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Originally Posted by WooferDawg
Birthright citizenship.... another Trump grievance.

I see this as DOA and not really worth discussing. The only exception being intentional travel based deliveries.

For people who reside here, if you are living (not visiting) in the country and a child is born, it is a citizen.

Yep! STOP THE WHITE SLAVIC INVASION.


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Lessons from history.


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Police: Woman tries having man from dating site’s wife killed

Authorities in Tennessee arrested a woman accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of the man she met on the dating website Match.com.

Prosecutors say Melody Sasser allegedly tracked the woman using a fitness app and sent real-time information to a fake assassination website that may have tipped off investigators. According to court documents, she paid the website more than $9,700 worth of Bitcoin for the “job.”

According to a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Beast, Sasser placed her request through the “Online Killers Market” that offered “hitman for hire” type services.

User “cattree,” who authorities believe to be Sasser, wrote on the site in January: “It needs to seem random or (like an) accident or plant drugs. (I) do not want a long investigation.”

Information from the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee explains that “cattree” communicated with the now defunct site’s administrator for months about the murder-for-hire plot and provided specific details about the victim along with a photo of her.

One message said: “Two weeks ago, you said it was (being) worked on and would be done in a week. The job is still not done. Does it need to be assigned to someone else? Will it be done? What is the delay? When will it be done?”

Another said: “Yesterday, she worked from home and went for a two-mile walk by herself. Assign to another that can complete the job.”

A Homeland Security agent believes Sasser monitored the couple on the fitness app Strava. Investigators confirmed from the app that the victim had walked exactly two miles on the day the message was sent.

The victim’s husband said he met Sasser, an employee of Pilot Headquarters in Knoxville, on Match.com. They were allegedly “hiking friends” in East Tennessee before he moved to Alabama, where Sasser is accused of showing up unannounced at his new home in the fall of last year. After he told her he was engaged, the criminal complaint says Sasser replied: “I hope you both fall off a cliff and die.”

After the encounter, the victim said she received damage to her vehicle and started getting unpleasant, untraceable phone calls from someone using a device to disguise their voice.

Prosecutors say in November, license plate reader cameras placed Sasser’s car in the immediate area of the victim’s workplace in Alabama. They say the next month, Sasser’s alleged activity on the “Online Killers Market” started.

In late April, police in Prattville, Alabama, informed the victim of the threat on her life and sent patrols to monitor her home.

According to reports, Sasser was arrested on May 18 and remains in custody. She is charged with murder-for-hire and due in court Thursday.

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further proof people are crazy and giving people access to your location in real-time is a terrible idea.


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The most obvious thing of interest for Browns fans.

"The victim’s husband said he met Sasser, an employee of Pilot Headquarters in Knoxville"

Jimmy????


There will be no playoffs. Can’t play with who we have out there and compounding it with garbage playcalling and worse execution. We don’t have good skill players on offense period. Browns 20 - Bears 17.

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Nothing will get CNN viewers to go from 6 to midnight quicker than the quote "puppet of Putin". Well played, Christie.....you beached whale.


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Originally Posted by WooferDawg
The most obvious thing of interest for Browns fans.

"The victim’s husband said he met Sasser, an employee of Pilot Headquarters in Knoxville"

Jimmy????


LOL...i doubt it.


The Haslams sold a large chunk of the company to Buffett in 2016 or 17. I don't think Jimmy has much of a role other than sitting on the board. That was what, 6-7 years ago? An even larger portion went away maybe 2 years ago.


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Well played, Christie.....you beached whale.

Wow! You went straight from the LGBTQ community to overweight people. No wonder your ilk hated political correctness so much. It made it hard for you to outwardly show your hate.


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Nothing will get CNN viewers to go from 6 to midnight quicker than the quote "puppet of Putin". Well played, Christie.....you beached whale.


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LMAO - don't like the (truthful) message, attack the messenger and not the message. Well played Memphis, well played.


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Well played, Christie.....you beached whale.

Wow! You went straight from the LGBTQ community to overweight people. No wonder your ilk hated political correctness so much. It made it hard for you to outwardly show your hate.

Brought to you by the poster who makes negative comments referencing women.

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What negative comments did I ever make about women without a woman acting like a complete ass first? If somebody steps up to the plate and hurls insults they will get equal treatment. I guess treating women equally means nothing these days.


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Yada yada yada. That is your go to excuse for belittling others. "They did it first."

