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So if you don't need ID to vote, you don't need it to drive, buy guns, own automatic weapons etc. ID is discrimination so it can't be required for anything.
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You know, a discrimination suit based on the NFA as excluding minorities might get it struck down. I mean, personally I think voting is the more important right, but if voting can't be tested by ID, why should NFA.
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lots of Illinois SEIU members, and Young Democrats
And bus loads of union folks from Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc., just like during the 2012 recall election.
Didn't work then, but they've had a couple years to plan it out better with a more 'even' distribution across the state.
The louder the screams about 'inequality' from the left, the more I recognize their true mission.
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Someone with a better background can answer this question - how many Justices have to agree to accept a petition to hear a case? IIRC it was three or four. Please correct if its another number. All of which implies that a minority can obstruct something like this for one election before the full court could intervene in the process. However, as in the Gore vote count, there can be a call for an emergency hearing and resolution because of timeliness.
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Illinois will not be sending the 'Purple Grapes' because the election is very close for Governor, State Reps, State Senate, and a couple of US House seats. The Senate race is getting surprisingly tight. They will stay home and steal- eh 'work for' votes here. Michigan is also very close. The conditions that were in place during the recall in Wis do not exist anymore. Get out and vote!
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Now I trust the vote integrity of this next election about as much as I trust Obama. Thanks a hell of lot SCOTUS (sarc). Is there any other area of our society where ID is not required? (O.K. exclude the 2008 Obama's presidential erection).
[TownHall - Katie Pavlich] Government watchdog Judicial Watch has sued the City of Phoenix Police Department over documents surrounding a 2013 gang-style assault on an apartment complex. Long-guns, a handgun, empty casings and buildings riddled with bullets were reported at the scene and two people were wounded in the incident. When the incident occurred and during investigation afterward, police worked with federal law enforcement agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency in the case, raising suspicions the assault wasn't simply a typical, local gang shootout and prompted questions about the details of the people involved in the shooting in addition to where the weapons that were used came from. Suspects were arrested in the weeks following the incident.
Judicial Watch is seeking all records and communications between Phoenix police and the federal agencies involved. It is suspected the weapons used in the incident are connected to Operation Fast and Furious. No comments from the DoJ or the Attorney General.
[Telegraph] More than 750 British troops, along with three helicopters and a medical support ship will head to Sierra Leone to tackle the to help tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak
Britannia will send hundreds of troops, a ship and three helicopters to tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak spreading through West Africa.
Troops will head to Sierra Leone as early as next week, where British military engineers and medics are already overseeing the building of an Ebola hospital.
Around 750 personnel will help set up treatment centres and an Ebola Training Academy.
The measures were decided during a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee, as the Foreign Secretary said the world had to do more "to prevent what is currently a crisis from becoming a catastrophe."
The deadly virus has killed more than 3,400 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
RFA Argus, a medical ship with a fully-equipped 100-bed hospital on board, will be sent to Sierra Leone, along with three Merlin helicopters.
Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, said the disease had now become "an unprecedented threat that knows no borders".
He said: "We have to get ahead of this disease, but if we get ahead of it, if we rise to the challenge, we can contain it and beat it. We know how to do this, it is not complicated to do, it just requires a large focus of resource and effort to deliver it."
He added: "We now need the wider international community to step up to the plate and deliver that additional resource, not just money, but trained medical and clinical personnel to lead that effort on the ground. We all have to do more if we are going to prevent what is currently a crisis from becoming a catastrophe."
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said: "The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is already a global threat to public health and it's vital that the UK remains at the forefront of responding to the epidemic.
"Following today's meeting we are stepping up significantly the UK's contribution and leadership in work to tackle the outbreak, on land, in the air and at sea. At the heart of the package is the commitment to provide more than 750 personnel to help with the establishment of Ebola Treatment Centres and an Ebola Training Academy. We are deploying troops, helicopters and a ship ‐ Army medics and Merlin helicopters, supported by the RFA Argus to provide direct support and reassurance."
The troops will include soldiers of the Royal Scots Borderers (1 SCOTS) based in Co Down, Northern Ireland.
Lt Col Matt Munro, commanding officer, said: "This is a challenge unlike any, but the point is that we are very well prepared. This kind of operation represents, I think, the future for parts of the British Army.
He said: "There are some peculiar threats to this operation clearly relating to the Ebola virus and of course there is a risk of soldiers from this battalion contracting the virus but it is a very low risk because there are all sorts of very practical and sensible measures that my people can employ to ensure that the risk is kept to an absolute minimum.
"And it is worth saying also that, for the most part, my soldiers have been queuing up to deploy. There are a lot of young men in the battalion very keen to go on operations. They joined the army to be challenged and to do different things and evidence of that is that very many of them want to go."
