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  1. 56 minutes ago, Danny Deck said:

    Of the 6 in the video, it looks like 1 was arrested in Aurora in September by Aurora PD, 2 by DHS in NYC in November, 1 in Aurora in December by Aurora PD, and now this guy in NYC by DHS. 1 remains at large. 

    Boy they were able to get around unfettered.   It must be easy being an illegal alien felon.   Or at least it used to be. 

    mspart

  2. 14 hours ago, VakAttack said:

    My favorite ritual of a Trump presidency is when they or their surrogates make claims that seem far to good to be true, but the followers just take them at face values then ignore when the reporting catches up and it's either totally false or far out of proportion.

     

    I thought you were talking about the Biden presidency there for a minute. 

    Remember:   This is the best version of Biden ever.   The border is secure.   This inflation is transitory and not a big deal.   The economy is great, why can nobody see this?    Boys/men are now defined as girls/women in Title IX.

    These are why Kamala didn't win, she was a continuation of all of this.  

    mspart

  3. Maybe, but my problem is with my laptop.   Sometimes it is fine, but the longer I'm on, the worse it gets.   Maybe I just need to come in and go out from time to time. 

    mspart

  4. Offthemat - you are missing the point.   The fires and their destruction are not the fault of the government, period.  No amount of information to the contrary is allowed or will be processed.   All that does in disrupt the narrative a certain group is trying to make stick. 

    It doesn't matter if the reservoir was dry and closer to the fire.   If it had been full there would have been less pipe flow resistance because of the shorter pipes because the reservoir was closer.   That's  not the government's fault. 

    It doesn't matter if the grasses and shrubs surrounding the area were cut short or not.   Short or tall grasses and shrubs all burn the same.   That's not the government's fault. 

    It doesn't matter if The Fire Budget was decreased.   That's not the government's fault.

    It doesn't matter if the governor let the volunteers go.   That's not the government's fault. 

    It doesn't matter if the bond measure that passed 6 years ago to raise taxes to increase reservoir volume was never started, that is not the government's fault. 

    What is it that you don't understand?

    mspart

     

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  5. I've looked on the google and this info is only on facebook and X and one other place.   No MSM site has this listed so far.  But snopes has it.   And tries to debunk it.  https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-75000-children-found/

    So it is pretty amazing that Snopes felt the need to say this is wrong when it isn't even a thing yet.   They said the IG's report is bunkus and not to be believed. 

    The 300k kids are noted not to have been given notices to appear in court.   Snopes takes that to mean they are not necessarily missing.  However the IG report right after stating that number says:
     

    ICE must take immediate action to ensure the safety of UCs (undocumented children) residing in the United States. Based on our audit work and according to ICE officials, UCs who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.

    That's sounds like they may be in trouble and are therefore not located.  So Snopes cherry picked.  You can't have it both ways.  

    Anyway, that is what I found.

    mspart

     

     

  6. 1 hour ago, PortaJohn said:

     

    I believe he is referring to Joe Arpaio who was a shady Sheriff.  I agree with you guys that he has a habit of being vague.  He tried to get one over on @mspart with the Native American rally in DC and I had to jump in and call him out on his b**lSh*t

    And you have it absolutely correct from the HS thing.   The HS kid that was targeted by the native and by the media sued the media and got money.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-viral-video/index.html

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/washington-post-sandmann-settlement-lawsuit/index.html

    NBC also settled.   So yes, you had this absolutely correct.

    mspart

  7. I'm guessing if FEMA survives, they won't pass over those with Trump signs anymore.   There are too many reports of this kind of activity with Helene in various part of the eastern seaboard, with this person admitting to doing it as part of FEMA and stating that it was standard procedure to avoid hostile situations.   They determined homes with Trump signs to be hostile before talking to the victims of the storm there.  

    mspart

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  8. 55 minutes ago, ionel said:

    Bob says no and Du doesn't understand.  🤨

    It got better when I killed the browser and came back in.   Like a microsoft operating system.   Turn it off and it will clear itself.   What a stupid way to operate. 

    mspart

  9. 1 hour ago, Tripnsweep said:

    The 14th amendment precedes most reservations. But Natives weren't granted citizenship until the 1920's or 30's. There is an interesting patchwork of laws with reservations. 

    For one example here, tribal members who live in the reservation are almost immune from civil lawsuits. I had to learn this when I was doing court enforcement. Essentially if a tribal member needs to be served, we couldn't go out there and do it. So we would have to take it to the tribal authorities who would decide whether they wanted to proceed or not. Most of the time it would be indefinitely be "looked into" and considered a lost cause. 

    Now they could be legally served off the reservation, but unless you knew their schedule or surveilled them, you wouldn't be able to. And it would be a huge waste of time. 

    Criminal things fall under federal jurisdiction. A tribal cop got murdered at a gas station a few years ago and the US Marshal and FBI got involved since it happened on the reservation. 

    But the local tribal cops play by their own set of rules. 

    Right, so they are under federal law and the law grants them citizenship.   I don't see how they go after Navajos.

    Have any Navajos or other Indians been deported or kept in jail?  I just read a CNN report where they have apprehended but have not held Indian peoples. 

    mspart

  10. So what I am hearing is that the government did everything possible to prevent this fire but it happened anyway.   Therefore all this complaining about the government is completely 100% unfounded.

    I just have to say I'm not buying that.   I don't think they could have prevented the fire but I think they could have mitigated the effects with good maintenance management.  They know it will come.   Prepare.  

