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maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:42 pm
by callmeslick
....because I'm starting to think a lot of the loony right wouldn't be able to vote:
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/20 ... i-shelter/
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:43 pm
by callmeslick
and, yes, I'm just freaking kidding.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:44 pm
by Top Gun
Yes, down with sick birds of prey!
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:17 pm
by Spidey
Careful what you wish for…
Plenty of people around here might not pass those tests either.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:18 pm
by Spidey
Top Gun wrote:Yes, down with sick birds of prey!
That would require a space.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:48 pm
by Will Robinson
Maybe all those Guatemalans and Hondurans are just here to take the grade school classes that americans don't want to take.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:49 pm
by Ferno
Well, I wouldn't want any illeagles either. They wouldn't survive beyond two weeks in the wild.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:05 am
by callmeslick
as someone wrote someplace: People can be taught to spell, People can be taught to hate. Apparently, however, it's either one or the other.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:41 am
by Burlyman
Or maybe we should put a sign that reads 'voting is for human cattle' on every voting booth so people would finally understand that politics isn't based on benevolence.
Re: maybe we SHOULD bring the literacy tests back
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:02 am
by callmeslick
do you think it OUGHT to be, Burlyman? To my mind, politics ought to be about GOVERNING and REPRESENTATION of cogent points of view.