It's Called Disenfranchisement

This is an expansion of the last item from last night's newswrap--and it deserves a post. EVERYWHERE. Treating some nuns like convicted felons--that's no way to show the world what democracy is supposed to look like:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.

The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway.

“One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, 'I don't want to go do that,”' Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.

Yes, they're getting away with it. Yes, it's what they have been planning since the first day Bradley Schlozman showed his putrid mug to the public after law school. All courtesy of your Bush Appointed Supreme Court.

Explain to me again how a country that turns away old women who want to vote can lecture the world on anything anymore? Do you remember those pictures of old women in Iraq, holding up their purple fingers?



We are a nation that sends an army halfway around the world to fight an endless war on behalf of those old women in Iraq--just so they can vote and not complain while we line up the means to take their oil. We are a nation that empties the National Guard units in Indiana to do all of this--just so those nuns can be turned away without voting. All of this is the conservative wet dream, writ large, and it is destroying our country.

Did you know both Obama and Clinton voted AGAINST John Roberts being confirmed as Chief Justice? And that they both voted AGAINST the confirmation of Justice Alito? Those are some votes to be proud of. And for an excellent, older article on the mental depradations of a certain Justice Scalia, here's a little light reading for you...

UPDATE I - PALE RIDER

As always, you gotta go to the Brad Blog for the real story--the new law in Indiana might have disenfranchised 43,000 people...

And don't forget skippy, too...

John Roberts Calls Out McCain

Yesterday Senator John McCain (Insane - Arizona) made the ludicrous statement that there are neighborhoods in Baghdad where he could take an unescorted stroll, and that General Pertaeus tools around Baghdad in an unarmored humvee.

Today, John Roberts called his delusional ass on it. “I checked with General Petraeus’s people overnight and they said he never goes out in anything less than an up-armored humvee.” (Make that an up-armored humvee that’s in the middle of a bunch of other up-armored humvees that are heavily armed; and throw in a few choppers overhead acting as eyes – and arms – in the sky. That's more like it. After all, it isn't like Leavenworth has another *counterinsurgency expert* waiting in the wings.)

Confronted with irrefutable evidence that he was utterly full of shit…Insane McCain did the Republican thing - he denied he had said it. “Well, I’m not saying they could go without protection. The President goes around America with protection. So, certainly I didn’t say that.”

WTF? That, like, made no fucking sense.

Change the name of the bus to the Straight Jacket Express. The dude is fucking nuts.

Michael Ware, CNN’s Baghdad correspondent – who has lived in the city for the last four war-torn years – said yesterday that McCain’s ridiculous comments were derided, and met with “laughter down the line.”