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Lesson #1 Laws are for honest people. Criminals don't obey laws.
Lesson #2 Gun Control laws are followed by Honest citizens.
Criminals don't follow Gun Control laws.
Suggested Solution:
Minimum 10-15 year prison sentence for criminals using a firearm in the commission of a violent felony. Plus a Nationwide Castle Doctrine law with immunity from criminal and civil actions when followed.
Unfortunately in Chicago, firearms and ammunition are not locally available for law abiding citizens unless they themselves start going around the laws and getting these from elsewhere.
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07/09/2024 6:31 Comments ||
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Issue sabers.
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07/09/2024 9:36 Comments ||
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He also blamed it in Republicans and the NRA. There hasn't been a Republican mayor since 1931.
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#3.
Years ago when I was doing some ITSEC work at US Transcom @ Scott AFB. I was issued an Illinois State Patrol Firearm ID. The 1st thing they told me was, it was not valid in Chicago.
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England "divested" from coal mining and iron production. Textile production was abandoned as well. griculture has nearly been abandoned. How has it gone for them ?
If you're not making anything, you're not....making anything.
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What makes you think that TransCanada Energy, after having had Keystone II shut down by the American Federal Government, would be interested in building it knowing that it could be shut down again at any time?
[RussiaToday] The 81-year-old president reportedly needs detailed illustrated instructions to enter and exit rooms
US President Joe Biden’s every movement is planned by his assistants, with photos showing the elderly leader exactly how to get to the podium at events, Axios reported on Monday.
Before each of his public appearances, Biden’s staffers prepare a document for the president, detailing how he will enter the venue, how he will walk to the podium, and how he will face the audience, the US news site reported. Images of these documents show full-page photographs of the route Biden will walk, with simple, one-line text instructions such as “Walk to the podium.”
[IsraelTimes] With Labour predicted to become the biggest party in the UK parliament, here are the contenders for the most prominent ministerial positions.
Deputy Prime Minister: Angela Rayner
Rayner, 44, is an outlier in a country long dominated by a ruling class disproportionately educated at private schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities.
She grew up in social housing in northern England, left school without a degree and became a single mother at 16.
A trade unionist before being elected to parliament in 2015, she was elected as Labour’s number two in 2020.
Her left-wing background and straight-talking style — complete with strong northern accent — contrasts with Starmer’s more staid public persona.
"He smooths off my rough edges. I bring him out of his shell," she has famously said of their partnership.
As well as being deputy prime minister — filling in for Starmer at weekly parliamentary questions when he is unable to attend — Rayner would be responsible for housing policy and tackling regional inequalities.
Finance: Rachel Reeves
The former Bank of England economist is in line to become the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, living next door to Starmer at 11 Downing Street.
Reeves, 45, has called that prospect shattering "the last glass ceiling in politics".
A central figure in Labour efforts over the last four years to regain the electorate’s trust on economic issues, she insists it is now "the natural party of British business".
Using her reputation for economic competence, Londoner Reeves, whose younger sister is also an MP, has pledged "iron discipline" on public finances.
The former child chess champion, an MP since 2010, has vowed to be both "pro-worker" and "pro-business" in her role overseeing the public purse.
Foreign affairs: David Lammy
Lammy, 51, a black politician descended from slaves, has honed his vision for UK diplomacy with dozens of foreign trips in the past two years.
He has argued that the foreign ministry needs to "rediscover the art of grand strategy" in the post-Brexit era.
Lammy, an MP since the age of 27 in 2000, is likely to steer Britannia towards closer EU ties — no easy task with both Brussels and Eurosceptic Britons reticent.
He will also likely face pressure from Labour’s left flank over issues including its policy towards Israel and its war against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... A friend of former US President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... , Lammy may also have to deal with the possible White House return of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... He once described Trump as a "neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... sympathising sociopath" and "profound threat to the international order".
Home Affairs: Yvette Cooper
Cooper’s decades of political experience will undoubtedly be sorely tested heading the Home Office — Britannia’s interior ministry — a notoriously hard government department to succeed in.
An MP since the late 1990s and a minister in the 2000s, Cooper, 55, has been Labour’s home affairs spokesperson over two stints during its 14 years in opposition.
A candidate to be party leader in 2015, plaudits credit her grasp of policy and details as well as stellar communication skills.
Immigration — a major election campaign issue and potential weak point for Labour — will likely dominate much of the public discussion around her brief.
Health: Wes Streeting
A fresh-faced Labour centrist, Streeting has been one of the most visible Labour figures during the election campaign.
Hailed as one of its best communicators, the 41-year-old from a working-class background in east London is tipped as a potential future leader.
But first he will have to prove himself in one of the toughest jobs in UK government, charged with reversing the decline in the country’s cherished but ailing National Health Service (NHS).
