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  1. 19 hours ago, Scarlet said:

    Pansies for speaking out about their employer hiring someone neck deep in trying to overturn our elections?  

    Yup. pansies. The anchors would have a perfect forum to challenge her if they are so confident. It has to be much more difficult for a lone conservative to join a liberal network. Just ask Megan Kelly how that turned out....although she probably got 10s of millions, out of her short stint. :)

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, Danny Bateman said:

     

    The bolded just demonstrates poor judgment.

     

    For what it’s worth, the damages amount are literally just equal to what it was calculated that the Trump Org fraudulently benefitted from with their shady math.

     

    So the court is asking them to give back what they shouldn’t have had in the first place. And people are suggesting that is unfair to Trump.
     

    Americans have collectively lowered the bar so far for this moron. It’s absurd. 

    Why did the appeals court disagree with the amount? I am not an accountant or an appraiser. If he loses the appeals, fine. Skewer him. Did this trial have a jury? He has so many trials going on, I do not remember. If it's just the judge making the decision and punishment...ya, I'll wait and see. I don't mind Trump , or anyone in power, getting justice when they deserve it, but the court better be objective. It's funny how the media makes it a point to say whether a judge hearing a trail was appointed by a Republican or Democrat. No one trusts anybody anymore. It's all political. Maybe I needed to pay more attention to the trail so I can be as sure as you are that they got it right.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/trump-bond-reduced.html

      David B. Saxe, a former judge on the appeals court that ruled on Monday, said that the court’s decision to short-circuit Ms. James’s collection efforts suggests that some of the judges were uncomfortable with Justice Engoron’s ruling.

    “My view is that the court indicates it has difficulty with the breadth of the lower court’s decision,” said Mr. Saxe, who retired in 2017 after 36 years on the bench, 19 of them on the appeals court.

    “They had other options available to them, and they issued a broad-based stay,” he continued, which he said suggests “that there is a view that they’re going to need to take a hard look at the lower court’s decision.”

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  3. Honestly I haven't been following the NY fraud case against Trump very closely until the verdict was reached. Other real estate business leaders have expressed concern at the ruling and even threatened to no longer do business in NY because of it. Being a cynic, I figured maybe they were corrupt. :D I have also read that some have testified that the accounting and evaluations were sound. If NY seized property today i would have been concerned with those actions. Now the appeals courts moves the bond down to 175M (less than half) and leaves the appeal open for reversal.

     

    https://www.cbsnews.com/video/appeals-court-slashes-bond-trump-civil-fraud-case-to-175-million/

     

    Honestly, I do not have anymore trust in the judge and prosecutor than I do in Trump. Do they realize if they do not execute this justly it's going to strengthen Trump?

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  4. 5 hours ago, Crusader Husker said:

    A lot of kids at our HS are looking at GCU.  Their President was the head BB coach at my college when I was a freshmen.  Same guy who built up U of Pheonix.  

    They are playing like dirt right now...no spacing and can't hit free throws. 

     

    10% of my kids graduating HS class chose GCU. Their high school is in CO.

  5. My kid attends GCU and turned me on their team. They are fearless and play hard. Good D, which I like.  They built the team with other Div1 program transfers. They do not always play smart, but are entertaining. After watching their season finale and tourney game I picked them to the sweet 16. Since the SEC is looking a bit overrated, I think they have a shot at Bama. 

     

    https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39791374/grand-canyon-1st-ncaa-tournament-win-ousts-saint-marys

     

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  6. https://www.statepress.com/article/2024/03/lawsuit-goldwater-anderson-dei#

     

    The lawsuit references a state law that states that a state agency "may not require an employee to engage in training, orientation, or therapy that presents any form of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex." 

     

    I wondered when DEI program lawsuits would start. The interesting part is that this law was probably put in place to protect minorities and LGBTQ. 

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  7. https://www.thecollegefix.com/marriage-promotes-white-supremacy-george-mason-professor/

     

    :facepalm: why do we pay these people?

     

    “I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy,” Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

    “Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family,”

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  8. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2024/3/6/1_6797025.amp.html

     

    Canada is going off the cliff. No way this doesn't shut down protests. 

