ALEC CROW - 21st Century Disenfranchisement
Image by DonkeyHotey
The American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, brings together corporations and legislators to write legislation prior to submitting it to local legislative bodies across the United States. This technique is being used to produce legislation that benefits corporate interests over the interests of local residents. You see these laws causing political chaos in Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida and many other states. One of the ALEX projects includes efforts to limit voter participation by various means and thus drive down Democratic votes. These activities disenfranchise voters through Voter ID requirements, restricting college student voting, disenfranchising persons with prison records, manipulating the voting process and more. These laws have a greater impact on minorities, the elderly and the poor.
According to SourceWatch, ALEC has received funding from Koch Industries, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the Scaife family Allegheny Foundation, the Coors family Castle Rock Foundation, and more.
Read more about ALEC via Google.
Wikipedia: "The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly 'separate but equal' status for black Americans." "Between 1890 and 1910, ten of the eleven former Confederate states, starting with Mississippi, passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites through a combination of poll taxes, literacy and comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements."
The "Jim Crow" illustration used in this political cartoon was originally published between 1835 and 1845 and is available via the Library of Congress. "Print shows African American man in tattered clothes walking or dancing as a couple of animals dressed as humans stroll alongside a river with a steamboat and sailboat."
20101229 - Christmas gifts - photo box, McDonald's Frankie The Fish, space shooters, reisling wine, gummy face, spiderman plates and napkins, projector - IMG_2549
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Clint is now obsessed with Frankie the Fish. Since we do not watch commercials, he missed it when the craze went around originally. :) The singing fish was hung up in our small bathroom right as Clint's birthday party started, driving everyone insane by the end of the night.
The gummy face was very creepy. It actually felt like you were eating a face. Everything was contoured pretty perfectly. The plastic it laid on top of was skull shaped, which affected how it felt a bit. We ate the eyes out first, and then simulated our simulation of the cheek-pulling-off scene from Ichi The killer (Carolyn's cheek was sore for days).
Those space guns are going to be fun at X-Day this year.
The Santa outfit didn't fit Carolyn's mom's dog, Willy, so she stuck it in for our cats, but it didn't fit Lemonjello, and barely fit Oranjello.
The Family Guy pens are interesting in that they have a Family Guy joke on them, but the joke changes when you click the pen. Very weird.
Some friends of ours have this same projector, and said it's decent, but you can see every pixel, and they all go to white after a few hours. Still trying to figure out the best use for this. It is too low res to ever use for primary watching, but it could be really awesome for atmosphere. But we already have a proprietary Ambilight system on our computer, so it would need to provide ambiance elsewhere. Perhaps downstairs, for parties? Or maybe on our bedroom ceiling, if the computer in there has the right outputs?
Only got one skull this year, a wooden one. Which is fine, because it's hard to find places for everything.
These weird custom-shaped rubber bands are apparently all the rage. I don't understand. But Simpsons are pretty cool, so neat.
Oranjello keeps kneading Carolyn's new scarf. This is a sexual masturbatory pleasure thing for him, so she has to hang it up where he can't get to it.
Getting the DVD of the next Tim & Eric season is quite awesome, as we usually haven't seen their DVD extra, which are often Grade A hilarity.
And the 3 restaurant gift cards will be used, as usual, for Clint's birthday, our anniversary/Valentine's day (10th/14th), and Carolyn's birthday.
Family Guy pens, McDonald's commercial, Santa outfit, Simpsons rubber bands, Spider-Man napkins, Spider-Man plates, Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! DVD, Transformers pendant, Transformers stickers, bottle stopper, box, candles, cat bottle, coasters, fillet o' fish, gift cards, gummy face, pepper shaker, projector, salt shaker, scarf, singing fish, space, wood skull.
TV show: Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. cartoon: The Simpsons. comics: Spider-Man. movie: Family Guy.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
December 26, 2010.
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20120603 - yardsale booty - 0 - our full haul - IMG_4279
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
Our booty. Major haul today. Major. This stuff cost .75 total (plus .57 for the gas we used). But it's worth about 9.72, so our money was multiplied by 9.86X. Works out to 6/hr in savings!
Dear Flickr: Y U NO ALLOW MORE THAN 75 TAGS? I have 179 tags on this. Now i have to pick my favorite 41% and manually tag them, because the API won't accept 179 and thus rejects them all? Phooey.
24 CTU Undercover board game, Baby Half Note My Little Pony, Blink card game, Cotton Candy My Little Pony, Craps dice game, Craps gambling game, Cthulhu 2 Call Of Cowthulhu Munchkin card game, DVD player, Family Night board game, Firefly My Little Pony, Joker action figure, My First Amazing Board Game board game, Nanofictionary card game, Pictureka board game, R2D2 action figure, Rock Band microphone, Roulette gambling game, Silver Surfer action figure, Spider-Man action figure, Sundance My Little Pony, Sunlight My Little Pony, USB microphone, Yamaha PSR180 keyboard, battery charger, battery jumper, book, dolly, dvds, electric blanket, electric snuggie, engine starter, keyboard stand, light, microphone stand, paint, pez, pez Batman dispenser, plastic bins, putting cup, putting green, putting trainer, pyrex dishes, pyrex lids, rice cooker, rosemary, sleeping inflatable mat, solar lights, steel wool, table top, towing mirrors, tub seal, wireless adapter.
Blink. Craps. Family Night. Munchkin-Cthulhu 2 Call Of Cowthulhu. My First Amazing Board Game Book. Nanofictionary. Pictureka. Roulette. TV show: Mr. Show. cartoon: 24 CTU Undercover. cartoon: Space Ghost Coast To Coast. cartoon: Spaced. comics: Batman. movie: Jackass. movie: Orgazmo. movie: Star Wars. movie: Super Troopers.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 3, 2012.
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BACKSTORY: Full report of this yard sale expedition can be found at: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/journal-yard-sales-2012...
But in summary: 6hr33min trip of 69.1mi spending .32 on gas & 75 purchases worth 6.40. 6.17/hr saved.
The best laid plans
Image by Graela
The whole doodlegirl series can be seen on this page.
www.flickr.com/photos/alaig/3324265532/in/set-72157614386...
On Top of Mount Fuji
Image by Robert of Fairfax
Elena's caricature of Arthur on top of Mount Fuji.
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