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The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« on: October 08, 2013, 04:40:30 PM »
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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2013, 05:49:48 PM »
No, it's not.

America is 20 years away from a last straw, from a tolerance perspective.

The only thing that will kick off the watering of the tree of liberty is dramatic financial insolvency.
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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2013, 08:46:03 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on October 08, 2013, 05:49:48 PM
No, it's not.

America is 20 years away from a last straw, from a tolerance perspective.

The only thing that will kick off the watering of the tree of liberty is dramatic financial insolvency.
Pucker up, buttercup.  We are living in Interesting Times.
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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2013, 12:01:58 AM »
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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2013, 05:28:10 AM »
I'd have wanted them arrested, selective partial shutdown or no.

Too bad DC does not have the same view of jaywalking as VA does.  (Jaywalkers have no right of way and may be civilly liable for damages and trauma they cause when struck by an automobile.)

stay safe.
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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2013, 01:13:41 PM »
I love that picture of Rangel in cuffs.  Shame he was out of jail in under an hour.  Had you or I committed the financial improprieties that he did, we'd be sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff.
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Re: The last straw? Or has the camel already been crushed?
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2013, 04:17:56 PM »
I'd love to see SCOTUS deal with this.  Congresscritters are immune from arrest/prosecution for what they do while Congress is in session.  What most folks, including congresscritters, do not understand is that it applies to acts committed on the floor of Congress - not out on the streets.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Congressional+immunity

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If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.

Hey you kids!! Get off my lawn!!!

They keep making this eternal vigilance thing harder and harder.  Protecting the 2nd amendment is like playing PACMAN - there's no pause button so you can go to the bathroom.
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