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I bought a 2009 Nissan Versa a year
and a half ago to be my beater around town. High mileage but I knew the owner and it was in good shape. A 6 speed manual
and fun to drive, easy to park, no bells and whistles. On Good Friday I got T-boned and the insurance company scrapped the car. It was a
low speed accident so I disagreed. They did give me more money for it but not enough. If I had been younger I would have kept it. I regret
it now it's almost impossible to find a car with a manual transmission in good shape these days. So back to the F150.
omg That was some serious dental surgery.
Here's to some serious healing and heavy-duty painkillers.
Good luck to Marc... and to you. Take care.
My God she's so gifted!
I drive a 2011 Nissan Frontier with no special electronic gadgets. 103000 miles, very little rust and hope it keeps me motoring until they pull the plug on my license.
The wife drives a 2012 Nissan Rogue with the add on GPS, screen and that crap but we never use it. Only has 43000 miles on it and it better outlive the both of us!!!
Years ago ... Today!!!!
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/QyyO604TzJ
— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) September 24, 2024
We got a 2008 Jeep Commander, that's the one we use all the time. I can barely see over the hood, but I got Marc home OK yesterday. He had surgery for full top dental implants.
You have to love it, to hell with the overpriced new junk.
My 2005 Focus lives on!
FJB and his sidekick lol
I'm driving a 2002 GMC pickup and hope it lasts too, it's still doing great so far.
Mary Matalin on Kamala: ‘Unless She Can Serve Salad Dressing on It, She Hasn’t Said a Thing’
PAM KEY 23 Sep 2024 1:30
Republican commentator Mary Matalin said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in word salads.
Cooper said, “What did you think of your former boss, Dick Cheney, endorsing Harris?
Matalin said, “I love that. Cheney has turned from Darth Vader to Captain America. Like last night, Nancy Pelosi’s people were like we love Dick Cheney. I’m the one who drove him to 11% as Darth Vader. I have friends on all sides of this with deep convictions and that’s as it should be. And that’s why I say everybody should quit listening to opinions because there’s this as many of them as other things. It’s just like think for yourself.”
Democratic strategist James Carville said, “I think he set up this dichotomy that you got nothing to lose so you ought to try all of these tariffs and mass deportations which everybody says would have horrifically negative impact on economic growth. And I think that she’s set up to say, you have something to lose, you have something in protective. We can do better, but we certainly don’t want to go back. I think she’s got a giant opening. I hope she takes it.”
Matalin said, “Nobody is denying that Trump’s sets her up to say a lot of things. The problem is she says nothing unless she can serve salad dressing on it, she hasn’t said a thing.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/09/23/mary-matalin-on-kamala-unless-she-can-serve-salad-dressing-on-it-she-hasnt-said-a-thing/
Yeah, been having IHUB issues
Yep, this is unusual for me.
I figured as much. Never mind that most PAYING IHubbers use their PC's and not phones!
Seems to work OK from my phone.
Yeah, it's a mess today. Wasn't great yesterday either.
Anyone getting long wait times when moving around IHub and on occasion the 503 error? Looks like the Q&A board hasn't had a post in a while ... Opps, I see K² just get one to go through.
Ryan Routh’s confession letter shows how Democrats have stirred up violence against Trump
By Daniel McCarthy Published Sep. 23, 2024, 7:38 p.m. ET
The man who intended to murder Donald Trump on Sept. 18 has explained in his own words why he wanted to do it.
The words aren’t only his, though — they’re also the slogans and cliches of Trump’s Democratic opponents, virtually verbatim.
Ryan Routh left a letter with a friend, months ago, to apologize in case his assassination attempt failed.
What’s been released so far makes Routh’s political motives clear — he saw Trump as dangerously unfit for the presidency and a threat to peace.
Routh was especially incensed that Trump terminated Barack Obama’s deal with Iran:
America’s president, according to the would-be killer, “must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring, and selfless and always stand for humanity.”
If this all sounds familiar, it’s because Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Trump’s legion of Democratic and ex-Republican detractors have supplied the premises for stopping the former president by any means possible.
After all, if democracy really is at stake in November, voters themselves must be suicidal even to consider voting for Trump.
To save democracy in such an emergency might well seem to call for extreme measures of a sort that no politician would dare endorse — but that a true believer might be prepared to hazard.
