While I think the mail-in-ballots are relatively secure it actually works in dems favor to get rid of them given that more republicans are in sparsely located areas. Of course republicans states have helped here by limiting polling places in cities and increasing polling locations in rural locations but still overall ....
There hasn't been a free/fair election in Russia since 2000 (and many are still skeptical about that). Taking election integrity advice from Vladimir Putin is kinda like going through the local Baptist preacher child molester listings looking for a babysitter for your 9-year-old daughter.
The sad reality may be that the white trash voting for trump don't see anything wrong with child molestation and may even be amenable to it. I think I read about some pedo saying something to the effect of "the child's parent approved so I don't see the issue".
In any case, it was Clarke's brain child and written at the same time as the movie was being created. Better book than movie.Nope, it was a short story "The Sentinel" . The novel came _after_ the movie. I read a lot of AC Clarke as a kid (that and Asimov and James Blish), was a bit of a geek, but lost interest in SF as I got older.
The movie was arguably kind of boring but maybe could be seen as a kind of work of conceptual art rather than a typical SF movie.
The lack of interesting human characters was, I've read, supposed to be a sort of comment on the dehumanised nature of technological man.
All very Neitzchean, apparently.
It looked awesome though - seeing it cold on a big screen, from the better-than-planet-of-the-apes ape costumes, through to the relatively-realistic depiction of space travel, and the very-1960s "acid trip" finale, and the sheer multi-millennia scope of it all, I remember finding it fantastic as a child (who, IIRC, had read things like Rendeovouz with Rama and Childhood's End at that point - not sure the novelisation of the movie had been published yet).
2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) - Wikipedia
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Some of these people do still consider their children as closer to chattel than independent human beings. This is also part of their defense of child marriage, when an older man impregnates a child they think it's only right to sanctify it via marriage. That way it's, you know, "okay in the eyes of the lord" or whatever. They also often don't believe in marital rape (as in, you can't rape your wife, she's your wife and is obligated to you sexually).
"Make this fucker die again. Over and over".
"Why the fuck are we in this asshole's gift shop? Such a pathetic piece of shit, I can't believe so many Americans are so stupid."
www.the-independent.com
Aka steal money and invent some crimes. Just like Russia!
Same soppy little shitheel responsible for cancelling Black History Month observation in federal workplaces is going to have the audacity to say this:
Another Texas rep got in trouble because her DPS escort couldn't keep up with her on her daily walk. Are Texas Rangers hiring Meal Team 6 members nowadays? https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5460036-texas-democrat-threatened-arrest-escort-lost-her/State Rep in Texas is camping out in the the House until next week rather than be assigned a fascist security detail.
Texas Democratic legislator is sleeping in the state Capitol after refusing security escort to leave
State Rep. Nicole Collier said she will remain locked in the Austin statehouse chamber, now outfitted with a mattress and snacks, until the House reconvenes Wednesday morning.www.nbcnews.com
The appropriate answer is to shit on the speakers desk each night.State Rep in Texas is camping out in the the House until next week rather than be assigned a fascist security detail.
Texas Democratic legislator is sleeping in the state Capitol after refusing security escort to leave
State Rep. Nicole Collier said she will remain locked in the Austin statehouse chamber, now outfitted with a mattress and snacks, until the House reconvenes Wednesday morning.
The stupidity of the morons Trump puts in charge of these agencies. They simply have no clue what they are doing.FEMA now requires an email address to register for aid. Because there has never been an emergency where internet access wasn’t impacted.
FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.www.wired.com
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