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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
The town of Nogales, Arizona, mentioned in my previous post is also a border crossing point. A truck heading south refused to stop, and so the customs officer shot into the truck. This is inexcusable. Likely the men in the truck were up to no good, but it's not impossible the brakes failed* or they were drunk or confused or distracted.
What's wrong with calling their Mexican counterparts not 300 feet away? --Percy PS: Coincidentally, my daughter's car's brakes failed just last week when a hydraulic line failed, but she was able to stop with her emergency brake, so happy ending. That was the final straw for the old car, she is now the happy owner of a brand new Honda Civic Si, though unfortunately she doesn't know how to drive a stick and has to wait for someone to teach her before she can drive it.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 762 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Tell your daughter to have someone show her the basics of The Clutch, and then learn to drive like we old farts did: by killing the engine a couple of hundred times over the first week.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
I was in a hurry and forgot to link to the article (Man in pickup truck shot at Nogales port of entry while trying to flee into Mexico) and mention that the driver may have been killed (reports vary). Obviously (at least to me) border guards should not be shooting at people, and certainly not into vehicles whose passengers might be completely innocent of any crime, and certainly not with a hundred other vehicles around full of innocent people.
The border guards reported that the truck tried to run an officer over. Not so long ago that would have been good enough for me, but as video has become ubiquitous so have the police been caught lying. There was a shooting, a man was possibly killed, the police are frequently caught covering for their own, so I'll believe the border guards' account when I see the video. There's likely tons of surveillance video at the border. I'll let you know how my daughter does with The Clutch. --Percy
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I'll let you know how my daughter does with The Clutch. When I taught my son, I explained it to him as I drove us to the mall parking lot. Then I had him slowly let the clutch out a number of times so that he would get the feel of that point where it's just starting to engage, so that he could recognize that point just from that feeling. Then I had him let it out more while adding gas and start us moving from a dead stop. He had it down in 10 minutes, but we practiced for another 5 minutes or so.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
In Limited government requires a limited president George F. Will argues that Congress gave away too much power to the presidency with Section 232 of the Trade and Expansion Act of 1962, and brings to our attention that this law is being challenged in the U.S. Court of International Trade by U.S. steel importers. In other words, they're challenging President Trump's ability to unilaterally impose Tariffs based upon whatever he decides to be in the interests of national security. Some juicy excerpts, which in the end turns out to be much of it:
quote: In other words, not only is the legislative branch constitutionally not the lackey of the executive branch, they do not constitutionally even have the power to delegate any of their legislative prerogatives to others, including to the president. An imperial presidency can be a good thing or at least not a menace when there is a good president, but in the hands of a mendacious and malevolent man it imperils us all. If the law is successfully challenged then I will miss the imperial presidency, it worked out okay in the hands of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama, but the examples of Nixon and now Trump are telling us that we must let it go. --Percy
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AnswersInGenitals Member (Idle past 179 days) Posts: 673 Joined:
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I don’t understand why you think this parade will end with Kirk Cox, Speaker of the House of Delegate. This being Virginia, they may well have the state dog catcher appointed as governor. Unless he’s accused of beastiality.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
The Root reports new evidence of election fraud.
The number of voters making a selection for the lieutenant governor was unusually low. And especially low in precincts where Blacks are a majority. And it’s not just that voters simply chose to vote for Governor and skip the other positions - votes for lower positions did not show the same drop-off. The number of votes missing (even allowing for the expected drop off) seems to be just about enough to swing the election for this post (likely enough to make it a close call). On top of all the other issues, that is very worrying. Edited by PaulK, : No reason given.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Illustrating that the mainstream media can be objective and balanced, the Washington Post just gave Four Pinocchios for Kamala Harris’s claim about Trump’s tax law. Apparently she took the news that tax refund amounts are down 8% this year and implied that that meant people had ended up paying more in taxes. She also implied the problem would get worse over time. The details for why her mistake was so egregious are in the article, so four Pinocchios:
The important point is that it isn't just people on the right making Pinocchio level misstatements of fact that the left acknowledges. It's just that the right has had a monopoly on this type of behavior over the past couple years because they controlled all of Congress and the presidency. Now that Democrats control the House and are starting to declare that they're running for president they should start receiving more Pinocchios. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Typo. punctuation, grammar.
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Here's how you conduct border security when there's already a barrier in the form of river:
Source: Disappearing Rio Grande Presumably there's also a border patrol road alongside the river. --Percy
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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As reported by Wonkette
Isn’t it odd that whenever we see actual evidence of electoral fraud it’s always the Republicans ?
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
And it's almost always a type that voter ID wouldn't prevent..
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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And it's almost always a type that voter ID wouldn't prevent.. For that matter, is there any kind of voter fraud that voter ID would prevent?
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JonF Member (Idle past 196 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
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Percy Member Posts: 22502 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
dwise1 writes: For that matter, is there any kind of voter fraud that voter ID would prevent? Thinking about this a little, I think only very small amounts of voter fraud could go undetected, not enough to sway any but the closest of elections. Even with no voter ID every voter still has to check in and give their name and sometimes their address. Since those manning the check-in tables are typically locals, it isn't going to be uncommon that Mrs. Rabinowitz manning the R-U table knows that it is not Mr. Abraham Silverstein standing before her. The plot will quickly unravel when the false Mr. Silverstein is arrested and questioned. Whether the impersonator is first to the polls or not, when the 2nd voter of that name shows up then questions will be raised. If the impersonator is 2nd to show they would not be able to show proper ID and would be arrested. If the real person is 2nd to show they would be able to show proper ID and the police would be alerted. If the system allows tracking of who cast which vote, the false vote could be canceled and the real person could still vote. Surveillance cameras will sometimes be present and would allow some of the perpetrators to be identified and arrested. When only a few people commit voter fraud it's likely to go undetected, but when it's committed in sufficient volume to sway an election then in some way the plot will be uncovered. In my state of New Hampshire Clinton beat Trump 348,526 to 345,790, a margin of only 2736. Rather than implementing fraud in hundreds of communities across the state it would be much easier to focus attention on the several large (for New Hampshire) cities of Manchester, Nashua, Concord and maybe Derry. But the odds that none of the 2736 fraudulent votes would be caught out would still be exceedingly small. The plot would still be uncovered. I guess I don't think that voter fraud significant enough to affect an election possible in any but the closest of races. Voter ID makes it even more impossible, but not by enough to be worth it in my opinion. We have voter ID in New Hampshire and since I have a driver's license it isn't a problem for me, but my 95-year old mother hasn't driven in years. When the voter ID law passed we had to go through the inconvenience of visiting the Social Security office to get her a social security card (lost somewhere somehow long ago), then go to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to get her a special non-driver ID. It was a significant inconvenience and effort for someone that old. In another year or two she will have to renew, which I hope she can do by mail. So my conclusion is that voter ID only insignificantly reduces the possibility of voter fraud, and it is a significant enough inconvenience to certain segments of the population as to discourage voting. --Percy Edited by Percy, : Rewrite poorly thought through 2nd para.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Percy writes:
...it is a significant enough inconvenience to certain segments of the population as to discourage voting. Indeed. Voter ID is actually a form of voter suppression. It is similar to closing certain polling sites, leaving the only open sites too far away to get to.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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