Out of town, but I see Marist went from Turek +8 in IOWA down to+3
New Book:
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrat +15 | 210 | 225 |
Here is where Schumer and Jeffries get their orders….
Open Thread
98 responses to “Open Thread”
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First.
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The townhall was CNN.
Show the flag and don’t back down. I known you all hate Christie but when he was running for Governor, he would debate anywhere and go to every forum. He even answered questions on boardwalks from voters.
When I ran for Congress, I spoke to a group of black women voters. They thanked me since they had never had a Republican visit to answer their questions. I thanked them for the invitation and they laughed when I asked if Chaka Fattah had ever spoken to their group because he didn’t need to.
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Yes, I think you should go and debate outside your comfort zone and try to change minds. Trump was effective doing rallies in blue areas.
But engaging groups such as you did with black voters is different from a setup.
CNN townhalls are dishonest partisan hackery. The moderators are hacks and the townhall participants are props. There is nothing legitimate about this “forum”
So in the first place even honoring CNN with your presence and participating in a pre ordained circus is stupid.
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I will vote on election day.
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I think the odds of my mail in ballot not counting are greater than my chances of croaking before election day, but I could be wrong.
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Open season on children continues…..
“SCOTRUN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman allegedly stabbed her husband and 3-year-old son to death at a family resort in the Poconos before trying to take her own life, according to a criminal complaint.
Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso called the incident a “violent domestic tragedy” while announcing homicide charges against the woman on Tuesday.
Authorities responded to a room at the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pocono Township, on Monday for a suicidal caller, according to the complaint.
The 911 caller — identified in the complaint as 27-year-old Metallica Rose Harrison of Towanda — reported that she was “too weak to stab my neck”
She was strong enough to stab her husband and child to death, but just “too weak” to kill herself.
Does she have “supporters” yet? The kid was 3, maybe a little old for “post partum psychosis” but you never know.
Btw, who names their child “Metallica”
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I assume the husband was roughly her age, so you have to be pretty strong to stab a 30 year old man to death without injury to yourself. But you are not strong enough to stab yourself in the neck.
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Dw, took me a bit and I had to switch to my iPad, just to see how to embed.
I hit the “+” at the left side and the drop down appeared. I chose embed. Really simple, but not as easy as before the WordPress update.
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A small win for gun rights
“The federal government spent nine years trying to keep a Pennsylvania man disarmed over a decades-old DUI. A federal court just told the government it doesn’t have that right.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued two Second Amendment decisions Tuesday, limiting how the federal government can enforce its lifetime firearms prohibition against people with criminal convictions. The rulings distinguish violent offenders from those whose past crimes provide no evidence that they pose a danger with a firearm.
Edward Williams’ trouble with federal gun law came from a 2005 Pennsylvania DUI conviction. Because it was his second offense, the maximum possible sentence was five years. He received a sentence of 90 days to two years, served at home. The longer potential sentence was enough for the feds to prohibit him from possessing a firearm.
He even worked at a gun store. But when an attorney informed him in 2015 that his conviction prohibited him from possessing firearms, Williams gave them up and went to court.
The lawsuit began in 2017. Williams had been at the same job for more than 30 years, and his record contained no evidence that he had ever threatened someone with a gun. The federal prohibition still applied, based on a DUI conviction from 12 years earlier.
Judge Paul Matey, appointed by Trump, wrote the opinion. Its opening paragraph offered little encouragement to the Justice Department’s defense of the firearms restriction:
The Second Amendment is a primary protection against tyranny, a strong bulwark securing American liberty, and an indispensable means of defending the public good. So courts testing restrictions on these ‘most sacred’ and ‘necessary’ rights must consider the history and tradition of firearm regulations with care and rigor.
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I know I feel safer knowing that somebody so irresponsible that they would drive drunk twice is now armed.
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Someone on Facebook the other day had a post that had a picture/ drawing of a monkey playing the bongos and another of Talor Swift playing a guitar.
The caption was “under socialism the monkey would grt the same pay as Taylor Swift. That is why monkeys like socialism”.
I reposted that to my Facebook page.A comment I got was that I was “a racist, sexist, unchristian person…not even a man…”
An AA friend of mine responded to his comment and said “what is racist about the post?”
Here is this guy’s (white, 70 yr. old liberal) response:
“The monkey has long been used as a tool of dehumanizating racist imagery—particularly anti-black imagery which has compared black people to apes and monkeys. Racists use bongos as imagery for primitiveness.”