Harris, Biden and other Democratic leaders are quick to lament political violence; they have a responsibility to do more, however, by acknowledging that whatever their differences with Trump, his election does not mean the end of constitutional government.
President Trump was not a tyrant, he isn’t poised to become one if re-elected — and, most importantly, killing him is nothing like justifiable tyrannicide.
If Democrats could bring themselves to say this, they would do wonders for the emotional health of some of their own supporters — and might just save lives, including but not only Trump’s.
The chilling thing about Routh’s letter is that it’s not a mindless, stream-of-consciousness rant: It’s an assassin’s manifesto written in the bland language of ordinary anti-Trump discourse.
Like Routh in his letter, in the 2020 presidential campaign Joe Biden and New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand both described Trump as a menace to America’s “moral fabric.”
“One of the worst things about President Trump … is he’s torn apart the moral fabric of who we are,” Gillibrand said in one Democratic debate, while Biden accused Trump of shredding “America’s invisible moral fabric.”
Routh’s “kind, caring, and selfless” description of a good president — one he presumably wouldn’t murder — sounds generic, yet closely tracks Kamala Harris’ endorsement of Biden four years ago as “kind and endlessly caring” and possessed of “selfless courage.”
Those words are obviously not incitements to violence: They simply testify to how little original thinking was taking place in Routh’s head.
In the empty space between his ears there was a great echo chamber, reverberating with whatever he heard from Democrats and the anti-Trump hype machine.
Routh wasn’t just soaking up the syllables of anti-Trump rhetoric, he was internalizing a mindset that presents Trump as an enemy of humanity itself, not only immature but malevolent.
Democrats have created an extraordinary climate of fear around Trump, and if they don’t weigh their words more carefully, more violence will follow from the likes of Ryan Routh.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/opinion/ryan-rouths-confession-letter-shows-how-democrats-have-stirred-up-violence-against-trump/
Migrant crime crisis comes to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, playgrounds for rich and famous
https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-crime-crisis-comes-nantucket-marthas-vineyard-playgrounds-rich-famous?lid=8phl4tdh2onp
Hiya, Mr. G. There is no privacy in this 1984 era.
Makes me glad all I have is my little prepaid "stupid" flip phone as well as old Lucy -- bless her little camshaft.
Scotty, beam me up. Please.
Thanks, Larry. Aren't you glad we stick with the classics?
Stay safe.
Good article. Friends have told me that cell phones are used in a similar manner. I wouldn't know since I'm not a slave to my phone and do not have the GPS function on. I'd imagine that the same could be said of the car's navigation system. But what the hell do I know??!!
" Good article, K2 " .. !!
From Malwarebytes: Ford wants to eavesdrop on passenger conversations to help target ads
Posted: September 13, 2024 by Pieter Arntz
(Praying 2007 Lucy lasts for as long as I am driving. This is BULLfeces.)
Biden at the UN calling for a 2 state solution.
He can stick it where the sun doesn't shine
Morning, cap. Yep... it's so bad even Bill Barr is appalled that the DOJ released Routh's bounty letter.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/23/former-attorney-general-bill-barr-dumbfounded-that-doj-would-release-routh-letter/
Time for me to do Senior Discount Day at the Acme.
Take care and enjoy the day.
*LIVE* ~ President Donald J. Trump, >
45th President of the United States of America,
will deliver remarks outlining his plan to lower taxes
for American business owners and highlight the importance
of buying American made goods for our economy in Savannah, Georgia,
on September 24, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 11 a.m. ET.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-trump-delivers-remarks-on-the-tax-code-and-manufacturing-in-savannah-ga-9-24-24/
Yea, the whole thing stinks of massive corruption, but what's new?
And where will he get $150,000? Watters is raising the right questions.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/us-news/ryan-wesley-routh-wrote-note-he-intended-to-kill-trump-months-before-golf-course-assassination-attempt-doj/
Kunstler:
Wheezing Past the Graveyard
"The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency." — Tom Luongo
James Howard Kunstler
Sep 23, 2024
Pre-blog Note: My regular website, kunstler.com, remains down, but we’re making progress toward recovery. Like so much else in American life these days, this episode remains shrouded in mystery. Thank you for your patience and support!
Today’s blog, Monday Sept 23
What could go wrong? Probably more than you might imagine. We have just turned the corner into autumn. Now, things get serious, even gravely dark. America has never been so into dancing skeletons and morbidity. The small-town yards are filling up with inflatable signifiers of hell and death. Don’t you wonder what all this signifies besides good old family fun? The zeitgeist maybe having a little sport with us, you think?
