Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Friday Five May 31
// I have heard some of his supporters I know in real life say the exact same thing, that they would continue to support Trump, even if he murdered someone on 5th avenue. // That's called
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David Smith
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Friday Five May 31
// we do have ¡°victimless¡± crimes, so the ¡°victim¡± in these 34 charges against Trump is ¡°society.¡± // Laws are likely to be sticks for tripping up people and beating them. The distinction
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five May 31
Calling something a crime and someone found guilty of it a criminal and therefore a bad person is mistaking law for justice. Laws are commonly used by societies and factions to punish people they
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five May 31
// <<I've not followed the story at all closely, Celeste. But is it a coincidence that these legal attacks occurred all at once now and in a location hostile to Trump? Do you suspect no connection?>>
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David Smith
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Re: Friday Five May 31
// But you are correct, our country no longer has universal moral standards. // And that is what holds a people together. And that's what is tearing the Western world apart. Liberal democracy has this
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David Smith
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Friday Five May 31
<<A multi-billion dollar corporation's individual journal entries number in the thousands each month, and are not very detailed. I can't imagine a presidential election coming out differently over how
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FreedomRocks
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Friday Five May 31
<<Up until this year it was a misdemeanor. >> As Celeste explained, creating false business documents can be a misdemeanor or a felony, and its always been this way. It wasn¡¯t ever ¡°up until this
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FreedomRocks
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Re: Friday Five May 31
<<First - ;what is the alleged felony? Second why was the trial brought by the same person who refused to charge him before? Third why was the charge brought immediately after he declared his
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FreedomRocks
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Re: Friday Five May 31
<<I've not followed the story at all closely, Celeste. But is it a coincidence that these legal attacks occurred all at once now and in a location hostile to Trump? Do you suspect no connection?>> No,
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FreedomRocks
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Re: Friday Five May 31
David, <<The predicted outcome of this exercise in the use of naked power to openly persecute a political opponent may be helpful in opening to eyes of a great many Americans to the fact that this
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FreedomRocks
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Re: Friday Five May 31
Celeste, <<3. Will the verdict effect the election? I certainly hope so. Trump would not be able to view classified information if he were elected.>> Unfortunately, that is not true. When Trump was
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FreedomRocks
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Frida y F ive J une 7
Every time the weather is hot somewhere, it's reported as proof of human-induced "global warming" or, if it's cold it's human-induced "climate change." There is always bad weather somewhere. The
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Ed Lomas
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Frida y F ive J une 7
There is no doubt in my mind that various political influences and personal biases are blended into the "scientific" priesthood of our culture, Ed. That is not only unsurprising, it is so very
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Darrell King
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Re: [Owner] Re: [PhilosophicalM] Frida y F ive J une 7
Oh yeah, "Repent! The end is near!" Nothing original about that, except that the message is secular this time, and instead of prophets and priests preaching it, it's scientists, whose opinions are
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Ed Lomas
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Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
That captures my broader feeling about the situation, David. Given the media reporting of a year of record temps. The metaphor of a fireball is especially apt when considering the wildfire news. D
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Darrell King
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Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
Then, the heavens tossed down the fireball and the lizards couldn't have done a thing to stop it. Now, the best and the brightest have proudly created their own fireball and they, too, can't do a
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David Smith
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Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
*1. What is the stupidest thing you have ever seen Google recommend?* I am drawing a blank. I know there have been moments, but my memory keeps delivering eBay searches within 50 miles that include
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Darrell King
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Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
1. What is the stupidist thing??you have ever seen Google recommend? To get rid of kidney stones - drink two liters of urine a day 2.? What us the worst law the US congress passed in? the 20th
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Frida y F ive J une 7
1. What is the stupidist thing??you have ever seen Google recommend? 2.? What us the worst law the US congress passed in? the 20th century? 3.? Should the US allow Ukraine to use US supplied
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mrvnchpmn
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Re: Friday Five May 31
What evidence is there for falsification - except the statement of a? convicted perjurer.? The federal crimes are the interfering with the presidentail election. Sometimes I wonder how you? That's
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mrvnchpmn
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