Weighed down by years of austerity under the Conservatives and still struggling to recover from the pandemic, Streeting — a cancer survivor — will rely in part on his own experience of the system.
Defence: John Healey
Party veteran Healey is set to become defense secretary as the policy area gains importance given the war in Ukraine and rising global insecurity.
The 64-year-old, who first became an MP in 1997 when Tony Blair won power for Labour, held a series of government posts during the party’s 13-year spell in charge.
Labour has promised to increase military spending to 2.5 percent of GDP (from 2.3 percent this year) "as soon as" economic conditions allow.
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Security: Lavrentiy Beria Long considered a darling of the Labor movement, this soft spoken intellectual is well known for championing women's causes and...
[PM] President Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his record on jobs creation in America, but what he hasn't told you is that 70,000 of the 206,000 jobs recently added were government jobs. On Friday, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for the month of June, revealing that although 206,000 new jobs were added, the unemployment rate still sat at 4.1 percent, .5 percent higher than June 2023. A sizable portion of those positions were in the public sector, which does little to improve the overall economic situation for ordinary Americans. IIUC April, May were revised down by 110,000
Biden said in a statement that "With today’s report that 206,000 jobs were created last month, a record 15.7 million jobs have been created during my Administration. We have more work to do, but wages are growing faster than prices and more Americans are joining the workforce, with the highest share of working-age Americans in the workforce in over 20 years. That’s real progress for hardworking families who have the dignity and respect that comes with earning a paycheck and putting food on the table."
A society where everyone works for the government seems a bit commie to me. https://t.co/7AaG22cq3b
Among those who criticized the report was former Home Depot CEO an Chrysler chairman Bob Nardelli. He called the findings "deceptively correct," and urged people to look beyond the numbers provided by the Biden administration.
"The second-largest employer last year was the government, and they're back on the same track again this year," Nardelli said during an appearance on Fox News' Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street. "There is no GDP generated by government jobs." He noted that the report showed there were 200,000 fewer manufacturing jobs.
Nardelli went on to slam the government for allowing inflation to rise, explaining that like "carbon monoxide," it is "the silent killer" responsible for "creating job problems in the quality of life." He also called out Washington's "reckless spending," claiming that, "it's causing these problems in our economy, it's stressing the fault lines in our economy, and whoever gets in that white House next year is going to be hit with a wrecking ball to try and pull this back."
One of the policies Nardelli took aim at was the recently announced overtime protection extension, which will ensure over 1 million salaried workers making less than the median individual salary per year, or about $43,300 get paid for work they do outside of their scheduled hours. If a worker earns $844 per week they will be eligible for overtime pay. It was criticized as a "one-size-fits-all" approach by industry groups while others said these are rules Congress, not federal agencies, should be making.
"This is not equitable in that if you have a lower skilled job, why are they going to get paid more than someone with higher skills?" Nardelli said. "Because they're both working a couple of hours of overtime? So again, I'm not sure this is equitable, and I'm not sure this is an appropriate way to increase the standard of living for our families today. I think there are other things we should be doing."
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Of all the govt job classifications, the ones that have the highest numbers are: education (near 70% of govt jobs, most municipal) public hospitals (about 5%) and law enforcement and corrections (about 5%).
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The worst government jobs to add are the highest ones because the blood suckers eventually detach, move to the private sector and suck more blood remotely.
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Something chew on:
The Federal Gov. employs well over 2.5+ Million persons and the salary averages out to over $101++K according to several authoritative sources
Juneteenth, (June 19th), and each Federal holiday costs US taxpayers over $252,500,000,000.000 each for NOTHING in return.
Yes, that is right. OVER $252 BILLION Dollars to play the race card for votes.
BTW: this does not can't the Holiday shutdown of US Mail, Banks and other commercial places.
It should alarm every American citizen that the sitting President of the United States, who has opened our border to over 9 million illegals, just announced that he would veto our bill to prevent noncitizens from voting. pic.twitter.com/gekEIsM6Tz
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 8, 2024
Title changed to reflect future tense. It won't get past the senate...probably
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Someone needs to ask Speaker Johnson if that vetoed bill will end up on Trump’s desk in 2025? This reminds me of the ‘kill obamacare’ and ‘immigration’ bills vetoed by Obama that never showed up on Trump’s desk.
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[Regnum] None of the allies of the United States doubted the ability of American leader Joseph Biden to lead the country.
Absolutely, they do not doubt. But that he can’t lead, not that he can.
This statement was made on July 8 by the coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council John Kirby during a regular briefing for journalists.
When asked about media reports that, allegedly after the US President's failed debate with his political opponent Donald Trump, a number of European leaders expressed doubts about Biden's ability to lead the country, Kirby assured that this topic was not discussed in the White House and he was not aware of any such precedents.
