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tvc184

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  1. Top of 2 coming, PNG 1-0
  2. Nederland won the flip and will defer. Oops, forgot to swap forums.....
  3. If I remember correctly, that same law makes it a crime up to a year in jail and removal from office for a sheriff or chief to institute such a santuary policy. I am looking forward to some chiefs and sheriffs being arrested ........
  4. Long time member
  5. That is not completely untrue about design..... kind of. The AR, like other combat rifles, was made to kill humans at some very long ranges. It can easily reach out over a quarter of a mile to hit a target. However...... No school shooting has ever taken place at over a quarter of a mile. In fact most if the victims are within a very few feet, up to point blank range. At those ranges the AR isn’t particularly well suited. It is almost impossible to conceal, reloading can be much slower than with handguns. It is more cumbersome to get on target rapidly at close ranges (defeating your claim of shortest amount of time) and carrying a lot of ammo is a pain in the butt and way more difficult than with handguns. It would not be a stretch that in most school shootings a high capacity handgun would have produced more fatalities than the AR. So if you do not think that those kinds of rifles should be owned by anyone, great. If you are trying to claim that if no one owned that type of rifle, these school shootings would be different, you’re out of your mind.
  6. Lots of goods sports movies and I wouldn’t try to rate them in some kind of ranking. There are a few that I really enjoy watching more than others. A couple that really stand out are Miracle about the 1980 US hockey team’s stunning (maybe biggest in sports history) victory over the USSR in the Olympics and Hoosiers. I don’t even like hockey and I have no desire to watch any of it but the movie Miracle is great. I really like the original Longest Yard and I rarely see it mentioned and then Caddie Shack..... which like Miracle, is entertaining even if you didn’t like golf... which I do.
  7. That is entirely correct however that still required a rifle… Which is a bad word in some circles. Almost all (with a couple of exceptions) of these shootings take place at point blank ranges where the AR is not an optimal weapon of choice. To read the Internet you would think that if the AR did not exist then no shootings wouldn’t happen or there would be less casualties when just the opposite might be true.
  8. He is rightfully angry but an idiot. Mass murders are a society problem, not a weapon problem. We can legally confiscate weapons like Australia did, if like the Captain said in the movie G. I. Jane, we just trim a little fat off the Constitution.
  9. Absolutely, the Armalite Rifle was designed as a combat weapon. Do you feel more vindicated in your beliefs for that reason and would feel better if the people were killed by a firearm that was not “designed to kill”? The argument against the AR type rifles is merely a ploy for more gun laws. In fact in a majority of the shootings the AR is a poor choice of weapons. In the Killeen Luby’s shooting, the suspect used two 9mm handguns in what was the largest mass murder at that time. In Virginia Tech the suspect not only used just two handguns in what is still the largest school shooting, one was a .22 which is a tiny target round and almost laughable as an offensive weapon and not even a recommended self defense handgun. Tell that to the 32 victims. As you are well aware, the AR is designed and intended to be used at ranges of a quarter mile or more. For easy of carry, concealment, speed and ease if handling, carrying lots of ammo and ease/speed of reloading, the 9mm is much more effective and just as deadly. In this shooting and Sandy Hook, had the shooters been armed with a couple of small 9mm handguns, the death toll would likely have beet much higher. I guess that would give you satisfaction since those self defense and target type weapons weren’t designed for offensive weapons and they don’t have the scary look of an AR. The entire “assault” weapon argument is simply a means to an end. It would do nothing or stop nothing but would simply be another law on the books.
  10. I think we are already at that point and have been for a few years.
  11. JFK and Trump could almost be two peas in the same political pod but JFK was a polished politician and Trump doesn’t know when to shut up.
  12. BUT, BUT... Trump said that his SOTU address was a record audience and that was not true. You know that Dims are hurting when they can’t talk about policy or results but only have tweets to discuss.
  13. Not unless someone in the 9th files. I think all of those are in the 2nd Circuit.
  14. This might be a stretch but the Dims need to read The United States Constitution Article I on the powers of Congress. What is comical is that Obamacare was upheld under that same article under the authority to tax. Apparently some of them like the Constitution when it fits their desires and wants to ignore it when it doesn’t.