     

    Bill C-63, also known as the Online Harms Act, seeks to introduce harsher penalties for existing offences. It would allow sentences of up to five years behind bars for hate propaganda, up from the current two years. It would also allow a judge to impose lifetime imprisonment for advocating genocide.

    Such moves are "draconian," the Canadian Civil Liberties Associated has warned, adding that they could stifle public discourse, including through "criminalizing political activism."

     

    Is using the term "from the river to the sea" advocating genocide? Time to elect a new government up north.

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  9. 2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

    Great job Republicans!!!:clap

     

    You're doing a bang up job as a party. 
     

    And….just one more election that proves voting in Nebraska doesn’t mean s#!t.  

    I feel the same way about voting in Colorado. We are a blue state headed the way of Cali. My vote for Haley in CO didn't mean much either. Trump got 63%. It surprised me that Trump hit 70+% in states like Cali and Mass. 

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  10. 9 hours ago, Moiraine said:



    Makes sense. I understand the sense of urgency but you can't just say someone's bad and then they get kicked off a ballot. Imagine the chaos that would ensue.

    Agreed. This decision wasn't about Trump. I would be against a state doing this to Biden because some election official or secretary of state decided he was unfit.

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  11. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna132291

     

    All 9 judges agreed.....this was a no-brainer.

     

    "The ruling makes it clear that Congress, not states, has to set rules on how the 14th Amendment provision can be enforced against federal office-seekers. As such, the decision applies to all states, not just Colorado. States retain the power to bar people running for state office from appearing on the ballot under Section 3.

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  12. Austin used to be a nice place. I remember being able to stay downtown, walk around, enjoy good food and music. Always felt safe...except maybe at Halloween. :)

    I am not sure why people don't just vote in better leadership.

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/austin-brink-disaster-police-shortages-hit-crisis-level-god-help

     

    "Previous councils and leadership have actively worked against our officers and department, which has now put us in a free-falling staffing crisis," Bullock warned. "Twice now we’ve had our contract voted down or it has been allowed to expire. Each year since 2017, we’ve lost more officers than we’ve hired. We had to gut our specialized units and force detectives to work backfill on patrol just to try and respond to 911 calls."

     

    Last year, the department was on the verge of a staffing collapse after 40 officers filed retirement papers following a 9-2 city council vote to scrap a four-year contract that the city had previously agreed to in principle and instead pursue a one-year contract that the police union’s board had rejected.

    "As a result," Bullock continued, "our staffing has been set back at least 15 years and at the same time we’ve dealt with a population growth of over 250,000 new residents. Combine that with a district attorney who has made it very clear that targeting officers and releasing criminals is his priority – not public safety."

     

     

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  13. 52 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

     

    Not so utopian after all. 

     

    Maybe this is all the beginning of the common sense awakening. 

     

    NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is slamming the city's sanctuary laws, saying he supports working with federal immigration officials.

    It comes after recent high-profile crimes allegedly committed by migrants, including an assault on two NYPD officers in Times Square last month and a tourist shot earlier this month during a robbery inside a Times Square clothing store.

     

     

    Didn't some judge let these guys go, and when the outrage happened they caught them and one was let go with a 1 dollar bond? They need to clean out the DAs and judges too.

     

    "The mere fact that we cannot share with ICE that this person has committed three robberies and this person is part of an organized gang crew ... The mere fact we can't say that and communicate that is a problem for me," Adams said.

     

    It's a problem period...

     

    https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/5-suspects-in-times-square-assault-on-nypd-officers-due-in-court-friday/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i&_amp=1*7cjs2g*s_vid*MVVXRElQdHpINUdpRHdCRU90bmRENnVyVkh6NlVpRjBYZHRzVy14LW1EVGNNRUw2NElSZVZINVpyUzEzdnFMbQ..

     

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  14. 2 hours ago, Loebarth said:

    @nic I found the tweet because I click on the original. The comments on the one I posted though were hilarious to me so I thought I'd let others enjoy the read too.

    Gotcha. I was just thinking the guy won't give up. At this point the SEC teams can leave for free, I think, and the revenue will be similar. It would boil down to the academic consortium and how much they hate Texas. :)

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