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Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’ Massive Study Says Vaping Really Is The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking – But There's a Catch Who Knew? The WNBA Actually Matters Now! Want a data center? Growing Opposition to Data Centers Halts Projects Nationwide, May Impact Midterms No, Street Vagrants Are Not “Our Neighbors” - An L.A. city councilman comes up with yet another fantastical euphemism for the dysfunctional exploiters of ever-diminishing bourgeois order. James O’Keefe Drops Undercover Video of DMV Workers Contradicting Murkowski’s SAVE America Act Claims U. Kentucky Offers Program to Prepare Students For DEI ‘Leadership’ Roles in Higher Ed Fighting Marxism With Cultural Marxism in NYC Immigrant-Owned Grocery Stores Now SUING Mamdani Over City-Owned Stores With Unfair Advantage Why doesn't NYC allow Walmart? Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order Goes Forward Victor Davis Hanson: Schumer and Jeffries Lost Control of Dem Party, Talarico Makes Beto Look Sane Viral video of huge homeless encampment near UC Berkeley prompts alarm Michael Goodwin: Blakeman finds Hochul’s weakest spot — her lefty alliance with Mamdani Will Liberal Women Ever See the Damage They Are Doing? From Lindsay Clancy Mania to Local Institutional Capture the Threat Is Real Meta Settles With US States For $16.7 Billion Over Social Media Harms To Children Europe in Free Fall Colombia's New President Orders Immigration Raids, Vows To Deport Illegal Immigrants ICE Begins Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Dangerous African Countries Trackbacks
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"Massive Study Says Vaping Really Is The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking – But There's a Catch"
All I have is an anecdote, but my wife, who is a nurse, says the people she sees who vape have much worse lungs than smokers. QUOTE: Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order Goes Forward This disingenuous argument has been making the rounds in the right-wing echochamber, so it is worth addressing. QUOTE: The plaintiff states fear that the administration will try to order them to bar anyone not on the list from voting. Trump's Executive Order (EO 14399)
And it takes forever to read.
Short and to your worthless point, kiddieZ. Try it sometime. This disingenuous argument has been making the rounds in the left-wing echochamber, so it is worth addressing.
Trump's Executive Order (EO 14399) Requires states to provide voter-eligibility lists; No. "the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and in coordination with the Commissioner of SSA, shall take appropriate action to compile and transmit to the chief election official of each State a list of individuals confirmed to be United States citizens who will be above the age of 18 at the time of an upcoming Federal election and who maintain a residence in the subject State (State Citizenship List). The State Citizenship List shall be derived from Federal citizenship and naturalization records, SSA records, SAVE data, and other relevant Federal databases." Emphasis mine. Authorizes the USPS to refuse to deliver mail ballots if states do not comply with the new requirements; No. Nowhere does this say that. Directs the creation of a 'citizenship list', which will almost certainly be inaccurate and incomplete; Well which is it? Are the states to provide this or does this EO direct it? If the latter, if you don't think the Federal Government can handle this without accuracy and completeness, how do you expect them to accomplish anything on a national scale, like, I don't know, health care? No fly lists? Taxes? Calls for the investigation and prosecution of state and local officials who issue ballots to ineligible voters. While the statute requires intent, the executive order notably leaves that out. Sec. 5. Enforcement. The Attorney General and the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) with relevant authority shall take all lawful steps to deter and address noncompliance with Federal law, including withholding Federal funds from noncompliant States and localities where such withholding is authorized by law. Evidence of violations of existing Federal laws by State or local election officials; States or localities, including any instrumentalities thereof; contractors; individuals involved in the administration of Federal elections; or public or private entities engaged in the printing, production, shipment, or distribution of ballots may be referred to the Department of Justice for consideration of investigation or charges under 18 U.S.C. 2(a), 18 U.S.C. 241, 18 U.S.C. 371, 18 U.S.C. 611(a), 18 U.S.C. 1001, 18 U.S.C. 1015, 52 U.S.C. 10307, and 52 U.S.C. 20511. States and localities should preserve, for a 5-year period, all records and materials — excluding ballots cast — evidencing voter participation in any Federal election (e.g., ballot envelopes, regardless of carrier). Looking, looking, looking, nope. Can't find where it requires "prosecution of state and local officials who issue ballots to ineligible voters." Investigation, yes. Consideration of charges, yes. Prosecution requirement? Nope. AlCzervik: Sec. 5. Enforcement. The Attorney General and the heads of executive departments and agencies (agencies) with relevant authority shall take all lawful steps to deter and address noncompliance with Federal law, including withholding Federal funds from noncompliant States and localities where such withholding is authorized by law.
