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7-4-22, 5:33pm
A dear friend of mine was naturalized today. He grew up in Serbia during The Sorta Recent Unpleasantness, and to him, America is a paradise. ...
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7-4-22, 4:31pm
Political pressure for prosecutors not to interfere in an election.
And remember, all it takes to prevent a conviction is a single Trump-reality...
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7-2-22, 4:04pm
I know some folks who are planning to support Trump and his minions, so as to bring about the collapse of America sooner.
They are nutballs though.
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7-2-22, 5:00am
Busiest weekend of the year at the state park next to my house.
At 1AM though, it seems remarkably uncrowded, and it is an excellent time to go...
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7-1-22, 2:50pm
The arbor sounds like a great plan!
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7-1-22, 2:45pm
Almost a new moon, < 1 hour of "dark" a day at this latitude on July 1 today. Now, if I can just get someone to turn off the power to the mainland...
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6-30-22, 12:53pm
Kill debt, emergency fund, stock up on staples to fight inflation.
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6-29-22, 11:55pm
I'm going to wear my Antarctic expedition wear, because I think it'll be a very very cold day in Hell before they face any real consequences. Alas....
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6-28-22, 7:54pm
I believe I related my experience last year or so, when our local BLM protestors surrounded my vehicle, aggressively approached it, and would not let...
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6-28-22, 6:28pm
I asked you a bit ago what that "split" looks like in your mind? I live in perhaps the most liberal county in a very liberal state, and even here...
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6-28-22, 6:23pm
I'm quite curious why that sort of stop-and-detention isn't a felony, of the sort allowing use of lethal force in response? It is in most states...
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6-28-22, 6:22pm
How? The White House has no spending authority other than what Congress gives it. I remember this from Schoolhouse Rock.
And the GAO looks...
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6-28-22, 5:28pm
Our electric rates are quite low here now still: $0.113/kWh, but there's also a "facilities charge" that you get hit with even if you use no power....
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6-28-22, 4:36pm
Shades of the Fugitive Slave Act...
Anyways, say Washington decides to blow off any Federal law forbidding abortion, and has no local laws against...
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6-28-22, 3:33pm
My Hummer H1 has ~45 gallons of fuel capacity, it'd cost me ~$300 to fill up. And my big boat takes ~300 gallons of diesel, so, well, I've been...
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6-28-22, 3:25pm
Even state constitutions can be changed. There ultimately is no protection from the tyranny of the majority (or super-empowered majority) over...
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6-28-22, 3:11pm
How much are you folks spending per month on gas?
This article suggests the average American is shelling out a small fortune:
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6-28-22, 2:35pm
While I have seem some of the GOP elected officials talking about introducing such bills, I'm not sure how that would work. Especially in the...
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6-27-22, 10:26pm
I read the text as "nobody thinks people in masks are weird now", and not that people in hoodies were weird, either then or now.
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6-27-22, 9:44pm
I thought then, and I think now, that you are stretching quite a bit with that interpretation of the text.
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6-27-22, 7:18pm
People seem primed to jump immediately to "outrage", "do not pass go" these days...
I suppose this is why we can't have nice things. Here in...
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6-27-22, 7:15pm
Oh stop, stop with the real-world data!
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6-27-22, 6:36pm
When I repainted mine a few years ago, our HOA was considering implementing a "natural tones only" restriction(*). So, I repainted my house using...
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6-27-22, 6:01pm
Quite a change from the days when black women were bred like cattle in this country.
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6-27-22, 5:34pm
But, but....
Isn't the "white" population of the USA ~61.6%?
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6-27-22, 1:50am
I read recently "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells, which may provide some ideas for folks,
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6-25-22, 9:31pm
Indeed so.
https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overruled/
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6-25-22, 8:02pm
What does "splitting" look like in your vision? How would that even happen?
I live in perhaps the most liberal county, in one of the most liberal...
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6-25-22, 4:55pm
Then there's the whole beauty pageant culture....
