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  1. 9 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    I’m against putting children in cages. Im against separating families. I think anyone wanting to become a tax paying citizen should have that right to do so. If they need healthcare, we should provide it. My question is simple. What do we do with the people? Logistically I’m asking, what do we do with 100K people a month. Do we need to start building government operated facilities? I mean shit, Huntsville only holds 13K people. Where do we put 100K? How much will it cost to feed, house, administrate aid, process paperwork, for all these people? Again, I’m not against it, but what is the humane solution to getting it done?

    (Yes I realize we need to do other things like work with the governments of other countries, etc)

    If the GOP wanted to slow it down, they would mine the IRS and Social Security Administration databases for multiple people using the same SS #, for people with names that don’t match the SS #, for fake numbers, for dead people’s SS #’s being used, etc,.  They would trace that shit back to the companies that employed those individuals.  They would shut down companies for employing hundreds of illegals. They would do massive sweeps of home builders and agriculture operations here in Texas.

    But they don’t.  They don’t touch the IRS and Social Security info that could shut down a lot of avenues for work.  Tyson foods can get raided over and over and over for employing illegals, even helping smuggle them in, and they are still in business and racking up profits.

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  2. 3 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    We’ve seen this movie before. 

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

    The current state of the GOP is Germany in the late 1920’s. Trump is banking on a depression and a Reichstag fire as an excuse to seize power. Just looking for an excuse to seize power, abolish the free press, and abolish opposition parties.

    Can our resident trolls articulate an argument that Trump doesn’t want to do that?? If anything he’s been perfectly clear on his intentions. At least we have the benefit of having seen this play played out before. 

    I don’t think it’s a good comparison.  The bill went through 26-24, with two Republicans siding with the Dems, and if you’ll note in the video, the Lt. Gov is a Democrat, swept into office when the state started flipping to the Ds in 2018.

    The Republicans in Pennsylvania are not acting like a party taking and consolidating power, they are acting like a party losing power, which they are,   They even had to tie this bill to subsidies for PA hospitals, because the Republican Governor was not a fan of the bill, and they have to keep him for vetoing it.

    They are angry that it was this close, and they are angry that they will probably be out of power in 2020.  There ain’t shit they can do about it.

     

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  3. This makes more sense, given the curfew rules.

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    Other areas where camping remains banned include any city park space, under Austin Parks and Recreation rules.That includes downtown green spaces as well as trails and greenbelts such as along Barton Creek.

     

  4. 4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    i would say ivanka should stay in her lane.  but imagining what her lane actually might be is terrifying to think about.

    she can keep doing...whatever it is she does now.

    Yeah, she could literally get him to change all sorts of policies based on conversations she doesn’t understand.  

    And she’s probably already done that.

  5. 38 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    Awkward.

    I’ve been in that situation before - Many moons ago,  I was discussing an expensive server cluster a client wanted built, with a group of colleagues, and a non-techie VP (a clone of Michael Scott) wandered over and said something to the effect of “it will need a lot of memory, are we including a lot of memory?” Friend said something like “it has $450,000 worth of memory, that seems like enough, right?” And the VP nodded in agreement and said “that sounds like enough.”  Later in the conversation, he asked if the client was okay with it in black.  Our laptops (before we sold that business off) and servers were only sold in black, and they had a very distinct look based in part on the color (or lack thereof) but I told him if he felt it was important, he should contact the folks in New York.  I regretted saying that, because people like that are liable to waste a lot of emails on something like that, but thankfully he did nothing.  

  6. https://lrl.texas.gov/scanned/govdocs/Rick Perry/2001/speech082201.pdf

    Rick Fuckin’ Perry, 2001:

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    President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity. It means we have addressed pollution concerns, made substantial progress in stopping the spread of disease, and rid our crossings of illicit drug smuggling activity. Clearly we have a long way to go in addressing those issues. At the same time we must continue to deepen our economic ties, expanding opportunities for Mexican and U.S. companies to do business on both sides of the border. The outlook is promising, even if the road to prosperity is a long one. We share a bond as neighbors, and we find our culture north of the Rio Grande to be increasingly defined by the strong traits of people of Hispanic descent. Texas has long enjoyed a unique identity, an identity forged by an independent spirit, and the convergence of many different peoples. We must welcome change in the 21st Century as we have in every century before it.