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  16. In Bible school way when I was about 6 years old (over 50 years ago) my teacher told us that the Sabbath day was Saturday, a day of rest. I don’t know any Christian religion that believes otherwise. Generally Christians gather for their main worship centered on Sunday. This was as I was told in the same lesson, the gathering to celebrate Christianity on Sunday, the day Christ rose from the dead or as we know it, Easter Sunday. As he told us, basically every Sunday is a celebration of Easter. That does not replace the Sabbath in the Old Testament. Not coincidentally most people, except shift workers, are traditionally off on both Saturday and Sunday or what we call our weekend. I believe that is why our traditional days off were S-S and not something like Tuesday-Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday are both holy days for different reasons. One in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament.
  17. You are reading and believing too much gibberish. Let’s cut to the chase. Do you really believe that the USA is about to spring upon us a Sunday worship law, enabling the prophecy of the beast?
  18. Yes it is a conspiracy theory. The Bible is not part of that plot (realizing the theory is based on verses) but the notion the there will be a national blue law is ludicrous. There will be no national law requing any worship, much less on Sunday or any restrictions. Dragging up laws attempted 130 years or more ago is tin foil hat stuff.
  19. It is bad, very bad. The people that have a lot of money will still have a lot of money. The people that made poor choices in life and do not want to work, will still not want to work. See how bad that is? Simply terrible.....
  20. The national debt went up $4 Trillion under Bush. The national debt increased $12 Trillion under Obama or 300% more than under Bush. The notion that anything went down under Obama is ludicrous. The tax cuts will end in 10 years... because the Democrats wanted it to. It 8 Dems would have voted to give the middle class tax relief, it would have been permanent. I think the IRS needs to take a page from the Obama playbook (but actually tell the truth and mean it). They need to have a check box on the 2018 tax return and have it say.... “If you liked your tax plan, you can keep it”. If you check the box you can pay the rate and standard deduction from the Obama years. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan!! The rest of us will gladly pay the new rate.
  21. Daily comedy.......
  22. Those darn trees are what’s keeping the property value down.....
  23. That is the rule change game. THESE ARE THE RULES.....unless we lose the majority. Backed up by Pelosi and Schumer, I have seen several media oulets stated over and over, the tax plan got no Democratic support in committee or in the roll call vote. They will likely get no votes from the Democrats if this comes up for final passage. Somehow they forget that maybe the biggest boondoggle in US history, the notAffordale Care Act, passed into law without a single Republican vote Now they are really angry that there is no bipartisanship. And all of the stomping of the feet is based on outright lies. The middle class will get no tax break and this is all going to the rich is just nonsense. If this was a court of law or under oath, they would all be charged with perjury. No one likes the Good Ol’ Boy system unless they the good ol’ boy. The Dems loved it when they had the super majority but hate it when they aren’t the ones calling the shots.
  24. This list is stretching pretty far to make an argument. Their highlight item is that 43% of households pay no federal taxes so they don’t get a break. Hmmm....... Let me see, they pay “no taxes” but want a better deal. Apparently the family that pays $18,000 a year and gets a $2,000 cut so is “only paying” $16,000 is screwing the family that still has to pay.... nothing. Horrible, simply horrible. It claims to possibly hurt charities. Not because donations aren’t still tax deductible but because of a simplified tax form. They raised the automatic deductions meaning that you don’t have to itemize as much. To say that is a stretch is an understatement. People that donate large sums of money to charity and get a tax break will see absolutely no benefit from raising the automatic exemption by a couple of thousand dollars. It is beyond ludicrous. It is correct that it will certainly not help the deficit but the same people decrying this plan made absolutely no noise while Obama raised it by $12 Trillion. This article is the classic smoke and mirrors. For all it says, it does not say that the middle class won’t get a good tax break. It doesn’t bring up the Pelosi / Schumer argument that only the wealthy will benefit. Why? Because it appears that the final bill will give the rich zero tax cuts. The ONLY THE RICH GET IT is an outright lue which is why that Democratic mantra isn’t even addressed. Other than pure politics, what is the problem with this tax plan? Nothing. Well, maybe that is not exactly true. It will show that the billionaire, Donald Trump, did not deliver breaks to the wealthy but to the middle class, which is exactly what he said in his campaign. The problem with that is that the Democrats are about to see that their leaders will sell them out just for a political point. I wonder if all the middle class Democrats will give back their tax cuts in protest.
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