“The use of Taylor Swift is a societal presentation that white blonde women are the only allowed examples of success (weak men are threatened by strong women, and usually sexualize them – just look at the Trump administration press, secretaries and staff) which plays off of the monkey imagery. “
“And lastly, this meme plays on the pure ugliness of a social message that racists and sexist promote and rely on – the laziness of uneducated people to not even Google the definition of socialism let alone understanding how American capitalism with its social security net works. “
“But all these old racist men will figure it out when they lose their Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security due to cuts by the Republican Party. Some people need to feel the pain to understand what they’re supporting. “
“Keep up your [he is referring to my Black friend who serves in an appointed position in WV state government for minority affairs for some years now and was an elected member of the House of Delegates I served with from the neighboring county] good fight in the Republican Party. I’m rooting for you.”
” ♥️P.S. I’d rather be excluded because of who I include rather than included by who I exclude.”
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He totally missed the whole point of the post showing the foolishness of socialism.
The guy is a nut. He was a left leaning nut already, and then had a serious bike accident 10 years ago where he got hit by a car and has become a huge left wing nut thereafter.
I think he musta hit his head.
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I 2026 Generic ballot Among Tossup/Lean Districts Democrats: 49% Republicans: 46% AARP (Fabrizio/Impact) poll | 10/1-10/5
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I think there is a new insider advantage pole with Paxton over Freako by 1
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🚨 BREAKING TEXAS US SENATE poll: 🔴 Ken Paxton: 49% (+1) 🔵 James Talarico: 48%
| Released 10/15
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Updstr, correction
The above Peter Corum is NOT the 70s some year old liberal nut who got hit by a car who I know thru Audubon Society or the Herb group my wife belongs to.
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THIS Peter Corum who made the wild charges in Facebook is a 30s/40s year old digital creator white guy who lives in the liberal bastion of the People’s Republic of Shepherdstown WV and who is married to a woman of color (not that there is anything wrong with that) (she is very pretty).
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So THIS Peter Corum is a different nut from the nut i know.
Sorry I got nuts confused.
I apologize.
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I know I feel safer knowing that somebody so irresponsible that they would drive drunk twice is now armed.”
ZZzzzz…..
Somebody with a 12 year old DUI who served his sentence can’t own a gun?
The Second Amendment is a primary protection against tyranny, a strong bulwark securing American liberty, and an indispensable means of defending the public good. So courts testing restrictions on these ‘most sacred’ and ‘necessary’ rights must consider the history and tradition of firearm regulations with care and rigor.“
Bitter might not feel safer, but I actually do feel safer the more legal gun owners there are.
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“Angie Nixon: “They’re spreading lies about me saying I want to abolish prisons… Why would I want to do that when I want [Ashley Moody] locked up and jailed.”
CNN: “You want your Republican opponent locked up?”
Angie Nixon: “Yeah basically. I absolutely want that to happen.”
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The Democratic hopeful told Llamas he hadn’t had conversations with his mother about her alleged Muslim Brotherhood activity”
I guess some things you just don’t discuss with your mom.
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Somebody with a 12 year old DUI who served his sentence can’t own a gun?
They can own a gun. I think getting caught TWICE for DUI, the most easy crime to not commit, shows an irresponsible tendency.
Ghost of Wes to post “But GWB…..” when he can from beyond the grave.
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Terrorist coward’s execution will not be live-streamed. Oh well.”
It should be.
But the argument that it would be used a terrorism recruitment is probably valid.
The MSM and their allies Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran etc would emphasize the fact this criminal is in a wheelchair to pretend the execution was “barbaric”.
Videos of Westerners being beheaded by Jihadists are not barbaric.
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It is literally impossible to drive drunk if you do not drink any alcohol before driving.
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but what about the gop-e?
MAGA is more motivated than Democrats to vote in the upcoming midterms Per Economist/YouGov poll Definitely will vote in 2026: 🔴 MAGA Republicans: 78% 🔵 Democrats: 75%
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They can own a gun. I think getting caught TWICE for DUI, the most easy crime to not commit, shows an irresponsible tendency.”
Zzzzz…
What else can’t he do because he once had a DUI. Drive a lawn mower? Shoot fireworks? Operate machinery at work?
Having too many drinks and driving is irresponsible.
