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Mar 20Liked by Jack Baruth

why does alonso have a g36

also the more i learn about illegal migration into the states the less jokingly the idea of me crossing and staying for an extended period of time becomes

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I can kind of see Mexico’s point, as most of the migrants now aren’t even Mexicans but people from farther south.

That said, it seems like if they wanted to they could close their own southern border a bit tighter and prevent a lot of this. There was some discussion here a while back about the pros and cons of the US paying them to do so, which is unsavory but relatively easy.

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Mar 20Liked by Sherman McCoy, Jack Baruth

May 1998 Playboy. Thanks for heads up there, Chief!!!!!

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Mar 20Liked by Jack Baruth

Interestingly enough, the prize for the for winning driver of the "1 Million Dollar Thermal Challenge" is actually "only" 500,000.

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Did miss ginger spice get work done because while she doesn't look bad in that 1998 playboy, she has aged remarkably well. Or did she just lose the baby weight?

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Indycar is really circling the drain.

Roger Penske’s stewardship illustrates that the series has one golden goose - a Sunday in late May during which everyone has their fingers crossed that nobody dies - and … everything else.

He ought to have sold the series to Liberty Media.

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As an Illinois resident who had to get a FOID card, register an ar-15 if I owned one (which everyone who owns one did), and take a CCL before I was allowed to privilege to carry a gun, except in any restaurant that serves alcohol or about a billion other places, Chicago would still absolutely lock me up as long as they could if I was caught with a gun there, documentation be damned, it's slightly annoying. Not sure how I feel on a federal level

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Mar 20Liked by Sherman McCoy, Jack Baruth

BEN SULAYEM CLEARED OF WRONGDOING AFTER FIA INVESTIGATION

A few hours later.....

SUSIE WOLFF FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST FIA

Because Ben is poopy head and the fix is in because he was cleared by the FIA, how can the FIA investigate Horner and end up with the "Correct" result? So, file a complaint in a court of law to muddy any result that finds Horner to be at a worst a Horn Dog.

Oh, and poor Ginger Spice was a side piece for Horner. With the same woman for over 10 years. They have a kid together. About a year later he's engaged to Ginger Spice.

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Mar 20Liked by Jack Baruth

". Any other opinion on this matter is a de facto slippery slope to hunting illegal aliens for sport or profit. " ~ There's a book and movie in there somewhere Jack .

I miss going to the figure 8 races in Saugus, Ca., I believe they've built apartments there now, used to be a Vietnam era bomb factory right next to it long long ago .

I wonder if anyone thought to ask Mexico : ? where do you want the U.S.A. to put the citizens you no longer want ? .

Maybe the European Union will take them ? .

-Nate

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Mexico wants to continue to use America as a dumping ground for its surplus poor. Fuck no. America is not a human landfill.

Frankly, I don't CARE if Mexico doesn't want them back - WE didn't want them first. We will parachute them in if necessary, under air cover, but the Mexicans will take them back. You let them through YOUR territory, Mexico, you can let them BACK through the way they came.

Jackson is only on the Court because she's both black and a woman. That's it. There, I said it.

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Here's another thought: Is allowing Trespassers to become American police officers yet another part of the plan to destabilize American society, by pushing the Honest & Peaceable further into the corner, until we have no choice but to fire on illegitimate cops?

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I like how the first amendment now only covers 'political speech'. Wow, large bit of propaganda there!

The First amendment covers ALL speech that the Government, wants to control. Doesn't matter if it's political or not. Once the government starts regulating speech, any speech, it's breaking the law.

I'm not surprised she couldn't figure that out, but then again, I doubt she understands any of the constitution at all. Probably had somebody 'explain' it to her.

As documents go, it's pretty clear. But the length that the left goes to LIE about it, and often quote it with certain Words REMOVED, so as to change the entire meaning, has been going on since before I was born.

As for Texas? Send them back, if mexico opens fire, go to war (I live in Texas by the way) the Mexican government has a very disturbing habit of attacking people in Texas across the border. Time to pay them back.

Have you seen the new think with substack? If you're a 'conservsative writer' you now have to provide them (Stripe - the sole payment processor) with total access to your banking records. So they can see where you spend your money, and where you get it from. Another one of those 'Government Organizations that really isn't a Government Organization' is apparently pushing for this across all payment processors.

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“Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis. “

That seems to be a very charitable interpretation.

In her hypothetical, the government’s dissemination of crucial information-“hey, kids, don’t be dumbasses”-will have no effect on the behavior the government seeks to diminish. She then goes on to expound a Commie favorite, the argument from safetyism, and then begins to openly consider how government can justify coercion of private actors based of the government’s duty to protect citizens.

Fix the roads, keep the shipping lanes open, and stay out of expanding the governments “duties” to its citizens. Unless I missed something, which happens more frequently key than I care to admit.

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Mar 21Liked by Jack Baruth

Wow, no Sherman coming in hot to defend how beautiful, brave, intelligent and masculine 'investment bankers' are?

Also, am I the only one who is irritated by the abuse of the term 'migrant' now also being used on ACF without irony?

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Mar 21Liked by Jack Baruth

"Jackson’s very human concern is that the government not be prohibited from disseminating crucial information — and, therefore, discouraging harmful misinformation — during times of crisis"

But she's still wrong. The government does not get to decide what speech is crucial, safe, or true. For God's sake, especially now as even the mindless bureaucracies of the US government are openly partisan and ideological...

The Bill of Rights amendments are hard limits on the scope of the government... these are not limits we should be trying to rationalize into soft limits.

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Mar 21Liked by Jack Baruth

Jackson’s argument presents a corner case—youth, en masse, leaping from windows—to argue for allowing government action that will likely be seldom applied in such extreme cases, but will be applied routinely to stuff like “hate speech.”

If such an unlikely event can be called an “epidemic,” why can’t you use, say, the LGBT youth suicide rate, call it an “epidemic,” and say that the government can force online communications platforms to remove anything criticizing the trans or “non-binary” agendas? Taken from its extreme origin to its most likely usages, what Jackson proposes might seem in the interest of public safety or welfare, but will almost certainly be used to enact the agenda and stifle dissent of the Democratic Party and its more socialist analogues. It’s the Patriot Act all over again: proposed in the name of safety, culminating in massive Uniparty-approved surveillance efforts against US Citizens.

Sometimes, opening the floodgates to government action in a pretty common sense case sets the precedent for use of the same action against ordinary Americans. Bad logic; but the feckless SCOTUS Justices (of which Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett seem to be joining the ranks, leaving just Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch as genuine constitutionalists) will go for it anyway.

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