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Was wondering if we could have our military at least take the time to have one of their COMMON SENSE bio weapons people address the country instead of the FUCKING GOD DAMN USELESS FUCKING EMPTY SUIT FUCKING SOCK PUPPET DEAD HEAD GHOULS! Just 5 or 10 minutes before they all leave for Africa, they do have people with degrees and COMMON SENSE in that division still right?
[Daily Caller] If Ebola reaches South America, the U.S. border will be swamped by a huge wave of terrified migrants, says a top military commander.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, chief of U.S. Southern Command, said Tuesday at a speech in Washington, D.C.
“They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment,” he said at National Defense University.
Liberians and other Africans are already trying to get into the United States via Mexico and other Latin American countries, he said. As if we needed another reason to secure the border. I hope someone in Washington is listening.
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You mean, other than the promise of citizenship and free health care, open borders?
The excuse is irrelevant. Personally I'm more concerned about Latin America Respiratory Syndrome. Already did the hand and foot crap, something I had never heard about in social circles until, oh, about a year ago.
[Iran Press TV] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has called on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... to carry out criminal investigations into acts of violence committed by the former March 23 movement (M23) rebels in the eastern part of the African country between April 2012 and November 2013.
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"Mao, how shall I show what I'm worth,
While stuck at the helm of the North?
A man with my mouth
Should devour the South,
But for now, I'll just slay the next courth."
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Besides well-reported leg/knee problems, IMO only its possible KJU = "Pudgy" may also suffer from back or spinal issues judging from how his back is seemingly postured while walking under leg or knee stress???
Bulgaria on Wednesday rejected Russian accusations that it was betraying its former Soviet-era ally by considering replacing its aging Russian warplanes with ones built in the West.
In a Twitter post commenting on reports that Bulgaria was contemplating buying secondhand jets such as Eurofighters from Italy or F-16s from Portugal to replace its current fleet, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin wrote, "News from Bulgaria: a certain Shalamanov [Defense Minister Velizar Shalamanov] has convinced Prime Minister [Georgi] Bliznashki to once again betray Russia … in favor of second-hand eagles."
Responding, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Danail Mitov issued a statement calling Rogozin's comments "extremely unworthy … contrary to good manners and [they] show, unfortunately, a lack of respect for Bulgarian institutions and the state."
He added, "As for the implicit accusations of disloyalty, I would like to remind [the comments'] authors that the Republic of Bulgaria is a member of the EU and NATO and it does not owe explanations about its sovereign decisions to third parties."
Bulgaria shares many ties with Russia, was seen as Moscow's most pliable ally before the collapse of the Soviet Union and remains heavily dependent on Russian energy. But since it emerged from communism, Bulgaria joined NATO in 2004 and the European Union in 2007.
Its conflicting loyalties have been tested by the ongoing standoff over Ukraine. It participated in NATO exercises after Russia's annexation of Crimea and reluctantly stopped working on a giant Russian-led gas pipeline project after pressure from the United States and Brussels.
[Iran Press TV] A top US diplomat says there will be no sanctions relief for Russia until Moscow withdraws all its forces and military equipment from Ukraine.
"Today there is a peace deal on paper in Ukraine, there is thankfully peace across a lot of Ukraine, but the peace deal is still being violated in key sectors," US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in a speech Thursday at an Aspen Institute conference in Berlin.
Nuland added that the sanctions will remain in place until all Ukrainian hostages are released and Ukraine's illusory sovereignty is restored.
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Which is NOT going to happen anytime soon thanks to the latest ISIS/ISIL threat to attack + conquer Turkey.
KRAUTHAMMER > Say it wid me, Amerika, OOOOPPSSSSS!
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Vicki Nuland wants to be Valarie Jarrett when she grows up.
Remember when we were told that what was needed in foreign policy was women's input, and to get away from all that evil patriarchal thinking?
(What's the feminine word for putz? Putzina?)
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Nuland added that the sanctions will remain in place until all Ukrainian hostages are released and Ukraine's illusory sovereignty is restored.
And Crimea, what about the Crimea? Or was Crimea simply another failed concession pawn ?
Where the CDC Chief proves, ones and for all, that A) he is a political appointment and B) you can't fix stupid.
The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic.
That response is understandable. It’s only human to want to protect ourselves and our families. We want to defend ourselves, so isn’t the fastest, easiest solution to put up a wall around the problem? No to put a wall around our borders to help keep ourselves and our families safer.
A travel ban is not the right answer. It’s simply not feasible to build a wall – virtual or real – around a community, city, or country. Especially when there is political reasons to have a wide-open southern border for the importation of undocumented Democrats and ISIS killers.
