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San Diego County almost all are suicides. Except for the fools walking the tracks wearing earbuds
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03/04/2024 9:10 Comments ||
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Re: #7. It can be VERY quick, and explosively violent, depending on train speed. I had to take an annual Roadway Worker Protection for both Trolley and BNSF/AMTRAK safety training.
They would stress stories of finding shoes (with feet still in them) 100-300 yards from the collision, the rest a pink smear.
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/04/2024 9:21 Comments ||
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How many DUIs are suicides? No one ever questions that and just rack it up to the DUI. It is treated as so common in the culture. Got to get yourself liquored up to do it. Not to mention collateral damage aka other victims of the crash.
Gun grabbers throw in gun suicides in their kill statistics as well.
[PJMedia] The Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state ballot on Monday, reversing the lower court’s ruling,
"The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand,” the justices wrote. "All nine Members of the Court agree with that result."
Last year, left-wing groups launched a nationwide effort to exclude Trump from primary ballots, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. While most states have rejected these attempts, the Colorado Supreme Court declared Trump ineligible in December. Maine's Secretary of State eventually followed suit. Last week, a leftist judge in Illinois removed Trump from the state ballot as well.
"We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the ruling states.
Conflicting state outcomes concerning the same candidate could result not just from differing views of the merits, but from variations in state law governing the proceedings that are necessary to make Section 3 disqualification determinations. Some States might allow a Section 3 challenge to succeed based on a preponderance of the evidence, while others might require a heightened showing. Certain evidence (like the congressional Report on which the lower courts relied here) might be admissible in some States but inadmissible hearsay in others. Disqualification might be possible only through criminal prosecution, as opposed to expedited civil proceedings, in particular States. Indeed, in some States—unlike Colorado (or Maine, where the secretary of state recently issued an order excluding former President Trump from the primary ballot)—procedures for excluding an ineligible candidate from the ballot may not exist at all. The result could well be that a single candidate would be declared ineligible in some States, but not others,based on the same conduct (and perhaps even the same factual record).
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An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the country, in different ways and at different times. The disruption would be all the more acute—and could nullify the votes of millions and change the election result—if Section 3 enforcement were attempted after the Nation has voted. Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos—arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the Inauguration
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump v. Anderson last month, and it was apparent to most people that they were likely to overturn the Colorado State Supreme Court and settle the issue of Trump’s eligibility, though some expected that Justice Sonia Sotomayor would dissent. While the ruling was unanimous, Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson did write a concurring opinion disagreeing with the scope of the majority’s opinion.
With this issue now settled, one can’t help but wonder what scheme leftists will attempt next to hold onto the White House.
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The Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state ballot on Monday, reversing the lower court’s ruling,
"The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand,” the justices wrote. "All nine Members of the Court agree with that result."
Last year, left-wing groups launched a nationwide effort to exclude Trump from primary ballots, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. While most states have rejected these attempts, the Colorado Supreme Court declared Trump ineligible in December. Maine's Secretary of State eventually followed suit. Last week, a leftist judge in Illinois removed Trump from the state ballot as well.
"We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the ruling states.
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All nine justices agree? Even Obama and Biden appointees? Kagan, Sotomayor and even Ketanji Brown Jackson (who doesn't even know what a woman is) know the Colorado justices overstepped their authority. There should be laws that prohibit these types of obviously erroneous and politically motivated rulings and provisions for punishment for judicial misconduct.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/04/2024 11:31 Comments ||
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..there is, but its not enforced. Much like our immigration laws.
#5
I think this one was a Hail Mary that those pushing it never quite believed they'd pull it off - if the decision had gone the other way, they'd be in the same position as the dog who finally catches the car.
And the Usual Suspects are already screaming about the 'corrupt' Supreme Court, unanimous verdict be damned. Some of the stuff showing up on TwiX right now is calling for an immediate dissolving of SCOTUS.
So, just a brief summary:
* The NY AG got a guilty verdict against DJT, most or all of which will probably be overturned on appeal and which has started doing economic damage
to NYC in that big spenders are concerned about what will happen to THEM if they piss off an AG.... so they're getting out of town.
* The Manhattan DA got a civil verdict against DJT, which is far from locked in and is likely to be lowered and/or altered on appeal.
* The Cobb County DA in Georgia is watching her plan sink in ever widening evidence of corruption on her part.
* The possession of classified documents trial is running into issue after issue.
* SCOTUS just said, "Congress has to make the call, not you goobers at the state level."