We are chiefly preoccupied with our badly dysfunctional self-governance, of course, and the method for periodically revising it, which we call an election. Nobody has confidence in the process, which has acquired so many layers of absurd, needless complexity for the sole purpose of perverting the outcome that every lawyer in the land will have a hefty guaranteed annual income in the probably futile effort to sort it out come November 6. There is your hell-scape, with overtones of death on a pale horse. . . and all. Chaos. . . riots. . . anarchy. . . civil war.
The threat of World War Three may have abated for the moment, but in a peculiar and disconcerting way, viz. a coup in the executive branch. The gadfly Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, long ago chief-of-staff to Sec’y of State Colin Powell, reports that the Pentagon has cancelled “Joe Biden,” that is, taken him out of the decision-loop for anything. Well, you ask yourself, how is it possible he had even remained remotely close to any decision-loop this long, in any case, given the problem of his obviously broken brain? But now, it is unofficially official: just eat your mint-chocolate ice-cream and shut up, and let Dr. Jill run those “cabinet meeting” photo ops.
According to Col. Wilkerson, Sec’y of Defense Lloyd Austin told the “president” to his face that there will be no flinging of US-supplied long-range missiles from Ukraine “deep into Russia,” as the neocon-infested White House has been chattering about endlessly. Wiser heads deep in the DOD HQ have decided the matter. Lump it, if you must, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. The Russians’ “red-line” on such a caper is so wide you can see it from the International Space Station — that is, if you’re an astronaut marooned up there due to combined NASA/Boeing incompetence. . . but that’s another story.
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was all revved up for the missile operation and flew to Washington for a one-to-one meet-up with “JB” to get the go-ahead. The Brits are avid for another World War. The last two went so well for them that they kissed their vast empire goodbye. Now they want to kiss goodbye their sceptered isle itself, which has almost no economy left and is overrun by cultural hostiles who are not into Shakespeare. The Brits’ floundering government is a posse of monomaniacs fixated on defeating Russia which, at this point in history, is like a dormouse (Glis glis) facing down a brown bear (Ursus arctos).
“Joe Biden,” reportedly “furious” at losing his executive power, was constrained to tell Mr. Starmer that the missile strike op was off, which left the UK PM miffed that he had crossed the ocean for no reason. Who knows, the Brits are so nuts these days that perhaps they’ll try to pull it off on their own. Mr. Zelensky, the no-longer-elected leader of Ukraine was begging them to try it because Ukraine has nothing left. NATO as a whole really has nothing left, either. Not much of a combined military, scant munitions left in the cupboard, and no will to wage war among the depressed citizens of its member nations.
There is nothing left except to come to terms on a settlement that will leave Ukraine not a member of NATO. The entire affair has been a humiliation for NATO and America, especially for the “Joe Biden” management team (whatever it actually consists of these days). The longer they refuse to engage in talks, the less of Ukraine will be left as a sovereign entity — having proven to the world that its sovereignty rests solely on its capacity to be used as a catspaw by the American neocon / intel blob. You’re reminded that for seventy years prior to 2014, Ukraine was not a problem for anyone until we made it a problem on-purpose — our purpose being idiotic and malicious — and Ukraine could, in theory, revert to not being a problem for anyone again. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
The neocon / intel blob’s other catspaw (domestic version), candidate Kamala Harris, is promising all kinds of good things “when [she] is in-office.” For some reason, nobody on The New York Times’s enormous staff of Ivy League germinated journalist-geniuses has informed Ms. Harris that she is actually in-office now, and has been since 1/20/2021. Why no good things for us plebes all these many months? No rainbows, unicorns, tax cuts, or ten-pound blocks of government cheese? Nothing but a disintegrating dollar, floods of savage mutts crossing the border and landing everywhere from Springfield, Ohio, to Nantucket, and endless raging bullshit about fighting “misinformation” — i.e., any idea that contradicts the Democratic Party’s agenda for assisted national suicide.
