It's actually a little simpler than that...

The Republican party held the country hostage, demanding as ransom from democrats and increase in poverty among the elderly and the infirm, among other demands which one would have assumed would only be made by a super-villain.

Democrats refused to pay the ransom so the republican party shot the hostage, as it had promised. Now the country is a bit poorer, and our flights are a bit more likely to be delayed.

Basically, John Boehner is the 20th Hijacker.

It's basically a poll tax for poor (often minority) people. Make take the bus to wait in line to pay money (to get an id) to vote. It can take over a week of hassling with bureaucratic to finally be allowed to vote, even though they had been legally eligible for years.

Implemented in a way that every valid voter would automatically recieve the correct ID, there is no problem. The problem is that it was implemented poll-tax style, which violates civil right laws dating back to Jim Crowe.

There are many documented instances of this occurring due to the voter supression laws.

Other times, like in Florida, the republican governor cut early voting and caused 8 hour voting lines, also blocking poor and minority voters.

...because of the racism in West Virgina.

Seriously, the white supremacist dumbfucks have proliferated in West Virginia before and after Obama was elected president.

Who do you think the black folks in West Virginia who see their neighbors supporting white supremacist bullshit are going to vote for?

And after all the racist bullshit in the last election, I don't see how an ethnic minority can ever vote for a republican in the next 30 years.

Thanks to the erosion of unions, as well as a proliferation of anti-worker laws Americans don't have to worry about personal time or their health. In fact, we can't really worry about either.

It's pathetically easy to get American's to forsake their vacations, their personal time, their families in order to pad a sleazy company's bottom line.

Well... they can get another job you say... Well the union busting plantation owners made sure that the vast majority of America's jobs abuse their employees, so you can only choose among bad options.

There are exceptions to every rule, but Americans have been voting against our own interest for at least the last 30.

Don't pat yourself on the back for opening your country up to near slave labor practices.

If gun worshipers really think that the second amendment is an invitation to violently attack Americans and our government, the military probably should train in our cities...

Oh yeah,

Well another woman was killed by her own AR-15 assault rifle, and then had her gun used to murder 20 children.

28 people were killed by guns yesterday, and most of them probably didn't deserve to die.

28 more will die tomorrow. And the next day. Just like every day for the past decade.

Anecdotes prove nothing. Statistics should be analyzed intelligently and acted upon.

28 gun deaths per day is a steep price for our society's inability to distinguish between anecdotes and statistics.

Undercover video of a gun show purchase without a background check

It would seem that you would rather ignore the gun show loophole than do anything to close it.

And I can assure you that no matter how smart Texans think they are, our schools (yes I live in Texas) rank 48th in the country, and Texans really aren't all that bright.

Arrogant, yes. But your average Texan isn't half as smart as he thinks he is.

Do people really not understand that guns can be taken across city and state boundaries?

There is no border between a retarded state like Texas and a sane one like New York. Somebody can simply buy a gun in Texas (using the gun show loophole if necessary) and drive it to any other state.

That means that effectively the entire United States has the same gun laws as the most permissive state.

I mean.. are people really so fucking stupid that they don't understand this??

You could also post shitty Slashdot comments from the bus.

That's got to be worth something...

This kind of music encourages teens to enrich uranium. Just look a these lyrics.

"Topin' all night like a motherfucking physicist.

Now every third world arab nation in the world wanna get with this."

Topin' and Freakin'