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The 114th Congress: Two More Years!

dxmnkd316

dxmnkd316

Lucia Apologist
This was the issue in the license plate case that came up a year or two ago before SCOTUS. The Court found that license plates were the government's speech, not the driver's, and the state could limit, our allow, pretty much whatever it deemed appropriate.
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Technically, yes, but they already allow the Confederate Flag in these cemeteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_of_Honor

I'm sure this will be challenged in court and, while you're right about government speech, it is going to be challenged on what people are allowed to place on the graves themselves.
 
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Wouldn't it just be easier to get rid of the whole vanity plate system? I could never understand why you would want to have that...
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
I could never understand why you would want to have that...
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The kind of people who get vanity plates, are often the same kind of people who plaster their car with bumperstickers. It all boils down to this:

<img src="http://rlv.zcache.com/i_have_opinions_about_things_bumper_sticker-rbb1bd950dc6e492da70ce54bb457e685_v9wht_8byvr_324.jpg"</img>
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The kind of people who get vanity plates, are often the same kind of people who plaster their car with bumperstickers. It all boils down to this:

<img src="http://rlv.zcache.com/i_have_opinions_about_things_bumper_sticker-rbb1bd950dc6e492da70ce54bb457e685_v9wht_8byvr_324.jpg"</img>
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In Alaska vanity plates are only like $40 so every third car has them.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
In Alaska vanity plates are only like $40 so every third car has them.
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When I lived in NC they were no extra charge so everybody had one. I lived in between FLEX IT and ATI2UDE. That was 20 years ago and I still remember, so I guess they're effective.
 
Kepler said:
When I lived in NC they were no extra charge so everybody had one. I lived in between FLEX IT and ATI2UDE. That was 20 years ago and I still remember, so I guess they're effective.
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They are minimally more money here in NH. My husband and I have matching ones that are a play on our last name. Prior to that, I had bstnewe. They're fun (and ubiquitous up here).
 
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Thought about them for the Miata, decided nah for now.

Think you're allowed 7 characters in CO - might go with THEANSR (the answer is always Miata.)
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
Wouldn't it just be easier to get rid of the whole vanity plate system? I could never understand why you would want to have that...
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Money maker for the state. They are really popular here. I have one that is a variation of "hiker" and our other car has the name of the unorganized township (twp ##) our camp is in..
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Al Franken is seriously one of the best people who works on the Hill. He's really won me over. I'm hoping I remember to listen to this later, work blocks it here as well.
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He is supposedly one of the very few Members who is universally respected by his colleagues of both parties. His staffers would also run through a wall for him, which is equally rare.

Apparently he is just flat out a good guy who also got elected. So it does happen once or twice a century.
 
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Ok, so I'm listening to Soundcloud on my phone. This is a really, really good discussion/interview. He is so level-headed, pragmatic, and informed. Unlike many from the GOP, he's also avoiding logical fallacies and well, being an idiot.
 
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Really weird FL race gets even weirder.

The Grayson wedding adds more drama to the 9th Congressional District race, in which Grayson’s former aide and political hand, Susannah Randolph, had been laying the groundwork for the seat. But then she learned last year that her boss’s girlfriend wanted to run and that he would back her.

“I’m speechless,” Randolph, who hadn’t heard the word of the representative’s intentions at the time, told POLITICO May 5, 2015.

At the time, Grayson hadn’t officially announced for U.S. Senate and was starting to get into an increasing number of scraps with fellow Democrats and reporters.

Grayson was also involved in a messy bigamy case*, in which he prevailed, and soon faced ethics questions over a hedge fund he ran.
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* Because why not?

Grayson has been on Bill Maher a few times and he's erudite and shrewd. But good lord his personal life is a hot mess.

Last May, the Congressman was embroiled in a messy divorce with his wife of 24 years, whom he accused of bigamy and called a “gold digger.” This year, he’s just married a candidate running to replace him in the 9th Congressional District. Aw!

Grayson accused his then-wife Lolita of bigamy during their divorce proceedings, which were infamously delayed when one of her breast implants sprang a leak. Lolita, meanwhile, accused Alan Grayson of neglect, saying he’d cut off much of her financial access and abandoned her and their four children in a house filled with mold.
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Every time I hear that dude speak I cringe...I hated him on Maher.
 
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