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Everything posted by tvc184
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Class envy. The birth of the Soviet Union and other socialist fiascos. Let’s see, if the richest person in my town is worth $30 million but I can reduce his/her wealth to only $10 million... yeah I will be so much better off if he/she only had $10M more than me than $30M. Darn rich people!
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The USPS loses money because they are not a profit making enterprise. They aren’t intended to be. They are a taxpayer based and constitutionally guaranteed means of communication. It is silly to compare them to FedEx of UPS. Right now a first class stamp to anywhere in this country is 55 cents. For that price you can send a letter to Guam which is part of the USA. FedEx will send the same letter from Houston to Detroit.. for $15. The USPS could raise their rates. Grandma who pays all of her bills by mail on fixed income can hardly afford $150 a month just for postage off 10 bills. So it is a taxpayer funded delivery system. Trump says to raise their rates. Yes that would work. Wait for the outcry from those that spend on the mail to live. They wouldn’t have to raise it to UPS prices. Maybe just $4 to mail a letter. If that is what the people want to mail a letter.... Last year the USPS lost 8.8 billion. That comes out to 1/5 of 1%. If a person paid $20,000 in income tax last year, he/she put $40 of that into the USPS. So if they raised their rates to make a profit, that person saves $40 in income tax. If you didn’t pay $20,000 in income taxes, you paid in less. i don’t mail anything anymore. I think I paid not quite $20k in taxes. I am not worried about getting another $35 or so back on my taxes. If it was fun more efficiently maybe I could only post in $20 more in taxes instead of $35. Either way, it doesn’t make sense to compare the USPS to a billion dollar for profit industry. No, I don’t work for the postal service, none of my family ever has and to my knowledge, none of my friends.
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Not by Roe v. Wade. That decision said only in the first trimester. 13 weeks in and that right stops.
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I rarely watch any debates but last night was truly entertaining. Brutal... About 100 sound bytes for commercials... I loved Bloomberg calling Sanders a communist...
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Trump is an egotistical boor, a schoolyard bully and probably has narcissistic personality disorder. The Dims can be thankful for that because that is the only thing keeping Trump from possibly a historic win in 2020. The only thing keeping the race interesting is Trump tweets and rants.
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They have already weighed in with the case US v Nixon (1974)
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.... therefore Biden (not surprisingly) was wrong.
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That has always been the law. If no sign, you could carry in a church with a license. The bill signed by Abbott reduced it from a felony to a misdemeanor but still a crime. Also signed by Abbott was a law that allows a church to have voluntarily security without having to declare themselves a security company. Churches for years have had members doing security but an issue was brought up if that was illegal (I think it is questionable at best) since a security company Texas needs a license. That new law settles the question by simply exempting them from a license.
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Not that it is shocking but Biden is wrong. Abbott did not sign a bill into law giving the ability to legally carry in a church. That has been the law since the mid-90s. Stunned... right? 😂
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Impeach means to accuse. So the Dems have made an accusation. Along comes Pelosi wanting to dictate how the Senate will try the case or even if they will. In 1993 the case of (federal judge) Nixon v. US, SCOTUS noted that the Constitution forbids them from reviewing the process . So even SCOTUS cannot dictate or rule on how the Senate conducts a trial. In the ruling SCOTUS (quoting the Constitution) that the “Senate shall have sole power” to try any impeachment. So SCOTUS says that even they cannot step in (nonjusticiable) but Pelosi thinks she can. SCOTUS has essentially negated the second article and I think it was in US v. Nixon (president) that contempt of Congress had to go through a US Attorney and that Congress has no such authority to hold someone criminally or civilly in contempt. That again appears to negate article two of obstruction. So we have at least two SCOTUS cases that negate obstruction and at least one the reaffirms the Constitution whereas only the Senate can set the rules for trying the case and even SCOTUS can’t step in. Oh yeah...... what was the vote count? 9-0. Yep, a unanimous SCOTUS said that they basically have no dog in the hunt. Yes, it is nothing more than a comedy show authored by the Dems with no direct evidence and a couple of constitutional violations along the way.
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District Attorney: Officer did you witness the crime? Officer: No. DA: Do you have any evidence of the crime? Officer: No. DA: Do you believe the defendant is Guilty? Officer: Absolutely! DA: The prosecution rests Your Honor.
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Oh yeah.. ... you would never get someone to admit it but that is the reason that I believe some ISDs (or most) have their own police departments.
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I think every job has stuff that the public doesn’t see. Schools are no different. Cheaters, crooks, affairs, lies, good people, bad people and so on. No one wants to air their dirty laundry. I have worked security in schools many times over more than 30 years and have seen plenty. While some of it would really have people wagging their tongues, I can’t say that I haven’t seen the same elsewhere.
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Kneeling game
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Fumbled snap. Ball over on downs
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P inc. 4-1 0:33
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3-1 0:42 at PNG 9 PNG 27-21
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Now timeout PNG
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At PNG 9
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R for 6. 3-1 0:42 timeout Nederland
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R for 3. 2-7
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R for 16. 1-10 at PNG 15
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P inc in end zone 2-10 1:26 in game PNG 27-21
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P for 12. 3-1 R for 4. 1-10 1:36