a suspect, but he recently sold the dark-colored 1993 Nissan Pathfinder on Craigslist to another individual, whom the Associated Press reported was a Pakistani-American.
Fox News .com
Quote du jour
But it's a little rich having Bob indoctrinate children about "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" while simultaneously prompting these children to beg their parents for plastic Bob the Builder trucks, and latex Bob the Builder balls, and plush Bob the Builder dolls. All of which are manufactured in far-away lands and shipped to our fair shores by the carbon-gobbling container-shipful. Bob the Builder is like one of those evangelists who lectures on the virtues of living green before hopping onto a private jet and flying back to his mansion in Nashville.
-Jonathan Last
Or like some guy hawking his paean to environmentalism on DVD on "Earth Day"!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Quote du jour
"Clinton indeed did not inhale at Oxford. He preferred, like many another marijuana enthusiast, to take his dope in the form of large handfuls of cookies and brownies."
-Christopher Hitchens
Spoken like a man who knows what the meaning of "is" is!
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