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Sfroll to the 30 second mark to see the ship impact with the bridge.

How fast can tragedy happen? They are very lucky there are not more dead. I am assuming that the missing unfortunately will not be found alive. [Hidden Content]

I doubt that anyone (or not very many) would disagree with that sentiment. It would be jail however and not prison…. unless it was an 8th grader.

You betcha……. I start out with any of these stories (kind of like what I did when I was working) by assuming that it is false or taken out of context. If it is something that interests me, I “might” dig further.

CB’s response to a common analogy: ”That’s like comparing apples and oranges” CB: Well, it’s not a good analogy. Oranges are a citrus fruit and apples or not so their texture is nothing alike. Many people like eating an apple peel, but virtually no one eats an orange peel as they’re bitter and nasty although some people might use the zest for flavoring. What is really telling is that apple seeds are dark whereas orange seeds are virtually white. Furthermore, apples can be red, green, yellow, and maybe other colors but oranges are orange, hence the name of the color.

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In the for what it’s worth department…. Klein makes a point of the adult assaulting a 16 year old child. In this particular situation, the 16 year old is considered an adult. Certainly a person who assaults another should have charges filed on him in the victim wishes to ask for charges. It would not be an assault on a child however and the same as an adult assaulting an adult. Carry on….

Wrong!! Location doesn’t matter. Take Mid and South County for example. In the last 5 years, PA has averaged 14.5 murders per 100,000 people. The 3 Mid-County cities with almost the same population as PA (56k-pa v. 50k-mc) has 2.5 murders per 100,000 people. Adjusted for the slight population difference, it is 2.75. So cities literally across the street from PA have the same murder rate of about 3 per 100k people in MC to about 15 in PA. Oh wait…….

Obviously, you are entitled to your opinion on teacher salaries. They are essentially contract/salaried workers. They ask for a fee to educate children. That fee is not dependent on hours or days. Let’s say you contract a cabinet builder to refurbish your kitchen. He gives you a price, tells you that he will be finished in 10 days and you accept it for $20,000. The contractor finishes in only 7 days. Do you pay him only $14,000 or 70% if the agreed on price because he was able to complete the job in less time?

Well, we have you here to educate us! 🙄

I thought it would take about 3 days to move forward. It took 1. 😎

The long arm of the law…..

And I never suggested otherwise. I was commenting on “everyone else”. For some jobs, a 4 day week is just what the doctor ordered.

The case is not over however. This was not a final ruling but a temporary refusal to halt (injunction) Texas as the case moves forward.

For what it’s worth, I worked a 4 day week for 20 years. It made a lot more sense in my job with 24 hours of hourly and mandatory coverage however as there benefits to the public and very little to no detriment or extremely little. Unlike schools, no one had to schedule their time around my job.

Since they are salaried and not hourly, sure.

Beaumont is on fire. I was at my (retired from) department tonight and we were hearing about it a few hours ago. As far as I knew at the time, none seemed to be connected. Certainly information can change.

I listened to part of the oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court. This was from the opening statement (I think) by the NRA. Taking Petitioner's allegations as true, that is what Respondent did here. In the Lloyd's meeting, she explicitly threatened to bring an enforcement action against Lloyd's unless Lloyd's "ceased providing insurance to gun groups, especially the NRA." The claim is that Maria Vullo from the NY Department of Financial Services, with regulatory authority over insurance, companies and others, coerced the insurance companies to cut ties with insuring the NRA and others because Vullo didn’t like the NRA’s political speech. NY’s stance is that telling or suggesting that insurance companies cut their affiliations with those groups for purposes of “political speech”, is not against the First Amendment and free speech. Then to do so at the threat of possible regulatory actions against the insurance companies. Things that make you go hmmmm….. So a guy is standing on the sidewalk stating his political belief about some issue. A cop comes along and tells him, if you don’t stop giving your opinion, I’m going to find a reason to put you in jail. Now the officer has not stated a specific crime that you might have committed but he’s going to do his best effort to try to find a reason to put you in jail because he doesn’t like what you were saying. Is that coercion or just a suggestion which is what I drew from NY’s claim. Violation of free speech? Along comes Brown Jackson who is having a hard time determining if that is coercion or just giving a talk on the importance of reputation. Like a member of the government can say under the First Amendment, people should take more Omega-3 fatty acids (typically in fish) because it’s heart healthy. That would be free speech and the pork industry would not have free speech grounds to deny that statement from the government. Brown Jackson’s suggestion in the oral arguments was that even though you have regulatory authority over an industry, is it okay to just suggest that it’s in their best interest if they stop insuring a company because you don’t like their political speech? So her query was, is it really coercion to tell people that the government “might” take action against you if you don’t stop insuring people due to their political speech or is it really a person making a suggestion such as, we recommend you cut down your body mass index. I guess if she has a hard time defining a woman, she has an equally hard time with a government official threatening a person, but the other person should just take it as a well-being suggestion.

I wonder if the public had voiced concerns to the board members about the results or hardships of 4 days. I am assuming that the issue had to be brought up from somewhere for there to be that much interest. Obviously most employees would rather be off for 3 days instead of 2 but does that help the students or the parents? I have no clue but I don’t think it’s likely that this just floated down from the sky.

This thread has obviously run its course. It was about passing an immigration law but has skewed off into attacks and comments that have nothing to do with the topic.

There is no fallacy as it was a question. If I ask you do you like tacos or hamburgers better, that’s not a fallacy because they’re 1000s of other foods. Was Biden was chosen because of hundreds of other candidates weren’t as capable? Sorry but you don’t have hundreds to choose from.

All amendments do the same. The Sixth Amendment doesn’t grant us the right to an attorney, it denies the government the authority to stop you from obtaining counsel. The First Amendment doesn’t grant us freedom of religion, it denies the government the authority to force a belief. And so on….. I am a strong believer in the Second Amendment however it’s just like the others.

So does a leader of anything represent what you stand for? What do my family values have to do with a president or candidate? Jimmy Carter was probably one of the most down to Earth, decent and very religious leaders to ever hold the office and certainly in my lifetime. He led the country down the drain however and got kicked out by a landslide after one term. Which is better, a devout Christian who almost no one questions his sincerity and personal life but a horrible leader or a person who had some transgressions in his past but whose policies lead to prosperity? Neither stops me from nor leads me to my personal beliefs and values. Does the President, no matter who it is, affect yours?

If I was voting for a spiritual leader then none of them would get my vote. From JFK’s well known flings to Clinton's Oval Office affair that he was compelled to address on national television, to one time front runner to be the president in Democrat Gary Hart and so on, the Republicans hardly have a monopoly on infidelity. Trump’s accusation as far as I know happened well before he became president however the two Democratic presidents that I mentioned happened in their term and in the White House. I think I will look elsewhere for moral guidance other than the Democratic Party…. 🤣🤣🤣

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