But extrapolating that to mean he must be irresponsible in everything he does including owning a gun is nonsense.
The gun grabbers are always looking for an excuse to take guns away from people (unless you are a gang member in Chicago or a terrorist in NY).
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It is literally impossible to drive drunk if you do not drink any alcohol before driving.”
Wins straw argument of the day.
Let’s see if I can match it.
“It is literally impossible to overdose on cocaine if you don’t consume any cocaine”
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Judge Jinsook Ohta.”
Sounds like a “foreign born judge”.
He must be worse than an American born judge who would issue the same opinion.
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I actually support a lottery system for pre-vetted green card seekers. This has existed for decades, it is a good system.
But this particular lottery is for “low immigration country” immigrants, seems like an absurd criteria to me.
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He (?) IS a foreign born judge, says so in the headline, missed it.
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It is literally impossible to overdose on cocaine if you don’t consume any cocaine.
Agreed. See how easy it is to not drink and drive or overdose on cocaine?
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I would be a foreign born judge Tina can approve of, right???
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinsook_Ohta
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/ohta-jinsook
Judge Ohta was born in South Korea. Zzzzzzz
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Judge Ohta moved to the U.S. when she was 6. I guess South Korea had to force a lot of foreign judicial bias into her before she emigrated.
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I think Bitter thinks everyone who drinks and drives is a drunk driver.
If that were the case, there are probably like 30 million “drunk” drivers every night, maybe more.
- Lighter individuals (approx. 100–120 lbs): Can reach or exceed the 0.08% limit after just 2 drinks.
- Average individuals (approx. 150–180 lbs): Often reach near 0.08% after about 3 to 4 drinks consumed within a short time frame.
- Heavier individuals (approx. 200+ lbs): May approach the limit after 4 to 5+ drinks.
Although i would qualify as “heavier individual” my limit is two, and even then not in a “short time frame” if I have dinner or go to a bar it would be over at least 2 hours.
Of course, you can get a DUI for impairment even if you are under the limit. I actually don’t know if I could walk a straight line foot over foot in the dark even if I was stone sober. I think I can count back from 100 to 88.
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Bitter, had an American born judge rendered the same opinion, I am sure Tina would agree with it.
Stop giving her a hard time.
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I think Bitter thinks everyone who drinks and drives is a drunk driver.
Zzzzzzzzz I said that there is literally no way to be a drunk driver if you do not drink alcohol when you know you will driving. I don’t know what would make somebody do that. There are alternatives like a friend drives, public transit, uber, Lyft, etc.
I always feel bad for the victims of drunk drivers. I never feel bad for drunk drivers. What? You’re paralyzed because you decided to drink and drive? Zzzzzz
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There are alternatives to drunk driving like staying under the legal limit.
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There are probably 50 million people on the road right now that are under some kind of effect from alcohol or drugs or medication. It doesn’t mean they are all too impaired to drive.
You are either too impaired to drive or you are not. People should be responsible for their actions, and if the nanny state and the Karens think I can’t go to a bar and have a beer and drive home, it can GFI.
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Zzzzzzzzz I said that there is literally no way to be a drunk driver if you do not drink alcohol when you know you will driving”
Thanks for the advice, I will take it under consideration.
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I gues ole Bill is really over the Hill, you would think they would send him to campaign for a race they could actually win.
And Hillary’s contribution is a podcast? Zzzzzz…
The Clintons are back on the midterm campaign circuit — with Bill Clinton heading to Florida to stump for Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly and Hillary Clinton taking to the podcast microphone as the party makes its final push toward Election Day.
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JUST IN: NEW MICHIGAN SENATE poll Mike Rogers: 46% (+2)
Abdul El Sayed: 44%
Tyson Group (R) | 10/6-8 | N=600LV
If Republicans flip Michigan, you can most likely bank on GOP control of the Senate. IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER.
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Have Messie, Boris, and traitor Greene commented on the 639,000 R names turned over to stoner? Radio silence like usual.
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As opposed to Trump the Dem Bank for decades?
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Melania is one of the only foreign-born First Ladies. There have only been two. John Quincy Adam’s wife was born in London.
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Which supposed RINO is Boris in Tina’s head?
