SubscribeFortunately for us, this post doesn't violate the McCain Feingold "roll back the First Amendment" campaign law. At least so far. (The 60 day blackout period has already started.)Anyone have any idea what that was about?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:25 PM CST on September 24 [+] [!]
Through this rulemaking, the Commission recognizes the Internet as a unique and evolving mode of mass communication and political speech that is distinct from other media in a manner that warrants a restrained regulatory approach. ...-- FEC.
As a whole, these final rules will make plain that the vast majority of Internet communications are, and will remain, free from campaign finance regulation. To the greatest extent permitted ...the Commission is clarifying and affirming that Internet activities by individuals and groups of individuals face almost no regulatory burdens under the Federal Election Campaign Act. The need to safeguard Constitutionally-protected speech allows no other approach.
"His Jewish heritage is 'just an interesting nuance to my background,' Allen said, adding: 'I still had a ham sandwich for lunch. And my mother made great pork chops.'"
High-school classmates recall that before a basketball game against a black team, [Allen] and friends secretly scrawled anti-white racial slurs on their school building, in an attempt to build resentment toward the black players. When asked last spring by Ryan Lizza of The New Republic about the incident, he denied any racial dimension.
We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. Once, when Bruce refused to go to bed, George hurled him through a sliding glass door. Another time, when Gregory refused to go to bed, George tackled him and broke his collarbone. Another time, when I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair. George hoped someday to become a dentist. George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession--getting paid to make people suffer.
Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that “Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I’ve had a fear of heights.”
Referring to George’s relationship with one of her boyfriends: “My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head.”
Referring to George’s habit of terrorizing a Green Bay Packer fan in their neighborhood, Jennifer wrote that the fan’s mailbox often “lay smashed in the street, a casualty of my brothers' drive-by to school in the morning. George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held a baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox off its post. . . . Lately, the Packers fan had resorted to stapling a Kleenex box to the mailbox post to receive his mail. George's red Mustang screeched up beside us, the Packers fan's Kleenex mailbox speared on the antenna.”
"Christopher Taylor, an anthropology professor at Alabama University in Birmingham, Ala., said that in the early 1980’s he heard Mr. Allen use an inflammatory epithet for African Americans. Mr. Taylor, who is white and was then a graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said the term came up in a conversation about the turtles in a pond near Mr. Allen’s property. According to Mr. Taylor, Mr. Allen said that 'around here' only the African Americans — whom he referred to by the epithet — 'eat 'em.'"
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Fuck George Allen.
posted by Mikey-San at 9:13 PM on September 24, 2006