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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • It really doesn’t matter when the number is that large and its the ethics of accepting such a valuable gift anyway. My main concern other than ethics is that it’s going to cost taxpayers a significant amount more to retrofit the plane with defense systems, communications, and redundancies than to just build it that way from scratch. Plus they’ll need to verify security of electrical components and systems as well. All of that will be done on our dime since it will be the Air Force performing all of that.



  • It’s pretty difficult to kill/do harm to a sitting US president. There’s an entire agency tasked with nothing but ensuring that their life is never physically threatened. In addition there’s probably only about 500,000 people that are physically close enough at any one time. Most people just want to live out their life to the best of their ability. Take care of their kids, spend time with family, enjoy personal activities. Successfully harming the president comes with either a death sentence or life imprisonment. No matter the circumstance. It would set an extraordinarily dangerous precedent if the assailant managed to avoid consequences.



  • So leaving a town to you is equivalent to the travel it takes to leave the country?

    Other than distance traveled, the time afforded to travel said distance, and providing the requisite documents needed to cross a border(which she had), yes. The article doesn’t mention how often she traveled to Ireland. Maybe she went every other year to celebrate Christmas with her family.

    Especially when you say “I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor” I never did… but did. Your two sentences directly contradict.

    No, using a metaphorical comparison does not literally equate the two things being compared. A metaphor suggests that one thing is like another in some figurative or symbolic way, not that they are literally the same.

    She thought her stuff was expunged. Which clearly it wasn’t since apparently they pulled it up. If it’s still in the records somewhere…

    It says in the article that she presented them with documentation of the expungement of her charges. So if she was able to provide them with documentation, it clearly took place. It shouldn’t take a law degree to figure out that having your criminal records expunged doesn’t wipe any trace of them from government databases. It only removes them from the public eye and prevents them from coming up during background checks for things like housing or employment. The government would still have a record of her prior convictions.