    Today, as we look to the south, we see a rising sun. It is perched above a people whose best days are in front of them. Let us endeavor to make the most of this new day through a new dialogue. Let us work together to combat disease, expand trade and provide educational opportunities. If we do, there are no limits to what we can accomplish for the betterment of all of our citizens. Thank you, and God bless you.

     

  7. 1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

    This actually might not be that bad.   

    As for the complaints about the CGI....    Fuck it.   It's a movie.

    Pearl Harbor, Doolittle’s Raid, and the most stunning, and decisive, defeat in naval history.  All in one hour and 45 minutes.  

  8. 17 minutes ago, Nolacycling said:

    I think Carter did an interview w/Playboy and admitted to "lusting in his mind". Last century that stuff didn't go over well.

    This is what nearly sunk him.  

    798px-Jimmy_Carter_in_boat_chasing_away_

  9. 4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    She's incredibly impressed with herself.  For no good reason than she has her daddy's name.

    “If you want to beat Trump, you have to impress me, because my last name is McCain.”

    Really wish the Castros had ran for statewide offices next year    

    Maybe this is to raise his profile for 2022 and 2024.  

  10.  I notice Dennis Quaid's name in the trailer - if his brother flies a plane into the side of the last Japanese carrier I will go to the front desk and give them more money.

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  11. I don't know that it will change policy by itself, and arguably the lawsuit filed by the federal asylum officers charged with implementing the policy will have more of an impact.

    It's a damn powerful photo to me, even if I didn't have a daughter not much older than her.  I'll even admit that it sickens me.  It should be seen by the adult public at large, because otherwise, it's all too easy for people on both sides of the issue to ignore it.  

    The media plays up death all the time, and so we get very desensitized to articles that mention somebody dying  - I don't give a fuck about some meth-head in Florida killing her husband with a python, or some redneck in Oklahoma killing his cousin-wife with a hay baler, but that shit creeps into my feeds, and I ignore it.  But when I saw that photo of the girl and her dad, I had to stop and read.

    Hell, a part of me wishes some of those photos of those who die in the desert would be released - it might put pressure on ICE to stop emptying out jugs of water and destroying packages of food that people leave to help those folks make it through the desert.  

    The Kent State photo - that led to 4 million college students shutting down their colleges, 100,000+ people marching on Washington.  This little bit from Wikipedia was interesting:

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    Not only was the President taken to Camp David for two days for his own protection, but Charles Colson (Counsel to President Nixon from 1969 to 1973) stated that the military was called up to protect the Nixon Administration from the angry students; he recalled that "The 82nd Airborne was in the basement of the executive office building, so I went down just to talk to some of the guys and walk among them, and they're lying on the floor leaning on their packs and their helmets and their cartridge belts and their rifles cocked and you're thinking, 'This can't be the United States of America. This is not the greatest free democracy in the world. This is a nation at war with itself.'"[10]

    President Nixon and his administration's public reaction to the shootings was perceived by many in the anti-war movement as callous. Then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger said the President was "pretending indifference". Stanley Karnow noted in his Vietnam: A History that "The [Nixon] administration initially reacted to this event with wanton insensitivity. Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, whose statements were carefully programmed, referred to the deaths as a reminder that 'when dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy.'" Three days before the shootings, Nixon had talked of "bums" who were antiwar protestors on United States campuses,[49] to which the father of Allison Krause stated on national TV "My child was not a bum."

     My gut says the timing of the photo of the little girl and her dad is such that it will have little to no impact, because too many distractions are constantly occurring in Washington.

    Things like the Kent State photo - that portion of the nation's population that ramped up massive protests was already zeroed-in on Vietnam being The One True Issue in their lives.  Right now, we are distracted by half a dozen major issues.

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