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We'll see in 8 years...

Yeah, well my mother could kick the crap out of your mother! And do it with one leg tied behind father's back.

She'd better bring a shovel.

Sort of like Obamacare right?

blatham wrote:

I was thinking this morning

That's pretty funny right there.

This is filled with accuracies. I've seen tweets and videos from Cal Berkeley students talking about their professor's statements and participation in the riots. At least one professor actually said "burn it down" and verbally incited violence against Trump and Milo supporters.

They must be charged.

But the initial cries from Congress (members of both parties) revealed just how cowed and fearful the inhabitants of the "home of the brave" has become. The sissies were afraid to have terrorists housed in their maximum security prisons. SAD!

As you likely know, a lot of serious audiophiles swear by the sound of vinyl. I've never bothered to set up anything that might test the thesis and the convenience of digital won me over anyway (and I've got very good headphones). Much if not all of The Last Waltz is available on youtube. I frequently dip in for a performance or two.

Rule to prevent law-abiding citizens from buying guns gets nixed by House
It would have kept those unable to run their own finances from buying firearms.

BETH MOLE - 2/3/2017, 11:25 AM (strongly edited by Oralloy to improve factual accuracy)

The US House voted 235-180 on Thursday in favor of striking down an Obama-era rule intended to keep guns out of the hands of ordinary law-abiding citizens.

The rule would require the Social Security Administration to forward information about any disabled person who does not handle their own finances to the FBI's background check system.

The rule, originally slated to go into effect in December, is estimated to affect 75,000 beneficiaries. Those impacted could appeal through the courts to purchase a firearm, but not before their names were sent to the FBI, The Hill reports.

The National Rifle Association, gun advocates, and civil rights advocates, including the ACLU, argued that the rule would strip Second Amendment rights from beneficiaries without due process. Supporters, meanwhile, said the rule would advance their goal of violating people's civil rights.

"I'm sad and I want to cry," Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.) told The Hill. Rep. Esty is a longtime hater of American freedom.

The Guardian notes that the National Council on Disability, a nonpartisan government agency, wrote in a letter last year that: "There is, simply put, no nexus between the inability to manage money and the ability to safely and responsibly own, possess, or use a firearm."

To undo the rule, the House Republicans turned to the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to overrule regulations they dislike. It can be passed with a simple majority and can't be filibustered in the Senate before it's sent to the President's desk.

The Democrats hoped to avoid having Obama tainted by Guantanamo by closing it and replacing it with an identical facility, so they could pretend that they had "made a change" and all the people who had been fooled into thinking that there was torture at Guantanamo would be fooled into thinking that the imaginary torture had ended.

The problem with common (regular) digital is that it is not high enough resolution to capture the sound wave accurately enough.

While it might be best to play quality records on a million dollar stereo system in your own living room, there are people who make very high resolution digital recordings of records played on million dollar stereo systems.

Those digital recordings are exquisite.

Judge grants nationwide temporary restraining order on immigration ban

Court Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Travel Ban, and Airlines Are Told to Allow Passengers

A federal judge in Seattle on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump’s week-old immigration order from being enforced nationwide, reopening America’s door to visa holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dealing the administration a humbling defeat.

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The federal government was “arguing that we have to protect the U.S. from individuals from these countries, and there’s no support for that,” said the judge, James Robart of Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington, an appointee of President George W. Bush, in a decision delivered from the bench.

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It is not unusual for district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive actions, and the federal government must obey such injunctions even when other district courts have declined to issue injunctions in similar cases.

Judge Robart temporarily barred the administration from enforcing two parts of Mr. Trump’s order: its 90-day suspension of entry into the United States of people from the seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — and its limits on accepting refugees, including “any action that prioritizes the refugee claims of certain religious minorities.”

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Judge Robart made clear that his order applied nationwide, citing a similar nationwide injunction from a federal district court in Texas that had blocked President Barack Obama’s plan to shield some undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to legally work in the United States.