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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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bambu-wisdom

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10965 on: March 09, 2019, 07:05:19 PM »

Read up on climate change Bambu.

Don’t live the rest of your life chasing some Red’s squirrels.

The Black guy...who didn't really do that much wrong, no victim/s as such, 'gets' 60+ years [in reality never to see freedom/the horizon again]...while the non-Black guy politcians get 4 years for tax and bank fraud etc etc etc.
Justice American style. The system needs a serious overhaul.

Climate change;

The climate is always changing, Ice Ages come and go.
The planet heats up, the planet cools, all by itself.
One used to be able to walk from Australia to India, can't do that anymore, the seas get in the way.

Uluru once sat at the bottom of the sea.

http://uluru-australia.com/about-uluru/uluru-facts/

Fact: The rock was created over some 600 million years, and the Aborigines have been in the area for the last 10,000 years. It originally sat at the bottom of a sea,but today stands 348m above ground. One of the most startling Uluru facts however, is that some 2.5kms of its bulk is underground.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10966 on: March 09, 2019, 07:22:40 PM »

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McConnell has expressed his fervent opposition to even relatively uncontroversial sections of the bill, such as making Election Day a federal holiday in order to give people more time to vote. McConnell called this a “power grab” for Democrats, a striking admission that Republicans do better when fewer people vote.   

Indeed. 

Can't wait to hear our constitutional scholar explain how HR 1 violates the Constitution.

Expect irrelevant cut/pastes soon!
It is not unconstitutional to pass stupid laws.
Once again, the poster who accuses others of ducking substantive argument... ducks substantive argument. Come on, Red. It is not that hard, the ACLU has called out parts of it. Of course, the purported unconstitutionality of some parts of the bill is not actually an argument against taking up the bill. The normal legislative process would.allow.for the Senate to amend the bill to remove the offending items and send the bill either back to the house or a conference committee. An isolated provision is not an argument against taking up the bill. It is an argument against having to take a stand.
H.R.1 is nothing more than a 2020 Campaign tactic by democrats. It is a proverbial political squirrel. McConnell could force the democrats to own it with a vote but it would only put off other legislative action on matters people actually care about.
Which is precisely why you condemned each of the 4537 (roughly) votes the Repos staged to overturn the ACA.
Thanks for agreeing with me. 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10967 on: March 09, 2019, 07:24:39 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/politics/judge-ts-ellis-paul-manafort-sentence/index.html
Yes, white collar crime is often committed by wealthy people and so is viewed as less serious than other crimes by the type of people who get lifetime judicial appointments, especially those with appointments from presidents like Ronald Reagan.
Oh.  You disagreed with the sentence.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10968 on: March 09, 2019, 07:27:33 PM »

Nitrogen accounts for 78% of the atmosphere, oxygen 21% and argon 0.9%. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, and ozone are trace gases that account for about a tenth of one percent of the atmosphere.

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No wonder my no1 radio host says that man-made CO2  'climate change/global warming' is a hoax.
"The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" he actually said.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10969 on: March 09, 2019, 07:30:09 PM »

If the democrats were so concerned “For The People” they would have tried HR 1 when they controlled Washington. Now they have a better plan. They are all for this mishmash knowing it has no chance of becoming law.  And why would it? It’s isnothing more than the political rape of Federalism, denial of Free Speech, and a power grab allowing the federal government to politicize elections.

I happen to agree with a small part of this - there were things that could and should have been done.

But that does not make this worthwhile and you have made no arguments that would give anybody reason to think it is not worthwhile.

Just denial and obfuscation.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10970 on: March 09, 2019, 07:32:45 PM »

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The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury." ~Lindsey Graham

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10971 on: March 09, 2019, 07:33:16 PM »

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McConnell has expressed his fervent opposition to even relatively uncontroversial sections of the bill, such as making Election Day a federal holiday in order to give people more time to vote. McConnell called this a “power grab” for Democrats, a striking admission that Republicans do better when fewer people vote.   

Indeed. 

Can't wait to hear our constitutional scholar explain how HR 1 violates the Constitution.

Expect irrelevant cut/pastes soon!
It is not unconstitutional to pass stupid laws.
Once again, the poster who accuses others of ducking substantive argument... ducks substantive argument. Come on, Red. It is not that hard, the ACLU has called out parts of it. Of course, the purported unconstitutionality of some parts of the bill is not actually an argument against taking up the bill. The normal legislative process would.allow.for the Senate to amend the bill to remove the offending items and send the bill either back to the house or a conference committee. An isolated provision is not an argument against taking up the bill. It is an argument against having to take a stand.
H.R.1 is nothing more than a 2020 Campaign tactic by democrats. It is a proverbial political squirrel. McConnell could force the democrats to own it with a vote but it would only put off other legislative action on matters people actually care about.
Which is precisely why you condemned each of the 4537 (roughly) votes the Repos staged to overturn the ACA.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Your reading skills need some work.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10972 on: March 09, 2019, 07:33:51 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/politics/judge-ts-ellis-paul-manafort-sentence/index.html
Yes, white collar crime is often committed by wealthy people and so is viewed as less serious than other crimes by the type of people who get lifetime judicial appointments, especially those with appointments from presidents like Ronald Reagan.
Oh.  You disagreed with the sentence.
Your reading skills need some work.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10973 on: March 09, 2019, 07:38:05 PM »

Nitrogen accounts for 78% of the atmosphere, oxygen 21% and argon 0.9%. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, and ozone are trace gases that account for about a tenth of one percent of the atmosphere.

