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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
There are 24 hours, 7 days to fill, and pages every day to fill. What are they gonna say? They have to attract eyeballs to get advertising. Boring doesn't work. They got nothing so there you are. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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A Mexican Senator was just interviewed on msnbc, says that Mexico should not cooperate with this "hostile" Trump administration on terrorism, the drugs/dea and that Mexico should start buying its corn from South America. Its official....fuck Mexico. Shut the border and build a wall 50ft high. Scumbags running a shithole, corrupt, drug infested country. They need to learn who is the big boy on the block and what side their bread has been buttered on for years. They've taken advantage of us too much for too long. | |||
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Are you writing a novel? ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Now there is an idea. Mexico builds the wall and pays for it! I'm not sure about getting corn from S. America. Those guys have a hard time feeding their own. I guess it would free up more corn for ethanol, though. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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They are about to change their attitude. The Mexican peso is dropping in value after their President threw his hissy fit. . | |||
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hahhahaha . | |||
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Politico's Michael Grunwald, famous for his "Conservatives want to kill us all" mindset, just published the following article (I've only provided the link because the story is way too long to paste). I've thought for some time that Trump puts a few lies and half-truths out in public just to distract and anger the other side and make them take their eyes off the ball while he works his plans. Since Grunwald is already showing these signs of panic after only seven days, it appears that Trump's strategy is working well. http://www.politico.com/magazi...dministration-214699This message has been edited. Last edited by: snoris, | |||
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Yep. The scared children in Washington (i.e. our worthless politicians) are about to get their first lesson in negotiation. When you hold all or most of the cards, and 'our' interests come first, you negotiate from a position of power, not grovel with the eventual loser. Mexico may hate the wall idea, but in the end, it will be a far less expensive venture for them to accept it and move on. They'll need a bit of time to come to this rationalization, but they'll get there. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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The argument against the wall is absurd. If a country wants to build a wall so people cannot illegally enter that country, so what ? It is just like the voter photo ID requirement. It makes perfect sense and only those who want to break the law are against it. | |||
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Read somewhere that remittances from the US contributes to a significant cash influx to support the Mexican economy.. I'd imagine that most of these remittances go thru services like Western Union, PayPal, etc. What if Trump taxes that? Would that be legal, especially since most of that money wasn't taxed as income anyway so it wouldn't be considered as double taxed? Though issues would exist for how the senders can prove that he paid income tax on those money already. That definitely can pay for the wall. | |||
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Change you can believe in. Union electrical workers at a Philadelphia job site hung a huge banner welcoming President Donald Trump to the city, highlighting his high support among rank and file members of skilled unions. The union members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers unfurled their banner, which said “Buy American” and “Welcome to Philly Mr. President.”  http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...s-show-trump-banner/This message has been edited. Last edited by: feersum dreadnaught, NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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It will soon be noon here, exactly one week since the new president took office. OMG! Can you believe the things he has done in one week? Trump is freaking amazing! Think about what is yet to come. Oh, the things you are about to see. Rod "Do not approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." John Deacon, Author I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no. | |||
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Slightly OT, I came across this 2014 report where Senators McCain and Graham argued that after the REPs gained control of the Senate, they should restore the rule that allowed filibusters on executive nominations. http://thehill.com/homenews/se...eversing-nuke-option Can you imagine the ongoing Senate confirmation process of President Trump's cabinet nominees if they required 60 Senate votes to pass? ******************* BTW, just a personal decision on my part. From now on, whenever I refer to Donald Trump, I will not write just "Trump". He will be "President Trump" for me. | |||
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"US citizen asks, "Where am I going and why am I in this hand basket?" You may have to change your signature line, Rod. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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So where's the link? And I've never understood why anything is "too long to post." If it's just an article, just post it, yo! ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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From the Scott Adams (Dilbert) BLOG: Outrage Dilution Posted January 26th, 2017 @ 8:24am in #Trump #Whenhub I’m having a fun time watching President Trump flood the news cycle with so many stories and outrages that no one can keep up. Here’s how the math of persuasion works in this situation: 1 outrage out of 3 headlines in a week: Bad Persuasion 25 outrages out of 25 headlines in a week: Excellent Persuasion At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time. When you encounter a situation that is working great except for one identifiable problem, you can focus on the problem and try to fix it. But if you have a dozen complaints at the same time, none of them looks special. The whole situation just looks confusing, and you don’t know where to start. So you wait and see what happens. Humans need contrast in order to make solid decisions that turn into action. Trump removed all of your contrast by providing multiple outrages of similar energy. You’re probably seeing the best persuasion you will ever see from a new president. Instead of dribbling out one headline at a time, so the vultures and critics can focus their fire, Trump has flooded the playing field. You don’t know where to aim your outrage. He’s creating so many opportunities for disagreement that it’s mentally exhausting. Literally. He’s wearing down the critics, replacing their specific complaints with entire encyclopedias of complaints. And when Trump has created a hundred reasons to complain, do you know what impression will be left with the public? He sure got a lot done. Even if you don’t like it. In only a few days, Trump has made us question what-the-hell every other president was doing during their first weeks in office. Were they even trying? — For a fun party trick, ask your most liberal friends if they think the Federal government should have a say in whether a woman gets an abortion or not. When they say the Federal government should stay out of that decision, inform them that President Trump shares their opinion. He doesn’t want the Federal government to be in the business of making health care choices for women. He prefers leaving that decision to the woman, her doctor, and state laws. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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If the Mexican pres had any sense at all (not a safe bet), he would realize he just shot off his foot and crippled his horse. The Mexican economy wasn't all that great, and he just made sure it will get worse. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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6guns wrote; you may have to change your signature line, Rod. LOL, I have been thinking the same thing. Isn't it great!  Rod "Do not approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." John Deacon, Author I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no. | |||
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Spent a year in mexico as a kid with my family (working)and seen good and bad mostly the latter.I even gave toys we had away to the other Mexican kids My parents had me see a dentist in Mexico City for a couple of fillings right down the street of old Arena Mexico.The dentist, Jose and Octavio his assistant were very kind and gave my father and the rest of us advice of what to be aware of wile in the city. He once told may father, John "we Mexicans are bad people".He said that, although he was Mexican and he was not. Is seems to me now that everything there was a hustle. In the end we are all just a bunch of Gringos to Mexico. | |||
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| Do---or do not. There is no try. |
It's fixed, the link is now in there. Thanks for catching that. The reason I didn't cut and paste this one is that I'm using my iPhone and the article has lots of graphics and other things with text code which needed to be cut out so the story would be readable. I didn't want to accidentally delete any of the story, but didn't have the time it would have taken to do it right. | |||
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