Recent content by barfo

We need to develop Kevlar-penetrating sandwiches. barfo

What's all this I hear about the site admins twerking? Why do we need to know about that? barfo

Yes, but: the only reason the filibuster exists is because both parties have up to now agreed to keep it. Once one party gets rid of it, they can certainly reinstate it, but the other party will then feel free to un-reinstate it when they gain power. barfo

Great, what we need is to be in the business of holy wars. Those always end well. barfo

And the white prisoners are good people and not dangerous? barfo

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How are you sure of that? Is it your position that everything the government says is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? barfo

Why do you think 70 soldiers are needed to defend a single building? Especially given that ICE and CBP and probably other varieties of feds are already onsite and are completely happy to beat up citizens themselves. barfo

And we have police and courts to deal with that sort of thing, same as everywhere else in the country. I don't think the crime rate in PDX is particularly high?

Sure. There have occasionally been violent events. Of course, there is also some evidence that the feds have instigated and/or provoked that violence. But it's just one building. It's not an insurrection. There was a murder at Burning Man this year. That's way more violent than...

I'm definitely not. You might be, for all I know :) It was a panel of 3 judges, two of which were Trump appointees. You are correct that the 9th circuit is the most liberal, but not this small subset of the 9th. barfo

It's a decision that deserved to be overturned. Their theory that events in the past justify an emergency response in the present is pretty silly. Maybe we should bomb Germany today, because of Hitler? barfo

Cuba 1, USA 0 barfo

The Washington Monument will be torn down next, and replaced with this:

True, but accountability and responsibility are two different things. barfo