OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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This should go in the automotive forum but the commentary would probably end it up back here anyway.

My father in law has this armored personnel carrier in his shop today to install police lights on for the city of Brea. I think they bought it surplus from the government of South Africa for $1. Because there might be an armed insurrection at the mall.

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It did get my son smiling for the first time in two days:


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Gun ports

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Well, if a Zombie apocalypse breaks out before the Trumpocalypse, at least you can make it to the mall in style.
 
How do you kill yourself with a lawn mower?

I can see losing a couple of fingers or a hand or something, but getting killed by one?
 
I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not a Constitutional scholar, but I'm betting that push come to shove, faithless elector state laws would be found unconstitutional. It is pretty clear that the founding fathers did not intend the electoral process to be automatic (otherwise, they'd have just wrote it that way in the Constitution). Also, in the Federalist Paper where Hamilton discusses the Electoral College, he specifically says that one of the purposes of the electors was to keep unqualified candidates out of the office. Given this, it is pretty obvious that electors have a constitutionally guaranteed right to NOT vote their pledge if they see fit to do so.

In fact, I think the few Democratic electors that voted for someone other than Clinton (was it Kasich?) did so in order to try force this issue. Smartly, their states did not attempt to invoke their faithless elector laws.

And it would be found unconstitutional where? The supreme court?
 
@Mark Wein well, you know where to go for a bugout zombie attack vehicle should the need arise.


Today in immigration ban news:
1. Over 100 former FP officials, both Republican and Democrats, have signed a letter against the ban and asking the directors of agencies who oversee immigration issues to urge the administration to rescind it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...der-refugees-immigrants-reversal-urged-234378

1. Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General, instructs the DoJ not to defend the executive order. But that's largely futile since Sessions will prob be the AG any day and you know he is going to support his President.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/politics/attorney-general-civil-rights-refugee.html
“I am responsible for ensuring that the positions we take in court remain consistent with this institution’s solemn obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is right,” Ms. Yates wrote in a letter to Justice Department lawyers. “At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful.”

3. I should just sitck to posting memes & funny pics since they seem to generate more discussion.

4. There is a slight margin of support for the ban among votersv (similar to results of polls during the campaigns), according to polling by the Rasmussen Report (but given DJT's distrust of polls, does this mean he agrees or disagrees with this?)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...porary_ban_on_newcomers_from_terrorist_havens
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a temporary ban on refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen until the federal government approves its ability to screen out potential terrorists from coming here. Thirty-three percent (33%) are opposed, while 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Similarly, 56% favor a temporary block on visas prohibiting residents of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the United States until the government approves its ability to screen for likely terrorists.
Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose this temporary ban, and 11% are undecided.
 
@Lerxst i have serious reservations about the accuracy of that poll, based on the fallout around the country in the last 4 days.
(i'm not criticizing you, i'm talking about Rasputin's facts):grin:
 
it's time for the A.G. to become an ELECTED position, NOT a lackey for the president. the A.G. IS who (is supposed to) keep everyone within the law.
look at the bullshit Ashcroft did under the direction of Dubya and Chenney.
 
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