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I’ve seen some old life that could breathe bourbon.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Saw this.
I’m sure they are just paid actors and that this is an isolated case in any event.
Is there a law against filling somebody else’s ballot? What about being in possession of somebody else’s ballot? Seems like that ought to be near treason to me, as it is actively undermining the government.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Show me what he’s doing that’s illegal or outside the rules and I will listen.
Tax avoidance is every citizen’s duty. Being in real estate and development is a great place to be if you want to avoid taxes.
there is the other issue: trumps people have already said the NYT has the wrong info.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Bob that’s just it, isn’t it?
advocate for and adopt orphaned or disadvantaged children of color and you are a colonizer.
advocate for the disproportionate abortion of millions of black kids and you are a champion for minority rights everywhere.
rb Ginsburg said “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
it’s a strange world we live in. Save one or two and you are grandstanding. Exercise indifference at the ending of millions of lives, and you are a champion for the people!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I figured that was coming. She just adopted those kids for show. Right? What a pathetic argument. It’s horribly disrespectful to the kids.
I guess it’s just not possible to be a good person who is trying to help disadvantaged people. It has to be arrogance, appropriation, and (????) colonizing.
The left has no code except to attack the things it’s not. This will backfire.
oh; and to judge ACB: You ain’t black!!!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“I was born a poor black child.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That guy had an amazing game.
Happy for him. Leach is amazing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The Floyd death looked really bad on tape because of the issue of correlation and causation. the correlation of the cuffed prone knee to the upper shoulders and neck on a black man who was pleading for his life and that he couldn’t breath with his immediate death was a justifiable triggering event for an assumption that the cops caused the death. I fell for it. It looked awful.
the actual causation: that Floyd had somehow ingested or otherwise taken (he said he had been “hooping” which I believe means carrying drugs in his rectum) a fatal dose of fentanyl and would have died if the cops had him sitting quietly on the sidewalk.
The real problem is that, of course, everybody is committed to their position, even the positions that were about police brutality and murder even when there was none. George Floyd would have died of the cops had given him a relaxing foot rub and sent him on his way.
This episode of american history brought out the worst of the social media age: bunch of people speculating on what they saw on a video without expertise or even all the background facts.
the cops will walk and Minneapolis will burn again. If I’m the mayor there, I want the verdict read when temperatures are below zero so the crowds don’t get out. No way I’m allowing a summertime trial.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2769]Answers vary, of course. Before Covid, heard the CEO of a major international engineering firm speak. He had implemented a remote work force for their entire organization a decade ago, and it is wildly successful. He spoke primarily on culture in his organization and how to maintain it. A few weeks into Covid, had him talk to a small group of CEOs about working remotely effectively, and it can be done. Really was fascinating. That said, also heard (fourth hand from an well connected source) that Facebook is failing miserably at working from home, and that Zuckerberg is extremely frustrated.[/quote]
My hunch is that if the management system is set up to hire and manage remote workers, it works. A huge part of that is hiring the right people. otherwise you get the “T to T” crowd, which is to say they work Tuesday to Thursday, Ten to Two.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. Ever seen the movie Footloose?
The next county over just got a business boom.
The number of deaths this will prevent is astounding. All those cases of COVID between 18-22 year olds.. I can’t fathom the carnage and the pressure on the hospital systems. Tragic.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t golf but do live on a golf course and I am not surprised at all.
Despite all the righteous indignation to the contrary, it’s actually a fairly rare person who has the discipline to “bring it” day after day without accountability or supervision. Suddenly we think everybody can do it and it’s no problem.
The people who are going to really get hurt in this will be the more junior people who get zero face time and role modeling.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hopefully one day we will be sane enough to collectively admit what went on here, and to ensure that it never happens again.
This whole thing makes the watergate break-in look like tiddlywinks.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2748]I too came across an interesting piece of statistical minutia. In recent elections, over 22% of mail in ballots have been ruled ineligible and therefore uncounted. Might it be even higher this cycle? Democrats have a much higher percentage of vote by mail participants. Republicans on the other hand have a much higher percentage of vote in person participation. Can the democrats commit fraud on a sufficiently broad scale to actually influence the result? (ps: this dovetails nicely with Rocky’s links)[/quote]
The only fraud that concerns me is the ability to add votes after the initial count. If postmarks are not required or are de emphasized, we will have a real problem, because it means a general strategy to influence the election can become a very targeted strategy to fraudulently win it.
imagine if you could count the votes and then target “late” vote by mail ballots to the top 5 counties that matter.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=2723]The Breonna Taylor thing is just amazing. Her boyfriend used her as a human shield [/quote]
Has this been actually confirmed via testimony? It makes perfect sense in that the boyfriend wasn’t struck but she was struck 8 times, but I haven’t seen it actually printed anywhere.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I put myself out there too literally. I just meant that her “cause” is women. She probably gets a pass for not hiring enough minorities because of it.
That doesn’t make it “right” or “justifiable” to me, because we’ve already seen how much the libs cared about Kavenaugh’s exemplary hiring of women and minorities as clerks.
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