I think there's merit here from Ray in the sentence that I emphasized with boldface.
But I have not pursued the full story.
So, how many crimes have to be committed before it actually qualifies as a crime? Is it a specific multiple of the number of victims required for a "mass shooting" ? (< punctuation outside the quotation marks)
So, how many crimes have to be committed before it actually qualifies as a crime? Is it a specific multiple of the number of victims required for a "mass shooting" ? (< punctuation outside the quotation marks)
All depends....slow news day 2 will do, busy day takes more.
Originally posted by williegoat: So, how many crimes have to be committed before it actually qualifies as a crime? Is it a specific multiple of the number of victims required for a "mass shooting" ?
It's not the number part of it. It's the other part of that "ray b" sentence that I singled out
I worked with someone that spent his 20's in the big house for killing three people. They tried to rob him. The sentence was overturned for self defense but he still had the charge for possession of a firearm by a felon. point being his parole officer made it quite CLEAR about the laws in relation to him not being allowed to vote. I am that some people who work for the department of corrections might not do there job correctly. I think most criminals are going to do what they when they want. Just going off track record.
So the local trolls have gone from "There has been no proof of voter fraud" to "It's only 20 people."
Fifteen people are murdered in Chicago each week. That is not enough to have an appreciable impact on the total population. It should be of no concern.
How many drag queens were denied the right to use the lady's room? That is where we need to focus.
Just in case people want to see how this is being reported and talked about by the cable television successors of Air America Radio.
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes and Desmond Meade, the president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, talk about it. This is 8+ minutes of video content on YouTube. https://youtu.be/HmPYAhJTp40
A local Florida news station reports, and gets reactions from Democrats Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, who are vying in Florida's primary on Tuesday to get the nod from Democratic primary voters to run against Ron DeSantis for Governor in the general elections in November.
a KKK govinator uses a jim crow law to say 20 people should not vote
Ray... I think we need to address this... and I think you know that everything I'm about to say is completely correct.
I moved to South Florida in 1996. Back then, the state was wildly Democrat.
The Governor was Democrat, and at least one, maybe both of our Senators were Democrat. I think the Governor was McBride, and Bill Nelson was our Senator. If I'm not mistaken, by the time I moved here, we'd just elected a Republican senator to replace a scandal-ridden Democrat senator.
When I moved here in 1996, I moved to Davie, Florida. It was the Southern headquarters of the KKK. Everyone around me was a Democrat. The red-neck white people were all Democrats, and they all hated the Jews that lived in North Miami Beach and Boca Raton. The only people here that were Republican were the Cubans.
Crime was rampant... I mean rampant across the state.
The teachers unions... both Broward Teachers Union (BTU), and United Teachers of Dade (UTD) were extremely powerful in the state. Both had successfully elected Democrat-leaning school board members in every school district you could imagine.
The Democrats ran the entire state... we even had vehicle safety and emissions inspections... which directly, and ONLY affected the poor.
Since 1996, the state has slowly become more and more Republican. Since 1996, the state has become "more inclusive" to use progressive language. We were one of the first states to pass a law allowing gay marriage. We started passing laws that cleaned up the waterways and reduced fertilizer and chemical dumping into the everglades... where for 50+ years, the Democrats had done nothing. Since 1996, the Republicans have almost completely eliminated the KKK in Florida, and they've had to move underground because their views are no longer acceptable to the new Republican majority.
Since I've moved here, crime has fallen substantially, every major port, beach, and tourist area has been completely renovated and built up. We've doubled the number of state parks, the number of wetland mitigation acreage, and protected waterways and land that can never be built upon.
Since I moved here in 1996, the Republicans have completely taken over, and the state is significantly more free, with better jobs, more opportunity, and better support programs for the poor. We are one of the few states in the entire country that provide FREE pre-K child daycare, and subsidized community college.
Ray... since the Republicans have taken over, they've turned Florida from a corrupt **** -hole into a tech hub, medical research hub, and paradise.
His family moved to Orlando, Florida, before relocating to Dunedin, Florida, when he was six years old.
In 1991, he was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
After graduating from Dunedin High School in 1997, DeSantis attended Yale University. He was captain of Yale's varsity baseball team and joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
On the Yale baseball team, DeSantis was an outfielder; as a senior in 2001, he had the team's best batting average at .336.
He graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in history.
He then spent a year as a history teacher at the Darlington School.
De Santis then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor Cum Laude].
De Santis received his Reserve Naval officer's commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the US Naval Reserve Center in Dallas Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School.
