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We are really in a crappy place today. Justice Clarence Thomas is arguably in cahoots with his Qanon and conspiracy theory believing wife who participated in the January 6 insurrection. Both Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett apparently lied to get their seats and, by any honest rational opinion, Gorsuch sits in a stolen seat. If you read this and think "sucks to be you libtard" or "it's about winning and we won" you are no patriot. You are no true American. You are a traitor to our fragile constitution.

Many have ridiculed and downplayed my warnings about the possible approach of SHTF. In addition to the viability of the north GA mountians, I recently became aware of some other orgainized options. 1. Fortitude Ranch: https://fortituderanch.com/about-the-ranch/resort-facilities/ 2. American Redoubt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Redoubt 3. The New Republic of Texas: Although this seems unlikely at this point in time, it is being discussed and may be a topic in the 2023 state legislature.

Well, by GOP logic, she has a point! Pregnant woman says her fetus should count as a passenger in HOV lanes. She got a ticket

I'm betting that you had at least one clip-on tie, back in the day.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. -- Emo Philips

Looks like BoJo will resign today. Good riddance,

That’s incorrect (though an entirely understandable confusion). Boris survived a confidence vote for leadership of his party. This is brought by Tory MPs and voted on by Tory MPs. This couldn’t be repeated for a year…. Except the Party could and probably would have simply changed the rules and held another one next week if he hadn’t stepped down. The result of this would be a Leadership election again within the Tory party and the winner would become PM for the remainder of Boris’ term (or until they decide to call snap election). Gowlerk is talking about a Parliamentary confidence vote which would be brought by the Labour Party (the official opposition) and voted on by all MPs. This is the direct equivalent of impeachment, and is less likely to succeed because it would require Tories to vote in favour of a Labour. Also because the result if Boris lost would be a full General Election to choose a completely new government, and the Tories will not be very confident of voter support right now. Labour will quite possibly still bring this Confidence vote very soon if Boris stays. It’ll probably fail, but they’ll use it as a stick to beat all the incumbent Tory MPs who vote against it with at the next election.

Well…. Sort of yes. But again it needed the Tory party to get to the point where they thought Boris was becoming a handicap at the polls for them to act on anything. It’s no coincidence the breaking point came shortly after two huge by-election defeats. Without those, and if this Pincher thing hadn’t happened we could have been barrelling towards a full blown Constitutional crisis. If the standards committee had eventually decided that Boris lied to Parliament during Partygate he definitely would not have resigned as required by the Ministerial code. And his party may well have thought that after so much time had past and voters had started to forgive and forget, they could get away with not enforcing the code and getting rid of him. Then a no confidence vote brought by Labour would definitely not get the support it needed from the Tories (just like in US Impeachment proceedings). After that the only remaining option would be for the Queen to dismiss the PM, and it’s highly unlikely she would do that because it would be like detonating a nuclear bomb in the heart of British Democracy. So it’s perhaps not too hyperbolic to say that our entire system of accountability in government was saved by a middle aged pervert copping a feel in a crowded bar.

Lol, no. They’re not as bad as most of the current Republican Party but nothing happening here is an indication of integrity. The Tory party stood by BoJo and defended through everything, for years, except this. It’s funny that numerous MPs and Ministers publicly calling for his resignation yesterday pointed out that they backed him in the confidence vote after the lockdown party scandal ‘because they believed his promise that things would change’. Boris will never change. He’s always been the same. A liar and a cheat in every relationship and every job he’s ever had. Fired from his first newspaper job for using fictional quotes and sources. Fired from his first political job for fucking his secretary and lying to his boss about it. Even his teacher at Eton, a private school where pupils are quite literally taught to believe that they are the future leaders of the country, said in a report that Boris was an entitled little shit who was incapable of understanding that the rules were supposed to apply to him too. And the Tory party tried to ignore it all. They stood with him for years through the cavalcade of lies, fraud, incompetence and cronyism he’s perpetrated from 10 Downing Street because they thought he’d win them the next election. They haven’t grown a conscience, they’ve just realised that at this rate the voters will have had enough by then, and he’d have dragged them down with him if they’d let him.

During conversations with agents today several subjects were covered: Agents interviewed today recall the Heisson Store robbery was solved and it was not DB Cooper but a local from the area that was arrested. An arrest was made in that case and several 302s were generated citing the news. Records of the matter may still be available through the Clark County Sherriff. Fill out the appropriate form to ask for records ... Original searches for Cooper: The main issue was manpower. The hijacking generated larger than normal public interest. Every level of law enforcement was looking for Cooper, in one form or another for weeks. Members of the public volunteered and helped conduct searches and canvassing (talking to people) at Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, and large numbers of people from the public helped conduct searches as search areas were identified and news spread ... and the discovery of Cooper money in 1980 intensified public participation, all over again. Each FBI office had people assigned to keep in touch with the public in running dialogues which lasted years in some cases.

There just isn’t enough context in your question to say. And it’s unlikely you could give it if you tried. Most likely the behaviour is something that didn’t just happen randomly. Everyone is different and every child is different.

If she did knowingly bring it in, or even if she didn't scour her kit to make certain she wasn't carrying into an authoritarian country where it's illegal, tough shit. I remember back to World Team Russia when someone who had never traveled internationally asked if he could travel with me to learn the ropes. I knew he tooted and extracted a no confusion promise not to carry on the trip because I knew the penalties. We went through Prague for a few days and then on to Moscow. It was there I learned he carried the whole way. That was it for me with him forever. If you travel internationally with dope that is illegal where you are going you put yourself and others at risk. Don't do it and don't whine when you get caught.

Errrrm actually no. He can’t even resign properly. He’s stepping down as leader of his party but aiming to stay as ‘interim’ Prime Minister until the stories can pick a new leader at their conference in October. This saga is not finished yet.

And here I was thinking Brexit was going to give us such a boost </s> Hard to admit you've been lied to, isn't it? Because that's all BoJo has ever done.

No, it doesn't. It just means you were playing the game on an easier setting. People can still win the game if they work hard enough. It's just a lot harder if your race (or gender, or sexual orientation, or religion) sets the difficulty to "hard." I had several benefits when I was born based purely on what race I was, what gender I was, where I was born, who my parents were, what my genetics were and what sexual orientation was. I did not squander those benefits and worked hard to get where I am now. But it was absolutely easier for me than for someone who was born black in the US, or born in Nigeria, or born to drug addicted parents, or born with a cleft palate.

Personally I think the electoral college is our biggest problem. Everything else, including Supreme Court and gun ownership stems from there.

So you are a proponent of strong price controls and a heavy government hand on businesses like in China? We're at 8.8%, Germany is at 7.9%, your data, in business we call that the same number. France is at 5.8% and the Netherlands is at 8.8%, again your data. All economies do not react to inflationary pressures in tandem owing to structural differences. For example, you don't see people going to shop or pick up the kids in gigantic, gas guzzling trucks in Europe. Truly, with you it's like arguing the existence of God with a priest.