jmdrake
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Society has their priorities skewed when they rush to buy paper towel and toilet paper when they fear supply disruption. I can certainly get by without paper products.

Worst strike EVARRR

Exactly! There is a Flu pandemic going on all the time, just while there was "Covid" there was a conspicuous absence of Flu. I suspect a lot of Covid was really misdiagnosed Influenza.

Fear lowers the immune system. This is well-known. And I knew lots of people who were caught up in the fear, stayed at home, and worried. Even with the typical flu, lower immune systems on that mass scale would have increased deaths. But for some reason, I thought this was going to be a political thread, because NEITHER party is talking about Covid - you know the biggest political issue in the last 100 years! Did they mention the lockdowns in any of the debates?? Did they mention vaccine mandates??? Did they mention government-created viruses??? Hmmm... I wonder why that could be??? :confused:

I can't believe you like money, too. We should hang out.

My first job at the utility was to read electric meters. Many of them are on the backs of houses. I have LOTS of these stories :D

Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter. The only think I have against JC is his going along with Zbignew Brezinski's plan to arm radical Islamists in order draw the Soviet Union into a prolonged conflict in Afghanistan. But I guess creating Habitat for Humanity makes up for that.

Why is that at all a shocker?

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.

So far there's no evidence of these so called "sub 70 IQ invaders" turning Springfield into Port au Prince. I've watched the videos. The streets aren't trashed. Crime isn't up. And they seem smart enough to work the sound board at church and the machinery at the factories without being late or on drugs. But nobody prevented white people from moving to Springfield. And there are still plenty of other places with dwingling populations where white people can move. I posted this before but it bears reposting. Here's a lumber mill shutting down because of lack of labor. The housing is too high for the salaries the mill is willing to pay. So there will probably be abandoned homes there soon. People willing to move into dilapited housing, two or three families at once, and work for less could keep the mill open. As for a place that looks like Port au Prince? Try parts of Portland Oregan. It's not the migrants trashing it.

Okay. I'm confused. It sounds like the GOP is happy with the decision, the NAACP is happy with the decision, but the 3 most liberal justices on SCOTUS are not. Edit: That's what I get for speed reading. Looking at it again I see why the GOP is happy with the outcome. Speaker Mike Johnson's seat is safe.

True story. Back in my 20s I once worked in for a "special census" in Alabama. It was an off year census and Alabama was trying to get more money. I was told "You're a federal employee and they have to cooperate." Most everybody did. Well at one point I was told to go to Shoal Creek. If that name sounds familair it was the country club that almost lost the PGA when it was discovered that they didn't allow black members. (They then recruited one black person to join and the PGA went forward). Anyhow, the community manager was nice and pulled out a map and showed me all of the homes but he wouldn't let me go house to house. I told him my "I'm a federal agent and you're required by law" spiel and he politely said "That's nice, but these people pay me for their privacy." I told my supervisor, a white woman, this and she didn't beilieve I had been assertive enough and told me to go back. So....I did and he told me the same thing. This happened day after day. I also got paid for mileage. Finally she told me that her supervisors were concerned about why I was getting so many miles but I was no longer getting that many houses done per day. I told her "Because you keep making me go back to Shoal Creek after I told you they weren't going to cooperate." She was like "Fine. I'll do it!" That evening she said "You won't believe this. He wouldn't let ME go door to door either." It was all I could do to keep from laughing. Another funny story. I was working one side of the road where I live and another census worker (a white male) was working the other side of the same road. I was at one house and this lady asked me "Did you do house such and such?" I was like "No. That's somebody else. I only work this side." She was like "Are you sure?" I was like "Absolutely." Finally she said "Well my friend lives there. She was sunbathing topless in her backyard. When the census worker came to the door she thought he was someone else and told him to come around back." :eek::D

It doesn't matter whether they hate it or not. It's legal. Purging voters less than 90 days before a federal election is not. And it's posturing anyway. It's not like any of this will make a difference in the outcome. Trump will win Alabama by far more than a 3,000 vote margin and Albama will get a new House Democrat thanks to the actions of Republican dominated SCOTUS.

Because when you remove the cat / dog / duck conspiracies there's little left to talk about. It's interesting that supposedly there are no 30+ thousand Haitians in Springfield when I've heard over and over again that it was 20 thousand. Regardless, Springfield lost about 20,000 people since 1986. Housing shortage? There was an abandoned housing crisis. There's been a serious drug crisis with the remaining residents. Lots of white Springfield residents are on welfare. The Haitians are getting welfare too and they shouldn't. But they're also working which is why they're able to stack their monthly EBT payments and go to the store with a $3,000 balance. (I found out where this was happening years ago independent of immigration.) I saw the video where the local pastor was happy to have an influx of members including someone to work the sound board. Yep, driving is a problem and that should be addressed. But this is nothing like the Venzeualan or El Salvadoran gang issue. There's been no reports of Haitians forming gangs in Springfield and invading people's homes or selling drugs run running guns or anything else. And people assume the "government" dropped the Haitians off when it's more likely that some people in private industry did their research, discovered a suplus of empty abandoned homes in Springfield, abandoned factories in Springfield, put 2 and 2 together and decided this could work.

