AZ's voter ID law is being appealed, again!

Back in August, a U.S. District Judge ruled to uphold Arizona's "Voter ID Law", which was passed by voters in the 2004 general election (known then as "Prop. 200").  The groups opposing the law have been futilely battling this in the courts, and keep getting shot down.

Well, they're not giving up get.  The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has announced that it is taking the matter to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes to get a higher court to overrule both the voters and the lower courts that have previously ruled.

Here's some of the latest news ...
   http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/...
   http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/...

Why is it so difficult for some people to grasp the concept of election / voter integrity, a right that belongs to the legal citizens of any given nation?  It just boggles the mind that groups like the MALDEF even try to turn the will of voters and the courts.

Conventional Logic vs. Religious Logic

I found this on a random blog.  Another one that hits the nail right on the head...

10 Things To Ponder

• Number 10 ...
  Life is sexually transmitted.
  
  
• Number 9 ...
  Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
  
  
• Number 8 ...
  Men have two emotional states: Hungry and Horny.
  If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.
  
  
• Number 7 ...
  Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day,
  Teach a person to use the Internet & they won't bother you for weeks.
  
  
• Number 6 ...
  Some people are like a Slinky.
  Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
  
  
• Number 5 ...
  Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
  Lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
  
  
• Number 4 ...
  All of us could take a lesson from the weather.
  It pays no attention to Criticism.
  
  
• Number 3 ...
  Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00
  And a substantial tax cut saves you $30.00?
  
  
• Number 2 ...
  In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird.
  Now the world is Weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
  
  
• And Number 1 ...
  We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where millions of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located.  Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of Immigration?
  

Do I really want a phone?

I seem to have a problem keeping a phone for any real length of time.  Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration?  Maybe not...  This is a picture of a phone that didn't make it.  (It's the 2nd time that happened to the same model phone, although under different circumstances).



Anyway, this past weekend I lost my phone, yet again.  Well, not really "lost".  It was left in a friend's vehicle after a July 4th party Friday night.  I didn't realize that I had even misplaced it until Sunday.  And after I figured out where it was, you'd think I'd rush out to get it, right?  You'd be wrong.



I mean, it's not like I can't get it.  I even told my friend who has it that I'd be by later Sunday afternoon to get it.  Yet even here on Monday night, I haven't managed to muster up the desire to retrieve my phone.



So I gotta ask myself, WTF?  I seem to be okay without it.  I've checked voicemail a few times from other phones.  I'm realizing that I don't want to use the phone.  Oh sure, there will be times I need to use it.  But I seem to have some subconscious aversion to phones?



Or...  Maybe that's looking at it too deep.  It's likely just clumsiness on my part (for misplacing the phone in the first place) and a clear-cut case of procrastination.



I'm sure I'll be getting it back on Tuesday, on my way in to work (why not today?  I had a dentist appointment in the morning).  So it's not like there's really a big drama over my phone or anything.  But... WTF is it with me and phones?



Oh well.  Just something more for me to ponder...

Just my luck

The Glasgow airport in Scotland was evacuated late last night (23-May). Go figure that I'd be arriving on a flight from Belfast just minutes before the evacuation alarm was sounded.

Mission Accomplished! (or maybe not)

It was 5 years ago today that our exalted leader pronounced "Mission Accomplished!" aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln marking the end of major combat operations in Iraq.

So-- Well--

I guess I am at a loss for words on this one.

5 years later and over 4,000 U.S. troops killed in Iraq. What does one say to that? And this guy is still in the Oval Office? We impeached Clinton for far less. This is just ridiculous.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
http://www.philly.com/news/...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/...

Are These Laws Too Harsh?

There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.

No special ballots for elections.

All government business will be conducted in our language.

Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.

Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.

Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers.

No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.

Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay.
BUT options will be restricted:

Foreigners are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies.

If you do you will be sent home.

If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.

Harsh you say?

The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of MEXICO.

Americans in the dark? Say it ain't so!

The folks over at the LewRockwell.com blog posted an article from an "American in Europe" on his views of the Ron Paul movement (as seen when he visited the states). The author is Ben Novak.

On the surface, the premise of the article is about Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. However, if you read more closely, the author shares his impressions of the Mainstream Media (MSM) in the U.S. compared against the quality of news that he gets from European media. It's nothing new to me, but I appreciated how the author sighted this as both a positive and a negative.

Here's the article: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/novak-b1...

(This particularly struck my interest as a Ron Paul supporter because I'll be traveling around Europe in May.)

My Next Life

(Thanks to Maverick for forwarding this one on...)

I want to live my next life backwards.

• You start out dead and get that out of the way right off the bat.
  
• Then, you wake up in a nursing home feeling better every day.
  
• When you are kicked out of the home for being too healthy, you spend several years enjoying your retirement and collecting benefit checks.
  
• When you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.
  
• You work 40 years or so, getting younger every day until pretty soon you're too young to work.
  
• So then, you go to high school: play sports, date, drink, and party.
  
• As you get even younger, you become a kid again.
  
• You go to elementary school, play, and have no responsibilities.
  
• In a few years, you become a baby and everyone runs themselves ragged keeping you happy.
  
• You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, spa-like conditions: central heating, room service on tap.
  
• Until, finally, you finish off as an orgasm.

I rest my case.

Be Warned ...