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I agree on the principles of privacy and curtailing government overreach. I find no authorization in the constitution for any government to surveil the population without probable cause. "Just looking" is a facil argument that fails under any principled scrutiny whatsoever.

More Satire Gold from the Bee https://babylonbee.com/news/district-court-issues-nationwide-injunction-on-supreme-court-ruling

Hockey is now Florida's official state sport. A Florida team has been in the finals each of the past 6 years winning 4 Cups. Canada is simply the minor league farm system. We should raise the tariff on centers, defensemen, and goaltenders. AND Zambonis.

I agree with you on this specific technology. And on red light cameras/speed cameras. The other is the collecting of "metadata" from communications companies. So, on principles of privacy and curtailing the surveillance state I agree with you. I do think we need to apply the 4th amendment much more broadly to encompass a concept of "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" that takes into account indirect but still unreasonable searches like mass surveillance and tracking.

Their reasoning is HEARTFUL. Law abiding citizens (especially law abiding ones) be damned!!

Remember, these are the heartful people. Quality of life, down. Heartful. Costs up. Heartful. Using data designed to catch criminals to catch criminals - heartless. Denver will ban using fingerprints and DNA evidence soon because some criminal might be caught.

Which matches were driven to the forest in SUVs!!! Duh. Man made global warming at work right there, dude.

Another Hat Tip to The Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/news/7-changes-mamdani-is-proposing-for-new-york-city Authorizing the development of state-run shoplifting centers: This is the clever outside-the-box thinking people need from their elected leaders. And, not satire: from the Mam himself: Does this mean that his 9x increase in hate crime prevention will be thwarted by his own policy of repealing bump-up statutes - which "hate crime enhancement" (asinine term!) is?

"Like all socialists, Mamdani likes making promises that his voters think other people will pay for." Mamdani is heartful according many of our brethren here. So was Castro. So was Hugo Chavez and so is Maduro. Heartful heartful heartful. NYC, STFB. What he is going to do to you is because he loves you so much. Everything is for your own good. Just like all of the love and care that heartful and loving Kathy Bates poured out to James Caan. "Trust me. It's for the best." (For you young'uns, this is a reference to the 1990 movie Misery) Start video at 3:08

Lefties' love to donate other people's money to their pet projects and pet people via taxation. Conservatives donate their own money and believe taxation should be used solely to fund the valid functions of government (roads/infrastructure, courts, defense, and almost nothing else; education at state/local level IF the money goes with the kid). Charity (or any form of income redistribution) is not one of those valid functions.

I find Christian Bale's range amazing. He is different in every role and sometimes nearly unrecognizable - and not due just to makeup.

It would be very interesting to know if people who tend MAGA are more or less charitable than others. Hmmm, surely heartless people are not charitable . . . "Conservatives give more money to charity than liberals." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-generous-liberals-conservatives-081500677.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF-ugmvuwrMXFgZc3g4OFjbnfb6_iJt1UowaIePOiJXsuCT-gN4SbtKx-s-CKjuPx_5uquJ17yPzAW_aQnCmR1HDHad_agJp44xhm5nCf8ofwdU2LgnuoMjShvn-D8y8fcMxqMPM11wFarB175G6DbxpC7OgkvGU4gpJOW-7xRAV

Defund the Police. Simultaneously SuperFund the Thought Police by 9x! No agenda here.

Settled Science vs Political Policy This article is very interesting (at least to me). http://jewishworldreview.com/0625/hollis062625.php Some excerpts for your enjoyment: “In 2022, Powerline Blog's John Hinderaker wrote a series of articles about how Sri Lanka's president decided to ban synthetic fertilizer (in pursuit of "climate change" objectives, of course), resulting in the collapse of the country's agriculture and its economy. After months without food, heating oil and other necessities, Sri Lankans stormed the presidential palace in Colombo and forced their president to flee the country on a military jet.” “The "science" around "climate change" isn't "settled" either. That the climate changes is certain (just ask the people making their way past the glaciers 20,000 years ago); the extent to which human activity changes it is not. When I was in high school, we were warned about "the coming ice age." By the time I was in law school, it was "global warming." Predictions about the "ozone hole" and Antarctic ice have been wrong.” “The footprint of "settled science" shows us that politicians who tie their pet policies to scientific theories are almost always wrong.”

They aren't even eligible to be here.