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Congress bans cockfighting
AP via The Journal Gazatte ^ | 12/13/2018

Posted on 12/13/2018 5:34:28 AM PST by cll

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To: mewzilla

Gambling is not a federal issue.


21 posted on 12/13/2018 6:05:33 AM PST by redfreedom (.)
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To: cll

If the Puerto Ricans don’t like the law, then just ignore it. That is how we do things these days in Merica.


22 posted on 12/13/2018 6:07:37 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: redfreedom

It was until now. Louisiana only banned it in ‘08. I remember going to a few fights growing up.


23 posted on 12/13/2018 6:09:22 AM PST by Raymann
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To: cll

I think it would be interesting to ask our soon to be newest resident in Congress of Puerto Rican descent, Ms. Ocasio Cortez what her thoughts on this would be.

Does she side with her leftist PETA loving overlords?

Does she side with her peeps (fellow Puerto Ricans)?

I hope she sides with her Puerto Rican brethern because I would love to hear the clip of her ‘going conservative’ while talking about the federal government should not be interfering in what is clearly a state/territory issue.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 6:11:12 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: moovova

you win!!!!


25 posted on 12/13/2018 6:11:43 AM PST by ronniesgal (warning- you will probably be offended by something I type, if you are looking to be.)
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To: cll

This is an outrageous attack on the lgbt community!


26 posted on 12/13/2018 6:15:05 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: dfwgator

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0


27 posted on 12/13/2018 6:16:27 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: gundog

I’ve been to a bull fight, a sumo match and a gun auction.
These take a special verbal twang...


28 posted on 12/13/2018 6:21:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: cll
"in Puerto Rico alone the cockfighting industry generates $18 million a year and employs some 27,000 people."

The author clearly does not understand the creation of wealth. Gambling creates NO wealth. It simply moves wealth from one location to another. There is no net gain.

Wealth is created when someone produces something that has more value after his labor is added than it had before the labor. The labor, thus, creates wealth, and all parties to this gain.

29 posted on 12/13/2018 6:21:04 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones)
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To: cll

Will they be providing conflict resolution assistance to the cocks?


30 posted on 12/13/2018 6:21:50 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Hillary spent some time in Arkasas. I’ll bet she could pull it off.


31 posted on 12/13/2018 6:30:37 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: cll

A federal law banning genital mutilation was just knocked down over states’ rights (I agree).

This should be knocked down for the same reason.


32 posted on 12/13/2018 6:31:56 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-mob)
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To: cll

let me get this straight....Congress can ban cockfighting but not female genital mutilation?.....


33 posted on 12/13/2018 6:35:10 AM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: norwaypinesavage

There is the entertainment side of both gambling and the object of gambling. That part is consumption, just like auto racing or tourism.


34 posted on 12/13/2018 6:35:57 AM PST by buwaya
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To: cll

Why? Because the people were too stupid and cruel to stop it on their own.

Angel is no angel. Better to put him in the ring and not let him out until he or the other guy is mutilated. An eye for an eye.


35 posted on 12/13/2018 6:36:45 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: cll

Nothing like tackling the truly important issues facing our country. </sarcasm>


36 posted on 12/13/2018 6:37:15 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: cll

So, you’re saying instead of going in your sleep you’d rather spend your last days fighting. Somehow no one believes you.


37 posted on 12/13/2018 6:39:10 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: gundog

Vagina fighting is called “tribbing”
For those that didn’t know or care. ;^}


38 posted on 12/13/2018 6:39:22 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: cll

Congress to America’s men: “Keep it zipped, Boys!”


39 posted on 12/13/2018 6:41:23 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: cll
Did anyone tell #44 about this?

Officials warn that the ban will lead to unemployment on an island already dealing with a 12-year recession.

12 years, mind you!

40 posted on 12/13/2018 6:41:39 AM PST by ptsal
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