You don't understand. In dannno's world there are only two kinds of people. Those who absolutely love Trump and defend him no matter what sort of mental gymnastics pretzels they have to twist themselves into and people with "TDS." That's it. Even if you ever criticize Trump you have to put in the caveat that whatever Trump did "wrong" it really wasn't his fault. He runs up the national debt? That's the fault of the Democrats and RINOs. He brags about his devotion ot AIPAC and Israel? He's just giving them what they would have gotten anyway. He packs his cabinet with swamp critters? It's the fault of all the other swamp critters who advised him about which one of their friends to pick. Bumpfire stock bans? A infinity-d chess to get SCOTUS to strike them down. (The same SCOTUS that recently handed over to Democrats a brand spankoig new House seat in Alabama, no questions asked.) Simply put, there's no such thing as a "regular person" in his worldview.

Actually no. You can still prosecute people for illegally voting at any time. You just can't remove people from the voting lists this close to an election because of the (now proven) risk of false positives. I posted somewhere else about the one person indicted in Alabama recently for illegally voting in a previous election. So the AG could simply send everyone on the list a warning letter that he'll be checking up after the election to make sure they only voted if they were legally allowed to. And...next time he ca follow the law and start his investigation timely.

So.....he violated Federal election law in order to enforce Federal election law. Obvious guy asks the question why didn't the AG start this process sooner? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-alabama-violating-federal-laws-prohibition-systematic-efforts-remove Justice Department Sues Alabama for Violating Federal Law’s Prohibition on Systematic Efforts to Remove Voters Within 90 Days of an Election Friday, September 27, 2024 The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama and the Alabama Secretary of State to challenge a systematic State program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election, in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). “The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law. Officials across the country should take heed of the National Voter Registration Act’s clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election. The Quiet Period Provision of federal law exists to prevent eligible voters from being removed from the rolls as a result of last-minute, error-prone efforts. The Justice Department will continue to use all the tools it has available to ensure that the voting rights of every eligible voter are protected.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/deadlineusa/2007/dec/21/rononracism Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence - not skin color, gender, or ethnicity. Hmmmm....who's sounding more like Ron Paul at this point? The record shows that when it comes to Ukrainians you're willing to look at them as individuals as opposed to a collective group of "snakes" even going so far as to wonder which other ethnicity was picking on the poor Ukranian girl. Sure, when you get called out on it you're all "Deport them too" but that wasn't your default reaction. We're supposed to believe that the fact that none of these stories can be actually verified is some grand conspiracy by all of the elected officials and police in Springfield Ohio. Funny enough, the right leaning Attorney General in Alabama, the guy who's trying to purge 3,000 "illegal alien" voters, where so far at least 1 turned out to be a white man born in American and there's only 1 actual indictment, went to Sylacagua to "investigate" the Haitians asylum seekers there and he was forced to admit there was no evidence of any increase in crime being connected to the Haitians. (One domestic violence arrest). https://www.sylacauganews.com/local/alabama-attorney-general-steve-marshall-weighs-in-on-the-chnv-immigration-program-in-talladega-county And nobody's said anything about cats. I get it. There are a LOT more Haitians in Ohio than in Alabama. (My best guesstimate is < 5,000 total). Which makes bringing in the AG to look into the 60 or so Haitians in Sylacagua for no particular reason other than some locals decided to say something without seeing something all the more comical. But...whatever.

Funny thing is this Haitians eating cats thing has probably gotten more attention than the Trump attempted assassination.

I guess I'm hoping for the white pill. Not electorally, obviously. But the corporate press is dying. The machine is becoming more and more obvious. Guns sales keep increasing. Podcasts will long-form policy discussions are increasing in popularity. People are becoming more vocal at the local level. A new coalition is building in opposition to the State (including RFK, Tulsi, Massie, and Paul). The Supreme Court is deeming a bunch of the regulatory state unconstitutional... Seems like there's optimism on the horizon if we can make it there before they shut down opposition voices (again), before they outpace the Court with new unconstitutional regulations, before they flip the demographics entirely from producers to consumers, or before they stack the SCOTUS.

Are you sure about that? https://www.axios.com/2023/12/12/border-patrol-ai-us-mexico-wall-surveillance-virtual The U.S. government is building a "virtual wall" at the southern border by erecting hundreds of high-tech surveillance towers — some of which use artificial intelligence — to detect people in an effort to reduce drug smuggling and sky-high unauthorized migration. Why it matters: A record-high number of people have entered the U.S. through the southern border this year, resulting in multiple crises and exacerbating U.S. Customs and Border protection staffing shortages. But the new surveillance technology is giving rise to concerns over civil liberties, digital watchdogs say.