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Major Hillary Donor Inside Dem Fundraiser: Blacks Are “Seriously F***ed in The Head" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1L1gNUPbTw "Pickin' stones and pullin' teats is a hard way to make a living. But, sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin' dudes with treasure trails." "We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." | |||
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Thank you Very little |
Trump is stumping in FL today, 3 stops, Miami, Orlando then Tallahassee. 4pm at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. | |||
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Ammoholic |
You may have missed the memo that the old economic rules have been repealed. Nowadays you just print as much money as you want and it is good for the economy. It doesn't matter what the Fed's capital margin is. Just ask Paul Krugman, he'll be happy to explain it. | |||
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Thank you Very little |
FYI our first election was fraught with Bribes by George Washington in order to secure 70%+ of the vote. How you might say? Free food cards? Health Care?, Fiscal Security for Life?, free milk churns? A bale of Hay for every vote? Nope - Free Booze, Washington bought gallons of booze and liquored up the voters for their vote and handily won the first election. In 1758, a young candidate in Virginia for the House of Burgesses footed a huge liquor bill to woo voters on Election Day. That candidate later became the first president of the United States, George Washington. Recent Constitution Daily Stories Election Day postponement, Christie among post-Sandy questions FEMA funding dispute quickly spins into campaign issue National student election picks Obama as next president Ghost stories part of the White House’s legacy Washington spent his entire campaign budget, 50 pounds, on 160 gallons of liquor served to 391 voters. (Yes, the Founding Fathers drank heavily, especially when they had to vote.) Buying votes with booze was already a custom in England. Washington also was following a Virginia tradition where barrels of liquor were rolled to courthouse lawns and polling places on Election Day. The tradition of drinking and voting continued up to the era of Prohibition. Often, people working at the polls drank, as did voters. Sometimes, the polls were located inside saloons, which made imbibing more convenient for the men who were allowed in such places. Link | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Washington used campaign funds; not tax payer money. ~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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I believe in the principle of Due Process |
I saw the memo. I just don't buy it. I am a Coolidgean. The government should do very little and spend only only on essential functions, like libraries and roads to get to them. Maybe wage war and suppress violence domestically, almost nothing else. When people spend their own money, freely, voluntarily, as they see fit, is terrific for the economy. Very little waste and inefficiency. Sure there will be the occasional depression, lots of fraud. That's why we need libraries so you can learn everything you need to know. Too lazy? Didn't learn to read? Rather watch basketball? There is always a disadvantage to messing up! 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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Ammoholic |
You can achieve a similar effect by yelling "Emigre, EMIGRE!!!" in your best panicked Hispanic accent. Just don't do it in an enclosed area - that might get someone hurt. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Actually, it's "La Migra!" Just make sure you aren't between the crowd and the nearest exit. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Ammoholic |
Agree 1000%. Perhaps I should have been more clear. My entire post was the lowest form of wit (sarcasm). The rolleyes was directed at Krugman. How that moron managed to graduate high school, let alone gain advanced degrees and get a Nobel prize for peddling the tripe he does is completely beyond me. ETF: s/wasthe/was the/This message has been edited. Last edited by: slosig, | |||
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Thank you Very little |
A bribe is a bribe, and in those days accepted as the norm, the source of the funds isn't in question. | |||
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Ammoholic |
You're right Hound Dog. Thanks for the correction. | |||
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Little ray of sunshine |
The Mexican wall isn't a large expenditure? And if you tell me that Mexico will, in fact, pay for it, then you are out of the conversation. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
It's ridiculously shameful that tactics like using barrels of liquor at voting places to lure voters were ever OK. | |||
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wishing we were congress |
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/k...rsday-night-n2240711 Abedin is still scheduled to host a fundraiser in Washington D.C. Thursday night. JUST IN: Huma Abedin still slated to host tmrw night DC fundraiser w Vogue's Anna Wintour & @DVF. Another round of invites just went out... No word yet on when Abedin will return to Clinton's side on the campaign trail. ********************************** http://townhall.com/tipsheet/j...needs-to-be-n2240653 “I’m going to be honest with you right now. The Latino vote is up. The overall vote is up. But the African-American vote, right now, is not as solid as it needs to be,” Obama said in an interview that aired Wednesday on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show.” "I need every one to understand that everything we’ve done is dependent on me being able to pass the baton to somebody who believes in the same things I do,” the president said. “If you really care about my presidency and what we’ve accomplished, then you are going to go and vote,” he added, urging African-Americans to tell their friends and relatives that the Obamas “personally asked you to vote .” ******************** my personal invitation must be lost in the mail pandering special interest slimeball | |||
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Banned |
Trump has already explained how, in fact, Mexico will indeed pay for the wall. If you haven't bothered to educate yourself as to how, perhaps you should get into the conversation. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
That wasn't "our first election". The United States of America didn't exist in 1758. The House of Burgesses was the legislative assembly of the Colony of Virginia under British rule, and had been in place since 1619, so 1758 wasn't even colonial Virginia's first election. | |||
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Member |
Cash transfers from the USA to relatives in Mexico are already one of the the largest contributors to the Mexican economy (2nd ?...third ?). All we have to do is tax those transfers, and Bingo! "Mexico is paying for the wall." They sent 21.6 billion in 2013, and it has gone steadily upward. Walls are pretty low-tech devices. You can build a lot of wall for 2% of 21.6 billion. http://toprightnews.com/mexico...-s-illegals-in-2013/ "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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Normality Contraindicated |
2% of 21.6 billion is 432 million. Trump's estimates to build a wall are in the $8-12 billion range. Other estimates are from $5-25 billion. ------------------------------------------------------ Though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria | |||
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Professor Smack-Down |
Chicken feed to what we spend and waste on everything else. At 5 million per mile and 2000 miles we are talking 10 billion? Right? That's not a large expenditure. Ongoing maintenance and patroling? Let's see...2000 agents at 60k/year...throw in 100 million for maintenance...carry the 2...maybe 250 million per year. That's Nothing!!! Hell, we just have Iran 1.7 billion...and maybe as much as 33 billion. ---------------------------- Tony Guns in my collection: Awaiting next purchase | |||
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Banned |
Trump's plan has nothing to do with taxing money transfers (which are themselves a big problem.) His plan centers on the enormous trade imbalance that currently exists between the U.S. and Mexico. The Mexicans are going to agree to almost anything to keep their goods flowing into the U.S., including paying for a wall...... They'll gladly do it. a $10 billion wall will be small change compared to what they stand to lose. | |||
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