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Nothing more really needs to be said
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what's really fascinating is this shithead dumbfuck says the people can handle the truth or whatever. Well.... President Joe Biden has been saying that he's keeping his hand off the DOJ, and Merrick Garland is keeping his hand off the Special Counsel Jack Smith. So, I ask him, what the hell different does he think he's gonna learn. Fucking republicans need to start thinking about governing, and fixing the problems this country has, instead of looking foe revenge because their false idol is crashing down on them.
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it does seem as if too many people have a problem with reading comprehension. So as a public service... A reading comprehension test.    SANIBEL, Fla.— People are taking full advantage of visiting Sanibel with no causeway tolls, and business owners said they are loving this idea. Clare Harris at Billy’s Rentals said, “We’ve definitely seen an uptake in customers today; it’s wonderful.” Harris said the toll fee being waived has helped her get more customers on bikes. “It’s just great to see the families come out,” Harris smiled. The Brandl family being one of them. Liz Brandl is visiting Sanibel with her family. She said, “We’re going to go on a bike ride and go see the lighthouse with the kids and then we wanted to go out and explore some beaches today.” Liz said not having to pay the toll fee made her visit to Sanibel even better. “It was wonderful! It was really easy to enter; we appreciate saving the money coming over here,” smiled Liz. Plus, the rest of the Brandl family w...

The child

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On this Electoral College day...I like to reflect on 'the serious answer'... 12-14-2020 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214709776 'An anguished question from a Trump supporter: "Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?"   The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...   That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine." That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem." That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an iss...
How VP Harris Can Sideline Moscow Mitch  NOV 14, 2020 https://newsflector.com/how-vp-harris-can-sideline-moscow-mitch/ Even if the Democrats don’t win control of the Senate, there is a way to strip Mitch McConnell of his power for good: priority recognition. According to Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution, the Vice President is also the President of the Senate. The Majority Leader is not a position that exists anywhere in the Constitution. The reason that the Majority Leader has near-dictatorial powers to control floor votes  is because of a tradition that dates back to 1937.  The tradition is that the Vice President gives the floor leaders priority recognition. Most notably,  this is not a rule in the Senate. As President of the Senate, Vice President Harris could give any senator priority recognition. That senator could then decide on all legislation that is brought before the entire Senate. Even with a minority in the Senate, Vice Preside...
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The case against war. Support and defend. I have always insisted that my employers observed this with regard to employee rights. The armed services ask, at the outset, that the employee relinquish those rights. This seems contradictory to me. That’s not a citizen’s army. It’s a hit squad. In any fight you need a defense as well. Agility, training and strength may also be a factor. The best a soldier can do is take no action that violates that contract. Such are truly patriots. A modest draft, with an exemption for other projects in the national interest, seems like a reasonable option. To be clear, the armed forces are for the national defense in the world that is or will be in a short time. Moving on, what size military do we require? The question is best answered by an accurate assessment of our enemies. I would submit that they are fewer than we would expect, given the devastation we have caused. In any rational assessment, it is time to stand down from our current posture a...

get outa jail

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.                                 Change of Circumstance Some union huh? The United States was born out of revolution. The crazy king was treating his own people as second-class citizens. The French and Spanish kings were not doing this. Where is the justice in that? This ill treatment came about in the lifetime of most of the original patriots. The king and many of his island subjects were paying a dear price for the Seven Years War with France. The declaration of independence is replete with examples of the injustices. At this very time in history a revolution of ideas was occurring, the enlightenment. Mix the two and you have something that even the authors of the constitution could not fully grasp, nor did they pretend to. They simply tried their best. The preamble to the constitution, which legal scholars agree, has no force in law, States: ”We the people (herein after known as property holders)...

your and you're. knowing the difference

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The White House

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regime change

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Collusion

COLLUSION. Is an agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. It implies the existence of fraud of some kind, the employment of fraudulent means, or of lawful means for the accomplishment of an unlawful purpose. May Hosiery Mills v. United States District Court in and for Dist. of Montana, C.C.A. Mont., 64 F.2d 450, 454. A secret combination, conspiracy, or concert of action between two or more persons for fraudulent or deceitful purpose. W. E. Bowen Improvement Co. v. Van Half ten, 209 Mo.App. 629, 238 S.W. 147, 149; Daly v. Haight, 156 N.Y.S. 538, 541, 170 App.Div. 469. BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY REVISED FOURTH EDITION

This one’s for Florida residents.

