Is American democracy dead?

In America, where we like to tout democracy like the greatest thing since apple pie, you'd hope we'd have this whole "voting" thing figure out. But then the 2000 election showed that people didn't know how the fill out ballots. Now a report comes out that there are 1.8 DEAD million people registered to vote in this country.

What does that mean? Well if a zombie ever runs for president, they'll definitely get the "dead" vote which is probably more potent than the "under 25 college student know it all but is too high or lazy to vote" demographic.

Here's a bit from Gawker...

The Director of Pew's Election Initiatives, David Becker, told Politico that the center's findings did not suggest any voter fraud or voter suppression stemmed from these problems. But, jeez, it really doesn't look good, right?

Voting registration systems in many states are still paper-based, meaning that election offices must perform vast quantities of data-entry by hand. These methods, Pew found, are as costly, error-ridden, and inefficient as they are quaint.

Over one-fourth of the country that is eligibly to vote isn't even registered, meaning that our American democracy is about as healthy as our American waistlines. I'm totally sure that those 51 million Americans that aren't registered never complain about the government, their leaders, how life in America is or how stupid it is we celebrate Whitney Houston's death over the death of America soldiers with clever Facebook postings. Nope not a single one... (That's sarcasm if you didn't pick up on it.)

Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick Should've Been Executed

Fox News host Tucker Carlson made some very extreme remarks yesterday in regards to President Obama's support of quarterback Michael Vick's stunning second chance. Carlson said that he thought Vick "should have been executed" for what he did.

Obama recently called Eagles' owner Jeffrey Lurie. Obama condemned Vick's crimes but praised the Eagles organization for showing faith in giving someone a second chance.

In no way do I agree with what Vick did or in anyway like what he did, but to kill him for it? He served the punishment that the judge gave to him and now must live with his actions for the rest of his life.

And the part that caught my attention the most about this video is how Carlson starts with the way over used, "I'm a Christian..." to condone his following statement.



What do you think about Carlson's comments? Agree with him, disagree with him, tired of hearing about Vick, leave us a comment!

I've noticed something about the Supreme Court nominee

Elena Kagan...

and Kevin James...

Hmmmm....

People I just simply refuse to talk to

Here are people that as soon as they start talking to me, I shut down as a functioning social human being.

(1) People that try to convince me that the Seattle Mariners on a good team and getting Ken Griffey Jr. was a solid roster move.

(2) When starting a conversation, they ask if you're a republican or democrat. And judging by the "Hang George W. Bush" t-shirt and dreadlocks, you'd better say democrat otherwise you'll be called a "baby killer."

(3) Anyone who calls me "bra" or "broseph" and is wearing two pink polo shirts with popped collars. He's also got a sun tan that was applied with a magic marker.

(4) Somebody who has a pro-life t-shirt on but is hurling bricks at doctors walking into an abortion clinic. Something tells me that doesn't exactly fit into the whole idea of "saving lives" when somebody has to be carted away in an ambulance.

(5) Yankee fans, who along with their New York jersey, they're also wearing a Cleveland Indians hat.

(6) People who want to save the planet but are handing out a pile of fliers that was made from an entire rainforest in Columbia.

(7) Any politician trying to shake my hand. They probably have swine flu or some STD they got from their mistress.

(8) Anyone dressed like a pilgrim trying to get me to turn away from Islam and worship the savior. That they automatically assume I'm Muslim is rather odd.

(9) Rush Limbaugh.