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7 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I disagree. We weren’t nearly as stupid back then as we are today.  We were plenty stupid, but OBL was a well-known entity before 9/11.

 

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

Yeah, we tried to kill him in Sudan when Clinton was in Office. He was known to be behind the Kobar Tower bombing. He was on our list for sure. 

 

Yeah.  I 100% knew who OBL was before 9/11.  Granted, I actually read stuff, so maybe the educated folks on this board aren't the typical American.  But anyone in NYC after the FIRST WTC bombing - particularly someone who had any involvement in the world of building security, so any RE owner/manager - probably knew of OBL.

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2 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

Agreed.  I thinnk I am closer to retirement than most here so my comfort level is low right now.  I'm 2 1/2-3 years out.

There’s no law that says you have to be fully invested in the stock market.  So what if you miss out on the end of the run up if you think it’s going to come crashing down in the near future?

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15 hours ago, Satchel said:

Is Trump aware of the violent gun crime running rampant in the Republican led cities of Dallas and Ft.Worth. Shouldn’t Abbott be sweeping around his own front door instead  of messing with Portland and Chicago?

To wit:

    • Ten people were killed across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex between Friday, Oct. 3, and Monday, Oct. 6, in separate violent incidents.
    • The violence included the fatal shooting of a person on a DART train Sunday, which marked the second deadly shooting on the transit system in one week, raising concerns about public safety.
    • The incidents include a triple homicide in West Dallas, a nightclub shooting in Fort Worth that killed one and injured five, and the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old following a minor traffic accident.

 

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13 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I disagree. We weren’t nearly as stupid back then as we are today.  We were plenty stupid, but OBL was a well-known entity before 9/11.

I definitely knew who he was, and I remember his name being speculated on tv the same night. 

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50 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Deport the illegals, but not illegal activity.

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. A Kansas task force focused on stemming the flow of fentanyl has been redirected. Highway checkpoints near the southwest border—some on roads long identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed.

The shift reflects a broader realignment in federal law enforcement. Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement under President Trump’s second-term push to accelerate deportations, according to current and former officials.

The administration has set a goal of removing 3,000 migrants a day who are in the country illegally. To help meet that number, officials say, Homeland Security Investigations agents, Customs and Border Protection officers, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials and even the Postal Service have been pulled from their traditional duties to help track, detain and deport undocumented immigrants.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-immigration-push-diverts-u-s-agents-from-drug-money-and-sex-crime-cases-90b37cc9

 

Well, Trump admin did make a deal with the cartels. Guess it was to let their stuff through?

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7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Fine you guys win. 99.9% of America knew OBL by name and picture pre-9/11. 9/11 maybe moved the needle by .05%

Hey, I said it may have only been the smart and educated people who knew about him, so maybe those of us speaking up aren't an accurate sample.  So it's perfectly understandable that you had never heard of him.  :) 

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2 hours ago, speed817 said:

 

 

JUST OUT: Good news for the SEC Season. TEXAS RUNNING GAME IS UP, WHILE LONGHOWN OFFENSIVE LINE AND ARCH ARE MAKING OUR TEAM A NATIONAL POWER AGAIN. Also, virtually NO SACKS ALLOWED, AS DEFENSE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE WEAK OPPONENTS. THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS FOR TEXAS FOOTBALL FANDOM.

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36 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

There’s no law that says you have to be fully invested in the stock market.  So what if you miss out on the end of the run up if you think it’s going to come crashing down in the near future?

Understood and I am not but I am not totally risk averse either.

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21 minutes ago, elguapo said:

JUST OUT: Good news for the SEC Season. TEXAS RUNNING GAME IS UP, WHILE LONGHOWN OFFENSIVE LINE AND ARCH ARE MAKING OUR TEAM A NATIONAL POWER AGAIN. Also, virtually NO SACKS ALLOWED, AS DEFENSE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE WEAK OPPONENTS. THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS FOR TEXAS FOOTBALL FANDOM.

I mean....I've been on the ledge for a LONG time.  Seems you want to make me jump off it, goddammit.

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My apologies if I posted this somewhere on this site already but I had a pretty Gonzo weekend.

This is at least the second relative of Miller's to disown him publicly.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-own-cousin-disowned-004403550.html

Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Disowned ‘Face of Evil’ in Wrenching Post

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Stephen Miller’s own cousin has disowned him for becoming “the face of evil” as the architect of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown.

Alisa Kasmer penned a lengthy Facebook post publicly severing her ties to the top Trump aide in July, just as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out hotly contested raids in Los Angeles, where she lives. Her post made fresh rounds on social media over the weekend.

Kasmer, who described herself as Miller’s cousin on his dad’s side, recalled growing up with and babysitting an “awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention” but was “always the sweetest with the littlest family members.” She described him as “young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless.”

Images that accompanied the emotional post showed Kasmer and Miller going from young children donning turtlenecks and overalls to young adults dressed up in dresses and suits.

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Kasmer wrote. “I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen… I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.”

Kasmer points out that she and Miller were raised Jewish with stories about surviving pogroms, ghettos, and the Holocaust.

“We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say ‘never again.’ But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught,” she said.

“How can you do to others what has been done to us? How can you wake up each day and repeat the cruelty that our people barely escaped from?”

Kasmer wondered out loud what happened to her cousin, who is widely credited with orchestrating the divisive immigration policy of both Trump administrations. Miller was also among the top Trump officials who set a lofty quota of at least 3,000 ICE arrests per day.

Though the quota has triggered tense clashes throughout the country between protesters and federal agents who were determined to deliver, data show that ICE arrests have fallen well below targets.

The Trump administration has consistently maintained that its immigration blitz is aimed at weeding out violent criminals. But official data show that immigrants with no criminal record make up the largest number of people in ICE detention.

“Where does this hateful obsession end? What are you trying to build besides fear? Immigrants were a part of your upbringing. Is this cruelty your way of rejecting a part of yourself?” Kasmer asked, musing that Miller’s evolution was “a perfect storm of ego, fear, hate, and ambition—all of it mangled into something cruel and hollow, masquerading as strength.”

“You’ve destroyed so many lives just to feed your own obsession and ego and uphold an administration so corrupt, so vile, I can barely comprehend it,” she went on. “Being this close to such deep cruelty fills me with shame. I am gutted. My heart breaks that this is the legacy you have brought to our family. A legacy I never asked to share with you, and one I now carry like a curse.”

In a separate Threads post over the weekend, Kasmer revealed that most of Miller’s extended family had also disowned him except for his immediate relatives, whom she said were supportive of the MAGA agenda.

Stephen Miller has been a loyal adviser to Donald Trump for nearly a decade, even the president has reportedly insulted him behind his back. / Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Miller is no stranger to getting disowned by his family members. In 2018, his uncle David Glosser penned a scathing diatribe for Politico magazine where he was described as an “immigration hypocrite.”

Like Kasmer, Miller’s uncle—who is related to him on his mother’s side—underscored the irony of a descendant of immigrants crafting anti-immigrant policies.

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser wrote.

 



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