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So, road maintenance will be delayed resulting in increased costs when it is addressed and in increased accidents and pothole damage until the maintenance is done. Youth rec programs for the summer will be curtailed or canceled meaning more time for youth on the street to get into criminal mischief. Summer tutoring programs for kids who fell behind in school because thier teachers were giving time to migrants who do not speak the language will be curtailed and these kids may never catch up. Safety inspections on infrastructure, businesses and housing will be curtailed potentially resulting in injury or death, but Denver can tout that it is a sanctuary city.

I love that someone who posts their vignette on social media congratulating themselves on their parenting indoctrination to a political ideology says "I say this not to brag". Talk about a lack of self awareness. She is saying this exactly to brag.

Or maybe Honcho stood back from the typical uninformative back and forth we get in these threads to find some humor, and maybe I appreciated his humor. As for your summation of the case at this juncture I do not take issue with your summation.

My daughter does not need batteries, she runs on digesting food.

This thread has me thinking. What if Trump took his warehouse full of unsold Trumpy Bears and inserted in each a voice box with recordings of his greatest hits like his Gettysburg speech, his request to find 11,000 votes, his reiteration that he made a perfect call, and a few others. I think he might have a best seller there.

I thought this was going to be about Whitey Whitney from Leave it to Beaver. Turns out the dude has been dead for two decades. or maybe about Whitey Bulger.

You should have gone to law school. You have a knack for this stuff.

Imagine the exploding heads in here if instead of saying "never fight uphill me boys" he had said "never fight uphill me boyos".

They should be sent to California where their skin pigmentation will put them in line for generous reparations even though they just illegally migrated here.

Do you believe all sin, christian sin, should be illegal? If I covet my neighbors wife, or ass, or her ass should I be jailed? What if I take the Lord's name in vain? If I create graven images to worship should I be jailed or perhaps crucified? Maybe you should render unto god what is god's and unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Leave your bible out of our constitutional republic.

I take that as an admission you have no idea what you are talking about. Good to have that clear.

Doc, do we really have to amputate? No, we could wait three days and it will fall off all by itself.

Not true. With the Rock's power had he sucked on Biden he would haver turned him inside out.

Maybe the fat, prediabetic man in his 80's had some blood sugar problems after a run to McDonalds. A three Big Mac, large fry, and large coke meal would have a few of us dozing off and then needing a recess to squeeze out a log the likes of which killed Elvis and will be Trump's undoing in the end as well. Oh, it could also be cognitive decline but with Trump's unusual diction and rambling style of speach featuring non sequiturs that would be difficult to determine.

I think most lawyers, most judges, most decent law school professors would agree with me. For instance I could criticise and insult this judge or any member of SCOTUS right now and what are they going to do about it. Now if I criticise or take umbrage with their rulings whil in their coiurts they may not appreciate it, but if i insult them personally or their staff they can hold me in contempt. As for threats, wel threats have never been considered actionable threats unless the person had the present means of carrying out the threat. I understood you are a lawyer, you should know this, it should not surprise you. Perhaps I remembered wrong and you are not a lawyer. This judge's attempts to stiffle Trump are bsed, to my understanding, primarily on the theory that Trump ought not be allowed to taint the jury pool. It is a highly unusual ruling where I judge is concerned only about one side tainting the pool. I get why that is the case with trump but the court's order would be strongdr if it were bilateral. Much stronger. now the bilateral nature of the ruling would not really matterf if the prosecution were obeying norms,, it would in fact be irrelevant as a matter of fact, but as a mattder of law it would be a correct order. Thjere is also the considertion that truthful statementsare not threats, insults or criticism. I understand that mixed in among Trumps angry outburst are some nuggets of truth. If the Judge does not want his adult daughter being characterized as what she is, a democrat operative, then she can change her profession or he can recuse himself. I do not tht this judge is trying mightily to allow voir dire to empanel a well vetted jury panel which should in theory be fair. In a trial such as this, however, I have doubts that can be accomplished, but so far his efforts in this regard seem unusually thorough.

Gotcha. By the way, you holding?

So we see it differently. That's all right by me.

That plucky band of colorfully dressed but woefully underequiped renegades never stood a chnce. Apparently it takes more than flagpoles and bullhorns to tgake down America.

An educated man. Very good.

Third party libility expanding> first aprents jailed for the crimes of their son and now this. An interesting trend to watch.

I don't know. Biden has said some extremely foolish and racist things over the years. On misogynistic stuff he certainly seems to lag way behind Trump, but on raxcist stuff. he seems to xtep in it fairly often and seems to get a pass from his team. As for the items in your second paragraph i will not take issue except, perhaps, with the timeline. Things move pretty slowly in Washington.

Colorado House Bill 24-1292 seeks to ban more or less all semiautomatic rifles, many semi-automatic handguns, but does not yet touch shotguns. The ban is for new purchases or for transfers of existing weapons. If I can't transfer my existing weapons it seems to me there has been a partial taking of their value

Our founders overthrew the legitimate government. They wanted the people to retain the right and power to do so. They wanted government to respect if not fear the power retained by the people. They thought that respect would restrain tyranny. It was all about a peoples militia being able to effectively rise up and oppose the standing army and navy of the legitimate government. Is that insane in this day and age. Of course. Yet that is what it meant. If we find it insane we need to amend it, not ignore it or try to interpret it away, but amend it. Anything less or more clearly ignores the constitution. BTW, The founders did not only authorize individual arms. The authoirzed private ship of war. They authorized marques of reprisal essentially allowing privatge ship captains to capture ship of war. To do so those privater ships had to also have cannon and fighting men.

Ahhhh, the Thomas Becket argument. Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest? I guess Trump is not entirely unprecedented but it has been some time.

Neither would be good options for a speech running over an hour. You would be dying for a hit every 5 minutes or so. Just not practical.