[ExI] law vs law

[Darin Sunley]

>This isn't going away.

Good.

>Hey at least they were leaving, and they were on the inside of the
aircraft.

That's awesome!



On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] law vs law
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> >…None of that is of the slightest concern to the administration.
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> >…Indeed, whether or not the regulation is ever even enforced before being
> blocked by the courts is of, at most, only minor, comparatively abstract
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> >…It has already accomplished everything it needed to: it energized the
> far left base, and sucked all the oxygen out of the room from the
> Afghanistan story…  Darin
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> Hi Darin,
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> Our small town has a weekly 24 page newspaper that comes out on Fridays.
> Today’s paper had a page and a half story on a local guy who settled here
> about 5 years ago.  He went back to Afghanistan to visit his dying mother.
> His return flight was scheduled for 15 August, which turned out to be one
> day too late.
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> Long story short, he was repeatedly beaten by Taliban social workers, his
> 8 yr old daughter was separated from him and severely traumatized, the
> family of 4 managed to get out 8 horrifying days later clinging to the
> metal floor of a military C5 rather than belted into the seat of a Boeing
> 767.  Hey at least they were leaving, and they were on the inside of the
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> Now the US government is telling us just today, that the US State
> Department stopped Afghan flights into the USA because four cases of
> measles were discovered on board.  They couldn’t risk importing a disease
> for which nearly all Americans are immunized, while allowing immigrants not
> vaccinated against Covid into a country where over a third of the citizens
> actively and enthusiastically refuse Covid vaccination.
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> Or… the US State Department wants to avoid the kinds of stories our local
> newspaper ran this morning.
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> The vaccine mandate may have sucked the oxygen out of the Afghanistan
> story, but those kinds of articles are giving it CPR.  This isn’t going
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