Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner".
Tags: adult, allegiance, amendment, America, appeal, candidate, citizenship, constituency, court, decision, Director, election, electorate, foreign, Jamaican, judge, judgment, justice, link, nomination, notice, passport, petition, politics, power, president, representative
NEWS
Court of Appeal’s reasons revealed [updated]
Posted: 2009-03-13 16:23:12
The Court of Appeal cited the role of the electorate in determining a political representative as among its reasons for not awarding the West Portland constituency to the PNP’s Abe Dabdoub.
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In its 82-page written judgement handed down this afternoon, the appeal judges pointed to established precedent for their decision.
..In arriving at their decision to uphold the ruling for a by election, Justices Seymour Panton, Algernon Smith and Karl Harrison relied on the 1977 election case of Mattison v Junor.
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Mar 14 2009
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: America, candidate, efforts, election, opportunity, organization, president, voters
Election Day is Only 20 days Away!
Older Americans vote in greater proportion than any other age group and are a crucial voting block in State Legislative, Congressional and Presidential races.
Candidate debates are one of the best ways for voters to learn about where the candidates stand on critical issues such as quality affordable healthcare and lifetime financial security. As Election Day gets closer, many local organizations will be hosting candidate debates which are an excellent opportunity to ask questions that are important to you.
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Oct 09 2008
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: America, blacks, blessings, candidate, choice, color, earth, God, history, hope, journey, Katrina, life, love, nation, politics, prayer, president, spirit, truth, universe, winner, world
Contributed by a dear friend…
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History was made yesterday when Barack Obama accepted the Democratic party Nomination as it’s candidate for President. A milestone in American His-story! The seed of his historic journey was planted long before yesterday. That seed was Loved and Nurtured along the way by those who were placed along his life path to help him get to this point. It is foolish to think he has done this on his own. He has made choices and those choices have led to those he has surrounded himself with during his journey.
His rise to the top has equaled the shock heard round the world when Ali defeated Sonny Liston to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World. Well Obama has done likewise to the Clintons in a different forum/or arena, American Politics.
He has chosen a path reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. There is no need to go further as to the impact these two American left behind, but we will always often wonder how things may have been.
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Aug 30 2008
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "DID YOU KNOW".
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Because He’s Black
> > This older white guy asked his older black friend,
> ‘Are
> > you voting for
> >
> > Barack Obama just because he’s black’? So the
> older
> > black guy fires
> >
> > back and says, ‘Are you not voting for him because
> > he’s black?
> >
> > “Why can’t I vote for him just because
> he’s
> > black? Hell in this country
> >
> > men are pulled over everyday just because they’re black,
> > passed over for
> >
> > promotions just because they’re black, considered to be
> > criminals just
> >
> > because they’re black, but you don’t seem to have a
> > problem with that!
> >
> > “This country was built with the sweat and whip
> off
> > the slaves back,
> >
> > and now a descendent of those same slaves has a chance
> to
> > lead the same
> > country where we were not even considered to be
> people.
> > Where we
> >
> > Weren’t allowed to be educated, drink from the
> same
> > water fountains, and
> > eat in the same restaurants, or even vote, so you damn
> > right I’m going
> > to vote for him!”
> >
> > “Not just because he’s black, But because he
> is
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Aug 11 2008
Posted: under Funny and Hilarious Jokes.
Tags: attorney, awards, candidate, challenges, competition, congressman, contest, contestant, court, day, election, fish, fishing, funny, game, gold, government, hilarious, humor, ice, job, jokes, judge, lake, laughter, lawyer, Mathematics, ocean, politics, pond, president, rivers, secret, senator, smiles, snow, sport, stream, task, team, time, trophy, water, White House, winner, work
The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.
Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota .
There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, John McCain returned to the starting line and he had 10 fish.
Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another ‘bad
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Aug 06 2008