Knowledge Quiz

Which American President made this speech?


"We need patience and good will, but we really need to realize that there is a limit to the role and the function of government. Government cannot solve our problems, it can’t set our goals, it cannot define our vision.”

Truly the standard by which all other presidential sibling's antics are judged, Billy burst onto the national scene as the boisterous, hard-drinking counterpoint to his pious, reserved brother

With 325 million people in the USA, you don't have anyone worthwhile to lead the "greatest country in the world

Why would Pence need S.S. protection if, as the NRA would have us believe, the VP would be in the safest place possible.

(a) Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect the following persons:

(1) The President, the Vice President (or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President), the President-elect, and the Vice President-elect.

(2) The immediate families of those individuals listed in paragraph (1).

(3) Former Presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage.

(4) Children of a former President who are under 16 years of age.

(5) Visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments.

(6) Other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad when the President directs that such protection be provided.

(7) Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general Presidential election, the spouses of such candidates. As used in this paragraph, the term “major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates” means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and one additional member selected by the other members of the committee. The Committee shall not be subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2).

(8) Former Vice Presidents, their spouses, and their children who are under 16 years of age, for a period of not more than six months after the date the former Vice President leaves office. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to direct the Secret Service to provide temporary protection for any of these individuals at any time thereafter if the Secretary of Homeland Security or designee determines that information or conditions warrant such protection.

The protection authorized in paragraphs (2) through (8) may be declined.

Read the post & report again. It refers to the NRA :-)

The NRA say's the safest places are those where all the good guy's (read NRA supporters) are armed.
So why are guns banned where and when Pence speaks?

Make a guess why private guns are banned from President and Vice President appearances.

ATTENTION: The Arena is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Secret Service during the Leadership Forum.

By entering this area, you are consenting to a search of your person and belongings. The following items are prohibited inside the Arena:

• Aerosols
• Ammunition
• Backpacks
• Bags larger than 18”x13”x7”
• Drones and other unmanned aircraft systems
• Firearms
• Glass, Thermal, or Metal Containers
• Gun Parts, Holsters, Magazines, etc
• Knives
• Laser Pointers
• Mace/Pepper Spray
• Selfie Sticks
• Signs
• Toy guns
• Weapons of any kind
• Any other item determine to be potential safety hazards

You might try to say the same about the best ball game Rugby, but there any player is free to kick the ball at any during normal play.

True, and it is more fun also.

How about some here learn to read English?

Thank God that over 99.9999% of Law Enforcement aren't mass murdering rapists.

That doesn't mean that 99.9999% of Law Enforcement is criminal!
They who are mass murdering rapists are very criminal though.
Perhaps 0.0001% of them are.
Anyone having an idea how many they are?

.14% of 765,000 = 107,100. Not the 1100 referenced.

Appears that more than one poster has a problem with decimals :)

Without an 'unfair' advantage over the other parties under the law, the Republicans and the Democrats couldn't maintain their domination of the political party landscape. That advantage is that those two parties do not have to qualify to be on the ballots every election year... the other parties do.

In simple terms: A corrupt practice.

The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 21, challenges a state requirement that any political party receiving less than 20 percent of the votes for governor or 20 percent for president in the entire country must obtain notarized signatures from 5 percent of eligible voters in the district in order to place a congressional candidate on the ballot. This requirement has never been met, by any party.

Hmm and Blin...
Russian Businessman Releases 'Novichok' Line of Cooking Oil
The Novichok oil will be marketed under the motto “products for a long life,” together with a logo bearing KGB insignia.
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-businessman-releases-novichok-line-cooking-oil-61227

KGB insignia.

Semechki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsPFdxMAG6o

Lots of hot air expelled in the last year over the 'unfair' Electoral College..............but not one word regarding Dim-o-crats 'Super'Delegates and the Repugnants closed caucuses...

False equivalency, The electorial college is matter of law, the political parties are not, and are subject to the governance of their respective power structures.

Unless one wishes to live under the economic yoke of the expanding Chinese empire.

How do we stop (edit: or at least slowdown) their economic expansion and control?

Quit importing all their stuff...

Is the temporary but unavoidable economic 'hit' we would have to endure to protect our workers and our industries in the future politically possible?

Unless one wishes to live under the economic yoke of the expanding Chinese empire.

How do we stop (edit: or at least slowdown) their economic expansion and control?

In states such as Texas, an undocumented migrant is not allowed to get a driver’s license. But anyone — even a member of the MS-13 gang without papers — can potentially walk into a gun show and buy a semiautomatic rifle. Organized crime groups are taking advantage of this every day.

NYT - The Other Border Problem: American Guns Going to Mexico

Nice story...
But I think it's just that.
Is this widespread (maybe 2% of the sales)? It does make a good story to sell papers to those that never have been to a "Gun Show" and don't know any better.

Do you have any explanation how 75,000 firearms initially bought in the US find there way south of the border.

In states such as Texas, an undocumented migrant is not allowed to get a driver’s license. But anyone — even a member of the MS-13 gang without papers — can potentially walk into a gun show and buy a semiautomatic rifle. Organized crime groups are taking advantage of this every day.

NYT - The Other Border Problem: American Guns Going to Mexico

Interesting, must be a Texas only loophole.

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Firearms (handguns, rifles, shotguns, etc.) may be legally bought and sold at gun shows in Clark County. In order to complete the sale, the Lessee must make arrangements to have a local licensed firearms dealer on property to handle transfers and conduct background checks. All firearm sales will go through this dealer.