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So now you're problem is treating people the same way they treat you? So much for the defending yourself crowd. Your kind hated political correctness until it came back to bite them in the face.


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Originally Posted by MemphisBrownie


Nothing will get CNN viewers to go from 6 to midnight quicker than the quote "puppet of Putin". Well played, Christie.....you beached whale.

Oh, GOPers eating GOPers. And I’m out of popcorn.


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And I’m out of popcorn.

I have some but I'm not sharing. I heard pot gives ya the munchies something wicked.

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You can push threw those with more weed. Else, I’d weigh a ton.


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That's something to brag about.

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I’m glad you disapprove. Would love to be your neighbor. Does your neighborhood issue anal sticks with all those guns?

Hopefully you never need it for pain, then your mind will change. It’s much better than the pills those drug dealers in white lab coats push.

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Anal sticks?

This reminds me why I don't deal with pot heads. Especially those that brag about it. And then post while high.

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It’s legal medication arsh. And I’m more RATIONAL high than you are stone sober… so there’s that.


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Doubt it. You talk about smoking it. And, you've never been rational. Just high.

What's your medical issue?

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You don’t get answers to personal questions because you like to use them as weapons later. But I talked openly about it before, so you can use the archives.


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Now all he's got left is "You smoke pot". That's when you know they're desperate.


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Doubt it. You talk about smoking it. And, you've never been rational. Just high.

What's your medical issue?

Using is an addiction and a weakness. He answers all your questions in one sad post.


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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Using is an addiction and a weakness.

Same argument or statement could be said for many things - beer, wine, spirits, cigarettes .... hopefully you've never consumed any of those.


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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Using is an addiction and a weakness.

Same argument or statement could be said for many things - beer, wine, spirits, cigarettes .... hopefully you've never consumed any of those.

...sex, food, fear, hell - Fox news... "everybody's some kinda junkie".


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Originally Posted by FATE
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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Using is an addiction and a weakness.

Same argument or statement could be said for many things - beer, wine, spirits, cigarettes .... hopefully you've never consumed any of those.

...sex, food, fear, hell - Fox news... "everybody's some kinda junkie".

"Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don't let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some it's the doctor
For me it's rock and roll
For some it's a bottle
For some it's a pill
Some people wave the Bible
Cause it's giving them a thrill
Others point their finger
If they don't like what they see
If you live in a glass house
Don't be throwing rocks at me"

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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Using is an addiction and a weakness.

Same argument or statement could be said for many things - beer, wine, spirits, cigarettes .... hopefully you've never consumed any of those.

...sex, food, fear, hell - Fox news... "everybody's some kinda junkie".

"Everybody needs a little place they can hide
Somewhere to call their own
Don't let nobody inside
Every now and then we all need to let go
For some it's the doctor
For me it's rock and roll
For some it's a bottle
For some it's a pill
Some people wave the Bible
Cause it's giving them a thrill
Others point their finger
If they don't like what they see
If you live in a glass house
Don't be throwing rocks at me"

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"Now dig up ya'll
Now we're stoned to the bone and we're hot and sweaty
Look at us, we're everything your parents ever warned you about
They think we're all junkies, but everybody's some kind of junkie
There's money junkies, booze junkies, dope junkies, sex junkies,
And there's one thing they don't understand, all of us, you and I, we're Godz, and Godz are rock and roll junkies"


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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
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Doubt it. You talk about smoking it. And, you've never been rational. Just high.

What's your medical issue?

Using is an addiction and a weakness. He answers all your questions in one sad post.


Your mind is a weakness.


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Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Originally Posted by archbolddawg
Doubt it. You talk about smoking it. And, you've never been rational. Just high.

What's your medical issue?

Using is an addiction and a weakness. He answers all your questions in one sad post.

You do realize that your defending a drinker who is pointing the finger at someone who smokes weed don't you? The only difference is which drug they choose to partake of. How Christian of you.


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Impeached Texas attorney general’s business associate jailed on federal charges

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman at the center of the scandal that led to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment, a move that came amid new questions about the men’s dealings raised by financial records the Republican’s lawyers made public to try to clear him of bribery allegations.

Nate Paul, 36, was taken into custody by federal agents and booked into an Austin jail in the afternoon, according to Travis County Sheriff’s Office records. It was not immediately clear what charges led to his arrest, but the records showed he was being held on a federal detainer for a felony.