When a wildfire breaks out we don't fence it off. We go in to extinguish it before one of the random sparks sets off another outbreak somewhere else. Yes we do fence it off - it's called a FIREBREAK and it is a very effective tool for preventing the fire from spreading while you either try to put it out or, if the fire is too large, wait for it to burn itself out.
Stopping planes from flying from West Africa would severely limit the ability of Americans to return to the United States or of people with dual citizenship to get home, wherever that may be. No you stop plans from flying from West Africa to *HERE*. And those people who get caught might need to have a 21-day isolation period beforehand. Tough, but life isn't fair.
In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Nobody's talking about preventing flights in to those countries.
People will move between countries, even when governments restrict travel and trade. And that kind of travel becomes almost impossible to track. Especially when we so dearly need an unprotected southern border so undocumented democrats can come in.
Isolating communities also increases people’s distrust of government, making them less likely to cooperate to help stop the spread of Ebola. Gee... refusing to do your primary function - that is to protect your citizens - has that effect as well.
Isolating communities and regions within countries will also backfire. Restricting travel or trade to and from a community makes the disease spread more rapidly in the isolated area, eventually putting the rest of the country at even greater risk.
To provide relief to West Africa, borders must remain open and commercial flights must continue. I suggest you go visit each Ebola patient - without any protection whatsoever. Be sure to shake their hand and give them a big fat kiss on the lips. Because to use any sort of protection would be wrong.
What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic. Casting too wide a net, such as invoking travel bans, would only provide an illusion of security and would lead to prejudice and stigma around those in West Africa. I had H1N1 - Just seemed like a rough case of the flu and I didn't know I had it until my Doctor told me afterwards. Still I would not want Ebola.
Americans can be reassured we are taking measures to protect citizens here. A lie.
Today, all outbound passengers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are screened for Ebola symptoms before they board an airplane. After all it worked so well for Patient Zero...
Staff from CDC and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customers & Border Protection will begin new layers of entry screening,
Travelers from those countries will be escorted to an area of the airport set aside for screening. There they will be observed for signs of illness, asked a series of health and exposure questions, and given information on Ebola and information on monitoring themselves for symptoms for 21 days. And of course they will... NOT!
Their temperature will be checked, and if there’s any concern about their health, they’ll be referred to the local public health authority for further evaluation or monitoring. At least the local public health authority might be effective. Unless they are overrun by the likes of the good chief here.
Until Ebola is controlled in West Africa, we cannot get the risk to zero here in the United States. But we can probably get pretty close. It's called a multi-layered defense - you go fight it there while, at the same time, erect measures to prevent it from entering here - by protecting the border (including the southern one).
And be sure not to wear any protective clothing while visiting any Ebola patients - at least until they are over it.
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Because the hand in my sock puppet self told me no. Now I'm going to go hide in level 4 containment. Plus I've got all the Racal suits I can ever need.
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This 'political hack' was Mayor Bloomburgs front man for curtailing the use and increasing the cost of cigarette smoking in NYC. His pronouncements on no travel bans are as phoney as he is.
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Precisely why I posted this. I couldn't believe he said such a stupid statement.
I also noted the option of simply allowing the fire to 'burn itself out' - which would be a very drastic, but possibly necessary, action if things get too far out of control. I think we are far from that point.
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It’s simply not feasible to build a wall – virtual or real – around a community, city, or country.
Can't talk about the history of civilization without talking about the use of the wall.
When a wildfire breaks out we don't fence it off. We go in to extinguish it before one of the random sparks sets off another outbreak somewhere else.
Bull. Shit.
You get in front of the head of the fire, and start putting down water and getting rid of fuel. Thus, making a wall.
What you do not do is go into the wildfire, then you are in the fire, smoke, and spending resources on an area already lost.
Its the sort of lazy, imprecise analogy I would expect someone to come up with while sitting on the toilet the day after downing four hot links.
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Righteous fisking CF. I agree we're a long way from fencing it off and letting it burn itself out. However, that is the primary mechanism by which previous Ebola outbreaks in remote villages have ended.
The firebreak thing jumped out at me too. Ironically, "fencing it off" was exactly the approach used to stamp out smallpox: ring vaccinations. An infected patient's contacts were traced and inoculated, and the process repeated for each new infection, until there were no new infections.
Of course, there is no Ebola vaccine (yet), which makes a multi-layered defense even more critical. While this model shows that an 80% air travel reduction would only delay the spread by 3-4 weeks, IMO, that isn't a good reason to discard the idea altogether.
It's disgusting and terrifying to see public health being sacrificed to political correctness.