Ms. Harris’s gaslight-powered campaign has lost its loft in recent days, its most newsworthy event being last week’s cuddle hour with America’s official Care-Bear, Oprah. . . because, you see, there is nothing left except to pander to the emotional void induced by Woke-ism in the desperately needy minds of X-million voters of the birthing-person persuasion — especially among those unhappy souls who never got around to the birthing. Ms. Harris’s loathsome accessory, Tim Walz, has performed so discordantly that the campaign had to hang him in a closet somewhere, along with all his assorted skeletons, and lock the door. As ever, October surprises await: monsters, demons, ghouls, shrieking ghosts, the walking dead, and all the paid-up minions of the teachers’ union.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/wheezing-past-the-graveyard
Taking the beauty out of natural:
https://wickedlynews.com/from-all-natural-beauties-to-plastic-perversion-how-the-quest-to-be-hot-went-full-frankenstein/
Jesse Watters Raises SERIOUS Questions About Trump's Would-Be Assassin
1. How was Ryan Routh, “a man with no money for child support,” able to suddenly start living in a pricey house in Hawaii and afford flights to Taiwan, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine?
2. Why has Routh “never served a day in jail” when he has “100 different counts” to his name?
3. Why was Routh’s fiancée, who just lost her job at Victoria’s Secret, okay with him flying to Ukraine for months at a time?
4. How was he able to feed himself in Ukraine when he only had “$68 in [his] bank account.”
5. “And everywhere he goes, he gets press from the local papers to the New York Times to Newsweek.”
The whole thing stinks, and it suggests that someone other than Routh's “fiancée” was supporting him.
Jesse Watters Raises SERIOUS Questions About Trump's Would-Be Assassin
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 23, 2024
1. How was Ryan Routh, “a man with no money for child support,” able to suddenly start living in a pricey house in Hawaii and afford flights to Taiwan, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine?
2. Why has Routh “never… pic.twitter.com/Yc1Gu3iZxX
‘Finish The Job’: DOJ Publishes Bounty Offer From Latest Would-Be Trump Assassin
Prosecutors for the U.S. Department of Justice released a letter, allegedly penned by the man arrested for attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump as he golfed in West Palm Beach last week, which offers a $150,000 reward to anyone who could “complete the job” of murdering the Republican candidate.
“This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I am so sorry I failed you,” the letter addressed to the “World” reads. “I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”
The alleged author of the letter, Ryan Routh, attributed Democrat and corporate media rhetoric painting Trump as “unfit to be anything, much less a US president,” as motivation for his crime. He also blamed Trump’s decision to cut ties with Iran as the primary reason the “Middle East has unraveled.”
“U.S. presidents must at bare minimum embody the moral fabric that is America and be kind, caring and selfless and always stand for humanity,” Routh wrote, noting that “Trump fails to understand.”
According to court papers, Routh dropped off the letter in a package with an unnamed person “several months prior” to the golf course assassination attempt. It wasn’t until days after Routh’s arrest, however, that the “civilian witness” reportedly first opened the box containing “ammunition, a metal pipe, miscellaneous building materials, tools, four phones, and various letters” and alerted authorities.
The circumstances surrounding the letter’s appearance raise many questions. The content of the letter, however, makes clear that the would-be assassin’s ultimate goal in hiding in the bushes at Trump International Golf Course on September 15 was to permanently remove Trump from the planet by whatever means necessary.
If he couldn’t personally finish the job with his scoped SKS rifle, Routh repeatedly encouraged others, including America’s foreign enemies, to follow through on murdering the former president. In his February 2023 book, Ukraine’s Unwinnable War: The Fatal Flaw of Democracy, World Abandonment and the Global Citizen-Taiwan, Afghanistan, North Korea and the end of Humanity, Routh apologized to Iran on behalf of the U.S. for letting “brainless” Trump ever hold office.
“You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal,” Routh wrote. “No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection.”
https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/23/finish-the-job-doj-publishes-bounty-offer-from-latest-would-be-trump-assassin/
The problem in Springfield is a lack of common sense
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
So calling those folks in Springfield haters and bigots is totally unfair. Yet, it's what the other side does to avoid a real conversation about a problem created by them.
The Springfield, Ohio, story is just the latest example of opening the border and its consequences. How do you expect a city of 40,000 to absorb 20,000 new residents? You can't, and the local reaction is exactly logical. Again, put yourself in their shoes and how would you react?