    I get how water pressure goes down with demand.   But if the situation had been better prepared for, there wouldn't have been the need to have all the hydrants going at the same time.   Granted, I am an armchair quarter back here. 

    I think the disconnect here is that this was a neighborhood.   Not some forest land with thousands of acres to burn between like between Redding and Dunsmuir.   This went through a neighborhood boasting very rich and famous people.   It seems like the fire could have been addressed before it got completely out of control.   Maybe that wasn't possible.   We'll learn that as time goes on whether that was the case or not. 

    mspart

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  11. 35 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

    So instead of of trying to play whack a mole with drug cartels, why not go after them in a different way? Put money into declaring drug addiction a public health crisis, cut down on arresting and incarceration for personal use possession, increase funding for counseling, addiction and actual rehabilitation, and taking away barriers that drug addicts have from being productive members of society. Which means not arresting individual addicts who have a couple grams of something on them.

    This was famously tried in Oregon where the people voted in a law to in effect decriminalize hard drugs.  This same law set up centers where people could get clean.   The net result was more homeless fentynyl addicts and the fentanyl were wasted property , no one went.   They just recently got rid of that law because it was not working.  

    I remember a story of a chinese emperor who had to fight drug use among his people because it was making them unproductive.   Back then he could use draconian measures and eradicate it and the people.   Can't do that these days.   But the end effect is the same.   Drugs are to be shunned because it makes people unproductive and addicts them to the drug.   It is almost impossible to get rid of that addiction.     

    The same is true in Seattle where drugs are not prosecuted.  We have a burgeoning homeless population that grows every year and most are addicts.  And they are a big problem.   They are very much like the illegals have been where the laws that apply to most all of us do not apply to them.  Allowing drug use is not the answer.  

    But one thing is true that I think we can all agree on, the appetite of the american consumer for drugs keeps on growing, hence the cartels keep growing and the amount of drugs entering the country grows.   That is our fault for sure.   The cartels are just exploiting the situation. 

    mspart

  12. Reservations don't have to abide by state law I think.   But do they have to abide by federal law?   If so, then they are within the jurisdiction and 14th amendment would apply.  I would think. 

    mspart

  13. On 1/25/2025 at 2:45 AM, Tripnsweep said:

    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/01/24/navajo-nation-leaders-address-reports-of-ice-detaining-tribal-citizens/77911978007/

    And now this is going on. Since I wasn't born in this country, I should probably start carrying my passport or something with me so this doesn't happen. 

    That's if you trust they won't remove the passport and destroy it and all records for it and ship you out anyway.   That seems to be where you are coming down on this. 

    If they are detaining navajos, that is wrong.  

    mspart

  14. 2 minutes ago, Offthemat said:

    The truth in this is provided by the examples of the homeowners whose homes were spared due to their diligence in maintaining the area around their property.  

    And in some cases this was illegal activity.  

    mspart

  15. On 1/26/2025 at 8:36 AM, jross said:

    My acquaintance, the person, should not feel guilt.  

    Should Katrin Himmler feel guilt?

    Katrin Himmler is the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, who was the head of the SS during the Nazi era. Katrin was born well after all that Nazi stuff ended. She can't be guilty of crimes unless she was actually involved, and she was not. Legally, guilt does not pass down through the family tree.

    It's not appropriate anyone born after the events to feel personal guilt for the actions of a previous generation, when they had no part in those actions. Guilt implies culpability for wrongdoing, which does not apply to the people.

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    The ones that should feel guilt are an exception at this point.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_people_suspected_of_participation_in_Nazi_war_crimes

    In addition, keeping these events alive in history is the way we will not repeat that history.  At least that is the goal.   That doesn't mean guilt must be displayed.  But learning about these things is the best antidote to having them happen again.

    mspart

  16. 5 hours ago, TylerDurden said:

    My house burned down in the Marshall Fire, near Boulder, in late December 2021. We lost everything but what we could fit in a duffle bag. EVERY-F*CKING-THING, including my high school headgear. 

    I appreciate the things Le duke is saying here, because as much as people are pointing fingers, the reality is that there isn't any amount of water that will stop a fire when you combine high winds and drought with the sudden demand for all of the resources. The systems aren't designed to handle that sort of demand - and no one would support paying for a system that would. 

    We had sustained winds for 10-11 hours, gusting consistently from 60-100 MPH and peaking at around 115 MPH. We hadn't had rain since August of that year. You know what stopped that fire? The approximately 8" of snow that dumped on us the next night. 

    So yeah, it's a bit personal, but any of you acting like Newsom, Trump, Biden, or George Washington could have done anything to stop this are simply playing partisan politics with people's lives. I know it can seem fashionable to rail against everything the government does and you think your internet comments are cute, but I can assure you that you would change your tune about an agency like FEMA if your house and all your possessions were turned to ashes. 

    The point is the total picture.

    1.   Have enough water - empty reservoirs during santa ana wind fire season is not something that a responsible outfit would allow.

    2.  Cut and maintain the brush low so there is no fuel to cause a raging fire. 

    3.  Development and maintenance of fire breaks surrounding these neighborhoods. 

    4.  You are correct, once such a firestorm begins, it is very difficult to stop.   The firefighters probably did what they could  humanely do.   But if the above three things are not done, it is tough to fight such a fire.   The above 3 things are preventative things that should have been done to make the fire less malevolent.  Whose responsibility is it to take care of the above?   That's right, the state government.   And they did not and we have what we have. 

    mspart

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