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And justiciability -- thank you. I knew I was looking for a word on the tip of my tongue.
Beer? Uh, nope.Where The Apolitical Stays Apolitical, Bircher Truther Scumbags: https://time.com/5646632/how-much-water-to-drink/
You're going to argue with Time magazine and conventional media?Beer? Uh, nope.
Did you put Bircher in the title to get me to respond, you fluoride-sucking weasel?!Where The Apolitical Stays Apolitical, Bircher Truther Scumbags: https://time.com/5646632/how-much-water-to-drink/
Purity of essence, my friend.Did you put Bircher in the title to get me to respond, you fluoride-sucking weasel?!
Alas, it was not to be, but i'll still put maple sap against any liquid on a hot, summer day.
But we'll have the CocaCola Co to answer to....Purity of essence, my friend.
P-O-E.
Dude. I saw a tweet from some random that confirmed my position.You're going to argue with Time magazine and conventional media?
Way to bury the lede:Where The Apolitical Stays Apolitical, Bircher Truther Scumbags: https://time.com/5646632/how-much-water-to-drink/
Lager was a little less hydrating than water, but a little better than coffee.
Great news! Well, not for those of us that have gone dry and now drink ####-tons of coffee...Way to bury the lede:
Lager was a little less hydrating than water, but a little better than coffee.
If I remember right, Trump didn't campaign in Washington and spent essentially no money here in 2016. Not really surprising that he has more donors at this stage than at the same point in the 2016 election. He has no hope of winning here, but certainly an incumbent president should be able to get some donors from just about anywhere. Looking at the list of donors in the article, it looks like about half are retired.rockaction said:
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I agree with the first sentence. No. Prayer.He has no hope of winning here
I enjoyed this, which is no surprise from Seattle:
as one who has voted 3rd-party more than any affiliation, 2020 would actually be a perfect time for an independent (NOT Libertarian - that horse is out da barn) run for Amash. the left would support him because it would hurt Trump and the right embarrassed by Trump/McConnell would have somewhere to go. i dont agree with him on much but, because i've waited my whole life to see a 3rd candidate cross 20%, he'd have my vote if it was Biden/Trump
Thanks for the link, SID. I may be a dilettante, but I've read my Rousseau and Locke and I'm pretty confident I know in what sense the Founders were using the term "executive." The question would be how and when it got so far away from its original menaing, beginning with whom and for what reasons, and expanding and exploding when. Maybe the paper will shed insight into that.Hey @rockactionsome light reading for your next cuppa when you get the chance...
The Executive Power Clause
- Basically the executive power is what we thought it was: real damned limited.
Fwiw this is a slightly easier to read version by the author.Thanks for the link, SID. I may be a dilettante, but I've read my Rousseau and Locke and I'm pretty confident I know in what sense the Founders were using the term "executive." The question would be how and when it got so far away from its original meaning, beginning with whom and for what reasons, and expanding and exploding when. Maybe the paper will shed insight into that.
FWIW, I immediately thought of Jackson's concurrence in The Steel Cases as ushering in the constitutional argument behind the new scope of executive power, and lo! -- the author cites it. I'm going to give myself a back-pat and you a thanks for posting.Fwiw this is a slightly easier to read version by the author.
What Two Crucial Words in the Constitution Actually Mean
Be anything but bitter, because nothing betrays one's real truth as well.Almost as if it were a coordinated effort between politicos and journos alike!
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/clinton-gabbard-russian-asset-jill-stein-901593/
I hope you're talking about him. I've been watching the coordination between journalists and politicos happen since the '90s on the Democratic side. Nothing bitter about the observation, and this has nothing to do with Trump other than that I'd probably be called an anti-anti-Trumper, as the article suggests.Be anything but bitter, because nothing betrays one's real truth as well.
Talkin bout HillyI hope you're talking about him. I've been watching the coordination between journalists and politicos happen since the '90s on the Democratic side. Nothing bitter about the observation, and this has nothing to do with Trump other than that I'd probably be called an anti-anti-Trumper, as the article suggests.
No use for the man nor his fiercest critics, really.
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification, man.Talkin bout Hilly
Wise words. Best to you and your family, wikkid.I feel the honest burden of raising me ol' peeps to their graves, but never had much use for either of em. Me 95yo Ma always kept a book on everyone, classic Irish grudgekeeper, and the next time me ol' Da considers the effect of his actions upon others will be the first.
But decades of adult detente had softened my views upon them both and doubt had had even crept in about these sentiments being any more than childish woundlicking. Until i had to return to the nest, that is. Wonderful truthteller, bitterness. Gives up all one's secrets like a psychic Tourettes. My father unhappy about an unsatisfactory (and downright unfair) end to his career, mother worn out by a quarter-century as an invalid. And it seeps, surges, swells even. All the ugliness in their hearts. I don't pity them their fetishes, because they each got to make their own way, even though they had to work like mules to do so. But i pity their souls - so much pain; hope so elusive & tenuous starting out, so desperately regretted along the way out; so elemental their struggle. God bless 'em.
Be anything but bitter, because nothing betrays one's real truth as well.