Senator Marco Rubio was on Face the Nation and explained this whole thing very well. Let's check out what he said:
I think one of the problems here is that somehow Americans who are not intolerant, they're not bigots, they're not --- but they are troubled by the fact that their city is being flooded. In Springfield, you see reports, these are legitimate reports of huge increases in traffic accidents leading to slower police response time, overcrowded schools. I mean the strain this puts on a community, and if you complain about it, somehow you're a bigot, you're a racist, you're a hater --
That is a story here that everyday Americans are being made to feel like they're haters because they're complaining about something al -- any of us would complain. If any of us, I don't care who we are, live in a city of 4,000 people, and you bring in 2,500 migrants overnight into one place, there are going to be problems there.
And that's right. As a legal immigrant and naturalized citizen, I understand how these people feel. Legal immigration is orderly for a reason. You must control how people come into the country, under what conditions and put them through common sense vetting.
So calling those folks in Springfield haters and bigots is totally unfair. Yet, it's what the other side does to avoid a real conversation about a problem created by them.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/the_problem_in_springfield_is_a_lack_of_common_sense.html
Until it's over
~~~ Like a fine wine ~~~
When it will be enjoyed
So many have yet to be disclosed
pAnNON
BBA v. COS: One Clear Choice
Published in Blog on September 13, 2024 by Article V Patriot
Article V provides two methods to propose constitutional amendments—one controlled by Congress and one controlled by the state legislatures. In the last two years, there has been a significant renewal of interest in employing the state-based method for proposing amendments to the Constitution. This newfound interest in Article V arises largely from the belief that the Congress will never propose amendments that impose meaningful restrictions on federal power.
There are only two “Article V” movements that have made significant progress: the Balanced Budget Amendment and Convention of States. The first (BBA) seeks one single amendment requiring the federal government to adopt a balanced budget. The second (COS) seeks broad limitations on federal power—specifically, “imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and imposing term limits on federal officials.”
Convention of States was launched in the fall of 2013, and in its first year secured passage of a formal application from the legislatures of Georgia, Florida, and Alaska. In total, 19 states have passed the COS resolution.
The BBA project has been underway for over forty years and has secured a variety of applications in a great number of states. However, determining the current number of states that have a valid, pending BBA application presents a challenge. Two issues make counting difficult. First, there is significant variance among the language of the various BBA applications, which raises potential problems with aggregation. Second, many states have rescinded their prior BBA applications. We will discuss these legal issues below in Section 4.
COS is working to pass applications with identical operative language in 34 states. This ensures that no issues of aggregation can arise. Moreover, no states have rescinded a COS application.
There are at least five significant reasons why a state legislature should adopt a COS application even if it has already adopted a valid BBA application.
1. There is no rule against a state passing two or more applications.
Every Article V application from a state legislature must identify its purpose. There have been over 400 applications in the history of the Republic, and yet there has never been an Article V convention because two-thirds of the states have never agreed on the subject matter. There have been countless occasions when a state has passed a second or third application for a convention on a different topic, even while a prior application was still pending.
This historical practice reflects common sense. There may be multiple issues that states want to see addressed through a constitutional amendment. And the process of building a coalition of 34 states is sufficiently daunting that the states see the wisdom in supporting multiple efforts that use varying approaches to accomplish their goals.
2. Only the COS application seeks to restore federalism.
The BBA seeks to prohibit the federal government from taking the nation even deeper into debt. This is, of course, a worthy goal, and one that COS supports. However, we also seek to address the root cause of the problem. The root cause of debt is excessive federal spending. And the cause of excessive spending is, at least in significant part, entitlement and other domestic programs that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the states under the original meaning of the Constitution.
As of 2024, the U.S. government will spend $1.2 trillion on interest payments. More than 20 percent of the national budget goes to Social Security; 14 percent goes to Medicare. This is untenable and leaves our nation’s infrastructure and defense at great risk. A BBA alone will not cure this problem. We must restrict Congress’ virtually unlimited power to spend.
In the Obamacare decision, Chief Justice Roberts’ majority ruling held that there is no constitutional limitation on the power of Congress to tax and spend. This is the core problem. And, we must fix it. This means a return to the states of exclusive jurisdiction for several areas of government expenditure.
Not only has Congress invaded the province of the states with regard to domestic spending, it has increasingly taken charge of state governments by means of conditional federal grants. Congress coerces the states to do its bidding by taking money from taxpayers (current or future), and then offering federal funding for mandated programs.
This leaves the state legislatures in the structural position of being unable to achieve their central mission—representing the voters of their own states. Rather, state legislators are effectively required to do the will of Congress. This is a clear violation of the principles of a Republican form of government.
