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[quote quote=6593]I believe book royalties are the only source of outside revenue available to those on the Federal bench? I know leftists have been trying their best to undo ACB’s $2 million dollar book deal? the deals are pretty public. Are you troubled by that arrangement?[/quote]
Absolutely.
Any vehicle that allows for undue influence over a public official should be outlawed.
I can’t bribe an official but I can buy ten thousand copies of their book.
That’s like elementary-school level cheating and we allow it all day long on all sides of the spectrum.
Tell me why it should be ok.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)8 terms for Leahy. That’s 48 years; right?
let that sink in. We have people “serving” for 48 years.
we need term limits and mandatory retirement ages for legislators.
We also need to tax 100 percent of net revenue earned via books, appearances, apparel, board seats and speaking fees while in elected office and for 5 years after. Too much gray market cash flowing to elected officials.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have been surprised at how hard it is to find unedited video of Biden and a few others like Fetterman who don’t show well.
I’m not sure Biden even does live tv events anymore. Too hard to clean up after.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes! People get up in arms about using price this way but that really is the best way to manage usage.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t live in a water constrained locale, so probably can’t relate; but I would have no problem with a list like this as long as everybody knew it was going to be published.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6506]Leg and: [quote quote=6501]Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.[/quote] How do you weigh Trump’s impact relative to the 2020 Covid voting process anomalies and the Abrams litigation re voter access?[/quote]
for the Georgia senate runoff? I think trump basically gave it to the Dems. Didn’t he stir the pot on the wrong side of politics (like advocating for more covid aid?)?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6506]Leg and: [quote quote=6501]Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.[/quote] How do you weigh Trump’s impact relative to the 2020 Covid voting process anomalies and the Abrams litigation re voter access?[/quote]
for the Georgia senate runoff? I think trump basically gave it to the Dems. Didn’t he stir the pot on the wrong side of politics (like advocating for more covid aid?)?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Why should Christian minister come into play? Warnock’s politics are wrong, regardless of his ministry.
I am way past the personal values of a politician being the only reason to vote or not vote. At this point neither party has the moral high ground so gridlock is a better solution.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Honestly the whole candidacy has been a disgrace.
The only reason to vote for Walker is to have a Republican vote in the senate. And sadly I would vote for him for that reason alone.
Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)From the first article: “But her dedication had a downside: ‘My hair was almost falling out, because I was working so hard.'”
Poor girl, she’s so sensitive that she could tell that her hair was almost falling out.
The second article is a bit less clear. It’s very possible that the 84 year old professor is an old codger who has lost his fastball, and that the kids he’s teaching expect to be coddled. We have been on a long decline when it comes to academic standards and expectations for classwork. I taught a class a few years ago at a local college and, after the final exam, got a nasty note from an “honors” student who was angry that her performance on the final might put her “honors diploma” at risk. Kids are pretty entitled and empowered these days. It isn’t like it used to be.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think it can be true that structures can be designed to withstand a cat 5 storm, but at the same time you can’t protect land. The coastal erosion and restructuring that comes with a storm of this kind tend to re-establish the real estate goal line. When your cat 5 resistant vacation home is now stationed in the middle of a newly-dredged jetty you have few choices but to move.
A friend has beach real-estate near houston. One of the storms in the past two decades brought his house from being 6 rows back from the beach to being 2 rows back. It happens.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)While we are at it, why not ban residential air conditioning? It’s a huge and superfluous use of energy.
Hot water? Who needs it? Let’s all do cold showers. Fewer unwanted babies that way too!
In fact, we should ban industry from using electricity. They can just figure things out…maybe go back to water wheels. Anybody seen any good riverside manufacturing plants lately?
Once you go statist, you should go all in. You will be cold, dirty, and tired and like it.
Why? Because it’s California!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)They should just bump by 100 bps and get us moving back toward normalcy.
Oh, and they should rapidly shrink the fed balance sheet too.
The first one is more likely than the second.
You want inflation to cease? Take money out of the system. Oh, that will affect employment and housing? It’s only the chickens coming home to roost after trillions in stimulus to keep employment and housing intact.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw some posts that are calling this “human trafficking.”
Have to admit I chuckled at the flight to Martha’s Vineyard.
Let me get this straight: The feds allow people into border states and so the border states facilitate (not mandating) transportation to other states. I see no issue here. I could imagine that there’s some interstate commerce violation, but I’m not sure.
The politics of this are, frankly, kinda mean but brilliant. How is it any different from bussing folks to a supreme court judge’s house?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I always thought it was amazing that I got to know a few relatively conservative women at Stanford given how few there are statistically speaking. To run that gauntlet and not come out a complete liberal is impressive.
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