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RandomJD, Vespignani (one of the authors of the paper you linked) did earlier work on the spread of H1N1, that work accurately predicting the how the virus spread days before the CDC's data. He is one of the the group that developed the complex adaptive networked systems model. This Wired article talks a bit about how that model developed, though nothing about its applicability to disease spread.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Eight personnel of the Pakistain Railways police were nabbed Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Wednesday on the charge of beating a passenger of Mehr Express to death during a brawl inside the train.
Following the incident, on the directions of railway minister Khwaja Saad Rafique, Inspector-General of PR Police Munir Ahmad Chishti ordered a probe into the matter and constituted a team under the supervision of DIG Shariq Jamal Khan to submit a report at the earliest, said a front man.
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Remember, the customer is seldom right.
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[DAWN] Two people were killed and a woman was maimed when a group of gunnies broke into a house at Shaheen Colony near Swati Gate here on Monday night.
The injured woman, who identified herself as Naseem Bibi, later told police at Lady Reading Hospital that her former husband Shamsur Rehman accompanied by his brother Qasim and other persons, including Aziz, Rahim, Jamal, etc, entered her house located in a narrow street and opened indiscriminate fire on her family members.
As result, her present husband Imran and son Saqib were killed and she sustained bullet injuries on chest and shoulder. The woman is under treatment at the LRH.
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Sounds like a case of 'Irish Alzheimer's disease'.
They only remember the grudges.
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[Ynet] While some of Israel’s lone soldiers have a network of familial support in Israel, there are those from far-flung lands, such as Panama and New Zealand, to whom the army is their family.
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Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement earlier Thursday that Micahel Monning remains in good condition one day after he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Officer Monning will likely arrive a bit early for chapel services on Sunday.
By CONRAD BLACK
[NYSUN] Every week there are new revelations of the decrepit and often barbarous state of the U.S. criminal-justice and prison systems. The most egregious aspects of its dysfunction are not the absurdly severe sentences and world-record incarceration levels, or the North Korean conviction rates, or the frequent murders of prisoners by correctional officers in some of the state prisons, but the politically motivated antics of the prosecutors.
I was one of those who warned of the criminalization of policy differences in the Watergate affair, but unfortunately the inexplicable and uncharacteristic mismanagement of the whole tawdry sequence of events by President Nixon made it relatively easy for his enemies to drive him from office. It was bound to be an intoxicating experience, and beneath the confected sanctimony of many of the Watergate principals in the media and law enforcement, the joys of the assassin were evident. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, whose notes reveal that he distrusted Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate reporting, was audibly rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of going over the same ground again in the piffling Iran-Contra affair of 1986.
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It is hard to imagine what new outrages have to occur before the public demands a restoration of America’s status as a society of reasonable laws, where a day in court is a reassuring thought for the innocent.
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Every week there are new revelations of the decrepit and often barbarous state of the U.S. criminal-justice and prison systems. The most egregious aspects of its dysfunction are not the absurdly severe sentences and world-record incarceration levels, or the North Korean conviction rates, or the frequent murders of prisoners by correctional officers in some of the state prisons,
Yet FBI stats imply we are, per capita, at the low end of frequency of crimes. At any other time in history, the large population inhabiting our extensive penal system would have simply been executed. There would be a lot less overcrowding and 'barbarism' in the penal system if that old formula had been followed. Instead, we warehouse those numbers and then complain about the conditions, never acknowledging the 'barbarism' that would be let loose upon what ever society remain if these people were simply released.
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Procupiou2k: ever been in jail or prison? Alot of regular ppl in there waiting for their day in court. Alot can't afford too make bail so they are drug along so long they take a plea whether guilty or not just too get out.
I was in jail with a guy who was waiting on his day of court for 2 yrs. Day of trial it lasted 30 mins., when the evidence could not be found ( 2 kilos of coke). Just saying this happens alot
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A defense attorney who knows that the locals are keystone cops and the possibility of lost accountability could crop up would intentionally delay the defendant's 'day in court' vs his 'right to a speedy' trial betting that 2 years awaiting is better than 20 years for a conviction for being caught with 2 kilos.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TownHall - Katie Pavlich] Government watchdog Judicial Watch has sued the City of Phoenix Police Department over documents surrounding a 2013 gang-style assault on an apartment complex. Long-guns, a handgun, empty casings and buildings riddled with bullets were reported at the scene and two people were wounded in the incident. When the incident occurred and during investigation afterward, police worked with federal law enforcement agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency in the case, raising suspicions the assault wasn't simply a typical, local gang shootout and prompted questions about the details of the people involved in the shooting in addition to where the weapons that were used came from. Suspects were arrested in the weeks following the incident. 
[Telegraph] More than 750 British troops, along with three helicopters and a medical support ship will head to Sierra Leone to tackle the to help tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak
[Daily Caller] If Ebola reaches South America, the U.S. border will be swamped by a huge wave of terrified migrants, says a top military commander.
