In my State and County it is Illegal “to in anyway prevent someone to Vote”. Not allowing one to “Register To Vote” could be seen as preventing someone to Vote.

At several Voter Registration Drives on “Public Property” authorities have tried to have us Stop Registering Voters. When the so called Authority has been abusave to us and been a “snotty know it all” I have quoted this law and told them they should check with “The Boss” and if they continued an atempt to block us from Registering Voters I would have them arrested. Each time we have been told sorry for any misunderstanding.

Our Government is so out of controll its no longer funny, its scary. Has the time come to start Physicaly Removing these corrupt officials from office??

Unbossed.com had good a story about this earlier today:

http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2206

That’s total BS. The VA decided to ban all voter registration drives because they know that the vets will be registering as Democrats and they can’t have that, can they.

As I said before, there is nothing “partisan” about registering people to vote and the VA is taking the broadest possible interpretation of the Hatch Act to try to disenfranchise our veterans ability to vote. Now if it was a political party trying to register people, then it would be partisan. But having the cities and counties try to get in to register these people to vote, that in no way can be considered “partisan”.

I find it telling that this ruling comes down at a time when the Republicans are feeling very threatened. Why is this NOW an issue but it wasn’t before.

Gee whiz, I wonder why? Actually I do know. Bush and his henchmen can only steal and prevent just so many votes; therefore they must prevent additional voters from registering. Otherwise, the theft of votes by the GOP, the neocons will be too noticeable.

So it doesn’t surprise me one bit if the current administration is doing an about-face on the importance of voter registration drives among military personnel, past or present.

LOL! Steady-on there! My level of education is a matter of circumstance. My mother came from the immigrant ‘dregs’ (as it were) of Southside Chicago whilst my father grew up as the son of an international bank governor ( The Bank of London & South America) and went to ‘public’ school ( private school in the US)in the UK.
MY education was entirely publicly-funded and much of it I found intellectually lacking ( well that’s my excuse for all the meddocre grades I got). However I do think in retrospect it was pretty good, all things considered, and a cut-above what is offered now.

But really I think you are painting with too broad a brush.
I appreciate the compliment and from my perspective the US education system could learn a lot from other countries educational systems and the kids would benefit from such considerations. IMHO there’s no magic perfectly defined curriculum, but if you think I’m so brilliant I’d put it down to a general and flexible approach to education, not an absolute proscribed path to knowledge.
Bearing that in mind I would say the US has taken a disastrous turn, not just under Bush but for several decades prior. On the other hand there are some aspects of the US education system that I wish had been adopted in my time at school-the methodology of learning for instance.

It’s also not fair to compare American “kids” to 48-year-old adults such as myself especially who, though I grew up relatively poor (but middle-class in socio/political perspective–I voted for Margaret Thatcher!) had the good fortune to be exposed a wide variety of cultural and intellectual differences because of my parents and my proximity to other nations.

However if you are still impressed, go check out my long-defunct but newly (albeit hesitantly) revived blog by clicking on my post ID moniker and maybe take a stab at some of my old posts in the archives, many of which are supposed to be be amusing. I’m trying to get back into the rhythm right of blogging again rather than just commenting, and I;m working on a new post at the moment, but give my latest post a look, not so much for the text content but for the Photoshopped image.
Anywhooo… thanks for the encouragement, and don’t sell yourself short, IMHO you are an educated and intelligent contributor to the TP community and I’m sure I’m not alone on that opinion.

Cheers!

:-)

Please stop your “supporting the troops”. It’s killing them.

snark.

Mucking forons!

“Everyone”?
Except for the VA currently being run by Bush appointees that you want to continue under a ‘new’ McCain but still same-old GOP regime. As an ardent Bush/GOP flack, you are just pretending to agree and then changing the subject in the hope that no one will notice. That works for Republicans and conservatives, but nor for Democrats and liberals, see! WIause guy! Why I ougghta pound you..!