In December, the FBI said in a letter to state officials that Nevada could better assess applicants’ fitness themselves because records such as arrest warrants and drivers’ records are kept by the state. State legislation can’t dictate how federal resources are applied, according to the letter.

He never bothered paying American citizen straw buyers to purchase the weapons for him, he said.

Add Little Britain :)

Hey! We abandoned caning in schools many years ago.

Baseball bats are more the sort of nuklear option that are only shown as a laugh on cartoons or as where not to go in dystopian films... :-(


What next?...

Where's the good sense?...

Only in the Kafkaesque Amerika?
Martin

If another Dimocrat ever gets elected President again, he/she will be hamstrung, drawn and quartered and spend 24/7/365 defending BS investigations and allegations. The Dims have opened Pandora's box and the raid on Cohen's office, home, and hotel room, confiscating privileged attorney client communications is nothing less than an open declaration of war against Trump and everyone that supports his policies.

This will not go unanswered. I would suggest that appointment of another 'special prosecutor' is not out of the question. Given the same open ended mandate and budget that Mueller has but focused on the DOJ, FBI, Dim National Organization, the Clintons and where ever else it may lead. Squeeze some Dims and see how many 'lie' to investigators and charge them with same BS charges as Flynn and the other targets of Mueller.

IMHO the concept of 'blind justice' in America is dead. It's now every man/woman for themselves. We are about to become(if not already are) totally paralyzed by fear of the 'deep police state' and the gestapo that invaded Cohen's life.

The IG report on FBI mismanagement and the bias of the DOJ could be the Rubicon that spurs a house cleaning in both agencies. I can only hope, but I'm not counting on anything changing much as the sheep have been thoroughly brain laundered.

Dershowitz: Targeting Trump's lawyer should worry us all

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Civil libertarians should be concerned whenever the government interferes with the lawyer-client relationship. Clients should be able to rely on confidentiality when they disclose their most intimate secrets in an effort to secure their legal rights. A highly publicized raid on the president’s lawyer will surely shake the confidence of many clients in promises of confidentiality by their lawyers. They will not necessarily understand the nuances of the confidentiality rules and their exceptions. They will see a lawyer’s office being raided and all his files seized.

I believe we would have been hearing more from civil libertarians — the American Civil Liberties Union, attorney groups and privacy advocates — if the raid had been on Hillary Clinton’s lawyer. Many civil libertarians have remained silent about potential violations of President Trump’s rights because they strongly disapprove of him and his policies. That is a serious mistake, because these violations establish precedents that lie around like loaded guns capable of being aimed at other targets.

I have been widely attacked for defending the constitutional rights of a president I voted against. In our hyperpartisan age, everyone is expected to choose a side, either for or against Trump. But the essence of civil liberties is that they must be equally applicable to all. The silence among most civil libertarians regarding the recent raid shows that we are losing that valuable neutrality.

What else does the raid tell us? It seems likely that special counsel Robert Mueller is bifurcating the investigation: He will keep control over matters relating to Russia, the campaign and any possible obstruction. But he has handed over to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York any matters relating to Trump’s personal and business affairs. Mueller will work hand in hand with the New York prosecutors, but they will be in charge of the other matters. If they manage to find prosecutable evidence against Trump’s lawyer, they may try to squeeze him into cooperating against his client.

It is doubtful that Cohen would cooperate, even if he has anything on his client. But prosecutors often try to get lawyers to “sing” against their clients — to become “canaries” — in order to save their own feathers. Some flipped witnesses will tell prosecutors anything they want to hear in order to earn a “get out of jail free card.” They know that the “better” their story, the more leniency they will earn. So, in addition to singing, they “compose” by making up incriminating details.

I have seen this on many occasions. Mueller has already apparently flipped several witnesses, but Cohen would be his biggest catch in the unlikely event he could be induced to turn against his client. So, stay tuned to this unfolding drama, but remember that prosecutorial tactics used today against President Trump may tomorrow be used against Democrats — and even against you.

Known here as an accomplice which faces the same charge as the perpetrator.

But the perpetrator was the police officer...

Yes. Same as if the shop owner shoots a robber dead. Or misses and hits a bystander. If you didn't start the crime there wouldn't be a dead person.

Sec. 19.02. MURDER.

(a) In this section:

(1) "Adequate cause" means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind incapable of cool reflection.

(2) "Sudden passion" means passion directly caused by and arising out of provocation by the individual killed or another acting with the person killed which passion arises at the time of the offense and is not solely the result of former provocation.

(b) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual;

(2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual; or

(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.

(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he caused the death under the immediate influence of sudden passion arising from an adequate cause. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree.

How is China "Lawless?"

Oh my Rumpers goin to court And it isn't going to be a friendly chat like one with Mueller
https://apnews.com/a54c439f8af046cf9da54ec1ce33d8c8/Attorney-for-porn-star-seeks-to-depose-Trump-on-payment

Attorney Michael Avenatti is seeking sworn testimony from Trump and Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a $130,000 payment made to Daniels days before the 2016 presidential election as part of a nondisclosure agreement she is seeking to invalidate.

But I disagree with your use of the word 'denigrates' in the next sentence. Denigrates => 'unfairly criticize'.

Major, so you think Trump is fair?

A free press used to do that important function, now the alt right and Trump denigrates that function.