The Supreme Court ruled in U.S. TERM LIMITS, INC. v. THORNTON, (1995), that neither Congress, nor the States have the power to impose term limits, or any other requirement beyond that which is enumerated in Article One of the U.S. constitution. To assist dick scott, the skeletor of Florida, here is how to amend the constitution. Please read it carefully, and stop embarrassing us and yourself with your lead off ad to replace Bill Nelson in the Senate. Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed...
Tough Guys in the Senate So, they voted to continue funding the abomination in Yemen. Each party struggles to take the strongest stance in the fight with our many enemies. *The neo-liberals and most of the Republicans think it is a good idea to contribute to the continued destruction of one of the poorest countries on earth. The Saudis’ want it to be their breadbasket when they make the move to desalinate with nuclear power--very forward thinking of them. We want to keep Arabia as a partner in order to keep the price of energy low, thereby harming the emerging oil rich countries of Venezuela, Brazil, Iran and, of course Russia. I suppose the politicians feel that the voters are to ignorant to understand the geo-political maze of the modern global economy; that the economic benefits of slaughtering a million starving people has to be understood in all of its rich complexities; that those who oppose the atrocity are weak, stupid, do-gooders with a kind heart but no sense. Well to them...
The State of the Union We are now in the process of taxing the persons of the United States to develop a Military and security system that is beyond belief. At he same time that we are gutting all regulatory agencies, diminishing social programs and down sizing the State Department. Democracy is dying or dead in most states and civil liberties are being eroded faster than ever before. The media holds on to the quaint notion that it is still possible to change our circumstance or, in the case of state controlled media, that this is normal. Some believe that a Democratic wave in this years elections could reverse the power grab. For the most part it will only change the name of the oppressors. Democrats have no intention, beyond lip service, of lessening the security state, of reestablishing the 4 th or 8 th amendments, restoring regular order, building up the State Department or increasing social programs. They can’t even agree on “Medicare for all”. Division is the word o...

Hey, American People!

By Sheila Samples December 13, 2010 "The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr. Whew. Nasty. That was one hell of a campaign season; one hell of an election. Democrats emerged, bruised and broken, yet their mindset seems to be -- hey, we survived Bush, how bad can it be? Sadly, the grim truth they refuse to face is -- we didn't survive Bush... The radical right-wing, neo-conservative, religious-based, hate-empowered GOP once again owes the half-crazed ideologues in the Supreme Court a hearty thanks for plunging yet another dagger into the heart of democracy with its Citizens United corporate giveaway. And no Justice on that venerable body is more ideologically rigid than Dick Cheney's hunting buddy Antonin Scalia, who ramrodded the Court's 2000 Presidential "Selection" for George W. Bush, and is now out there taking aim at the century-old 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, which is literally the last barrier to a corp...

Federal Wage Freeze:

It's Like Tipping the Rich for Being Rich the Rude Pundit 11/30/2010 http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/federal-wage-freeze-its-like-tipping.html see also: Obama imposes pay freeze on 2.1 million federal workers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/fede-n30.shtml Unemployed and Unnoticed http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/pr20101130/index.html Let us not argue for a moment the economics of President Obama's proposed federal employee pay freeze , except to say that it's about as uselessly symbolic a gesture as giving a piece of fruit to a fat man. Instead, let us think for a moment about the utterly dumbfounding and worthless political nature of the act. Because the Republicans are like that fat guy, and they're gonna take that fruit and say, "That's great. Now give us the rest of the groceries 'cause we're fucking fat and hungry here." There was something just sorrowfully pathetic about watching the President, in the midst of negotiating...

Only If We Let It

By Sheila Samples October 17, 2010 "History will repeat itself -- only if we let it"~~ Mike Malloy Hardly a day goes by that we are not inundated with demands to attack Iran. Our media, our Congress -- packs of neoconservatives -- have been howling for war on Iran for years. And years. This reckless axis has been relentless in its orchestrated effort to manipulate and influence public opinion. And, if we are to believe the myriad of polls, it's working. According to investigative journalist Gareth Porter, who wrote on July 30 that "polling data for 2010 show a majority of Americans have been manipulated into supporting war against Iran -- in large part because more than two-thirds of those polled have gotten the impression that Iran already has nuclear weapons." Horror Tent Revival Is it possible that a majority of Americans can be lured again into the tent of horror to support yet another bloody war? Have we learned nothing from history -- the blatant lies th...

nine years later

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