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Drudge wrote:

FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNS INSIDE POLLING PLACE
Thu Oct 14 2010 16:19:25 ET

First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place!
The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote.

After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key.
She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.
"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.
According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place INSIDE the voting center, not far from the booths.
Illinois state law -- Sec. 17-29 (a) -- states: "No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place [or] within 100 feet of any polling place."
A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.
"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING

When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama's campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.
"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.

Developing...

SenorToenails wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

I suggest you slow down and do 70 or you will...get violated!

lol, what a tard.  He should've written the guy a ticket anyway.

I'm thinking it has to be a spoof of Super Troopers or something. Can't understand why all the comments are like 'this makes me ashamed to be an American' etc. He was breaking the law by quite a bit.

The dude was breaking the law--which is why he should have gotten a ticket.  That cop was also a jerkass, which is unrelated to the original offense.

As far as youtube comments go...

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png

tuckergustav wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/12/shweeb.urban.transport/index.html

article wrote:

(CNN) -- Living in Tokyo, Japan, during the late '90s, Geoffrey Barnett found it extremely difficult -- even dangerous -- to ride his bicycle to work every day.

"The traffic is incredible, and there's so much pollution," said Barnett, an Australian who worked in the city as an English teacher.

His students shared his frustration, and they would often talk about Tokyo's jam-packed streets during class.

"It was always a topic of discussion that motivated the students to talk, because it was a part of their life as well," Barnett recalled.

Out of those frequent discussions evolved Barnett's idea for Shweeb, a system of personal, pedal-powered monorail pods that he hopes can one day become an alternative form of urban transit. With Shweeb, pods hang from an elevated track that, theoretically, would stretch to destinations throughout a city.

"Cumbersome, jammed-up cities of today should be rendered into completely accessible worlds once you've got a way to shoot over the traffic," said Barnett, who derived the name Shweeb from the German word "schweben," which means to hang, hover or float. He left Tokyo in 2000 to design a prototype.

Barnett's vision received a significant boost last month when Google awarded Shweeb $1 million for research and development. Shweeb was one of five winners of Project 10^100, Google's "call for ideas to change the world."

So, this seems like a silly idea...why not just look for ways to reduce the congestion in cities?

FEOS wrote:

Methinks we'll hear crickets from all but Fox on this one.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:

ladyhackers are a lie.

Seriously, gender ratios in CS classes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng

are you implying the media might be lying to me?!

I hate to break it to you, but Jurassic Park is not a documentary.

eleven bravo wrote:

today is supposed to be the day of the biggest leak of military data in history

Mekstizzle wrote:

China is apparently blocking shipments of rare earth metals to the US. They control about 97% of the trade according to the BBC. I don't get it, how do countries get themselves into these situations. I read somewhere that the US does have deposits just that it's much more economically viable to get it all from China. Well at least the PRC is helping the US develop by making them go back to mining for their own shit again. I guess the whole world could do with less reliance on assholes and more independence/security.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11581288

Same as when Russia started blocking gas to Western Europe, it adds incentive to stop having to rely on dickheads. It's always a win-win when shit like this happens, maybe not so much for countries with zero aspiration (third world countries that rely on handouts) but for innovative parts of the world it opens up alot of things.

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-10-20 07:11:10)

Dilbert_X wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Shit that's mined here is much more expensive to buy. It will drive up prices.

Its very expensive indeed if it simply doesn't exist in the ground in the US.

Mekstizzle wrote:

I read somewhere that the US does have deposits just that it's much more economically viable to get it all from China.

Dilbert_X wrote:

I read somewhere that the US does have deposits just that it's much more economically viable to get it all from China.

I've been reading the mining and minerals press for a while now, pretty sure China has the only significant and recoverable deposits, maybe Russia has some too.