8/13: Assaulting Athletes, Commuters, Candidates
• There are plenty of red-diaper doper babies in the Big Apple, but thankfully there are one or two of them with a smitten of common sense. Instead of whining about a rouge government, the New York Civil Liberties Union ought to be pissed off at terrorists that make bag searches a good idea to most Americans.
• While I’m on the subject of terrorists, what’s the big deal here? Maybe these fine Middle Eastern men have big families, thus needing 1,000 cell phones. After all, what is little Abdul to do when Jihad Camp lets out early? You actually expect him to wait out by the street with all the unholy swine? Why, that’s one of the worst things you can do to… come on, you know the rest.
• It’s bad enough NFL players have to worry about on-the-field injuries during training camp, practices and preseason games. Now they have to fret about renegade mascots driving golf carts?
• Woah. Heath Shuler is running for office. Too bad he’s a Democrat. Oh, and those six words “Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi” do strike enough fear into me that I would probably vote for a Republican I don’t care for over a conservative Democrat in a Congressional race. Good thing I’m satisfied with my GOP Rep. Tim Murphy.
• Last night I got a recorded phone call from Samuel L. Jackson telling me to go see “Snakes on a Plane.” Alrighty then.
• Is there nobody out there that the Bush Administration doesn’t disenfranchise? I’d be curious to know how much of a percentage of votes Nevada gets with its “none of the above” option.
Court Nixes Man's Middle Name for Ballot
A man running for governor and the U.S. Senate does not have the right to use his middle name, "None of the Above," on the November ballot, a court ruled Friday.
David Gatchell filed a lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court after the State Election Commission voted to nix his middle name from the ballot. The court handles lawsuits against state agencies.
Chancellor Carol McCoy ruled that Gatchell's attempt to add an issue- oriented notification on the ballot is against Tennessee law. McCoy also said the state has no constitutional requirement to place candidates' full names on ballots.
Gatchell, who changed his middle name from Leroy, said he planned to appeal.
He argues that a number of state gubernatorial candidates _ such as Walt "Combat" Ward and Carl "Twofeathers" Whitaker _ have been allowed to include their nicknames on ballots, and that his middle name has been widely reported by news media and is known across the Internet.
Janet Kleinfelter, an assistant attorney general representing the Election Commission, warned of a slippery slope of allowing candidates to call themselves whatever they want.
Gatchell, 58, also ran as an independent in the 2002 governor's race on the platform that Tennessee election ballots should include a "None of the Above" choice for voters who don't care for any of the candidates. He won less than 1 percent of the vote.
Nevada is the only state to offer a choice of "None of the Above," beginning in 1976. The option is nonbinding _ it's only to serve as a gauge of public opinion and could never win an election.
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