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Quote:You are focusing on the wrong end of gun. Sure, Trump looks to be a foolish hunter, an Elmer Fudd spraying shotgun pellets randomly, but he actually keeps hitting the target: making the rich ever richer. He will be fondly remembered for that by the rich. As for everyone else, they will remember mostly the noisy cover fire he provided with his machine-gun mouth running all the time as guys like me, in a nearly completely legal robbery, take an ever larger percent of the yearly income and national wealth.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Obama is going to be remembered as a very good, intelligent president who guided our country out of a depression and strived to make regular Americans' lives better and bring peace to an unsettled world, in spite of a congress composed of crying babies who opposed him at every turn.
Blumpy will be remembered by the entire world as a tiny fingered, self-dealing vulgarian forever embroiled in conflicts of his own making, who lied and bumbled his way into office with the help of Putin and auditoriums full of cheering rejects from a WWF audience with the FOX “NEWS” logo burned into their retina and GOP kick me signs taped to their backs. No more than a game show host whose only real success in life was a reality TV show...a sort of male Kim Kardashian with a bigger ass and even bigger ego...Who cheats at golf.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
As for everyone else, they will remember mostly the cover fire he provided with his machine-gun mouth running all the time as guys like me accumulated an ever larger percent of the yearly income and national wealth.
Just like pretty much every president before him in the last few decades.
Except nobody believes that your rich while you spend so much of your time preaching to an audience of 10 people here.
All that money and you never learned what ROI means?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I am practicing my writing for the six part story: "River Tam and the Problem of Evil". It is how she intimidates the Operatives so that they will let Serenity and Mal go back to doing what Mal does so well. That is a story that will earn me nothing. The ROI is 0.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
As for everyone else, they will remember mostly the cover fire he provided with his machine-gun mouth running all the time as guys like me accumulated an ever larger percent of the yearly income and national wealth.
Just like pretty much every president before him in the last few decades.
Except nobody believes that your rich while you spend so much of your time preaching to an audience of 10 people here.
All that money and you never learned what ROI means?
I found a story where, just this week, Trump made another excellent move, before he flew to Europe and continued to distract attention from what he is actually doing, making the rich richer:
The real debate in the American judiciary is whether the Constitution allows the people’s elected representatives to meaningfully regulate the national economy.
Soon to be Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh clearly believes it does not: He has called the existence of independent regulatory agencies — notably including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but potentially the entire alphabet soup of FCC, FTC, CFTC, SEC, FEC, etc. — a “threat to individual liberty.”
But rather than debate this squarely, we are instead faced with grifters like Kavanaugh’s former boss Ken Starr insisting that Kavanaugh stands for nothing more than a simple “pro-democracy, let-the-people-govern-themselves vision.” The truth is quite the opposite — Kavanaugh’s vision, which he shares with Starr and the bulk of the conservative legal academy, is one in which the courts should stand as staunch allies of capital and block any effort at democratic control of big business.
The business world moves fast to try to exploit profit-making opportunities. At the same time, passing laws is clunky and difficult. Between bicameralism, the presidential veto, the committee system, and the filibuster, it’s just very hard to get new legislation enacted. So if you want to regulate business effectively, you can’t play legislative whack-a-mole and spot abuses in real time. What reformers do instead is try to create regulatory agencies that are given broad mandates to police areas of conduct. But the GOP wants to kill the agencies.
A classic example is the Clean Air Act, which charges the Environmental Protection Agency with identifying forms of harmful air pollution and promulgating rules to cost-effectively reduce it, rather than counting on Congress to pass new laws every time science or business practice changes. To make this system work, judges need to show deference to the regulatory agencies and acknowledge that the congressional reformers who created them wanted the agencies to have some flexibility and discretion. Kavanaugh, as Starr correctly observers, does not believe that this deference should be granted. This is a crucial aspect of his judicial philosophy, and Starr is right to call attention to it.
But Kavanaugh’s doctrine is not about the promotion of self-government or even about deference, it’s about viewing discretion as a one-way street that is always biased against regulation. How does he do it now and how will he continue once on the Supreme Court?
