Better formulas to identify racist places

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Wednesday February 27, 2013 · 1:45 PM PST

2013/02/27 · 13:45

So if I understand the SOCTUS's problem with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, it's that the formula for pre-clearance doesn't delineate racist from unracist jursidictions with sufficient efficiency: I mean, it covers New Hampshire, but not Missouri! Nutty! Let's just throw the whole thing out and let Texas and Alabama enact whatever racial gerrymander or voter suppression law they want without any DOJ oversight!

So, since there's no fighting with the SCOTUS, I guess we'll just have to come with a better formula to identify racist places (maybe you can help):

jolpaj

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Thursday April 26, 2012 · 7:45 PM PDT

2012/04/26 · 19:45

The Michigan Canvassing Board today rejected 200,000 signatures to overturn its republican-led state takeover of the state's elected municipal governments. It thought the font was too small. The font was, in fact, compliant, though, of course, even very small font wouldn't change the fact that 200,000 people signed it. Obviously, then, the Canvassing board needs to hear from the rest of the nation about the giant dump it took on the concept of democratic government today. Personally, I think reporters need to have pictures of postal officials delivering thousands of letters of protest written in 999 point font. You can send them to: Norman D. Shinkle, Vice Chair, Board of State Canvassers, c/o Michigan Board of Elections 430 W Allegan E. Lansing 48918.

Mitt Romney has never hugged a critical race theorist

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Friday March 09, 2012 · 9:55 AM PST

2012/03/09 · 09:55

He may or may not have hugged anybody, but if he has, that person has never published an article arguing that the uplifting rhetoric of equality and integration should not be allowed to distract us from persistent material inequality.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 3:47 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 15:47

A St. Paul news station quoted a local election official's estimate of 6,000 "spolied" ballots that would be uncovered during the recount. Its at the link. "Spoiled ballots" are those rejected by an optical scan machine -- Minnesota has them recounted by hand to see if the voer's intent is ascertainable. Franken is down by less than 500.

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 8:20 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 08:20

One click away from the front page of Foxnews.com, Fox Executive VP John Moody offers "commentary" on the accusation that a white female McCain campaign worker was attacked by a black male assailant. That commentary is a shockingly overt pre-emptive apology for racism.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 1:07 AM PDT

2008/10/15 · 01:07

I admit, I have been too taken aback by the deliberate incitement of hatred by McCain, Fox, and the cultish relay of racist anger between talk-radio, blogs, and pundits in the past two weeks to think clearly about its motivation. But its been going on for a while now -- so maybe it's time to examine it a little more reflectively. Exactly what the f(ck is going on...

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Does the right wing echo chamber, as an institution, act strategically?

21 votes Vote Now!

Does the right wing echo chamber, as an institution, act strategically?

Yes

11 votes

6 votes

Uh...What?

4 votes

I am just going to go ahead and freak out for a while...

jolpaj

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 10:16 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 22:16

please feel free to join me below the fold. Warning -- I am freakin out.

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Is it?

36 votes Vote Now!

Is it?

Yes

4 votes

2 votes

HFS, WTF is happening for the love all that is f8cking sacred

30 votes

Let's vet some adjectives

jolpaj

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 11:01 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 11:01

Governor Palin is a gambit -- produce one of the single largest most slow-moving targets in the history of American politics and then accuse anyone of sexism that bothers to shoot at it. Why else nominate an inexperienced governor of a tiny state, with an astonishingly reactionary social agenda, a boatload of professional and personal scandals, and have her deliver 45 minutes of hate? There is absolutely nothing to recommend her, nothing, that is, until she is attacked.

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Which adjectives or descriptive nouns used to describe the speech carry sexist connotations?

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Which adjectives or descriptive nouns used to describe the speech carry sexist connotations?

shrill

24 votes

screed

2 votes

toxic

2 votes

venomous

4 votes

hateful

2 votes

insipid

0 votes

vicious

1 vote

smug

3 votes

arrogant

1 vote

sarcastic

2 votes

Hey, good to see you...

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 4:22 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 16:22

how you doin out there. Great, glad you could make it. Hey, listen...How's the missus? Great, wonderful, listen, um...
Hey, did you hear a pulitzer prize winning journalist just said he has two mid to high level CIA sources on tape saying that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a backdated document purporting to establish a link between Saddam and Mohammed Atta?

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31 votes Show Results

I

31 votes Vote Now!

I

doubt the story

4 votes

don't doubt the story

27 votes

Help Me Compile Contacts for Advertising Against Foley-Enablers

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 10:08 PM PDT

2006/10/04 · 22:08

Ok, folks, is this going to slip through our grasp or are we going to make hay? Someone with a little chunk of change needs to start running some ads in NY-26 and IL-19, at a minimum. These are not especially urban districts, so there are likely a lot of small papers or stations that might be affordable. Adequately press released, the ads could pick up free coverage that magnify their impact. Remember, Willie Horton was only run a couple of times. Don't forget your FEC reqs!

Help me compile a list of possible targets:

Shimkus

http://www.register-news.com/...
http://www.mediaowners.com/...

Reynolds

http://www.buffalonews.com/...
716-849-5413.

Action Item -- Criminal Complaint Against Chris Homan, Delay Minion

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 11:35 AM PDT

2006/04/06 · 11:35

One possible repsonse to the Homan Email diaried by Mini Mum would be to request a criminal investigation of Chris Homan and the individuals who received his email and disrupted the Lampson press conference. If the email is authentic, and the diary accruate, their conduct would appear to be plainly within the following criminal statute: Read More

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I am just going to go ahead and freak out for a while...

Let's vet some adjectives

Hey, good to see you...

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Action Item -- Criminal Complaint Against Chris Homan, Delay Minion