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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[werty892]

The same provisions on student voting have also been rolled into a larger omnibus bill, Senate Bill 666, which would also shorten early voting days, ban early voting on evenings and weekends and prohibit same-day registration.

The same provisions on student voting have also been rolled into a larger omnibus bill, Senate Bill 666,

into a larger omnibus bill, Senate Bill 666,

Senate Bill 666,

Senate Bill 666

The end is nigh!

[Sheb]

I also love the other justification. "Listen, we need to save money, and Democracy simply is too expensive. We can't afford it anymore".

I'd love to be Jon Stewart. His script is basically being written at North Carolina's expense.

[RedKing]

They also have a bill in to increase the waiting period for getting a divorce from 1 year to 2, and require every couple filing for a divorce to take a 4-hour course per child on the effects of divorce on children.

Because forcing two people who can't stand to live in the same house together to spend another year together is really going to fix things. Especially in cases of domestic abuse. This one is near and dear to my heart, since I'm in the midst of a divorce.


Oh, and they're also hard at work dealing with vital issues like mandating schools teach cursive handwriting and multiplication tables. Thank God for those small-government conservatives!

I'm pretty sure the next bill will mandate relabelling gas mileage in "furlongs per hogshead". >_<


North Carolina: Proudly marching backwards at the speed of light!

[tryrar]

...So basically, North Carolina just usurped Florida as the country's center for screwball politics? Welp, time to build my bunker and wait for the end of days....

[Max White]

They also have a bill in to increase the waiting period for getting a divorce from 1 year to 2, and require every couple filing for a divorce to take a 4-hour course per child on the effects of divorce on children.

So wait, they are encouraging couples to stay together for the kids while they hate each other?
Didn't we determine some time ago that doing that is actually bad for the child/children in question?

[Sheb]

I'm actually surprised you have a waiting period at all. Why can't you guys just divorce when you want?

Well, at least they're not mandating that married couple have to live together.Yet.

[RedKing]

I'm actually surprised you have a waiting period at all. Why can't you guys just divorce when you want?

Well, at least they're not mandating that married couple have to live together.Yet.

Because FAMILY VALUES.

Yeah, in North Carolina you have to be separated for one year before you can seek a divorce. Ostensibly, it's to give a "cooling-off" period for people to have second thoughts and a chance to reconcile. Thing is, people who are that reasonable, and whose problems are small enough that reconciliation is possible.....probably wouldn't get a knee-jerk divorce in the first place. But whatever....one year is acceptable to me, gives enough time to peacefully disentangle finances, work out custody arrangements, etc. Two years....that's kind of excessive.

It's morbidly amusing that they want a two-year waiting period for a divorce, but zero waiting period to buy a gun. As my sweetheart said to me the other day, if it were up to her there would be a one year waiting period to get married and a one-day waiting period to get divorced.

[Cthulhu]

For the record, cursive is great.  My handwriting has improved a billionfold since I started writing in cursive.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The only bright side is that this is going to make the GOP's resurgence in North Carolina crash and burn come 2014.

[RedKing]

The only bright side is that this is going to make the GOP's resurgence in North Carolina crash and burn come 2014.

Don't be sure about that. I thought the same thing in 2012. They've managed to use their hold on power to redraw the district lines and gerrymander it all to hell, even at the level of state districts. And because they control both chambers of the legislature *and* the Governor's Mansion....yeah, we're pretty much on an express train ride to Hell.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The only bright side is that this is going to make the GOP's resurgence in North Carolina crash and burn come 2014.

Don't be sure about that. I thought the same thing in 2012. They've managed to use their hold on power to redraw the district lines and gerrymander it all to hell, even at the level of state districts. And because they control both chambers of the legislature *and* the Governor's Mansion....yeah, we're pretty much on an express train ride to Hell.

Gerrymandering can be a double-edged sword if you do a bad enough job, and plus, their gerrymandering might well get the courts on them again. I'm mostly hopeful because the GOP Civil War will have spiraled out of control by then, or at least by 2016. Once the far-right and center-right cease to cooperate, we'll be golden.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

their gerrymandering might well get the courts on them again.

But that's not what the courts do anymore. They turn a complete blind eye to partisan gerrymandering. Unless North Carolina ends up breaking the mould on that precedent. Wouldn't hedge bets, though.

OTOH, a schism of GOP hardliners and moderates is the most likely outcome in the long run.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Federal judge directs FDA to sell birth control over-the-counter, FDA not commenting, Justice Department "considering" appeal.

[Bauglir]

"A 12-year-old girl in a New York City school cannot be given an aspirin by her teacher, even if she has a fever. The same girl cannot buy a large soda during lunchtime because Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that it is not good for her. But she can be given a pill, unbeknownst to her parents, that could arguably abort her baby," he said in a statement.

So, the argument goes that 12 year old girls should be having babies then?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

"A 12-year-old girl in a New York City school cannot be given an aspirin by her teacher, even if she has a fever. The same girl cannot buy a large soda during lunchtime because Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that it is not good for her. But she can be given a pill, unbeknownst to her parents, that could arguably abort her baby," he said in a statement.

So, the argument goes that 12 year old girls should be having babies then?

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure abortion is the standard medical recommendation for a pregnant 12-year old. That's an extremely dangerous pregnancy at best.

But more to the point, birth control pills don't cause abortions in any case. Hell, their primary ingredient is a hormone that is present in pregnancy anyway. Maybe if you ate enough to poison yourself or something.