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DIAPERS FOR 15TH AMENDMENT PURPOSES

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:38am |

DO NOT THROW ASPERSIONS ON MY ASPARAGUS!

During the 2012 presidential election, voters reportedly waited on line for upwards of six hours. That wait alone is enough to deter would-be voters from going to the polls. But now residents in Florida’s most populous county will have another disincentive: they won’t be able to go to the bathroom.

Earlier this year, the Miami-Dade County Elections Department quietly implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at all polling facilities, according to disability rights lawyer Marc Dubin. Dubin said the policy change was in “direct response” to an inquiry to the Elections Department about whether they had assessed accessibility of polling place bathrooms to those with disabilities.
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RACHEL MADDOW AND WISCONSIN BILL KRAMER

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/08/2014 - 10:11pm |

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I watch Rachel every night. Maybe I hit five minutes, maybe I hit thirty minutes. It depends upon my mood or how interested I am in the subject matter or maybe I am enrapt in some drama on the tellie. Anyway, I get two other shots at her program after first air.

Tonight, I was enthralled.

The Majority Leader in the Wisconsin Senate, has been formally charged with heinous crimes against women.

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WILLIE MAYS AND THE ACA

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/04/2014 - 7:58pm |

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FUNNIEST LINE

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CONSENSUS

By Richard Day on Sun, 03/30/2014 - 5:02am |

ANTHROPOLOGY

I recall in the late 1960's that Anthropology professors discussed the problem involved in 'aging' the primates in this NEW WORLD.

Well the 'consensus' was that 13,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens crept into our New World via the Siberian whatever....

The latest ice age gave a land cross from Siberia to the Americas (read Canada) and from that land cross, people from the East found a new home.

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WHEN I'M 64

By Richard Day on Thu, 03/27/2014 - 5:36pm |

 

I was thinking about the question “why”?

My granddaughter is about to be two years of age in a couple of months and in a couple of months I shall be 64.

WHEN I'M 64!

So I have constructed a scenario where I might read to her from Homer or whatever without pix and without media!

And she will not sit on my lap!

Why do you like me?

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THE GOSPEL TRUTH ABOUT ACA

By Richard Day on Tue, 03/25/2014 - 4:57pm |

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THE PRODIGAL SON

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THE DAY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN D.C.

By Richard Day on Fri, 03/14/2014 - 2:13am |

STANDING

In the law we find the principle of 'standing'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_%28law%29

I cannot find my Black's Law Dictionary right now but Wiki will do.

In the law, if my memory serves me, the term standing relates to the issue of whether or not someone has a right to bring suit against an alleged tortfeasor.

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BAD HISTORY MONTH

By Richard Day on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 3:08pm |

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Granting that it’s “a radical idea,” Buchanan writes, “Suppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired all the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.”

Does anyone think hotels, motels and restaurants across Dixie, from D.C. to Texas, would stop serving black customers?” he continues. “Does anyone think there would again be signs sprouting up reading ‘whites’ and ‘colored’ on drinking foundations and restrooms?"

Well suppose that someone finally exiled Ole Pat to some stud farm; forever freeing us from his communiques?

Before I get to the real purpose of this post (involving another famous revisionist) I wish to take a short historical look at our nation's racist roots.

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AMERICA'S FALSE SENSE OF HISTORY

By Richard Day on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 3:42pm |

 

Widow-Stepmother: Even though he is gone, you can certainly refer to me as Mom!

Stepdaughter: Are you kidding me? You sat behind me in 8th grade French!

(L&O last night, I think?)

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