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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10120 on: June 25, 2019, 06:48:31 AM »
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/neil-gorsuch-brett-kavanaugh-davis-gun-sentencing-enhancements.amp

If only dems would have this kind of diversity, we might have a more civilized political environment. Unfortunately, it seems like on the D side it's some kind of totalitarian thought police.
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10121 on: June 25, 2019, 06:52:41 AM »
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/neil-gorsuch-brett-kavanaugh-davis-gun-sentencing-enhancements.amp

If only dems would have this kind of diversity, we might have a more civilized political environment. Unfortunately, it seems like on the D side it's some kind of totalitarian thought police.
Didn't know there was a D and R side on the SCOTUS.
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« Reply #10122 on: June 25, 2019, 07:44:07 AM »
Didn't know there was a D and R side on the SCOTUS.

D appointees and R appointees. Though my comment wasn't about the SCOTUS, rather about the diversity of opinions within the party. (There's plenty to criticize the Rs about, but on the topic of diversity of opinions, they definitely come way ahead of the Ds).
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« Reply #10123 on: June 25, 2019, 07:52:33 AM »
(There's plenty to criticize the Rs about, but on the topic of diversity of opinions, they definitely come way ahead of the Ds).
So I guess the R's are not the party of Trump now?
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« Reply #10124 on: June 25, 2019, 10:24:16 AM »
Didn't know there was a D and R side on the SCOTUS.
There isn't. There is only the D side and everyone else.
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10126 on: June 26, 2019, 10:05:08 PM »
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists
he does look pretty suspicious with that mustache.
BTW I know of a former DDFer that was held for a couple hours by the CBP and they looked through everything on his phone. He had previously been to a few middle eastern countries, it could be that was the trigger.

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« Reply #10127 on: June 27, 2019, 10:44:14 AM »

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One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, "My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother."

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« Reply #10128 on: June 27, 2019, 11:04:40 AM »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sapphire-reserve-strains-jpmorgans-ties-with-united-airlines-11561627802

"One of the issues that has come up over the course of the partnership: Citigroup wants its customers to be able to transfer American miles to its Prestige credit card, according to people familiar with the matter. American hasn’t historically allowed for that."

Huh, maybe the opposite Citi>AA.

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« Reply #10129 on: June 27, 2019, 11:12:38 AM »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sapphire-reserve-strains-jpmorgans-ties-with-united-airlines-11561627802

"One of the issues that has come up over the course of the partnership: Citigroup wants its customers to be able to transfer American miles to its Prestige credit card, according to people familiar with the matter. American hasn’t historically allowed for that."

Huh, maybe the opposite Citi>AA.


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« Reply #10130 on: June 27, 2019, 11:20:52 AM »
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« Reply #10136 on: June 30, 2019, 10:04:39 AM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/world/middleeast/palestinian-authority-arrest-bahrain.html

For all those touting a "two-state solution" just realize what kind of a democratic state it might be.
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