We were about to post that exact language. So, the president, in his sole discretion, is enforcing changes to election procedures which are constitutionally under the purview of the states. (As we have pointed out before, the political right in the United States has gone from claiming they are small-government conservatives to saying the president should be able to start military wars, trade wars, dismantle the civil service system, tear down historic buildings—oh, and enforce changes in how states run their elections—all without congressional oversight. So it goes.) AlCzervik: Investigation, yes. Consideration of charges, yes. Prosecution requirement? Nope. Thanks again for making the point. QUOTE: ICE Begins Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Dangerous African Countries That, of course, is illegal under U.S. and international law. QUOTE: In other words, as news spreads that the US is dumping illegals in the middle of the worst countries in Africa, self deportations could skyrocket and ICE won't be required to hunt these people down in the streets. It's brilliant. Of course, you could just shoot them dead as they try to cross the border. Bury them in a shallow grave. Put their heads on spikes as a warning to others. Saves on paperwork. Z: "Of course, you could just shoot them dead as they try to cross the border. Bury them in a shallow grave. Put their heads on spikes as a warning to others."
Mass invasion is war. Z-
Have you ever worked the polls? I have and therefore have detailed understanding of the chicanery that proceeds - having witnessed numerous cases over the years. One example from this last round. -Young woman entered the polling place, unregistered. -Used drivers license with “former” address to identify herself. — -Claimed my neighbor’s house as her new address in that locale. I was obliged/pleased to halt her false registration with personal knowledge of the cheat. It’s a class I felony here. Fellow poll workers whose politics I am long acquainted with argued to let her vote. Louis Miller: -Young woman entered the polling place, unregistered.
Assume you have same-day registration. If so, having an old address on her photo ID and using a neighbor's address just sounds like someone who is temporarily unhoused. It also sounds like she was otherwise eligible to vote. Under federal law, homeless people have the right to vote, and can usually use "living under the Main Street bridge" as their address. You pull out your rulebook, and it will tell you how to handle the situation. By your own description, it doesn't sound like "chicanery". You're full of bullshit here.
"Claimed my neighbor’s house as her new address in that locale" And you said: "using a neighbor's address just sounds like someone who is temporarily unhoused" No. Knowingly and fraudulently giving a false residence in order to register or vote in a precinct where you aren't entitled to vote can constitute a felony. If the person was 'unhoused' they should have stated where they live...under a bridge, on this park bench, in a tent on main st. etc... and they can give a general delivery address at a post office or some other address to receive mail. That is important because it could easily change the jurisdiction and the correct ballot that that voter should receive. While you are correct that the person can be eligible to vote, you are not correct in handwaving the address away. There are procedures for handling the 'unhoused' and giving a false address is not one of them. The link to James O'Keefe doesn't work, perhaps this is where it wants to go; https://youtu.be/d15roh8xDvk?si=o7ZCEHt1c1okQ4vp
or maybe here: https://thealaskastory.com/ground-truthing-okeefe-flies-to-unalaska-to-test-murkowskis-800-mile-save-act-claim/ Now data centers are good for the citizens! Who knew? So good that it just isn't fair that only the poor people in the poor parts of town benefit. Require that all data centers must be built within 100 feet of homes that cost more than $5,000,000. Let the rich have some of the "data center enrichment".
We are hearing that data centers only use a fraction of the water that golf courses do!! Let me see if I understand the math... 1 million golf courses use TWICE as much water as 1200 data centers so see... they don't use that much water you silly conspiracy theorists!!! Louden County in Virginia, the wealthiest county in the US, also has the most data centers.
I do not see the harm to children from social sites. I suppose like TV, cell phones and watching sports that spending too much time on social sites stifles other more productive activities. I would agree that parents and schools should be cell phone and social site free so that children can concentrate on their studies. I would agree that parents should limit their children's online, cell phone and TV time. BUT I don't think that TV stations and companies or cell phone companies should be sued if kids do spend too much time using their product.
In reality this wasn't about the children, they were just pawns. This was about the money, the Benjamin's. the billions. And THAT is a shame. Our justice system has been reduced to a weapon of organized crime, i.e. Tort lawyers, ambulance chasers. AND, it is about censorship and bypassing the 4th amendment. Wait for it... Wait to see what the settlement agreement includes. It will be the equivalent of shock cameras but on the internet. They want to know who you are, what you are saying/doing and how to find you... Why??? re Growing Opposition to Data Centers Halts Projects Nationwide, May Impact Midterms
related: The Reason For The Tech Backlash QUOTE: There is no reason why any real innovation adopted voluntarily on the market should engender a mass movement of revanchists who want to go back to the old ways. The key word in that sentence is voluntary. . . . This is not choice, it is not organic, and it is not voluntary. These centers feel like they are part of a central plan imposed upon settled communities nationwide. That they have engendered bipartisan resentment is hardly surprising. It's the same with Flock surveillance cameras going up everywhere. We are told that they are for crime control but people know better. They are methods to keep tabs on the population generally speaking for purposes of control. That's the key: the building of the control grid. . . . No one likes to be forced into another man's definition of progress. The free market is a wonderful thing but these examples are not rooted in normal market forces, much less the ideal of competition. We are a long way from Adam Smith's utopia of butchers, bakers, and brewers. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reason-tech-backlash |