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6-25-22, 4:23pm
Or why don't we talk about the Catholic Church...?
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6-25-22, 3:33pm
I believe you are correct. My father helped manage the Palm Springs Follies for many years, and many of the performers were men in drag, and those...
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6-25-22, 5:11am
1:45AM tonight.
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6-24-22, 11:44pm
Ssssshhhhh! Don't scare them :-)
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6-24-22, 11:28pm
The theory being that people are unaware of this issue, and this will somehow get more involved?
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6-24-22, 10:30pm
I think someone has been going to Folsom Street Fair in their spare time, and then projecting....
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6-24-22, 7:07pm
You'd have to change the Constitution for that.
Article VI
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several...
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6-24-22, 6:59pm
I'm not sure what marching in the streets will accomplish in this case. How will this produce the desired change?
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6-24-22, 6:38pm
A good friend of mine moved to Canada last week to be near her grandchildren. Apparently Canada has some sort of grandparent-visa program that makes...
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6-24-22, 6:10pm
Quebec offers the sweetest deal of the Canadian provinces, last time I looked.
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6-24-22, 1:51pm
Laws are just shared agreements amongst people. They can and will change. The real problem isn't the law, or the country - it's the people.
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6-24-22, 1:43pm
My daughter is finishing up her Ph.D. this month at Cambridge. She will almost certainly not be returning to the USA. I may go join her at some point...
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6-24-22, 1:41pm
My daughter is finishing up her Ph.D. this month at Cambridge. She will almost certainly not be returning to the USA. I may go join her at some...
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6-24-22, 10:32am
It’s at an old timey small-cabins-on-the-beach resort here that’s been around ~100 years. The pump still works, the price is “free”, but it is only...
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6-24-22, 3:15am
Two different pumps today on the island:
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6-23-22, 10:01pm
Well, the "news today about guns" isn't especially hellish. 41 of the 50 states are already shall-issue or no-issue-needed...
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6-23-22, 12:45pm
"Keeping two bags packed" isn't a plan.
Keeping enough assets overseas, having local knowledge of some overseas destinations, speaking the...
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6-23-22, 12:13pm
But, at the end of the day, it's only a piece of paper, and people have to have a shared desire to live by it.
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6-23-22, 11:59am
What process is used, in general, to decide which group of people, within which lines on the map, get to be a "country"?
What is a "country"?
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6-23-22, 11:57am
Well, it contains within it the directions for modifying it, so, yes, of course it is.
It does not contain however any text suggesting "if you...
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6-23-22, 11:50am
And then, as time moved along, we modified the Constitution, using the provisions previously-agreed-upon.
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6-23-22, 11:48am
I think that was the whole point of the US Constitution in fact.
There seems to be a desire by some to treat states as simply quaint lines on...
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6-23-22, 11:08am
The UN recognizes the rights of peoples to political self determination.
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6-23-22, 1:10am
And look at the weird rainbow pattern on the water just a bit before sunset!
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6-22-22, 11:12pm
As I recall, in the Portland case, more than "dissent" occurred. Once you start delving into arson, or unlawful imprisonment, you're in a whole...
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6-22-22, 10:21pm
When you are breaking down the doors of the Capitol, yelling death threats, and going after our representatives while they are doing their job, you...
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6-22-22, 8:02pm
I think there's quite a bit of difference between some demented folks causing trouble in Portland by occupying a few blocks while the (perhaps...
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6-22-22, 3:39pm
The tide here generally changes roughly twice a day - two high/two low tide points each day. The normal tidal range from low-to-high is ~12 feet or...
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6-21-22, 7:51pm
Well, the International Covenant on Human Rights, Article 1, item 1 states:
So, godspeed and farewell to Texas.
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6-21-22, 5:01pm
I just take RAW format files, usually with a Canon R5 or an iPhone, and pop them into Adobe Lightroom to "develop" the RAW image into something...
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