Werthless wrote:

td11 wrote:nah i really usually don't have any response to your posts and queries other than that you lead a really really white life and there is no possible way for you to relate to me.

What is a really really white life?

How would you feel if I said you are a typical minority? What kind of person makes a comment like that other than to insult due to race?

pacino wrote:bipartisanship in NY!:

New York State Senator Malcolm Smith and New York City Councilman Dan Halloran have been arrested as part of a plot to rig the New York City mayor's race.

Smith allegedly tried to bribe leaders of Republican Party county committees around New York City in an attempt to run for mayor as a Republican.


Smith was a registered Democrat.


CBS 2 New York reported other charged people included: Bronx County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Savino, 45; Queens County Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, 46; Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, 49; and Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret, 55.

In a Jan. 25 meeting in Smith's car in Rockland County, the cooperating witness told Smith that buying the help of Republican county committee leaders would cost "a pretty penny" and asked if it's "worth any price," the complaint said.


The FBI said Smith responded: "Look, talk to me before you close it. But it's worth it. Because you know how big a deal it is."

Werthless wrote:What is a really really white life?

Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that would ban those receiving government assistance from using their electronic benefits (EBT) cards at strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores.

Florida’s House Healthy Families Subcommittee on Wednesday approved a House bill, HB 701, introduced by Republican state Rep. Jimmie Smith to that end.

Those enrolled in food assistance programs or on temporary cash assistance generally access those benefits via EBT cards, which work like a credit or debit card.
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Last April an Action News Jacksonville investigation revealed that some Floridians have been using their EBT cards at ATMs in strip clubs, bars and gambling facilities.

Update: An earlier version of this story referenced the bill as filed. The provision banning EBT use in gun shops was stripped out in committee.

td11 wrote:Why not just ignore my posts in this thread then?

A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide.

The legislation grew out of a dispute between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. In a federal lawsuit filed last month, the ACLU says the board has opened 97 percent of its meetings since 2007 with explicitly Christian prayers.
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House Bill 494, a resolution filed by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, would refuse to acknowledge the force of any judicial ruling on prayer in North Carolina – or indeed on any Constitutional topic:

Werthless wrote:What is a really really white life?

With the help of FMS, Inc. a Virginia-based software and database developing firm, NBC2 individually sorted through 1.3 million transactions made from 2009 to April, 2011, totaling $201.8 million dollars.

NBC2 found $190,733 withdrawn inside locations like liquor stores, strip clubs, bowling alleys, bars and bingo parlors. The majority of the establishments had state liquor licenses. (see where this money was withdrawn in the charts below the story)

Houshphandzadeh wrote:if the cost/benefit isn't worth it, fine, but I don't think it's unjust

td11 wrote:here's the story that broke the news.

With the help of FMS, Inc. a Virginia-based software and database developing firm, NBC2 individually sorted through 1.3 million transactions made from 2009 to April, 2011, totaling $201.8 million dollars.

NBC2 found $190,733 withdrawn inside locations like liquor stores, strip clubs, bowling alleys, bars and bingo parlors. The majority of the establishments had state liquor licenses. (see where this money was withdrawn in the charts below the story)

we're talking about 0.0009% of the total amount of transactions. so yeah, pretty reasonable

pacino wrote:what, a poor person can't go bowling once in a while?

in any event, once it's in their hands, it's their money. that's my view.