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GOP another good day in Florida ballot returns
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Insider Advantage has Collins down 2 in Maine, but they have us up 1 in Kansas and Texas
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A Texas woman who killed a college student in a drunken crash has been sentenced to seven years in prison, after which she will be forced to return to jail on Christmas and the birthdays of her victims for the following decade”
I think 7 years is an appropriate sentence.
Bitter hardest hit.
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Trump just slammed Cornyn”
So that his supporters don’t vote for Paxton?
Brilliant strategy.
Trump should do the opposite, try to unite the party behind Paxton.
Novel idea.
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I think 7 years is an appropriate sentence.
Should have been 20. I did like making her spend her victims’ birthdays, her own birthday, Christmas, and the anniversary of the accident in prison while on probation. I think she should spend it chained to the dead woman’s headstone.
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Actually, after reading the story and seeing her level 4 times the legal limit I would up the sentence to like 15 years, especially since it seems she dragged the family through a trial instead of pleading guilty.
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7 years was a gift. Especially considering she will probably get out in 4 or 5.
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A tasty morsel like that is going to have fun with all the butches in prison
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Et tu, Jake Tapper?
Tapper asks the CNN legal analyst this question:
“Wouldn’t it have been smarter for the Congresswoman to have just come clean to the Biden Justice Department instead of leaving this for the current one?”
Clean about what, Jake?
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I didn’t look at the trial details, but what exactly is the defense for someone running a red light at twice the speed limit and under 4 times the alcohol limit?
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Oh, the data is wrong…
“Defense lawyers George Milner and Scott Palmer concede their client was speeding and ran a red light, but say she wasn’t drunk behind the wheel. It’s an important distinction because if jurors aren’t convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Pollis was intoxicated, they can’t convict her of either count, according to the lawyers, and they don’t have any lesser offenses to choose from.
Milner and Palmer have pointed to multiple witnesses who said Pollis did not appear intoxicated and have suggested flaws in the blood-alcohol analysis revealing she was at nearly four times the legal limit.”
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Think Andrew Gillum was bad?
Think again.
“Nixon’s Jacksonville store, “Cafe Resistance,” has a wall of 12 Black Power figures. According to the Washington Free Beacon, four of them were convicted of killing police officers
One of them is Assata Shakur, convicted of m*rdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. She broke out of prison and fled to Cuba, and the FBI put her on its Most Wanted Terrorists list
Nixon has closed campaign speeches, including one in a church, by quoting Shakur and calling her “a famous freedom fighter”
When she was confronted over the wall, Nixon said “a lot of them were set up” and asked, “What’s wrong with me having that up there?”
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Jason, that’s the direction we are going where every leader is propped up by violent criminals and nobody will challenge them in ‘elections’ because they would end up found dead in an alley. It’s all in The Iron Broom, and the trolls accuse me of hysterics. But this stuff is happening right before our eyes as it did during the Biden Administration.
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I am indifferent to living. Maybe I should run for office again.
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PPP-D out with an Alaska poll, Peltola over Sullivan by 1, 48/47
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If control of the senate hinges on an Alaska second round that will be a circus.
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How about school board?
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Abdul El-Sayed’s sister, Eman Abdelhadi, imagines a future October 7 in her disturbing fiction novel about the “Final Intifada.”
“It was a mass insurrection”
“It was the most beautiful day of my life.”
If I have to pick one race for Rs to win it would be MI.
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Election only @ 3 weeks away.
I said a week ago that the Ds might have to go with school shootings to get their election turnout up.
Orego school shooting today. 2 kids and a tracher dead.
expect a couple more before Nov. 3.
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Four people, including three children, were killed after a gunman opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Thursday, according to multiple outlets. The shooter was also killed, authorities said.
Officers arrived on the scene within three minutes of the initial report. Moments later, the shooter was reported dead after being shot by a community member who followed the suspect into the school, police said.”
Good guy with a gun saved a lot of kids.
The shooter was 16.
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Awful stuff on the school shooting, I’m glad the assailant was taken out before more could be hurt. Any word on if the shooter was a tranny? About half of the assaults these past few years have been by that community.
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Drunk driving.
In 1968 and 1969 in my last 3 semesters in college, a huge percentage of people I went to school with drove drunk pretty regularly on weeke.
I am very familiar with one person I know back in 1968/69 who drove drunk every day and night for months and months and months. No accidents, thankfully.
If all who did drive drunk in 1968/69 and over the 0.08 bac were jailed for each infraction some would still be in jail.
