The popularity of Buc-ee’s is an indictment on American culture
My use of them is based on the fact that they have some of the least expensive gasoline along the highway, at least in the peninsula. Also, the sandwiches, at least at the one in St Johns, seem to be pretty good.
Also, they win for timing. By the time we are up to that area, we are ready to return some used coffee.
attempt to get something to happen on American soil he can use that as an excuse to make that event a “national emergency”
I do not think that elections were canceled or delayed following Pearl Harbor. The U.S. did, however, respond following the attack.
Lesson from Pearl Harbor: bomb someone, they may get angry and strike back. See, for instance, Iran.
I wish I didn’t have to think “the president is going to drop a nuke if he doesn’t get his way”. I really do.
In the past, I do not think that anyone would have been crazy enough to give the real nuclear ``football'' to a senile lunatic. That may no longer be the case.
Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) was a group which tried to help member advertisers direct their ad spend toward things which would not injure their brands.
If the fed govt does not get its act together and properly appoint some US attorneys, there may be problems when defendants start demanding speedy trials.
Aren’t judges supposed to know the law? At least more about it than the average schnook on the street?
Actually ``knowing the law'' is at best impossible. Consider, if you will, a little one-person lawyer shop for practice in one state. The relevant case law takes up over a dozen 8-foot shelves, with the state annotated statutes taking up another.
Obviously this ignores Federal law, have you ever seen a set of Federal annotated statutes? Or even a set of PDFs of the bare statutes? Pretty amazing, but the case references would probably cause the building to sink into the earth.
Know the law? Impossible. Generally the lawyer's job is to find the law and point it out to the judge.
They have been flogging ``roundup ready'' for years, surely the patents will expire.
In the mean time they really abuse those patents. For instance, of pollen from a ``roundup ready'' field drifts across the road to a normal farmer's field, the normal farmer cannot legally replant his crops next year because they are contaminated with GMO genes.
What legal distinction should exist between and citizen and a noncitizen?
The Bill of Rights does not make any such distinction on its face. There are mentions of the ``rights of the people'' which should be protected.
It was understood at the time that people referred to white land-owning males, but that was not generally in the text. It has since been argued that the definion of ``people'' should be expanded to include women and persons who were not white or who did not own land. Citizenship has not historically been included implicitly as a barrier to personhood.
US 1st Amendment provides prohibitions to congress and refers to the ``right of the people to peaceably assembly and to petition''.
US 2nd Amendment provides for the ``right of the people'' to have weapons.
US 3rd Amendment does require land ownership, in that the consent of the owner is required or else the government may not quarter soldiers in their houses.
US 4th Amendment refers to the ``right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures''. Nothing in there distinguishes rented houses from owned houses.
US 5th Amendment contains implicit ownership requirement in ``nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation'', though that is not a land ownership requirement in that personalty may also be taken for public use.
None of the others have citizenship requirements, either.
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They have not yet closed it. However, conditions there are reportedly not at all stiflingly hot. News reports say that night-time temperatures are below 40 degrees, but inmates are not furnished with warm clothing.
America should have learned, and established clear-cut laws against hate speech. But we didn’t.
Who gets to decide what is ``hate speech''? I am fairly sure I would not trust the present congress. I sure as taxes would not trust our state legislature. City-by-city and county-by-county regulation is impractical.
Can you give me a clear definition of what should be banned? Because right now saying ``Thaw ICE'' would qualify as hate speech or domestic terrorism according to the present administration.
That we have not (yet) set up an Auschwitz-Birkenau, replete with crematoria
How certain are we of that?
Well, at least at ``alligator alcatraz'', they have not set up crematoria. Largely because there is no place to put them. On the other hand, it seems to be a grossly unsanitary concentration camp, and most likely they will eventually need to dispose of the victims' bodies, so it may be coming soon.
Your milage may vary with the next airplane which needs to make an emergency landing in So Fla. The old name for the facility was the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
The agent had internal bleeding. Was very definitely hit.
Yes, by an invisible vehicle that was able to get around Good's vehicle as it was turning away from the ICE goon. Those invisible vehicles are a great new technology for hitting people.
And you’re blocking comments, MM.
Worse, the ``blocking'' is failing miserably. Someone should file a bug report.
running off to likely crank out more disgusting CSAM garbage on ExTwitter
Such effort is no longer necessary. There is a bot available through Twitter which can generate the material for you.
I have read that some countries are taking exception. They are either regulating or contemplating regulation of Twitter or of the bot, but so far as I know it is still in service.
And not just hit hard, but hit hard by an invisible vehicle that was able to get around the visible vehicle that avoided him entirely by steering in the opposite direction.
Those invisible vehicles are the worst!
Landlords cannot do any “unannounced inspections”: they indeed are constrained to either being invited or giving due notice because of concrete reasons for any inspection
This is not the law in every state, though it may be the law in the state of the earlier commenter (David). A person in doubt as to his rights in his state may wish to review his state's LL/Tenant act and/or consult an attorney who does that sort of thing.
alternative theory
not a sure-fire plan
history lesson
may not be good news
using correct tense
other bad things could happen
If the fed govt does not get its act together and properly appoint some US attorneys, there may be problems when defendants start demanding speedy trials.
no need
standard practice
maybe, kinda, sorta
vast body
patents expire
They have been flogging ``roundup ready'' for years, surely the patents will expire. In the mean time they really abuse those patents. For instance, of pollen from a ``roundup ready'' field drifts across the road to a normal farmer's field, the normal farmer cannot legally replant his crops next year because they are contaminated with GMO genes.
bill of rights makes not much distinction at all
not yet closed
They have not yet closed it. However, conditions there are reportedly not at all stiflingly hot. News reports say that night-time temperatures are below 40 degrees, but inmates are not furnished with warm clothing.
details required
be patient
new technology
federalism
labor-saving device
new method of incurring injury
your milage may vary