He completed Naval Justice School in 2005.
Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a prosecutor. In 2006, he was promoted from lieutenant, junior grade to lieutenant. He worked for the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.
In 2007, De Santis reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq with the troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.
De Santis returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service.
The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida.
De Santis was assigned as a trial defense counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010. He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the US Navy Reserve.
He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Iraq Campaign Medal.
He represented Florida's 6th congressional district in the US House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018.
He was elected as the 46th Governor of Florida in 2019
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So…Let's see YOUR resume ray. Thrill and amaze everyone.
Leftists gotta Leftist
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and is not that the very same gov only record the rightwing slams joe for ?
what did I do risked my life in the local streets and roads exways and turnpikes likely in far more real daily danger then a navy lawdog in iraq [in miami crazy traffic] doing land survey for the water dept so the people of this county had safe drinking water no medal given for that service did retire with a state pension
we did swamps bays oceans also anywhere they want a pipe
------------------ Question wonder and be wierd are you kind?
I ran a 80 person office as manager for ryder a boat yard fork lift a cruise ship suppy/sales ice cream truck lawn biz sail boat rental
Pretty much what I suspected.
You notably failed to list your "stunning academic achievements" and military service though...
By the way, where did you get your university degree from ray?
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Originally posted by ray b:
delusional
You know what's actually delusional ray?
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Originally posted by ray b:
what did I do risked my life in the local streets and roads exways and turnpikes likely in far more real daily danger then a navy lawdog in iraq [in miami crazy traffic]
Equating yourself driving around city streets in Miami, Florida as more dangerous than Governor DeSantis' serving with Seal Team One in a combat zone in Fallujah, Iraq.
THAT is delusional.
Leftists gotta Leftist.
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we walked across I-95 at 3 pm on a week day you have the balls to do that ? with just a flag and vest checking the slabs [they were broken by a prior water corp's bore and jack job gone WRONG] yes they broke I-95 we had to fix it
100's of hours in traffic on US1
we did real work in the roads streets and hiways
college boys sat in offices drawing plans from our field data I droped out when NIXON THE CROOK killed the space program and the draft stoped
btw what do you think a lawyer does on a seal team SUPPORT
HINT HE DOES NOT CARRY A GUN
OR GO ON RAIDS
LIKE MOSTLY DESK JOB WRITING MEMO'S and paying or saying not to pay for collateral damage
get a clue to your hero worship
''Though DeSantis did have a military career as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he was not a Navy SEAL during his time of service.
However, he did serve as close legal counsel to a Navy SEAL commander while deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008.
In addition, DeSantis provided mission support and legal monitoring within his jurisdiction during that time.''
his bronze star was not earned in the war or anything dangerous it was political BS for being a lawdog
Not that any of this has to do with being a hero, but if he was in Iraq, as a service-member, he would have carried a gun.
Officers carry a 9mm hand gun, and enlisted carry the M4 rifle. Neither one makes you a hero.
You don't have to kill someone to be a hero. While he likely spent his time in a converted office, he was still deployed, spent time away from family in the service of country, living in a small shipping container or barracks.
"The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone."
"Meritorious Achievement" and "Meritorious Service" are two things that are generally not associated with shooting anything. It can literally be that you filled out the most number of government forms than any other person that day. It's generally reserved for people who have done a great thing, EVEN if that great thing is something that's largely administrative. It can be that he successfully worked a case as a JAG, or whatever it is. You'd have to see the citation to know what it was awarded for.
But the Bronze Star does NOT automatically mean that he was in combat.
and was a combat medal not now as it is passed out to lawdogs and clerks
Well, I can't disagree with that logic... but I can't say if the medal was always given to just those who unfortunately ended up in battle, or if it was also given to desk jockeys. That said... he was there, and I don't really ever see him talk about it. Matter of fact, I didn't even know about his service until one of my Democrat friends e-mailed me about it to complain... who himself had never served in any capacity.
BTW aside from not wanting to serve for the crook nixon
the wounded vets at the local VA WERE VERY ANTI-WAR said it was a no win mess to be avoided at all costs
WHY WAS YOUNG TEEN ME AT A VA HOSPITAL ?
THE WORLDS BIGGEST SWIMMING POOL 100 METERS BY 50 NOT FEET NOT YARDS METERS WAS AT THE OLD HOTEL CONVERTED TO THE VA and a buddys mom ran it as the head volunteer
so we saw vets early and often many horribly hurt they were 9 out of 10 anti-war guess seeing the elephant will do that !