There were no auto related drunk driving deaths involving anyone at my college in any of the 4 1/2 years I was there or on the next 3 years I hung around on most weekend as far as I know.
We did have one student who died while working the summer as a logger, we had two who died and another seriously injured in two auto accidents where no alcohol was unvolved. We did have a few car crashes where cars were really damaged and some injuries occurred due to a college student driving drunk. No very serious.
Since college I have had 2 of 36 business fraternity frat brothers who committed suicide (and 3 more who served time in federal prison plus another who embezzled over a hundred thousand dollars from his employer and SHOULD have ended up in prison but did not, but those are all different non drinking stories) and another classmate who after returning home from serving in Vietnam who committed suicide.
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Young people who drove drunk did so in the late 60s, but it was drunk (legally) on alcohol.
Young people in the late 1960s drunk to get high. Today’s younger people drink to get blitzed.
Young people in the late 1960s did not use other drugs in conjunction with alcohol. Young people today very often use other drugs along WITH alcohol which has a synergistic effect on their bodies and greatly increases impairment and destroys any rational thought process.
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Just like youth of rheblate 60s who did use weed…it was not laced with all sorts of other drugs. Not so with youths who smoke weed today that is laced with fentynol and all sorts of other poisons. Plus even straight weed today is umpteen times stronger in THC content than wee in the late 1869s.
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MANY states had drunk driving law bac content set at 0.10 bac.
Then the federal government starrted putting pressure on ststes to lower the bac to 0.08 or if they did not, the state would lose all or a significa t part of their federal highway dollars the feds sent to the states.
WV was one of the last states who bowed and caved to the federal pressure in 2004 and lowered the bac to 0.08 in that year. I was serving in the legislature then…
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…weed in the late 1960s (not 1869)
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When I taught (33 years) I had about 5 high school students that were in one of my classes die while driving drunk or as passe gers in drunk driving vehicles. Several in one year in different wrecks within the year.
Grades 1 thru 12, (1952 thru 1964) there was one fellow in the student body who died in a car wreck. No alcohol involved.
When I was about 10, another 5 year old boy who lived 2 houses away was stuck and killed by a car (no alcohol involved). And a 24 year old neighbor boy who lived across the street died in a car wreck (I think alcohol).
About 2,200 college classmates during my 4 1/2 years in college…no drunk driving related deaths.
33 years of teaching I had total of about 4,500 students n my claases and about 5 died in drunk driving wrecks.
I also had one 7th grade student who got run over by a train one day when he was skipping school and the truant officer was trying to track him down and he was trying to dodge the truant officer.
I had another 8th grade girl who died when she put gasoline in a kerosene stove.
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I lost that School Board race by 20 votes out of 4000 voters
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Zzzzzzzz Trump really is a moron regarding Ukraine.
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The Fitzpatrick race in Bucks County, PA is going to be very close. There is a sizable portion of Ukrainian-Americans in the district. I wish Trump would STFU or he is going to lose this seat with his stupidity.
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https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-911908
A Jewish psychic calls out Obama’s anti-Semitism.
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I wonder how many of Walt’s classmates died building the pyramids.
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Trump thinks Putin is easier to deal with because Putin accepts Ukraine’s surrender but Zelensky doesn’t.
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Flying Tesla is here.
I can’t wait to show one off to Amos Stoltzfuss as final proof the English ARE crazy.
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Good eye…
“In 2010, Randy Guijarro was driving home from work when he stopped at Fulton’s Folly Antique Collective in Fresno, Calif. While browsing a box of old photographs, he spotted three that caught his eye and purchased them for just $2 — never guessing that he was picking up a $5 million investment.
When Guijarro later examined one of the 4×5 photographs more closely, he began to suspect it might depict Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid — the infamous Wild West outlaw who died in a gunfight at age 22 in 1881.”
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Some people have money to burn.
If I had $5 million available, a photo of Billy the Kid playing croquet would be the last thing on my list.
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I’m impressed that Walt talked his way onto Noah’s Ark.
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Losing was the best result. More time to coach softball and basketball.
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If Jason had $5 million to spend, he would open a farm for rescue dogs and llamas.
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Will get a new thread up later this morning
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Not a huge deal but if you have a law degree but did not pass the bar, say things like “As I learned in law school…” or don’t mention it all. Calling yourself a lawyer is a fight you don’t need.
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new thread
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