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Thanks, Housing Collapse!

modernnomad — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:15:00 -0800

14 Year Old Buys House in Florida Meet Willow Tufano, age 14: Lady Gaga fan, animal lover, landlord. It's hard for Willow to see herself as symbolic of anything. To a 14 year-old kid in Florida, the housing collapse is basically the only world she's known. It's the landscape. It's a Craigslist hobby.

(That's 9% Income Tax, 9% Sales Tax, 9% Corporate VAT)

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:11:57 -0800

Effect of Herman Cain's proposed "9-9-9" tax reform plan on average household tax liability. Cain is leading the field of GOP Presidential candidates in polls of Iowa, South Carolina and Florida. Previously 1 2

"... GPA 1.22 … honk if I need (an) education."

reenum — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:09:23 -0800

When her son refused to do his school work, his mom had him stand out on a busy street corner with a sandwich board trumpeting his 1.22 GPA. From the article:

But when his latest report card showed an F in physical education — James says he's "not an outdoor person" — things had gone too far.

If you live on Planet Earth, you might be interested in this

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 10:31:24 -0800

Clinton Eugene Curtis gives sworn testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. [RealPlayer, sorry]
Yang Enterprises (YEI) respond.
Brad Friedman responds in kind.
... next ... previously ...

Volunteers for America!

Sidhedevil — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:57:46 -0800

ElectionProtection is a clearinghouse for folks who want to be part of the US electoral process. They've already shown their stuff in primary elections. They're set to go in Florida. The group is a coalition effort of People for the American Way and a bunch of other organizations--some of the usual leftish/centrist suspects (Working Assets, the ACLU, the NAACP), and some rather strange bedfellows (the United Church of Christ, the African American Ministers' Leadership Council). One hopes that people of all political stripes will be welcomed in this effort to get the vote out and educate people about their rights. One (well, this one, anyway) hopes as well that those of us who post about our impatience with the US electoral process on MeFi will put our time and/or money where our pixels are.

BOHICA!

black8 — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:45:40 -0800

Is the GOP tampering with Florida elections? The New York Times reports that State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation" that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November. Also, see here and here. Why do we even put up with this?

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:03:58 -0800

Was Jeb Bush fed the Florida Grubernatorial debate? The governor addresses random voter "Sylvia" in regards to her question. The problem is that the moderator didn't say a woman named Sylvia has a question until three minutes later. (More inside)

Another election debacle in Florida.

mkultra — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:24:32 -0800

Another election debacle in Florida. One year and $30m in technology later, the Reno/McBride primary is marred by late openings and other assorted and sundry glitches. I know, it's a CNN link, but I can't resist anything that includes someone delivering the grade "F-minus-minus-minus" (later determined to be merely an "F-minus-minus" and some Drambuie). Any personal voting horror stories from our Florida contingent? Will the state become a case study in how "throwing money at the problem" never works?

Florida to settle 2000 election lawsuit.

XQUZYPHYR — Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:49:11 -0800

Florida to settle 2000 election lawsuit. Major provisions include a promise for massive reforms in voter registration, voter-roll maintenance and polling practices, as part of the lawsuit pushed by the NAACP. Granted, it's good that a large angered group is "getting over it" as many (even on this board) have still been explaining, but should skeptics (read: Democrats) such as myself read the Florida legislature's desire to settle as a sign that they may not have thought they would have won against charges of rigging the election?

Small free speech zones

engelr — Wed, 08 May 2002 10:27:58 -0800

Small free speech zones on public college campuses seem incongruous. A more-carrot, less-stick solution might be a free speech zone that was indoors, with seating, like part of this was. Maybe then, fewer people would want to demonstrate elsewhere. This would probably ony work if people regularly came to listen and debate.

Florida recount abandoned

Ty Webb — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:09:49 -0800

Florida recount abandoned by major news organizations in the wake of terrorist attacks. I know it's all academic now, but wouldn't this fall under "letting them win"? And did any other news org. report this?

Jeb Bush did not have sex with that woman.

swell — Mon, 14 May 2001 12:27:52 -0800

Jeb Bush did not have sex with that woman. No, not that one, this one.

Fla. OKs Election System Overhaul

matteo — Sat, 05 May 2001 08:50:45 -0800

Fla. OKs Election System Overhaul "Florida's governor was eager to change the state's maligned election system after recounts delayed his brother's election for 36 days and left many Democrats believing Al Gore had won".

News about Florida from England

semmi — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 07:17:00 -0800

News about Florida from England Information from BBC that the US media never picked up.

The Election Story Never Told

capt.crackpipe — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:23:10 -0800

The Election Story Never Told On it’s face, this article is about corruption in Florida before the election. It is still basically an known story in the US, but it is very popular in Britain. Also of note is the continued record of a lazy corporate media refusing to do any sort of journalistic legwork.

"the new director of the Environment Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, has proposed that the Florida ballots be sealed for 10 years. "

holgate — Sun, 24 Dec 2000 14:24:19 -0800

"the new director of the Environment Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, has proposed that the Florida ballots be sealed for 10 years. " Fuck the Christmas ceasefire. While the Anglo-Saxon world stuffs itself comatose, the forces of conservatism are busy mobilising. Yum.

aaron — Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:26:03 -0800

Supreme Court II: Election Boogaloo. Programs, getcher programs here! Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can get your grubby hands on the Bush and Gore briefs right now. Fascinating reading. PDF files, of course.

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 15:37:24 -0800

Ain't gonna be no link here, but just a comment. Other deadlines may slip, but Florida has to settle things by Monday, December 18, or they don't get to participate in this election. Inside is an analysis of what happens then.

The Greenwood Position.

netbros — Sat, 25 Nov 2000 19:51:55 -0800

The Greenwood Position. Partisan perhaps, but will Peggy Noonan's latest OpEd in the WSJ be a rallying cry for frustrated conservatives? She offers compelling arguments and solid suggestions for proactive redress. Talk amongst yourselves.

palegirl — Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:47:37 -0800

perfect headline: Chad Is a Country in Africa Racism—Florida's Real Scandal

ELECTION: Dan Bricklin thinks the ballots sucked, too.

baylink — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:07:58 -0800

ELECTION: Dan Bricklin thinks the ballots sucked, too. Remember him? He helped write VisiCalc, and now runs Trellix? I'm still wondering why no one's agitating to invalidate that election in PBC.

Not very clever.

holgate — Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:12:01 -0800

Not very clever. Florida's Secretary of State (the BBC reports her being described as "a bit of an airhead") manages to make her position look even more ridiculous. Anyone get the disturbing feeling that this may be resolved, not in the courts, but on the streets?

Other countries

tatochip — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:47:13 -0800

Other countries are looking at us and giggling about our democratic process. It's rather enlightening to see what they think, provided the attitude the US newsmedia takes when other countries' elections appear "fixed", "inefficient," or "ineffective."

mathowie — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 20:03:40 -0800

Porter Glendinning on a weblist noted: "According to http://www.tcpalm.com/_special/pres_returns.shtml, David McReynolds, the Socialist candidate who had the hole beneath Gore's on the ballot, got no more than 36 votes in any county in Florida except Palm Beach, where he got 302. Seems questionable to me." So we've definitely got a problem with the ballot. Is it do over time yet?

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines.

snarkout — Wed, 08 Nov 2000 06:50:04 -0800

Conspiracy theorists, start your engines. Regardless of the outcome, those "9 missing ballot boxes" are going to figure in conspiracy theories for decades to come -- there are still people talking about how Nixon was robbed by the Daley machine in 1960. (The fact that a Bush is governor in Florida surely won't shut anyone up.)