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President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« on: May 24, 2018, 05:57:00 pm »
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2018, 07:09:24 pm »
  Perhaps, next up is Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter, Dylan's Friend.

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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2018, 07:14:37 pm »
Quote from: corbe on May 24, 2018, 07:09:24 pm
  Perhaps, next up is Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter, Dylan's Friend.


That guy is a murderer. Johnson was just hanging around with a white chick.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2018, 07:20:38 pm »
Glad to hear this.
This should make Galveston happy.
Tough week for the folks in that county.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2018, 07:30:40 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 24, 2018, 07:14:37 pm
That guy is a murderer. Johnson was just hanging around with a white chick.

They got him on the Mann Act. 
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2018, 07:35:58 pm »
   I'm sure that Frank is well versed in the particulars of the Mann Act, it's still on the books so theirs still hope the FBI will nab him for violation, and being a  white guy (I think) they'll throw the book at him.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2018, 07:41:36 pm »
"He's got a broad in the car, took her across the state line. That's the Mann Act. I don't think he's got her permission, and that's kidnapping. How's that for high jinks ..."

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1977 was the 1st time I was made aware of the Mann Act.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2018, 07:49:28 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 24, 2018, 07:41:36 pm
1977 was the 1st time I was made aware of the Mann Act.

The government opened an official state zoo some miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. 

The first problem that they encountered was that the porpoises in the porpoise pool required a diet of baby sea gulls if they were to live forever.  So the director of the zoo sent an attendant down to the ocean to bring back baby sea gulls for the porpoises. 

However - while the zoo attendant was down at the beach, the lions escaped from their cages and began to surround the porpoise pool.  So that when the attendent returned to the zoo carrying thousands of young gulls he was forced to make the split- second decision - to run and jump high over the lions in order to get the gulls to the porpoise pool. 

He did so quite successfully, but he was arrested. Charged with transporting young gulls across state lions for
immortal porpoises.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2018, 07:51:50 pm »
Oh man 888high58888 .....And you dissed my "Pretty Girl/tree" one liner!     LOL   :beer:

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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2018, 07:54:31 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 24, 2018, 07:51:50 pm
Oh man 888high58888 .....And you dissed my "Pretty Girl/tree" one liner!     LOL   :beer:

Cheers!
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2018, 07:56:33 pm »
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With the heavyweight championship belt on the Resolute Desk, Pres Trump signed the posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson. "We righted a wrong," said @POTUS. "Jack Johnson was not treated fairly. And we have corrected that."



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Flanked by Sylvester Stallone and heavyweight boxers, Pres Trump signed "full pardon" for the late Jack Johnson, who served 10 months in prison for violating the Mann Act. a conviction, said @POTUS, "many view as a racially motivated injustice."

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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2018, 07:59:47 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on May 24, 2018, 07:30:40 pm
They got him on the Mann Act.

I'm sure what he was doing to that chick was all mann but that is besides the point.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2018, 09:30:59 pm »
Quote from: thackney on May 24, 2018, 07:49:28 pm
The government opened an official state zoo some miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. 

The first problem that they encountered was that the porpoises in the porpoise pool required a diet of baby sea gulls if they were to live forever.  So the director of the zoo sent an attendant down to the ocean to bring back baby sea gulls for the porpoises. 

However - while the zoo attendant was down at the beach, the lions escaped from their cages and began to surround the porpoise pool.  So that when the attendent returned to the zoo carrying thousands of young gulls he was forced to make the split- second decision - to run and jump high over the lions in order to get the gulls to the porpoise pool. 

He did so quite successfully, but he was arrested. Charged with transporting young gulls across state lions for
immortal porpoises.

That reminds me of the time my clone got loose and wreaked havoc all over town.
The bill was astronomical. For weeks, women I'd never seen before would walk up to me and slap my face, for reasons unbeknownst to me.
Finally I'd had enough, so I took him out the the grand Canyon and threw him of the side.
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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2018, 12:17:46 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on May 24, 2018, 09:30:59 pm
That reminds me of the time my clone got loose and wreaked havoc all over town.
The bill was astronomical. For weeks, women I'd never seen before would walk up to me and slap my face, for reasons unbeknownst to me.
Finally I'd had enough, so I took him out the the grand Canyon and threw him of the side.
The police are after me now.
I'm wanted for making an obscene clone fall.

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Re: President Trump pardons late boxer Jack Johnson
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2018, 12:21:29 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on May 24, 2018, 09:30:59 pm
That reminds me of the time my clone got loose and wreaked havoc all over town.
The bill was astronomical. For weeks, women I'd never seen before would walk up to me and slap my face, for reasons unbeknownst to me.
Finally I'd had enough, so I took him out the the grand Canyon and threw him of the side.
The police are after me now.
I'm wanted for making an obscene clone fall.
One more like that and....... 0380000
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