Spokespeople only officially know what they’re officially told. But there’s always an awful lot to be known that they don’t. Officially, anyway.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that current US President Biden considers himself the best candidate for the post of head of state from the Democratic Party in the presidential elections in November 2024.
The politician declared his “firm intention” to remain in the presidential race. At the same time, he noted that he would not “turn a blind eye” to the concerns that arose among his fellow Democrats after the televised debates with Trump.
Biden said on July 6 that he would drop out of the race only if “God Almighty” came down from heaven and told him to do so. He also noted that the Democratic leadership in both houses of Congress was urging him not to give up and not to quit.
More from regnum.ru Biden says he is 'firmly committed' to remaining in the presidential race
In a letter to the representatives of the Democratic Party in Congress, US President Joe Biden stated his “firm intention” not to leave the election race. On July 8, he published the text of the letter on the social network X.
“Despite the speculation in the press, <…> [I] am determined to stay in the [election race], see it through to the end, and defeat [former US President] Donald Trump,” the White House chief wrote.
At the same time, the American leader noted that he “does not turn a blind eye” to the concerns that arose in the ranks of Democrats after his televised debate with his political opponent.
Biden says he is clear and forthcoming about such concerns, saying he would not seek re-election unless he was absolutely certain he was best suited to defeat Trump.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 7, a number of Democrats from the House of Representatives of Congress, in a conversation with the leader of the Democratic minority Hakeem Jeffries, called on the incumbent president to withdraw from the election race. In their opinion, otherwise, this could prevent the representatives of the Democratic Party from gaining a majority in the House of Representatives in the next elections.
On June 27, a televised debate between Biden and former US President Donald Trump took place in the United States. Biden later admitted that he had performed poorly in the debate with his political opponent.
On July 7, the Axios portal wrote that representatives of the Democratic Party called on Biden to withdraw from the elections before July 12. It was specified that calls for the head of the White House to withdraw from the presidential elections would be heard "from Barack Obama to the leaders of Congress."
Biden said on July 6 that he would drop out of the presidential race only if God came down from heaven and told him to do so. He claims that the Democratic leadership in both houses of Congress is urging him not to give in and not to drop out.
Even more from regnum.ru Radio host fired in US for interviewing Biden on White House issues
In the US, radio host Loful-Sanders was fired. It turned out that she independently negotiated and organized an interview with President Joe Biden and conducted it using questions written by the White House. The management of the WURD radio station did not know about this.
The station said in a statement that the interview questions were pre-determined, which "contradicts WURD Radio's principle of remaining independent and accountable only to listeners." It noted that the company's management had reached a mutual agreement with Loughall-Sanders "to part ways."
WURD Radio was the first to air an interview with Joe Biden after his debate with Donald Trump.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the televised debates between Trump and Biden took place on June 27. Before they began, the opponents did not shake hands.
Biden admitted in an interview with Milwaukee radio host Earl Ingram that he "screwed up" in the televised debates.
Many Democratic Party supporters considered the incumbent president's speech a failure. They pointed out that the American leader constantly stuttered and confused while answering questions.
Representatives of the Democratic Party insist that US President Joe Biden withdraw his candidacy from the presidential election.
[JustTheNews] The funding for the program has increased from $363.8 million in fiscal year 2023 to $650 million in fiscal year 2024. Now, city officials and politicians are asking it be funded at as much as $3 billion.
The city of Atlanta received $4.85 million in funding in the 2023, the first year of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and Services Program. In 2024, the city will get $10.89 million in the second year with another round of funding later in the year to be announced.
FEMA's Shelter and Services Program is another indicator of the growing impact of the arrival of migrants in the U.S.
The program provides grants to communities for the expenses they will incur for handling migrants. There were 14 states, including Washington D.C., that received the first tranche of money in fiscal year 2024.
The funding for the program has increased from $363.8 million in fiscal year 2023 to $650 million in fiscal year 2024. Now, city officials and politicians are asking it be funded at as much as $3 billion.
On July 2, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas called the current U.S. immigration surge “unprecedented.”
Since Biden took office in January 2021, about 12 million illegal border crossings have been documented, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data and "gotaway" data obtained from border agents by The Center Square. Gotaways is the official CBP term to describe those who illegally crossed the border and were not apprehended. CBP does not publicly release "gotaway" data.
In November 2023, the United States Conference of Mayors sent a letter to Congress asking that the funding for the program be set at a minimum of $1.3 billion.
In March, Congresswoman Lori Trahan, D-Mass., and Congresswoman Diana DeGette, D-Co., requested $3 billion in funding for the Shelter and Services Program.
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.
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[RussiaToday] The 81-year-old president reportedly needs detailed illustrated instructions to enter and exit rooms
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
[JustTheNews] The funding for the program has increased from $363.8 million in fiscal year 2023 to $650 million in fiscal year 2024. Now, city officials and politicians are asking it be funded at as much as $3 billion.