The Reconstruction-era Congress passed the 14th Amendment to try to establish black people’s civil rights, only to see Gilded Age courts rule that the 14th Amendment’s reference to “due process” prohibited all kinds of economic regulations — including civil rights laws! That only changed when those old judges died, but Kavanaugh and many young and conservative intellectuals are now trying to rehabilitate the same old Gilded Age idea that the Constitution should be read primarily as a property owners’ charter, whose purpose is to stymie econo
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Originally posted by second:
I am practicing my writing for the six part story: "River Tam and the Problem of Evil". It is how she intimidates the Operatives so that they will let Serenity and Mal go back to doing what Mal does so well. That is a story that will earn me nothing. The ROI is 0.
Great. Maybe if you spent only 5% of the time you waste here on the story it might be finished before you die of old age.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:In my head, the story was finished years ago and was inspired by Indistinguishable From Magic www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I am practicing my writing for the six part story: "River Tam and the Problem of Evil". It is how she intimidates the Operatives so that they will let Serenity and Mal go back to doing what Mal does so well. That is a story that will earn me nothing. The ROI is 0.
Great. Maybe if you spent only 5% of the time you waste here on the story it might be finished before you die of old age.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
At that point I bought a book "Time Machines, Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction". I discovered there was too much magic and not enough real physics in the original story. Rather than travel to the past, River will send a telepathic message to the past, to herself. The complications that ensue to send that message have amused me and that is what's important to me. Finishing the story is simply more work for me and if there is any amusement it will go to other people, not me. www.springer.com/us/book/9780387985718
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe if you spent only 5% of the time you waste here on the story it might be finished before you die of old age.
If we only had 5% of your posts, reading them would still be a 100% waste of our time.
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Quote:I pretty much agree. What the Republican voters, the Russian trolls, the empty-headed 6ixStringJack, etc. post about demonstrates that the entire way their dingy little minds work, even with the smartest of them, seems to be extreme helplessness and fearfulness. I can see why these people have lots of problems: they have almost no problem solving skills in the real world and they are afraid of everything.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Maybe if you spent only 5% of the time you waste here on the story it might be finished before you die of old age.
If we only had 5% of your posts, reading them would still be a 100% waste of our time.
This is why I'm not good writer: I always forget the example. What made you Trump voters think that he could improve your lives? He spent his entire career lying to people to get their money, then when they discovered he would not keep his promises, going to court and counter-suing the people he cheated. All those Trump voters disbelieved the true stories about Trump's past and preferred his make-believe stories.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Thursday morning at the Economic Club of Washington, House Speaker Paul Ryan had three clear messages on trade. He thinks the Trump administration’s trade wars are misguided, he doesn’t intend to do anything about it, and he is committed to pretending that there’s nothing he can do about it.
Here’s the reality of what he can do. Back in September of 2016, the Obama administration vetoed a bill that was supported by large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress. Congress voted to override his veto. (Obama vetoed legislation that would allow 9/11 victims’ families to sue the Saudi Arabian government over its support for the terrorists who carried out the attacks.)
Veto overrides are rare because they require two-thirds support in both houses of Congress and because it’s very unusual for a president to take an action that gets denounced by his own party’s leader, for example, Ryan denounced Trump on trade.
If Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans who’ve long supported free trade wanted to write legislation curtailing Trump’s ability to invoke spurious national security claims to raise taxes on imported goods, it seems certain that they would be able to get the votes to do so.
The question would be whether Democrats would bail Trump out by upholding his veto. Given that there is no real strategy behind Trump’s trade approach, it seems unlikely to me that any Democrats will support Trump.
But Ryan is voluntarily surrendering to Trump without a shot, all while pretending that he has no choice.
www.economicclub.org/media-alerts/news-coverage-house-speaker-paul-rya
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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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lol... no sweat off my sack guys and gals. I usually only read the first sentence or two of any of your posts before I start gagging myself.
Or laughing hysterically... I guess it depends on the subject matter.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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