Paul’s arrest followed a yearslong federal investigation into the Austin real estate developer — a probe that Paxton involved his office in, setting off a chain of events that ultimately led to his impeachment last month.

Lawyers for Paul did not immediately respond to requests for comment. One of Paxton’s defense attorneys, Dan Cogdell, said he had no additional information on the arrest. The FBI declined to comment, and a spokesman for federal prosecutors in West Texas did not respond to inquiries.

FBI agents examining Paul’s troubled real estate empire searched his Austin offices and palatial home in 2019. The next year, eight of Paxton ’s top deputies reported the attorney general to the FBI on allegations of bribery and abusing his office to help Paul, including by hiring an outside lawyer to examine the developer’s claims of wrongdoing by federal agents.

The allegations by Paxton’s staff prompted an FBI investigation, which remains ongoing, and are central to articles of impeachment overwhelmingly approved by the GOP-led state House of Representatives.

On Wednesday, Paxton’s defense team showed a packed room of journalists a bank statement that included a 2020 wire transfer purportedly showing him, and not a donor, paying more than $120,000 for a home renovation.

The wire transfer was dated Oct. 1, 2020 — the same day Paxton’s deputies signed a letter informing the head of human resources at the Texas attorney general’s office that they had reported Paxton to the FBI.

The $121,000 payment was to Cupertino Builders, whose manager was an associate of Paul, state corporation and court records show.

The company did not incorporate as a business in Texas until more than three weeks after the transaction took place. A company of the same name was formed in Delaware in April of that year, although public filings there do not make clear who is behind it.

Last year a court-appointed overseer for some of Paul’s companies wrote in a report that Cupertino Builders was used for “fraudulent transfers” from his business to Narsimha Raju Sagiraju, who was convicted of fraud in California in 2016. The report described Sagiraju as Paul’s “friend.”

Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having an extramarital affair, has denied bribing Paxton. In a deposition, Paul described Sagiraju as an “independent contractor” and said he didn’t remember how they first met.

The timing of the payment — and the identity of who was paid for renovations at Paxton’s home in Austin — was not publicly known before his new legal team held a news conference Wednesday in which they put financial documents on a projector screen while criticizing the impeachment. They were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Tony Buzbee, a prominent Houston attorney who was hired by Paxton over the weekend and led the news conference, said by email Thursday that receipts “clearly demonstrate” Paxton paid for the repairs. He did not address questions about the timing of the payments or Cupertino Builders.

“Without any evidence the politicians leading this sham impeachment falsely accused General Paxton of not paying for the repairs to his home. That is a lie,” Buzbee said.

Since becoming just the third sitting official in Texas history to be impeached, Paxton has attacked the proceedings as politically motivated and rushed, saying he was never given the chance to rebut the accusations in the state House.

“We have the receipts,” Buzbee told reporters Wednesday as the documents flashed onscreen. “This is the type of evidence we tried to offer them once we found out this foolishness was going on.”

Paxton is temporarily suspended from office pending the outcome of a trial in the Texas Senate that is set to begin no later than Aug. 28. The jury will be the members of the 31-seat Senate; one of them, Paxton’s wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, has not said whether she will recuse herself.

The Paxtons purchased the Austin house in 2018. When it was remodeled two years later, Paxton’s former staff alleged in court documents, Paul “was involved in” the work.

Among the 20 articles of impeachment are accusations that Paxton used the power of his office to help Paul over unproven claims of an elaborate conspiracy to steal $200 million of the developer’s properties. The FBI searched Paul’s home in 2019, but he has not been charged and his attorneys have denied wrongdoing.

The city has no record of building permits from the time of the renovations. A different Austin contractor — not Cupertino Builders — received a federal grand jury subpoena in 2021 for records related to work on Paxton’s home that started in January 2020.

Cupertino Builders was formed in October 2020 and dissolved less than two years later, according to Texas corporation records. Its manager was Sagiraju, who said in a deposition for an unrelated case that he did “consulting” work for Paul’s business and had an email address with Paul’s company.

Sagiraju acknowledged that he served prison time for securities fraud and grand theft in California before moving to Austin, according to a transcript of the deposition. He said he was first introduced to Paul by a mutual friend before his prison term and they later did “a few projects” together.

A lawyer for Sagiraju did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Paxton was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, though he has yet to stand trial. ___

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Similar, except I have a doctors prescription and meet the medical requirements to use it for pain. And they want to make fun of that. But I smoked weed when they were craping green and I’m here to talk about it. Had they drank alcohol that long, the husk and rotten liver would be here, not much else.