The one thing I'll say for this is that I think there is a POV from Russia, I mean average writers and reporters and academics, who see certain stereotypes and mistakes on the part of America's IC, politicians and journalists on this. It's not talked about much here or nationally, really almost at all. I don't think that lessens the impact of the Mueller report or the two Horowitz reports (going in either direction, because both contain information both helpful and hurtful for the investigation). - I read an observation recently from a Russian journalist (Navalny) that the impact that Putin wants is the impression of Russian influence not so much the influence itself. And I don't think that's just a question of Steele's sources (ie Russians injecting disinformation into the US IC via a well trusted spy), it's also a question of how easy it was to ping Papadopoulos and set off a truly massive investigation with long term effects for relatively little investment. I really don't know if this is where Taibbi is coming from but I do know or sense his POV often comes from that Russian community.The subtext of Russiagate involves a Dr. Evil-style expansion of the surveillance state and the cynical commandeering of the news media for a xenophobic scare campaign. But the major plot twists are informed by slapstick cluelessness.
The Russia “expert” whose dossier cripples a presidency doesn’t speak Russian (and hasn’t been there since the Buffalo Bills played in a Super Bowl). The FBI director has never heard of Gazprom. The ranking member of the Senate intelligence committee warms up for hearings on Russian interference by reading “Tolstoy and Nabokov.”
National security officials explaining the need to arm Ukraine invoke the specter of communism, dead for thirty years; the former head of the DNC worries the “communists” are “dictating the terms of the debate”; belief that the Cold War is still on runs so strong that intelligence officials blame Russia for mysterious “acoustic attacks” on American diplomats in China, Cuba, and Uzbekistan.
The idea of a Deep State plot to undermine Donald Trump is popular in Republican circles, but all this lunacy at least somewhat undermines that analysis. Russiagate turns out to be impossible to understand minus the element of sincere, if misguided or insane, belief. Investigators and then press figures reasoned themselves into one proposition, only to end up on a years-long roller-coaster embracing pee tapes and acoustic brain attacks and killer Putin-dolphins (trained for the inevitable trans-polar Russian assault).
So sad and a reminder of the power of penicillin to change the course of lives and the history of humanity. That might be only topped by poor Franklin Pierce's young son being killed in a train accident just prior to him being sworn in. Pierce refused to be sworn in on The Bible due to the tragedy.
Wow. That's stunning. I didn't know that fact about Pierce and being sworn in. That's some deep stuff. I also didn't know Lincoln's son had died of typhoid fever or something like it until I came across SID's posting.So sad and a reminder of the power of penicillin to change the course of lives and the history of humanity. That might be only topped by poor Franklin Pierce's young son being killed in a train accident just prior to him being sworn in. Pierce refused to be sworn in on The Bible due to the tragedy.
Weird too because he was already elected however by the time he was inaugurated, he was no longer the same person that voters had chosen.Wow. That's stunning. I didn't know that fact about Pierce and being sworn in. That's some deep stuff. I also didn't know Lincoln's son had died of typhoid fever or something like it until I came across SID's posting.
My old boss in the political think tank world, a very conservative guy (natch) used to ask those who bemoaned technological advances writ large one question: Would you prefer to go back to a time when there was no penicillin?So sad and a reminder of the power of penicillin to change the course of lives and the history of humanity. That might be only topped by poor Franklin Pierce's young son being killed in a train accident just prior to him being sworn in. Pierce refused to be sworn in on The Bible due to the tragedy.
Referring to what movement? The process towards federal responses to pandemics? Or regarding technology and knowledge in general?there are few things more pitiful than those who seek to cram toothpaste back in the tube. it is to us to create a framework for embracing change, not only for the sake of progress, but the sake of our traditions.
I could not hear the Coolidge speech. Perhaps I need to turn the darn music off and use the headphones solo. I think I get what you're saying about frameworks both moral and effective by which citizens can succeed. I am a disaffected voter, too; there don't seem like many morally edifying yet effective frameworks by which citizens can thrive. I'm wondering if it ever truly was that way, or whether the victory of WWII offered promises and limitless horizons that were destined for failure. The 18th and 19th century saw slavery and unequal suffrage and income inequality. The aristocracy of the South and the industrialization of North created and cemented inequalities of race and class. The 20th Century heeded the calls to the end of these things with universal suffrage and the end of slavery combined with minimum wage laws and worker protections, but it still saw the new immigrant class and the lower classes as vile, foul creatures depending from where one came. The elite were still cemented in class-keeping colleges that were finishing schools and the classes subsequent commercial exploits after these finishing schools were often unavailable to the common man. This went on for the better part of four decades until the war, a war that saw many lost, families torn apart by death and grief. But the losses and grief might have been offset by the necessity of the heavy nationalization, patriotism, and national unity that touched both the aristocratic and the poor, who suffered these losses and sacrifices and mobilized together, if not together at the dinner table, then together in spirit and towards a common end. And the war, then over, promised the creature comforts while still retaining a sense of duty, of togetherness, it would seem.i was reacting to the Coolidge speech & your comment about luddites. Honor is not about establishing who is more honorable or who determines what is honorable and what is not, but about creating frameworks both moral and effective by which any citizen can succeed. That is why there are no honorable Republicans and almost all the honorable Dems are fools who can barely help themselves