This is a family blog! My thoughts are with your family, especially your son.

Mespo,

Have fun with your kids. I’ve already decided your church is not pure enough for me and I’m starting my own schism. I’m prophet of of the fundamentalist flock of flamenco. We are from Spain and like to dance!

Jill

P.S. Gina uses the same terminology in her posts as Martha. Are they sisters?

But that was incense you lit…right?

The assumption that homeless people would want cigarettes is ludicrous.

To use the homeless to mess with people’s minds with a “chicken or egg” gotcha is sad.

Homeless people do have a home…it is whatever or where ever they reside. In court decision after court decision, they cannot be denied the right to vote.

And what Country would you be from? North Korea? God forbid, any kid make a mistake, since we have in our midst the paragon of propriety, patriotism, and moral certitude–our own Gina! And if you find a truly free and incorrupt election in this Country let me know, even the Supreme Court acknowledges we don’t have anything such as that, nor are we guaranteed it. Now I ‘ll go back to playing with my blocks.

Jill:

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room (or closet.) and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret…” (Matthew 6:5-6 RSV).

Martha,

You present yourself as a follower of the bible, yet you display a contempt for the poor that is unworthy of anyone who makes this claim. Jesus did not honor the rich. He honored the poor. He rebuked those who shunned the poor and said it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kindgdom of heaven. The sermon on the mount does not glorify the wealthy. Again in it, Jesus honors the poor and outcast of society. If you are a follower of Jesus than why do you show contempt for the poor? Jesus instructed his followers to feed and clothe the homeless. Your statment above shows hatred towards the poor.

I worked with ABLE to help anyone who needed a ride to get to the polls. No one was asked to declare who they would vote for or to declare their income before receiving a ride. No one, rich or poor, was given cigarettes.

I like your free speech argument. Maybe he was parodying the rampant legalized bribery cited by Professor Turley. His civil disobedience was free speech in action like (god forbid) flag burning. We’re signing you up for law school–you get it.

You’ve also been elevated to High Falcon of the Church of Ornithology-COO for short. (COO-You know like the sound of the mourning dove.) It’s official, I passed my stick over it while wearing my pointy hat. rafflaw even lit the incense and sprinkled holy water from the bird bath.

martha’s right again (as usual) since she we all know she reads the National Review and regurgitates it to us every day. Those homeless citizens have no right to vote. With the generous Republi-cons in office and managing their social programs, they should just shut up and suffer. We all know they would never vote Democratic voluntarily since the Repubs are still the party of the little man. Banish them I say to the nether regions on command of Good Queen martha of Snotts. And as for that kid (and the rest of us kids here too) having a good time on Ebay, his head on a pike would be too good for him. He should be sentenced to listening to Rush Limbaugh three hours a day, 5 days a week for say one year. That would indoctrinate him in the way of truth and light. Amen.

Dragging homeless to elections to have them vote for a candidate for a pack of cigarettes is fresh in many of our minds yet – it happened most recently in 2000 in Wisconsin when bus loads of homeless were shuttled to the voting booths to vote for the Democratic candidate for a pack of cigarettes.

Buying votes is as old as the Democratic party; that and flattening the tires of the opposition so they cannot run a voters shuttle service for seniors………

Throw the book at this kid and send a messge to the Daily Kos lunatic fringe wackos out there that no longer will responsible respectable Americans allow the Democratic party to buy elections.

Good point and good idea.

To lawyers:

Isn’t this also a free speech issue? I thought he was making a commentary on the state of our politics.

Agree, this prosecutor must really have had a lot of time on his hand!
Meso, I think these idiots GRAVITATE to these jobs.

We should all play the same prank… and all get charged!