I don’t give a damn what they say about me. I know who I am. I drink weed tea and smoke it every so often, Big Deal. And I’m damn proud to NOT BE LIKE THEM. Pretty bad they have to come after me medically, but that’s all they have. I’ll never understand how many Ls they have to take to realize who the losers are.

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I find it hilarious that it's only a couple of them acting like this is the 1970's when people believed smoking weed was so evil and made people stupid. I've known several professional people, some of who were Republicans who smoked weed and some probably still do. Teachers, a couple of lawyers, including my own lawyer, health care professionals and others.

I stopped smoking it several years ago because I simply lacked the desire to do so any longer. The same with drinking. But I'm not one of those who did something for decades and then point the finger at others for the exact same thing. It's odd how some of the very same people who claim they promote freedom sound more like they are talking about freedumb.

But as we see, not all of them feel the same way about it. Some people learn and evolve. Some people don't. Long gone are the days when the masses feel the way these couple of outliers do about smoking weed. Weed is no longer the political game that it used to be in large part and I'm glad we no longer see a large pattern of people who drink try to act superior to people who smoke weed. For some reason they think it's okay to do their drug but not for you to do yours. What kind of double standard BS is that anyway?


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I hadn’t smoked for 20 years when I turned to it for pain. But you know, once a pothead, always a pothead. They can’t shame me because idgaf.


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I understand this isn't something as catastrophic or egregious as mandated composting but I thought I would share it anyway.

Robocalls to voters before 2020 election result in $5 million fine

The Federal Communications Commission hit conservative provocateurs Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman with the fine over claims targeting voters in several states.

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it will serve a $5.1 million fine against conservative activists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl and J.M. Burkman & Associates over their role in making 1,141 unlawful robocalls before the 2020 election.

The FCC said the robocalls were made from Aug. 26 to Sept. 14, 2020, in New York, Ohio, Michigan and other states, according to state prosecutors, who said the scheme was an attempt to suppress the Black vote in the run-up to the presidential election.

The calls identified Burkman and Wohl, and they told potential voters that if they voted by mail, their “personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts.”

Burkman and Wohl, who have been involved in a number of attention-grabbing plans involving opponents of former President Donald Trump, have since pleaded guilty to one count of telecommunications fraud. They were sentenced to community service that entails registering voters in minority and low-income communities, according to the FCC.

“This penalty emphasizes the seriousness with which we take our obligations to protect American consumers, and in this instance American voters, from being targeted through the clear and illegal misuse of U.S. communications networks,” FCC enforcement chief Loyaan A. Egal said in a news release. “We commend our law enforcement partners for bringing Burkman and Wohl to justice for their actions, and we will continue our efforts to make it clear that there are significant consequences for engaging in this type of conduct.”

The FCC unanimously agreed to impose the fine, which, at the time it was proposed, was the largest it had ever proposed for a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

A detailed investigation by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau found that the robocalls to consumers’ wireless phones were “pre-recorded” and conducted without “required prior consent.”

In response to the FCC’s proposed fine back in 2021, Burkman and Wohl argued that the dialing companies they hired to make the calls were responsible for alleged violations, and they argued that the political robocalls were exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act restrictions.

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I understand this isn't something as catastrophic or egregious as mandated composting but I thought I would share it anyway.

Don't you just think you are precious? Did someone forget to put you down for a nap?

Government mandates for stupid stuff are just dumb. I know you love your government to tell you how to live.

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Originally Posted by FrankZ
Don't you just think you are precious? Did someone forget to put you down for a nap?
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Originally Posted by FrankZ
Originally Posted by PitDAWG
I understand this isn't something as catastrophic or egregious as mandated composting but I thought I would share it anyway.

Don't you just think you are precious? Did someone forget to put you down for a nap?

Government mandates for stupid stuff are just dumb. I know you love your government to tell you how to live.

Says the party of law and order. Lol


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Originally Posted by PerfectSpiral
Originally Posted by FrankZ
Originally Posted by PitDAWG
I understand this isn't something as catastrophic or egregious as mandated composting but I thought I would share it anyway.

Don't you just think you are precious? Did someone forget to put you down for a nap?

Government mandates for stupid stuff are just dumb. I know you love your government to tell you how to live.

Says the party of law and order. Lol

You just have nonsense like that ready to copy and paste don't you? Do you think I am a "party"?

You make no sense at times.

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