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Originally posted by JO753:
Youre a good guy. Thanks for existing.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.7532020.com .

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Originally posted by JO753:
Youre a good guy. Thanks for existing.

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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early

http://www.7532020.com .

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by JO753:
Youre a good guy. Thanks for existing.

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http://www.7532020.com .

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lol

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by second:
6ix, I wouldn't give you even a dollar.

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You better pray that in a few years from now Elizabeth Warren eventually succeeds over the objections of every GOP Senator and Trump. That is your only hope for more dollars.

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Originally posted by second:
6ix, I wouldn't give you even a dollar.

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I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. Let's call it even.

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Hundreds of government people who had prepared to brief the incoming Trump administration sat waiting. A day became a week and a week became a month … and no one showed up.

More at www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the
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Originally posted by JO753:

Scary, but it makes sens - If youre job iz to tear it down, you dont need to learn much about it.

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www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/So-now-you-re-raising
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The Constitution is very clear: Congress — and only Congress — has the power to declare war. It hasn’t formally declared war since World War II. Since then, it has sometimes used phrases like the “authorization of military force,” and other times presidents have acted unilaterally, invoking U.N. resolutions or really almost nothing at all. To the extent that Congress has complained, the outrage has usually been partisan. Congressional Democrats hate it when Republican presidents don’t get their approval, and vice versa.

The so-called war on terror, well into its 18th year, is a sprawling enterprise around the globe, tenuously justified by constitutionally flimsy pronouncements by Congress. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists passed after 9/11 doesn’t cover ISIS in Syria (or Africa, or the Philippines, or cyberspace).

The president basically has carte blanche to wage war — and retreat from it — without any real congressional sanction. President Barack Obama invaded Syria without congressional authorization. President Trump ramped up that war without congressional authorization. And now he wants to pull out without congressional authorization.

War is just the most grave and appalling example of bipartisan congressional cowardice. Congress gave the president almost unilateral authority over trade decades ago, even though the Commerce Clause gives Congress total authority over trade, both foreign and domestic. I understand why many support the president’s trade policies toward China, but why Congress yawned as the president invoked national security threats to wage trade wars with Canada or the EU is a different matter.

Again, this isn’t about Trump. Congress has been surrendering vast swaths of its constitutional authority to the president, to the courts and to a permanent bureaucracy for a century. Indeed, critics of the Mueller probe have a point when they complain that the executive branch should not be conducting what is in effect an impeachment inquiry. We’ve stumbled into this bizarre situation because Congress handed over much its oversight of the presidency to the Department of Justice and the FBI.

The Founders never imagined that Congress would just give away so much of its power. James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 48 that Congress would always be “extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.”

While the problem has been worsening for generations, the era of cable television and social media has put the trend into overdrive. The legislative branch is often little more than a peanut gallery — a parliament of pundits — full of people who use their office as a way to get on TV or as a stepping stone to a presidential bid.

Schools often teach that we have three “co-equal” branches of government. But that’s not what the Constitution established. Congress is the first and supreme branch of government, with the power to declare war, write laws, create all of the courts save the Supreme Court, and raise taxes.

We don’t live in that Constitutional system. We live in a constitutional-ish one.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/So-now-you-re-raising
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sounds like a story about every politician that ever lived.

I'll pass.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."

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and they say the Left has moved very far from centrist position, some might even say Libertarians are the truer Democrat these days, Democrats changed and became Neo-Liberal?

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and they say the Left has moved very far from centrist position, some might even say Libertarians are the truer Democrat these days, Democrats changed and became Neo-Liberal?

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Yup.

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Trump, in debates, sensibly assailed Clinton’s record on Middle Eastern interventions.

“Take a look at Libya. Take a look at Iraq,” he said. “She gave us ISIS because her and Obama created this small vacuum. A small group came out of that huge vacuum. We should have never been in Iraq.”

In fact, Trump was significantly overstating his degree of opposition to the war. But that's neither here nor there — a well-known Iraq War supporter who, unlike Trump, was actually in the Senate at the time was very poorly positioned to argue against him. And by 2020, there’s simply no reason to do that again. Most of the party’s bench consists of people like Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker, who are young enough not to have participated in the war debate in Congress.

But what’s Biden’s excuse? He was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time — the guy with privileged access to top officials in the American government and around the world. The guy who, though he surely couldn’t have stopped Bush’s folly, certainly could have warned about it.

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Washington loves imaginary problems that give it an excuse for not solving an actual one.

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That actually sounds pretty awesome.

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Meh... why ruin a Steve Carell vehicle with political opinion.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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The stock market was designed to siphon wealth off of the labor of others.

They're all scumbags.

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lol...

Do try to remember that our current "fear" of Russia was started entirely by Hillary Clinton.

This is a both-sides problem.



I have noticed that you don't seem very scared of that yourself. It's one of the defining characteristics that set you apart from some of the stooges here who can't make a single post without Russia in it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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lol...

Do try to remember that our current "fear" of Russia was started entirely by Hillary Clinton.

This is a both-sides problem.



I have noticed that you don't seem very scared of that yourself. It's one of the defining characteristics that set you apart from some of the stooges here who can't make a single post without Russia in it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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The thing about connecting Trump and Russia is about making Trump look like a traitor. And a traitor he could be, if you look at his 45 year business history, there are reasons to believe he would cheat and lie and sell out for money. Russia is just a convenient stick to beat Trump with, but there is probably worse crooked deals. My favorite is that Trump owes about a half billion to the IRS in unpaid estate taxes. But to understand how he cheated the IRS is even trickier than his international connections.

". . . he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-sc
hemes-fred-trump.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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