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No wonder my no1 radio host says that man-made CO2  'climate change/global warming' is a hoax.
"The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" he actually said.
Drink a glass of water with .01 % arsenic and get back to us. Or rather, have your next of kin tell your #1 idiot that his math may not quite resolve the point.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10974 on: March 09, 2019, 07:42:30 PM »

If the democrats were so concerned “For The People” they would have tried HR 1 when they controlled Washington. Now they have a better plan. They are all for this mishmash knowing it has no chance of becoming law.  And why would it? It’s isnothing more than the political rape of Federalism, denial of Free Speech, and a power grab allowing the federal government to politicize elections.

I happen to agree with a small part of this - there were things that could and should have been done.

But that does not make this worthwhile and you have made no arguments that would give anybody reason to think it is not worthwhile.


I made quite a few.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10975 on: March 09, 2019, 07:44:53 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/politics/judge-ts-ellis-paul-manafort-sentence/index.html
Yes, white collar crime is often committed by wealthy people and so is viewed as less serious than other crimes by the type of people who get lifetime judicial appointments, especially those with appointments from presidents like Ronald Reagan.
Oh.  You disagreed with the sentence.
Your reading skills need some work.
Not in your case.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10976 on: March 09, 2019, 07:59:39 PM »

Not in America, but:

Why can't there be private 'membership by invitation only' gentlemen's clubs in the Christian West today??

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/burnside-forced-to-quit-exclusive-mens-only-club/ar-BBUyBAr?li=AAgfYrC&OCID=AVRES000

High-profile barrister and Greens candidate Julian Burnside has been forced to terminate his 40-year membership of an exclusive men's club under the pressure of an imminent election.
On Friday Mr Burnside revealed during a Sky News interview that he belonged to the Savage Club, an invitation-only gentlemen's club in Melbourne where "literary men" can bond over fine wines and a shared penchant for "the bohemian spirit".


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Said men should be able to have that club if they want to.




By Saturday, following an online backlash, the refugee advocate and now Greens candidate for Kooyong promised to resign the membership, arguing same-sex only clubs were "an anachronism" and "should be made a thing of the past".

The Savage Club, opened in Melbourne in 1894, is associated with the gentleman's club of the same name founded in London in 1857.
According to its website: "Ladies guests are welcome at the club at many functions and are always welcome at the Club after 4.30pm on weekdays."


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Same-sex clubs would no doubt include...ladies bowling clubs, ladies tennis clubs, ladies croquet clubs, ladies netball clubs, ladies basketball clubs, ladies social clubs etc..all with boards most likely.

Men should be demanding to be members and make up 50% of all the boards.
That is only fair.
'What's good for the goose is good for the gander".


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10977 on: March 09, 2019, 08:03:59 PM »

If the democrats were so concerned “For The People” they would have tried HR 1 when they controlled Washington. Now they have a better plan. They are all for this mishmash knowing it has no chance of becoming law.  And why would it? It’s isnothing more than the political rape of Federalism, denial of Free Speech, and a power grab allowing the federal government to politicize elections.

I happen to agree with a small part of this - there were things that could and should have been done.

But that does not make this worthwhile and you have made no arguments that would give anybody reason to think it is not worthwhile.


I made quite a few.
Not here, you haven't. Unsupported pronouncements are not arguments.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10978 on: March 09, 2019, 08:04:27 PM »

Nitrogen accounts for 78% of the atmosphere, oxygen 21% and argon 0.9%. Gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, and ozone are trace gases that account for about a tenth of one percent of the atmosphere.

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No wonder my no1 radio host says that man-made CO2  'climate change/global warming' is a hoax.
"The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" he actually said.
Drink a glass of water with .01 % arsenic and get back to us. Or rather, have your next of kin tell your #1 idiot that his math may not quite resolve the point.

Arsenic is not tree and plant food, without which they would die.
CO2 is.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #10979 on: March 09, 2019, 08:06:01 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/politics/judge-ts-ellis-paul-manafort-sentence/index.html
Yes, white collar crime is often committed by wealthy people and so is viewed as less serious than other crimes by the type of people who get lifetime judicial appointments, especially those with appointments from presidents like Ronald Reagan.
Oh.  You disagreed with the sentence.
Your reading skills need some work.
Not in your case.
That is correct. In my case my reading skills do not need work. Yours probably need to go back to seeing Dick run. See Dick. See Dick run.  Run Dick, run. Run away from substantive arguments.
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