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Pak Taliban claims suicide blast near Afghan border that killed 4
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Portland mayor @tedwheeler said city council would vote on an emergency resolution to ban the city from trading with Texas
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 09/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They don't have money anyway to cover their basic expenses so Pelosi has to send fed assistance in these huge budget bills further adding to the Federal Deficit of Socialist Venezuela Socialist USA.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 09/06/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Here's an opportunity for Portland to piously switch to all electric vehicles. Who needs gas? I ride the bus!
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2021 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Like Texas cares.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/06/2021 1:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this even legal?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2021 8:12 Comments || Top||

#5 

Ask I commented a few days ago.
Doing so would be a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1951 - Interference with commerce by threats or violence.

Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion or attempts or conspires so to do, or commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.


USC 18-41-875 Extortion
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/06/2021 8:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Let's see....

* They shut down Colorado.

* They shut down New Mexico.

* They half-ass shut down North Dakota

* They shut down Louisiana

* They keep California's production very limited.

Who's left?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/06/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  I cancelled my PayPal account the day their CEO made his snarling announcement that his company wouldn't do business with states that had "Ladies room is for ladies" laws. There's really nothing coming out of Portland I need. Oregon? Pretty much likewise. I loved the value proposition of Duluth Trading clothes, but Minnesota is not on my approved trading list any more. And, no, I don't buy or wear Levis.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#8  what you wearing these days murcek, a flour sack?
Posted by: Chris || 09/06/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||

#9  #2 Leaving aside that whole Commerce Clause thingy and 50 other issues, I wonder whether this is consistent with whatever version of the public bid law applies to Portland. The resolution basically says that even if a Texas company puts in a bid for twice the quality at half the price, we'll reject that bid because Texas is ideologically impure. It's not a big jump from that to a resolution saying that we'll reject any bid from a company not owned by the mayor's brother.
Posted by: Matt || 09/06/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#10  “How ‘bout those Cowboys!”
Posted by: Airandee || 09/06/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#11  The resolution basically says that even if a Texas company puts in a bid for twice the quality at half the price, we'll reject that bid because Texas is ideologically impure.

But if the Chinese do it at twice the cost and half the quality, they'll buy cause Portland has no problem with other commies running forced labor camps and the extermination of a ethnic group.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2021 16:50 Comments || Top||

#12  We'll call Portland when Texas runs out of militant commie transsexuals.
Posted by: Whoting Phomolet9789 || 09/06/2021 23:11 Comments || Top||

#13  We'll call Portland when Texas runs out of militant commie transsexuals.

A worthy Snark of the Day coming in just under the wire.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/06/2021 23:35 Comments || Top||


CNN's Jim Acosta slams 'human manure spreader' Tucker Carlson for 'race baiting conspiracy theory' after Fox host claimed Biden is flooding swing states with Afghan refugees to win future elections
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One thing that always struck me about commentary from CNN and MSNBC talking heads - the near complete lack of professionalism. This is high-school name calling, nothing more.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I think the commentators at CNN (They don't employ any Journalists or Reporters) haven't matured past high school. That is evident from their actions and 'reporting' since '16. Heck since 2008.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2021 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  i recently watched about 10 minutes of a broadcast from fox. apparently a good bit of their time nowadays is spent attacking CNN and vice versa. it really is sad to watch. like two cliques of mean girls obsessed with one another.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 09/06/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  How dare they steal a play out of our book!
Posted by: Chris || 09/06/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  You can still get dwindling amounts of entertainment from TeeVee. If you are going there for information, you are a loser.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  havent had TV in oh, about 15 years now. No cable no nothing, just an internet connection... and rantburg,ace,etc...
Posted by: 746 || 09/06/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CNN panel blasts Biden admin's inability to communicate clearly on COVID: 'People feel jerked around'
[FoxNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/06/2021 07:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:




#4  Sounds about right...
Posted by: Boss Tholurong7001 || 09/06/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Both parties squandered "all three branches" majorities in their times. Pretty much like the person who rubs the lamp and uses their three wishes to have their first pet back, a pony and be liked in school.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#6  OK with CNN grinding the Axe so its clear Uncle Joe has limited time in office. For the MSM who is up next ?
MS-NBC Rachel M. or whom?

But what will the cover be?
A C-19 infection with a investigation blaming Trump?

Or a Heart Attack and can't run again?
Or some other deep State planned and handled process of removal.

Either way
Are we looking at HEADLINES of "Coming soon to the Oval Office President K. Harris." The 1st Female and the 2nd or 3rd (if you count Lincoln) 1/2 white and 1/2 something else President.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/06/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  It remains hilarious that Bath House Barry got a Nobel prize but Billy Jeff Clitbreath and ALgore did not, and Kamel-la is a heartbeat away from the prexidency but the closest Madame Swillary got was an Edith Wilson / Eleanor Roosevelt walk off part.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#8  CNN panel blasts Biden admin's inability to communicate clearly honestly on COVID: 'People feel jerked around'

FIFY.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/06/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden aims to sign on to UN's global gun registration treaty
Does he really think Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia will sign on to that?
[msn] The Biden administration this week signaled that it is eyeing a United Nations small arms treaty that critics claim will lead to an international gun registration plan — including for individual American gun owners.

