Online story: "Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -- despite a coalition's call to stop the process or prepare for court. * In the last three weeks alone, the Florida secretary of state's office has identified and started to purge what it says are at least 50,000 dead voters from the state's rolls and stripped out about 7,000 convicted felons. Officials at the same time are defending a more controversial plan to remove as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state's voter rolls. * “Florida has a very shameful history of purging minority voters based on false information before presidential elections,” said Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, director of voter protection projects for the Advancement Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to protect voter rights. " -- "Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez, director of voter protection projects for the Advancement Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to protect voter rights. "? If MS Culliton-Gonzalez was concerned about protecting voter rights, she would be working WITH Florida officials to make sure non-eligible people were QUICKLY purged from the voter lists so legitimate voters' rights would be protected! --- L-E headline/story: "Christian Jordanian woman sues her Muslim employer * A Christian Jordanian woman said Sunday she is suing her Gulf Arab employer for arbitrary dismissal after she refused a new dress code forcing her to cover her head." -- In sharia law, it's a different kind of justice when one has her head handed to her. Hope she filed in a California Court. --- Online headline: "Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Unwillingness To Compromise " -- First of all, Simpson is a FORMER Republican who was rejected because of his unwillingness to stand his ground on important issues. No one wins in compromise, but the person who caves in the slightest on his values loses then, and will lose more the next time he compromises further. --- Online headline/story: "Ohio Casinos' Opening Cutting Into Winnings For Neighboring States * TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The opening of casinos in Ohio this spring means the luck is running out for neighboring states that have pulled in an estimated $1 billion each year from gamblers who've been crossing the border to wager at riverboats in Indiana, gaming tables in Michigan and casinos in western Pennsylvania. * With more Ohioans staying home to gamble, those states stand to lose millions in tax revenues that help pay for new schools, college scholarships, roads and bridges. * Indiana alone estimates it will lose as much as $100 million in tax revenue in the first year after all four of Ohio's casinos are operating. * "We were shockingly successful in the early years," said Luke Kenley, a state senator who's a key member of Indiana's budget committee. "But other states have chipped away at us."" -- Government mentality will destroy us all! Indiana State Senator Kenley sums up the greatest injustice, the greatest harm open gambling brings upon our social and fiscal growth... people who can't afford to gamble are running out of money, and can neither sustain their habit/hobby, and will become dependent on the state to exist. --- L-E story: "NEW YORK — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it’s now a majority viewpoint. Yet in all 32 states where gay marriage has been on the ballot, voters have rejected it. " -- Polls just prove that 'figures don't lie, but liars figure a lot'. What the polls reveal is that most people respect individual privacy, but reject those who want to force their private lives in other people's faces. --- L-E's "Looking back": "Fifty years ago today, May 28, 1962 City’s Crime Rate Lowest in State * Columbus made the best showing among Georgia cities of more than 100,000 population in the FBI’s uniform crime report figures for the first three months of the year." -- My, my, how the times have been a changing. --- L-E story: " ALBANY — School officials are scheduling August hearings for 24 teachers and two principals in southwest Georgia whose contracts weren’t renewed after they were named in Gov. Nathan Deal’s report on test cheating. " -- 24 teachers and 2 principals in one system caught... wonder what the real number is of those who cheated or didn't report what hey saw. 1 teacher/principal cheating is a problem; 24 teachers and 2 principals is an epidemic, that only a mass amputation will curtail. --- From a fellow BCer: Updated potUS Arpege re-election bumper sticker

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