That may be a parody, Nef.
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This local news broke today .
A 19 year-old female French tourist inadvertently crossed into the US from Canada while jogging on the beach. She was kept in detention in Tacoma WA for two weeks. The area she was in is directly across the bay fro where we live. As she said there is no indication you have passed from one country into another. The most we have on our beach is a cement bollard with a yellow triangle on it to mark the border.
When I lived here less than twenty years ago, people crossed on the beach all the time. There were businesses on Point Roberts boardwalk that catered to people wandering over from Canada (needless to say they're all gone.) Just another small sign of the paranoia suffusing the US these days. It isn't coincidental, of course, that the young woman happens to be neither fair skinned nor blonde.
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Jesus. All the more ludicrous because Point Roberts is an anomaly which shouldn't even really be in the US. What the fuck are they doing patrolling it with border guards? Let alone grabbing people and dragging them to custody miles away...
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Could this be a problem for Dean Heller in his reelection?
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After Gov. Sandoval and Sen. Heller pushed, Treasury quietly changed tax law policy benefiting one Nevada county. Now, many in a rival county are furious, wondering what happened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...c2e_story.html
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The Nevada GOP appears to have a thing for pimps.
He styles himself as America’s best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.
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Probably not
You are much better informed about such things than the vast majority of GOP voters.
Even were they to read the local paper or watch local news, it is going to be very hard to find anything on these matters in Sheldon Adelson's Review-Journal, not to mention the local Sinclair stations.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostJesus. All the more ludicrous because Point Roberts is an anomaly which shouldn't even really be in the US. What the fuck are they doing patrolling it with border guards? Let alone grabbing people and dragging them to custody miles away...
Coincidentally we dog owners were talking about this type of incident a week or so back. The local off leash-park is on the border — indicated by a dilapidated fence and a rough hedge. Dogs occasionally run through it, and one owner said she'd (nervously) gone after her dog a few days earlier. Another owner said "My wife said we should do this when our dog ran over to the US side on the beach. I said I'm Turkish and you're Mexican, there's no way. The dog can find his own way home." He was obviously correct .
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostJesus. All the more ludicrous because Point Roberts is an anomaly which shouldn't even really be in the US. What the fuck are they doing patrolling it with border guards? Let alone grabbing people and dragging them to custody miles away...
Coincidentally we dog owners were talking about this type of incident a week or so back. The local off leash-park is on the border — indicated by a dilapidated fence and a rough hedge. Dogs occasionally run through it, and one owner said she'd (nervously) gone after her dog a few days earlier. Another owner said "my wife said we should do this when our dog ran over to the US side on the beach. I said I'm Turkish and you're Mexican, there's no way. The dog can find his own way home." He was obviously correct . Dogs catch more of break than brown people with accents.
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Donald Trump has declared that North Korea still poses an “extraordinary threat” to the United States, just days after saying that the country’s nuclear program no longer constituted a danger.
In an executive order on Friday, the president extended for one year the so-called “national emergency” with respect to the nuclear-armed nation, re-authorizing economic restrictions against it.
While expected, the declaration comes just nine days after Trump tweeted: “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” following his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
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Jonathan Freedman in the Guardian:
Now, in the US, Italy, Hungary, Poland and elsewhere, the restraints are off. There even seems to be a macho thrill in breaking the taboo, in echoing the words and deeds of that darkest era in human history. It’s as if the boundaries that were drawn after 1945, demarcating acceptable human behaviour, were mere lines in the sand – and now the tide is coming in.
Trump is a symptom of what has been going on for seven decades, not some fuck who appeared after seven decades of peace after 1945.
How many civilians died in Korea between 1950 and 1953? Couple million? The entire county was flattened.
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I think it is worth noting that she wasn’t “ejected”, but rather politely and privately asked to leave by the owner of establishment because Sanders’ presence was making the restaurant’s staff (which includes several LGBTQ people, POC and immigrants) very uncomfortable.
It was Sanders who decided to blow this up by siccing her 3m Twitter followers on the place (thereby also violating ethics rules on the use of official accounts).
Like the Mexican restaurant incidents and Melania’s parka, It is all part of a conscious campaign by the adminstration to provoke reaction, which appears to be red meat for the base, but reminds the rest of the country what horrible people they are.
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