Boss13

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I think they ought to package all of the cancer vaccines into a single shot. That would definetly be worth getting,

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If this moves forward, it becomes realistic that it could happen in the next decade.

I wonder how many people realize that large numbers of young men who are not having sex (regardless of reason or who's fault it is) is a significant driver of societal upheaval, violence, and revolution.

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Reading “Shantaram” now which takes place in Mumbai in the 80s and it sounds like a wild place and definitely not for your average traveler.

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Just wanted to stop by and say that this is one of the dumbest books ive ever read.

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Y’all know Ellis is gay, right? And this is “autobiographical” fiction so the main character acting on his teenage urges is probably going to be pretty gay.

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Im pretty sure he is technically bi. But other than this caveat, your statement is factually correct. You can even eliminate "probably" because Hollywood will not even need to deviate from the book to make it gay. This is the the gayest book Ive ever read.

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Come today, I’m browsing on eBay and I see these items for sell in auction. Drew Brees autographed football, Harmon Killebrew autographed baseball, and all of my Barry Bonds certified autos. I can 100% confirm these are mine. What can be done?

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Why did you take this stuff to work? Did you have all this displayed where the frosty machine was suppose to be or under the register?

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The answer is simple: habitable planets are simply too far from earth, and light speed travel is not likely technologically possible no matter how advanced a species is.

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I dont disagree but there very well could be other methods to cross vast distances that can be implemented but we just dont know how.

For example, an engine that deforms space time around a vessel is theoretically possible and they have been able to reduce its theoretical energy needs down from the mass equivalent of a galaxy to the mass equivalent of Jupiter.

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The rumors of her dying in a gun battle over a server in Germany were peak Q thread.

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They really don't understand how stupid they look when they keep referencing the posts.

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I just can't understand how this was allowed to happen all over the country. It's not like it's some sophisticated scheme. It's a bunch of dumbfricks with dumbass company names making millions

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I'd hazard to say that some of this money hasn't reached its final destination yet.

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Planned Parenthood Could Get $600 Million Unless Republicans Act

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Sounds like Planned Parenthood is about to get $600 million.

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Legally that decision was not made until after the CW was over. The Constitution didn’t say states could or could not exit the Union, just as it doesn’t speak to a large number of specific things.

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That is a flimsy argument. "States can seceed because its not stated they cant." States willingly yielded a portion of their sovereignty to a federal government when they formed a compact under the constitution. To say they had the right to seceed is to say they had the right to take those powers back whenever they wanted. It is absurd to believe the constitution is such a weak document that it can be abandoned at the whim of a majority of a state, yet strong enough to say it allows States the right to seceed under the law.

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As far as politics goes, what exactly do you mean by politically wrong?

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The south was one of the last bastions of slavery in the west. The south had to adopt expansion or it had to admit what it was doing was wrong. The only way they had retained any kind of political power was due to the 3/5ths compromise (which is a bit ironic because the Dred Scott decision said that black people could not even be citizens).

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However, secession and slavery are not the same thing.

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Secession happened because of slavery. You can argue its over states rights, but I would ask what was the states rights they were fighting for? The answer, is the states rights to own slaves.

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So if they succeeded and were not under the Constitution how could Lincoln attack an essentially foreign country to force them back into the Union? They were either part of the Union or not.

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The executive is constitutionally allowed to use force to enforce the law and prevent illegal secession. Lincoln is not the only president who believed this.

Look up the nullification crisis in South Carolina and Andrew Jackson's response to it in the 1832 Nullification Proclamation. Jackson, I will remind everyone here, is historically known as a very strong States rights proponent.

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Having the fullest confidence in the justness of the legal and constitutional opinion of my duties which has been expressed, I rely with equal confidence on your undivided support in my determination to execute the laws-to preserve the Union by all constitutional means-to arrest, if possible, by moderate but firm measures, the necessity of a recourse to force; and, if it be the will of Heaven that the recurrence of its primeval curse on man for the shedding of a brother's blood should fall upon our land, that it be not called down by any offensive act on the part of the United States.

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- Andrew Jackson