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Hello,

Thank you for the comment. I am not sure which picture you mean? The first two photos were taken by CMD, and the final was sent out as an email by 350.org to everyone that attended the event.

Best,
Sara

I don't know why you consider following the rules for voter registration 'harder'. Not knowing what the process is makes it seem harder, possibly. My daughter filled out the paperwork (very easy), presented her information (a couple of bills with her address & her drivers ID) to the county and had the Voter ID card within a week. I do not believe in suppressing votes, I just believe that if rules are in place people should follow them.

How about getting to the unregistered voter base two months before the elections? That way they can get the proper information necessary to register. Make it easy for them. Maybe more time should be spent figuring out why people aren't even interested in voting. How do you motivate an apathetic crowd of people to get involved?? I've tried with the folks I know, they feel as though their vote doesn't count, so why bother..that is what I meant with the electoral college comment.

Regardless, this post was about Walker & Voter ID laws, I tend to agree with him on this particular issue. People should follow the rules and be a part of this Great Country.

I am sorry, but are you kidding me? Look at our history...it is filled with this. Weve done it in Nicaragua, Cuba, etc. etc. and were still doing it. Rebels dressed up as our troops? come on now...

Thanks for your comments.
I've been organic for years, depending on farmers markets in the northwest.
I have gone to whole foods and recently asked about corn on the cob for sale.
I was told it COULD be gmo and that whole foods caters to a wide range of people with different wants.
I knew then that it was a lost cause.
All is run for and by money at this time so we organic humans are fighting a real battle.
I will go to the food in sight website to see what they offer, thanks.

Don't kid yourself, Amazed...both parties are just as corrupt. You need to find an unbiased view/website to gather your information and good luck with that. Read about George Soros or Acorn, to get an idea of Dem shenanigans. Or go to Rootstrikers website, an unbiased website about lobbying. Men (women) are men and no matter where you are you will find corruption.

Aside from that, as a peon in this country I find that people registering to vote prior to the election should be a rule. It's ridiculous to think that a bunch of people can just show up and register 'on' the day. My daughter voted for the first time this year and I made sure she went through the proper registration procedures weeks prior to the election. If someone has just moved and not changed their license nor gotten any mail with their current address how can they even prove that they are eligible to vote. These are the usual requirements where I live.

In the long run does it even matter if we vote??? The electoral college ultimately votes the president in... Herein lies the apathy among many citizens.

Amazed, most of the people I know (both party types) here in America don't want to invade ANY countries, we want peace for all and would hope that whomever those people are would find it themselves. We hear just as much 'sickening' stuff going on in Europe and the Middle East - life is hard for all of us.

The voters are Sheep-ple. They don't use their brains...just go along with any name recognition they have. They vote in one party, when PO’ed at that party they vote in the other party without any reasoning and so on and so on. They never check facts or even know who their local legislators are. They know more about the reality “stars” of Jersey Shores and "Dancing... Stars" then about the legislators who make their laws and/or make or break their constituents!
Use your brains voters; know your history, know your current events so we don’t keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again and doom ourselves to failure.

The news that BoA, like many others, is withdrawing from ALEC is welcome news indeed. However, it only means the relationship has been exposed to the light of day and now needs to be determined to what deeper hole they and the others are now scurrying to. I would find it quite hard to believe it is being done out of any sense of moral conscience, altruism, or a born again faith. Else wise, why not make a public statement? IMHO.

To learn more about Bank of America's record, you can see our SourceWatch entry here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bank_of_America

"Get board [sic] and wander off" sounds like "There's nothing to see here, folks." But "STFU" strongly suggests just the opposite. So we're not going wander off or STFU. Sorry.

Dear Rep. Ulery:

With all due respect, it is your description that is misleading and specious.

The focus of the bill is plainly on repealing state commitments to invest in and rely on renewable energy to meet a portion of the energy needs of a state's citizens. The obvious beneficiary of "repeal[ing] the renewable energy mandate" is the fossil fuel industry, which has been given numerous "competitive advantages" through government subsidies over many years.

In publicly available documents, you have been identified as a State Chairman for ALEC for New Hampshire.

Under ALEC's public bylaws, you have a "duty" to advance ALEC's legislative agenda in your home state.

Your public record in the statehouse demonstrates that you have done so repeatedly, on numerous measures that hurt the rights of Granite state citizens and advance the agenda of ALEC's private sector members.

You have also attended ALEC meetings at taxpayer expense, meetings where such bills are crafted and promoted to be introduced and made into law.

It is thus not surprising to see that you are attempting to defend this particular ALEC bill.

If your opposition to "unfair competitive advantages" were a matter of principle, you would be on record supporting a repeal of the $4 billion dollars in subsidies to the oil industry, an industry whose top three U.S. companies had a combined profit of over $80 billion last year alone.

A public records check reveals your silence on that matter.

Thank you, however, for sharing your claim with us.

Lisa Graves

The big money behind ALEC, the Koch brothers, are unlikely to scatter in the harsh glare of negative publicity. Their fortunes, $31 billion each for David H. and Charles de Ganahl Koch, render them impervious to public opinion.

"Your probablity of getting some sort of lung or other health ailement is much higher if you wait at a bus stop every day, commute in highway traffic for long hours with the windows open (or in a car without a cabin air filter), work in any sort of manufacturing that includes industrial chemicals. Why does the government not go after all that? "

What??? Government DOES go after car emissions, has rules against CO(carbon monoxide) leaking into the cabin, as well as limits on industrial chemicals in the natural environment!

And then you make the claim that government doesn't do any of the above because "going after industry would be bad for business". Erhh...uh. You better go back to Cato Inst. website so you can read up on who and what it is your supposed to believe as a 'good' libertarian. Because assuming that government is on the side of industry is what those nasty environmentalist-types believe, not you! No, No! Libertarians believe gub'mint /interferes/ with industry....that it is the natural enemy of free markets.