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The email announcement called Price a "fierce opponent of government waste and devoted to limited government and lower spending."

We need to find some means of identifying those individuals who were born without the capacity to experience shame.

Then, we need to pull out their fingernails one by one until they learn this important lesson of social living.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Except for the fact that he wasn't, because no such thing has ever been shown to have occurred, and you know it.

It has been shown that most of the groups harmed were conservative.

We haven't yet had a proper investigation of what happened, so there is no way for Obama Administration wrongdoing to have been proven.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

That doesn't stop you though, because you're literally insane.

Funny how no one can challenge any of my facts.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Finn is mendacious

Nonsense.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

You don't and will respond with some blather, but no evidence,

I always provide evidence whenever someone asks me for a cite.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

all while loudly proclaiming that you are correct and that the Dems are responsible for all evils in the world.

Nothing wrong with me telling the truth.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

This is why you aren't taken seriously by anyone here

The fact that liberals always deny reality is no reflection on me.

How can you tell who thumbs and how they thumb?

I used to believe that white racism would be relegated to the dustbin of history. But it never will be because it's passed on from one generation to the next. The same is true of antisemitism and other kinds of bigotry.

A question I’d like asked of NFL players who continue to choose to kneel for the national anthem: What would you need to see to make you decide to stand again?

If you’re taking a knee because you feel like America has fallen short of living up to the values it proclaims . . . well, it’s only done that every day since July 4, 1776, and it will probably do that every day until the Second Coming. We’re a flawed nation because we’re full of human beings, and human beings are flawed. We will always have some lawmaker taking bribes, we will always have some cop somewhere abusing his power, some citizen committing a crime against another, someone demonizing another group of people. There is no heaven on this earth, and you cannot measure the quality of your country against heaven.

What Winston Churchill said about democracy feels like a good way of describing the country as a whole: “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . . ” The United States of America is really flawed, but we’ll choose our flaws against other countries’ flaws any day of the week.

Those of us who stand aren’t saying that the country is perfect. The song doesn’t say that the country is perfect. Oddly, it ends on a question, almost a challenge: “O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” In other words, is that flag still flying (yes) and is the country it flies over still the land of the free and the home of the brave? The answer, throughout our history has been, generally yes, although maybe not quite free enough, and perhaps not brave enough.

Everybody who stands for the anthem can probably point to some aspect of American life that really disappoints or angers them. Individuals and groups within this country can be materialistic, shallow, ignorant, lazy, spoiled, selfish, abusive . . . but those flaws aren’t what define us as a whole. The vast majority of us stand because we love and honor our country despite its flaws.

Is that perspective too much to ask of an NFL player?

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I wasn't asking who they are in terms of names.
I was asking who they are in terms of what kind of human beings are they.

I understand that. My wager would be that some significant proportion of those giving the thumbs down vote will actually be thinking, "Compelling liberalish post. Must down-vote!" Identification of the turkey by name would, I think, encourage a deeper level of honesty.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The director of the Michigan State Police has commented on NFL players protesting during the national anthem by posting a message calling them "degenerates."

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The director of the Michigan State Police has commented on NFL players protesting during the national anthem by posting a message calling them "degenerates."

http://www.apnews.com/b70c749ad8c74b0c986132b80fbdd3fb/State-Police-head's-media-post-calls-NFL-players-degenerates

Amen.

Michigan State Police director apologizes for anti-protest Facebook post

"It was a mistake to share this message on Facebook and I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended," Etue's post read.

not an apology but sort of heading that way

so like sorry if you have a problem and I shouldn't have made my belief public
actually - good that your belief is public

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Pimpernel

You can decide a case not be pursued because it's not winnable, but not pursuing a case because you have an interest in the truth not coming out is obstruction of justice.

Can you cite anything even remotely like that in the text of the law?

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any grand or petit juror, or officer in or of any court of the United States, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any United States magistrate judge or other committing magistrate, in the discharge of his duty, or injures any such grand or petit juror in his person or property on account of any verdict or indictment assented to by him, or on account of his being or having been such juror, or injures any such officer, magistrate judge, or other committing magistrate in his person or property on account of the performance of his official duties, or corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).