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How is that different? If Trump decided to go to some silicon-enhanced siren's house, the Secret Service wouldn't take him?

Well, that's a pleasant reminiscence, but I don't ever remember a time when it was particularly true. I remember a handful of candidates trying to drag conservative principles into the debate kicking and screaming. The most successful of these wound up in the strange situation of hearing the Golden Rule booed in South Carolina. It's hard to understand the psychology of GOP voters if you don't watch any football. The first thing to remember is, sportsmanship and how you play the game is laudible, but winning rules and losing sucks. Second, when you get sacked twenty-five yards, but there's a personal foul after the play that comes with an automatic first down, that's a win. You just went ten yards the wrong damned direction, but you got a first down, you're still in the game and still have the ball, so it's a win. Which is why the most progressive liberal of 1960 typically had more conservative principles than the typical modern Republican. Ideas we have, though they all keep coming from the clown show. It's easy to claim a fine set of principles when you're desperately clinging to whomever or whatever you think can stop the child mutilation and sterilization. And in all those other details, where the devil resides (and spends his time transferring money from the poor to the rich)? In times like these, principle has a hard row to hoe. It's a shame. A principled candidate could win the general election with great ease, if either party were capable of nominating one.

See you on the other side, my brother.

pcosmar Pete Osmar 9 March 2023.

I was afraid of that, when we had heard no updates or news. I regret, to this day, not taking the time to meet up with Pete when we were both up on northern lake Michigan. Word to the wise, people...do not pass those chances up. Friends, family, loved ones...see them when you have the opportunity. Tomorrow may be too late. Travel easy my brother, and we'll meet on God's golden shore directly...

RIP Pete. Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Proverbs 10:9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

I carried a team of geologists offshore in the GoM from Texas A and M and WHOI and Exxon to study some offshore wells back in the 90s. They found the same thing. Maybe it's abiotic, maybe it is biological, but just continuously ongoing, which makes sense, plants and animals continue to live and die both in the oceans and on land.

Manhattan Trump grand jury set to break for a month A previously planned hiatus would push back a potential indictment of the former president. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422 Erica Orden (29 March 2023) The Manhattan grand jury examining Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money payment to a porn star isn’t expected to hear evidence in the case for the next month largely due to a previously scheduled hiatus, according to a person familiar with the proceedings. The break would push any indictment of the former president to late April at the earliest, although it is possible that the grand jury’s schedule could change. In recent weeks, the Manhattan district attorney’s office hasn’t convened the panel on certain days. But it is District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prerogative to ask the grand jury to reconvene if prosecutors want the panel to meet during previously planned breaks. The grand jury, which heard testimony in the Trump case on Monday, isn’t meeting Wednesday and is expected to examine evidence in a separate matter Thursday, the person said. The grand jury, which typically meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, is scheduled to consider another case next week on Monday and Wednesday, the person said, and isn’t expected to meet Thursday due to the Passover holiday.

@pcosmar http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?562105-Pete-Osmar-pcosmar-memorial-thread

This is terrible news. Pete will certainly be - and has been - missed around here. :sorrow: I've started a memorial thread in the Remembrance forum: Pete Osmar memorial thread I copied over your previous post (and ClaytonB's reply). Condolences and updates for donations/offerings/etc. can be posted there.

https://twitter.com/KQED/status/1641191020669853698

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1641209028322754560 1641209028322754560

Jury in Douglass Mackey trial tells judge they cannot come to a unanimous decision "We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise." https://thepostmillennial.com/jury-in-douglass-mackey-trial-tells-judge-they-cannot-come-to-a-unanimous-decision The Post Millennial (28 March 2023) After the first full day of deliberations in the meme trial of Douglass Mackey, the jury sent a note saying that they had completed their deliberations and were unable to reach a unanimous decision as to his guilt. "After the first full day of deliberations in the Douglass Mackey trial, the jury sent this note: 'We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise.' The judge sent them home for the night, told them to keep going in the morning," the Daily News' Brooklyn Court reporter John Annese reported. "Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Ann Donnelly told the Mackey jurors, 'This is actually not unusual. By our terms you've only been deliberating for a little while.' She told them to take their time," Annese continued.

THREAD: Thomas Massie to reintroduce bill to repeal Gun-Free Schools Act

Whither art thou, NRA? https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1641239521630076930

#SassyWithMassie https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1641235137173094404

The title of this article is unnecessarily inflammatory. It implies that some kind of vague threat was made, but in the context in which the phrase "serious consequences" was used (by the leader of the Log Cabin Republicans, no less), it is clear that no threat of any kind (vague or otherwise) was actually made or intended. Anyway, I agree completely with Gays Against Groomers - the "manifesto" ought to be released. Vague premonitions about bad things that might happen are not an acceptable excuse for withholding such documents from the public, any more than they are for withholding gun rights from the public. IOW: Guns Words don't kill people, people kill people. LGBTQ groups warn of 'serious consequences' if police release trans school shooter's manifesto https://humanevents.com/2023/03/29/lgbtq-groups-warn-of-serious-consequences-if-police-release-trans-school-shooters-manifesto Libby Emmons (29 March 2023)

We had 2008. This is a thousand times worse. We are right on schedule to BE REPLACED AS THE WORLDS RESERVE CURRENCY. This is not a "fluctuation of the stock market". This is gonna END IN THE END OF THE STOCK MARKET. Cloward Piven Strategy final stage. By collapsing the banks, the only way to "save" the bank is to Nationalize them. Collapse the economy, then NATIONALIZE EVERYTHING. Then you have a FULL COMMUNIST REGIME WHERE THE GOVT OWNS EVERYTHING BY FIAT DECREE. The collapse is INTENTIONAL.

From the same article - AF's "Icarusians"?:

Lets cut to the summary because people have the attention span of goldfish. Use a VPN: 20 YEARS IN PRISON Use a Foreign App: 20 YEARS IN PRISON Express Free Speech: 20 YEARS IN PRISON Accused of DISINFORMATION: 20 YEARS IN PRISON PER INCIDENT NO JUDGE. NO JURY. NO TRIAL. DO NOT COLLECT $200 DOLLARS, GO DIRECTLY TO PRISON.

There's nothing wrong with that idea. Oops! Too late!

Florida will be next. NC had a chance but the dem gov vetoed the measure.

Tucker Carlson is hitting it out of the park in his opening tonight. Yes, Marxists think they are god. The State is the godhead in a Marxist society.

The genocide talk is projection. Accusing your opponent of doing exactly what you are doing, or planning to do. We're the future targets of Marxist genocide, if these assholes ever consolidate absolute power, make no mistake, we'll be on a boxcar to a death camp or GULAG. Right now there is only one thing preventing that, and that is the fact that the American people are armed to the teeth. Granted, not one in 10,000 would ever rise up and use that weapon as intended, but our oppressors can't be sure of that.