Regaining true federalism is not just a matter of insisting on adherence to the original meaning of the Constitution. If freedom is to survive, we must return to the structural designs of a robust federalism, with a truly limited federal government. Only COS seeks to address this core issue.
3. There are other structural issues with the federal government that require immediate attention.
Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution commands that all federal laws must be made by Congress. But the Executive Branch, through both executive orders and bureaucratic regulations, makes an ever-escalating percentage of the federal laws that are crippling our economy. This problem is persistent regardless of which political party controls the White House.
The Supreme Court has, on approximately thirty occasions, acknowledged that the only limitation on its power is the Court’s own sense of self-restraint. We must apply appropriate checks and balances to the Supreme Court.
We see the State Department and many in the United States Senate increasingly enamored with the idea that international law should govern the domestic policy of the United States. Under the Supremacy Clause, all state laws and state constitutions must yield to any ratified international treaty. We need to limit the treaty power to the international sphere and not allow it to invade the domestic authority of the states.
The chief reasons for the growth of the federal government involve misuse of the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause. Both of these need to be returned to their original meaning.
We need to have a serious discussion on the issue of term limits for members of Congress and the federal judiciary. (For example, federal judges could be limited to one term without reappointment for a set number of years as determined by the states at convention. A single term would continue to guarantee judicial independence without creating a sense of permanent judicial supremacy.)
All of these issues can be effectively addressed under the language of the model COS application. None of these issues can be addressed under the BBA application.
4. COS avoids legal issues presented by the BBA which will likely result in lengthy delays.
At one time or another, 34 state legislatures have applied for a BBA convention. However, ten of these applications have since been rescinded. Moreover, there is considerable variation in the language of BBA applications. Consider some examples:
The 2014 application from Ohio calls for a convention limited to “proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that in the absence of a national emergency the total of all federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of all estimated federal revenues for that fiscal year, together with any related and appropriate fiscal restraints.”
On the other hand, the current Maryland application calls for a convention to propose a specific amendment, providing that “The total of all Federal appropriations made by the Congress for any fiscal year may not exceed the total of the estimated Federal revenues for that fiscal year, excluding any revenues derived from borrowing; and this prohibition extends to all Federal appropriations and all estimated Federal revenues, excluding any revenues derived from borrowing.” It goes on to specify circumstances under which the requirement could be suspended.
Mississippi’s application also calls for the proposal of a specifically-worded amendment, but its language is different from Maryland’s proposal. Mississippi’s language would prohibit congressional appropriations that would exceed revenues in a given fiscal year, but also requires that the national debt be repaid within a specified timeline at a specified rate, etc.
Still other states’ resolutions for a BBA demonstrate additional variations on the theme.
This raises a very serious concern about aggregation. While Congress has a very limited role in the state-initiated process of proposing amendments, legislative practice and the text of Article V suggest that Congress determines when 34 states have applied for a convention on the same subject.
The reality is that if the state applications are not uniform or essentially uniform (as to their operative language), Congress will be entitled to make a political judgment about whether the applications should be aggregated. If there is a simple majority in both houses of Congress that favor an Article V convention to consider a BBA, then Congress will likely grant a great deal of latitude on the issue of aggregation. However, if a majority of either house of Congress is opposed to either the idea of a Balanced Budget Amendment or the convening of an Article V convention in general, Congress would “interpret” the applications very narrowly and conclude that 34 states have not applied for a convention on the same subject.
Regardless of which way the vote goes, litigation will certainly follow to test the question of aggregation. And while good substantive arguments can be made to bolster the notion that aggregation should be broadly accepted rather than narrowly confined, the courts would likely avoid deciding this question.
In fact, it is very likely that the Supreme Court will take the position that the question of aggregation is a political question whenever the state applications are not identical or essentially identical as to their operative language.
Litigation on this point would add two to four years to the process of calling a BBA convention, because the legal issues will be viewed as important and sufficiently close to merit full consideration.
In short, litigation will prolong the process, and whatever Congress decides on the BBA aggregation issue is likely to be affirmed in the courts.
Convention of States avoids this problem altogether. Our strategy is for 34 states to commit to adopting our model language for the operative portion of their applications, thus precluding any legitimate question about aggregation. Congress will have no cause to make a political judgment, and the courts will enforce the direct language of Article V forcefully upon such facts.
