{"id":29967,"date":"2012-08-28T07:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29967"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T12:09:48","slug":"soros-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29967","title":{"rendered":"Soros Cried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats who a few months back were praising Chief Justice Roberts for his judicial restraint in respecting the intent of Congress are sniveling like stuck cats that the Supreme Court of Minnesota (SCOM) didn&#8217;t find a penumbra emanating from Alida Messinger&#8217;s visage forcing them to accept their masters&#8217; complaints without question.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits by the ACLU, the League of Women Voters and <del>Alida&#8217;s Cause<\/del> Common Cause \u00a0claimed on the one hand that the Voter ID law was just too complicated and not clear enough for public-educated Minnesotans to understand, and on the other than Mark Ritchie had the right to make both measures more complicated and less clear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25707\" title=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may be a cynic, but I&#8217;m frankly amazed the judges disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the pro-gay-marriage and pro-vote-corruption forces need to do something neither has been able to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The anti-Marriage-Amendment forces need to show the voters a case for changing the definition of traditional marriage a little more convincing than &#8220;vote no or you are teh bigot&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The pro-fraud forces need to convince Minnesotans that while buying cigarettes or getting a job or buying ammunition or starting a bank account requires that we know someone is exactly who they say they are, exercising our supposedly-precious franchise does not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll await the usual logic-free liberal arguments on both.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Mir. D has an excellent piece on the subject at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/45-limited-governement\/legislation\/20085-supremes-spank-secstate-what-we-ve-learned.html\"><em>True North<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and over at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrdilettante.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/supremes-spank-secstate-ii-what-weve.html\"><em>Neighborhood<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll be honest with you &#8212; the Photo ID amendment matters a lot more to me. We&#8217;ve been round and round on gay marriage and as I&#8217;ve written before, this is a battle that ultimately conservatives are going to lose, mostly because young people are being taught that it is a civil rights issue, especially in the public schools. While I don&#8217;t agree with that, the view will prevail and most of the constitutional amendments that are passing in the various states will eventually go away, probably within 10-20 years. At that point we&#8217;ll begin the unwitting longitudinal study that will eventually reveal, years after most readers of this feature are pushing up daisies, whether or not gay marriage is a good idea or not. My future grandchildren and great-grandchildren (God willing) will get to suss that one out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/45-limited-governement\/legislation\/20085-supremes-spank-secstate-what-we-ve-learned.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Photo ID amendment is much more important, because it goes the integrity of elections. Voter suppression is the usual charge you hear, but as a practical matter the real issue is multiple votes and illegal votes. The challenge is getting local election officials and prosecutors, who are partisans, to take such things seriously. Minnesota Majority identified 1,099 cases of felons voting in the Franken\/Coleman election and over 200 cases have been either adjudicated or are in the process of being investigated. The rest aren&#8217;t going to see the light of day because the local prosecutors can&#8217;t be bothered. Franken won the election by on 312 votes&#8230;Now the amendments go for a vote. I expect Photo ID to win easily. The marriage amendment will be close. Opponents of both amendments will have ample opportunity to state their case. They just can&#8217;t depend on Mark Ritchie to keep his thumb on the scale this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there&#8217;s the victory for real justice.<\/p>\n<p>And I never believed the SCOM or Minnesota law had it in &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats who a few months back were praising Chief Justice Roberts for his judicial restraint in respecting the intent of Congress are sniveling like stuck cats that the Supreme Court of Minnesota (SCOM) didn&#8217;t find a penumbra emanating from Alida Messinger&#8217;s visage forcing them to accept their masters&#8217; complaints without question. 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