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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

If they want to deal with the problem of underemployment by convicted felons, they just need to pass a law banning the checkbox on employment applications that has to be checked if an applicant has been convicted of a felony.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

Last time, the census taker threatened me with jail for not completing the ACS. I then asked him if his wife had sufficient life insurance on him to be going around making threats like that. He was a dumbass but he got the drift and went away.

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

It' a step up from the way the Catholic Church deals with Popes who need to go.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

The stories are true. His father changed his own name but not Junior's.

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I'm ready.

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

A friend worked as a census taker in West Virginia. Down in the holler, people would point down a road and advise him not to go that way, because census takers never came back when they went down that road.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

The only Constitutionally required part is enumeration.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

We're past that level. The NAZIs kept their IBM supplied cards in a few shoeboxes.

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Daniel_Oriordan's avatar

Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, was behind that. He encouraged as many movies as possible while refusing to let Elvis tour in Europe.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

It figures that they'd gerrymander right-wing San Antonio on to left-wing Austin.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

Or 'news'.

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David Brown's avatar

There's a further story that MLK was assigned a legal name without checking with his father, though that strikes me as more lore than record.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

Never saw the film but I saw the preview and it put me off Elvis for the rest of my life. Everything after the Sun Sessions was crap, anyways.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

Give them your name and lie about everything else. That's apparently what most of my ancestors did.

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sarafina's avatar

I though San Antonio was reliably blue.

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Clark_Nova's avatar

In 2000, they wanted to know how many toilets I had. They seemed to think that 317 wasn't a good answer but I denied them entry to count them.

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