5. Our nation doesn’t have time to wait and see what will happen with BBA before it tackles the issues raised by COS.
The problems our nation faces are complex and urgent. If we are going to preserve liberty, restore self-governance and prevent an economic collapse, we must act promptly.
Since there is no barrier to prevent a state from passing both BBA and COS applications, there is every reason to proceed with both applications as quickly as possible in as many states as possible.
Click here to download a PDF version of this article as well as a helpful chart describing each state's Article V application.
https://conventionofstates.com/news/already-passed-a-bba-application-here-s-why-your-state-should-pass-a-convention-of-states-application-as-well
They will help the US economy! Idiot libtards believe this.
The working legal (and even illegal) folks hate these scumbags as much as we do!!!
Tucker Carlson says American Government is so out of control, it’s the worst he’s ever seen anywhere in the world
“I've never seen any population treated the way Americans are being treated by their leaders now.”
“I'm very worried that at some point, people would be like, I'm not putting up with this. I don't know why anybody pays taxes in this country. For the record, I'm not counseling not pay your taxes because I don't wanna get arrested. But I just don't understand the consent level in this country is still incredibly high. Maybe we're just, like, moving through the motions or something.
All the good people are the people they lecture and call names. And because they are good people, they're dutiful people, and they just do what they think they're supposed to do. But I don't know why they're doing it. Why would you send a dollar to people who laugh over your death?”
— “Like Steve Bannon right now is in federal prison for not committing a crime. They do this, by the way, to chill the population, to remind you that that your door could get knocked on next.”
Tucker Carlson says American Government is so out of control, it’s the worst he’s ever seen anywhere in the world
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How bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua used NYC migrant shelters to build a criminal empire: ‘Hiding in plain sight’
By Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Sep. 23, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
In little more than a year, a once-obscure South American street gang has taken hold in the Big Apple, exploiting the migrant crisis to build a violent criminal enterprise from within the walls of city shelters.
Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-bred crew of thugs, now terrorize Gotham with gun-toting, moped-riding hoods, sell illegal guns under the very noses of private shelter security guards, and run sleazy prostitution rings in neighborhoods suddenly besieged by the marauding migrants.
The gang, which also peddles a lethal fentanyl mix called Tussi or “pink cocaine,” has grown so fast that it has so far overwhelmed both average New Yorkers and the city’s elite police force.
“Not every migrant is here to commit crimes, not every migrant is a gang member,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. “But these TDA guys hide very well in plain sight in the migrant community.
“We aren’t looking to grab the food delivery guy, but these guys go so far as to wear Uber Eats clothing, [use] the delivery bags while they’re out there committing their crimes,” the chief told The Post. “When we do arrest them, they are very eager to talk about the crime they have committed.
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“They are unwilling to talk about TDA itself.”
The gang, whose name means “train from Aragua” (a state in north-central Venezuela) in Spanish, now runs citywide theft and robbery crews that have terrorized neighborhoods.
In Jackson Heights, a stretch of Roosevelt Avenue dubbed the “Market of Sweethearts” has become a testament to TDA’s muscle and influence, with vendors peddling stolen items and an open-air red light district that has migrant hookers walking the streets day and night.
A 24-hour brothel raided by the NYPD last week may have ties to the gang, sources said.
Long list of victims
One current crime spree has seen nearly two dozen heists pulled off by migrants wielding guns or knives, with the crooks typically as young as 15 and no older than 19 years old, law enforcement sources said.
The crews move in groups of a half-dozen or more, and raid not only retailers but average New Yorkers: One victim was approached by a TDA gang and threatened with a knife, slugged and robbed in June.
In July, another victim was lounging near the Central Park playground when two thugs forcibly stole $80 and grabbed his phone, making him give up his password before running off.
And last month, a woman walking near Rockefeller Center was pickpocketed by another migrant.
The NYPD also recently shut down a major gang-linked robbery crew, with nearly two dozen migrant teens either busted or identified as suspects in 21 separate and often violent robberies.
Once in the US, Tren de Aragua members branched out all over the country, setting up shop in various states and cities, including New York and Chicago.
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“They were like, ‘We need your phone, we need your stuff,’ because I had my bag with me, my phone, AirPods, Apple Watch,” one victim told The Post. “They wanted everything, but I couldn’t give anything because I had some money, I had some things in my bag.