Stay tuned, brothers. This is gonna be a bumpy ride to November.
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/04/2024 13:10 Comments ||
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#9
its the duty of the supremes to ensure that rulings/laws are constitutional. we need a constitution re-write which discards all amendments above 10 and adds 2... discrimination shall not be allowed based upon color or shape skin... and ...all federal elections shall be on hand-counted paper ballots submitted in person on election day.
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Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
[Gateway] The Supreme Court set an unusual opinion release for Monday morning and signaled that a ruling on Trump’s ballot eligibility is imminent.
Per Politico legal reporter Josh Gerstein: SCOTUS sets unusual, short-notice opinion release for Monday morning. Appears to signal that ruling on Trump ballot eligibility is loomin
[Free Press] PASADENA, CA — Stefan Simchowitz, 53, is no one’s idea of a viable candidate, including his own.
"I have no illusion that I can win or that I stand a chance to win, which is also quite liberating, because I’m not running to win a campaign. I have no prayer," he tells me.
Simchowitz, who is running for Senate as a Republican in a seat that has been held by a Democrat for 32 years, is perched at the kitchen island in one of his four homes, an updated Victorian farmhouse on an acre in Pasadena that he’s been building into an exhibition space and artist residency for the past year or so. He calls it Red Barns.
In a tan Altadena Hardware shirt and one of his signature bucket hats, the contemporary art dealer once dubbed "the Art World’s Patron Satan" offers me sparkling water and a bite of his blueberry muffin. Unlike the Democrats vying for Dianne Feinstein’s open seat—Representatives Katie Porter, who has a $12 million war chest and Adam Schiff ($32 million)—and the Republican front-runner, former L.A. Dodger Steve Garvey, Simchowitz doesn’t seem concerned with shaking hands, kissing babies, or winning votes.
"Sometimes if you know you’re going to lose you can only win," he says. Stefan sees this campaign as a "vehicle to sell his ideas." In other words: a performance art project of sorts. How else to make sense of this Democrat-turned-Republican, with no political experience, throwing his hat into the ring?
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In California, Republicans run for office for art.
Because it certainly ain't for effect.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
03/04/2024 11:44 Comments ||
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An attempt to syphon votes from Steve Garvey, but it is not a good attempt. He might win support from Republicans that are Giants or Padres fans.
As I remember the California system, it is a jungle primary so the top two finishers will face off in November. If they had a viable Republican, they could reduce the race to two Democrats. I may be wrong. I left CA more than a decade ago.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/04/2024 15:50 Comments ||
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Schiff's effort to push the other Asshole Dem's (Porter and Lee) might just come back to bite him.
Garvey isn't a bogeyman "MAGA Trump" tool in most people's eyes whether Schiff's persistent ads say so or not
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/04/2024 19:54 Comments ||
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[FOX Business] A potential helium reservoir was discovered in Minnesota last week after drillers bored deep beneath the forest floor of the state’s Iron Range as supplies of the noble gas dwindle in the U.S. Hanger #1, Mountain View, CA. from an old photo.
Pulsar Helium Inc., a Canadian-based company, announced in a news release on Thursday that its team encountered gases with concentrations of up to 12.4% helium when its drilling rig reached a total depth of 2,200 at the Topaz Project drill site. Helium concentrations above 0.3% are considered economically viable.
Thomas Abraham-James, Pulsar’s president and CEO, said he is "delighted" about the "outstanding result."
"It is a big day for helium exploration, confirming the original discovery in the new jurisdiction of Minnesota. I look forward to keeping the market updated with further results as they are received," Abraham-James said.
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Jan. 25, 2024, By Caroline Hopkins
On Thursday, the U.S. government sold the Federal Helium Reserve, a massive underground stockpile based in Amarillo, Texas, that supplies up to 30% of the country’s helium.
Once the deal is finalized, the buyer — which will likely be the highest bidder, the industrial gas company Messer — will claim some 425 miles of pipelines spanning Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma, plus about 1 billion cubic feet of the only element on Earth cold enough to make an MRI machine work.
Regulatory and logistical issues with the facility threaten a temporary shutdown as it passes from public to private ownership, and hospital supply chain experts worry the sale could have serious consequences for health care down the road — especially when it comes to MRIs.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJMedia] The Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow Donald Trump to remain on the Colorado state ballot on Monday, reversing the lower court’s ruling,
[Free Press] PASADENA, CA — 
