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https://www.thedrive.com/news/36119/...vlM621mVj_jmaY
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Fleet of BMW i3s Is Up for Sale
Taxpayers paid $10,267,699 for the cute city cars, most of which racked up four digits or less in mileage.
BY STEF SCHRADERSEPTEMBER 1, 2020Boost Pope
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(used BMW i3s)
So I award you no cats.
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Anyway, another example of headlines so absurd that I made sure to do some cursory fact-checking before posting here:
A defiant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday claimed she was “set up” and a hair salon in San Francisco “owes” her an “apology” after it was revealed the California Democrat visited the business despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Yup.
Presupposing that Fox News can at least be trusted to get that straight (not a given, but a reasonable gamble), this seems to be the case. Nancy Pelosi is claiming to be a victim, because she made an appointment to get a hairdo during a time when such egregious acts of commerce are forbidden.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pel...-setting-me-up
This is the kind of **** that you couldn't have convinced a mentally handicapped six year old was true not so very long ago.
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Ok, no sense in arguing with that, I suppose.
Moving on, in "Did he really say that?"
"He better have an army if he thinks he’s going to walk down the streets in New York."
That would be NY State governor Andrew Cuomo, referring to President Trump.
Two things about this are funny.
One is that when Cuomo says "New York," he probably assumes that most people are going to automatically think of New York City (and, specifically, Manhattan), despite the fact that Albany (the capital of New York, and seat of the governorship) is not in New York City.
The other, of course, is that President Trump is, by nature of is office, also the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces. So, yes, he does kind of have the largest regular army in the world. I would like to believe that governor Cuomo was not specifically inviting the United States Army to invade Albany, largely because that would violate a large number of Federal laws and international treaties, but more specifically because, with a land area of only 21.4 square miles, the occupation of Albany by the US Army (995,483 total uniformed personnel) would, when added to Albany's existing population of 96,460 people, place tremendous strain on the resources of Albany's rather dilapidated public transit infrastructure.
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
NY should be glassed the entire state is garbage. Of course given the choice I'd glass commiefornia first.
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So, for all the folks here from North Carolina who have never been to NYC, but maybe heard that name (Chemical Bank) being spoken during an episode of Seinfeld, and thought "What a bullshit name for a fake bank!", well, that bank is in fact more real than the fictitious military honors claimed by Spanish explorer Juan Pardo, who founded Fort San Juan, the first European settlement in what is now Burke County NC, which lasted for a whole six months before natives from Joara and the region surrounding the fort burned it to the ground and killed all but one of its inhabitants, after which Pardo fled back to Spain to die a forgotten pauper.
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Gonna be honest here, I was hoping to find a better deal. The i3 is one model I've been thinking about as a good city car, but $15-$20k ain't exactly a reasonable price for a used police car. (I mean, what would Elwood think?)
So I award you no cats.
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Anyway, another example of headlines so absurd that I made sure to do some cursory fact-checking before posting here:
A defiant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday claimed she was “set up” and a hair salon in San Francisco “owes” her an “apology” after it was revealed the California Democrat visited the business despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Yup.
Presupposing that Fox News can at least be trusted to get that straight (not a given, but a reasonable gamble), this seems to be the case. Nancy Pelosi is claiming to be a victim, because she made an appointment to get a hairdo during a time when such egregious acts of commerce are forbidden.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pel...-setting-me-up
This is the kind of **** that you couldn't have convinced a mentally handicapped six year old was true not so very long ago.
So I award you no cats.
And may God have mercy on your soul.
Anyway, another example of headlines so absurd that I made sure to do some cursory fact-checking before posting here:
A defiant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday claimed she was “set up” and a hair salon in San Francisco “owes” her an “apology” after it was revealed the California Democrat visited the business despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Yup.
Presupposing that Fox News can at least be trusted to get that straight (not a given, but a reasonable gamble), this seems to be the case. Nancy Pelosi is claiming to be a victim, because she made an appointment to get a hairdo during a time when such egregious acts of commerce are forbidden.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pel...-setting-me-up
This is the kind of **** that you couldn't have convinced a mentally handicapped six year old was true not so very long ago.
dont worry Trump didnt let this opportunity to waste.
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I couldn't even deal with looking at his Twitter to see if this is a real tweet. "Masks are government control" So is being assigned a number at birth government control? Is being required to register and pay taxes on your personal property control? Is the device next to you not recording everywhere you are and what you say?
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I fail to see why "Commander Red" cannot arm himself with a flame thrower or fireworks? Up until use against someone as initial acts of aggression those should fall under his right to bear arms.