“They started and punched me to the face,” he said. “I was stepping back, you know, trying to fight back, but I couldn’t do anything. And then five more guys came in, total, like, minimum, 10 of them.”
With little regard for law enforcement, TDA gangbangers are also not shy about targeting cops.
Gang member Bernardo Castro Mata, 19, was arrested in Queens in June and charged with shooting NYPD officers Richard Yarusso and Christian Abreu after they nabbed the gun-toting robbery suspect.
In February, suspected gang member Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa, just 15, was busted for allegedly firing at a tourist and a police officer in Times Square.
A month earlier, a cowardly gang of migrants with alleged links to the gang jumped two NYPD cops in the same area, and one of them, identified as Jhoan Boada, 22, was so brazen as to flash reporters the double bird as he walked out of court without bail.
‘Very bad people’
For the majority of asylum seekers, the gang is a stain on their community, and an example of the rampant violence and lawlessness that forced them to leave their homelands in the first place.
“I wouldn’t want the violence I grew up with to start here,” one Venezuelan migrant at Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel said Sunday. “I wouldn’t be here if I saw what I saw in Venezuela. I brought my kids here so they wouldn’t have the experiences with criminals like how it is over there.”
Another migrant simply called the gang “very bad people.”
Ground zero for TDA’s New York City operation is Randall’s Island, where a massive tent city was erected to help accommodate the wave of migrants from the US border.
Kenny called it “the main hub site.”
“You have the shelter itself and also have kind of like a tent city where people who are not registered to be in the shelter have taken up residence on their own,” the chief said.
He said one migrant dealer busted by the cops “didn’t want to go onto Randall’s because it’s too dangerous. There’s a lot of people there that don’t belong — it’s a congregation of people.”
But they’ve infiltrated other shelters: Sources said one TDA bigwig was booted from the massive Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn for breaking the rules, but returns every other day to collect the proceeds from drug sales at the facility and to smooth over any beefs between gang members.
International feud
The 4,000-bed shelter is also home to a rival Venezuelan gang called “El Carro De Lost Caragijos 666,” which has a beef with TDA that predates its arrival in the US.
Tren began to expand out of its home base in 2018, and popped up on the radar of the Venezuelan military when it resorted to assassination and bribes to win lucrative railroad contracts in the city of Maracay — and soon established chapters elsewhere in South America.
Members sneaked into the US among the millions of migrants who crossed the border, and set up shop across the nation, from cities like El Paso and Chicago to Florida beaches and Middle America.
Members are told to get distinctive tattoos that mark them as members, with the body art typically including anchors, clocks, crowns and phrases that included the word “guerrero” — which means warrior in Spanish but also pays homage to Hector “Nino” Guerrero, the leader of Tren de Aragua in Venezuela.
The gang tats also tend to feature the number “23” or NBA stars Michael Jordan and LeBron James, both of whom wear the number on their jerseys, while others include images of bulls, seemingly a shout-out to the Chicago Bulls basketball team, a city where TDA has flourished, sources said.
Just last week, an immigration enforcement source told The Post that the gang has also expanded into New Jersey, in part with new recruits plucked from the Big Apple.
Shelters are the focus
In New York, TDA recruiters worked city shelters to enlist new members, many of them strong-armed into joining their ranks under the threat of having their families targeted by the gang.
Any asylum seekers who refuse to join are labeled “Culebra” — an enemy of TDA.
With many job-seeking migrants taking food delivery jobs, TDA exploited the industry by putting armed robbers and even hit men on mopeds and scooters, often posing as deliverymen.
Guns and drugs were smuggled into shelters like Randall’s Island inside food deliver bags — which are rarely searched or put through metal detectors by security, sources told The Post.
Migrant hit teams also use the scooters to eliminate rivals or breakaway gangbangers, with a driver and gunman on the two-wheelers and gang members keeping tabs from nearby cars, the sources said.
The sources said TDA members are not shy about opening fire on cops, a standard practice back home in Venezuela, where shooting at police typically means you can get away.
When nabbed in New York, TDA gang members have spilled their guts about their crimes — but most refuse to fess up to their affiliation with the vicious and vindictive gang for fear of retribution.
Additional reporting by Valentina Jaramillo and Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/us-news/how-tren-de-aragua-used-nyc-migrant-shelters-to-build-a-criminal-empire-hiding-in-plain-sight/
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