Two years after former President Donald Trump withdrew from it, a top arms diplomat at the State Department told the global body that the current administration is swinging behind the Arms Trade Treaty.

"I have come from Washington, D.C., this week to take the floor on the agenda item Treaty Universalization to underscore the continuing commitment of the United States to responsible international trade in conventional arms," William Malzahn said at the 7th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty.

"The United States has long supported strong and effective national controls on the international transfer of conventional arms, and the Arms Trade Treaty is an important tool [for] promoting those controls internationally," he said according to a transcript provided to Secrets by the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association.

The NRA has warned that, among many moves, the treaty will require all arms that Americans buy from overseas makers to be tracked. To do that, a global gun registry would be created and maintained for 10 years. Every owner will be listed on that registry.

"This is the first step towards creating a global firearms registry," said the Second Amendment advocacy group.

"President Biden wants to give foreign bureaucrats control over the rights of law-abiding Americans, and the NRA will fight it every step of the way," it added today in a Twitter thread.

In his statement, Malzahn said that the administration is reviewing and working to strengthen the "Conventional Arms Transfer Policy" that guides the transfer policy of firearms.
"You just can't leave em behind for a terrorist state to...oh, wait. Nevermind"
This is the first step towards creating a global firearms registry.

"The new CAT Policy will better frame the intent and priorities of the Biden/Harris administration and formalize the approach of the administration as adopted on arms transfer decisions that have been in effect since President Biden entered the White House in January," he said, according to the transcript.

"The revised CAT Policy should be finalized shortly and released as a public document. When it is, the United States will then use that policy framework to review specific arms transfer issues, including determining the proper relationship of the United States to the Arms Trade Treaty," he added.
Posted by: 746 || 09/06/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I trust I will live long enough to see these sons of bitches kicked out of the United States.
Posted by: Raj || 09/06/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Biden has done so much in the past few weeks to regulate the global flow of firearms. Poor, helpless bastid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2021 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems most of the "treaties" we enter into nowadays require no action on the senate's part.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/06/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Watch me and see if I comply
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/06/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  If Trump "withdrew" from the treaty, it seems likely that Biden could simply reinstate it. In that case, no senate approval necessary. Seems to imply it was already passed at some point.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/06/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#6  This never passed the Senate, Obama signed it, trump unsigned it but it never got passed in the Senate, so any attempt to enforce it should be considered illegal. And I'm pretty sure you can't sign and ratify treaties that would negate the Bill of Rights. Constitutionally anyway. Not that I trust the Supreme Court these days to do the right thing.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/06/2021 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Do they even vote on anything or pass laws anymore? Seems to me everything is done by executive order.
Posted by: Chris || 09/06/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#8  The senate only has to pass a bill that anything a Democrat President signs is automatically passed.
They did it before.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/06/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I will not comply. Forcing this will be a declaration of war as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/06/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#10  So it will end up like the pot legalization. Pot got legalized, regulated, and the best pot is on the black market. Guns will go down that road as well. It wont stop us. And they can enforce a law that wont get past the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/06/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Good I feel better about shooting UN gun confiscators than US LEOs.
Posted by: Gluter Mussolini5141 || 09/06/2021 16:04 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 09/06/2021 17:25 Comments || Top||

#13  Time for a "Brief Musical Interlude"


JOE BIDEN IS AN ASSHOLE SONG [2021] (MUSIC VIDEO)
Posted by: Uneper Spinetle8405 || 09/06/2021 18:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Just Another "Sign" From a Dissatisfied 😒 Voter.

Posted by: Uneper Spinetle8405 || 09/06/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||

#15  The Hell to the f*&( to the N to the O
Posted by: newc || 09/06/2021 20:42 Comments || Top||

#16  Perhaps biden can start with all the weapons left in Afghanistan.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/06/2021 23:35 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-09-06
  Pak Taliban claims suicide blast near Afghan border that killed 4
Sun 2021-09-05
  General Milley: ‘What You Saw Unfold' with Afghanistan Evacuation Was One of the Plans'
Sat 2021-09-04
  Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
Fri 2021-09-03
  British-born ISIS "Beatle'' due to plead guilty
Thu 2021-09-02
  Taliban confirm that the group’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada will be top authority
Wed 2021-09-01
  Six Iraqis on death row executed, three for 'terrorism': medic
Tue 2021-08-31
  Final US evacuation flights leave, ending America’s 20-year Afghanistan war, equipment left behind disabled
Mon 2021-08-30
  US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-29
  Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
Sat 2021-08-28
  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport


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