All_Pro_Bills

You mentioned listening to Billy Joel a few posts back. But I think a more appropriate and applicable song for our discussions and issues of the era would be Shades of Grey.

What doesn't work is bringing in 10 million illegals and letting them jump the line in front of American citizens in need of assistance while lavishing the new arrivals with generous accommodations and assistance denied to poor citizens. Putting up illegals in hotels while America's homeless live in the streets for example.

You are right. I stand corrected.

I agree it's premature to get exciting about any possible mistrial as it's pure speculation. But the post wasn't random as it mentioned the specific juror by name, Michael Amderson, so we at least know the source of the alleged premature guilty verdict claim.

An examination of the statistical methodology, the data inputs, assumptions, and variables are required to draw conclusions. In April 2024 the birth/death model added 231k of the 272K jobs. 85% of the jobs were produced by the use of a statistical model that derives a number based on assumptions about the economy which generates a number of new businesses (Birth) and the number of business failures (Death). If you assume the economy is "great" what kind of output would you expect? Or if you assume the economy is "bad" would kind of output would you expect? So the question is what assumptions about the economy does the BLS make? That's not in the report so we can only assume they think things are great. Greater than most economists and job market experts conclude.

More government workers, part-time bartenders and waiters and other part-time jobs. Contrast that 272K to the household survey which says 408K jobs were lost in April. Unemployment up to 4% and workforce participation rate fell. While the 272K number seems good for the President, its actually bad news. The BLS number will keep the Fed on hold. Rate cuts will be delayed and the economy will slow further into recession before the election and voters will feel it.

It sure is, for the 1%.

By what measure are "we" winning here?

Biden's plowing billions into Zelensky's coffers while his government has changed the law to revoke recognition of dual citizenship status exemptions which will allow conscription officers to round up Ukrainians with dual citizenship to serve on the front lines. Including Americans. Regardless of the $100 billion plus the US taxpayers has sent to that black hole our State Department claims they have little influence on how Americans are treated. Another we are powerless to act abdication of responsibility. A common theme with this crew. Meanwhile, a Russian flotilla of Navy ships is headed for the Caribbean with ports of call expected in Cuba and Venezuela. Can Cuban missile crisis 2.0 be far behind? Getting results! But just not for us.

So your suggesting a theme of Make America Pretty Good Again?

There's quite a lot here but I agree women tend to rely on emotions and intuition. As for the woke thing I find it interesting that most of the people subscribing to this belief system are pretty well off socially and financially. They throw their support behind marginalized and oppressed groups while they have never been a member of any of those groups all while claiming to represent the interests of the downtrodden. While they have compassion they lack real world experience and grounding in reality of life. And how they assign their compassion is curious. They might have compassion for the Hamas terrorists being killed by the IDF but they lack compassion for the women raped by the terrorists. In this regard many will conclude they have some sort of mental defect and putting them in charge of things leads to a lot of disorder and chaos.

I don't agree there's any justification for them to charge you with the conspiracy unless you're parked in front of a bank with a written plan on the car seat or you made incriminating statements to the police. There are lots of other possible explanations, non-criminal in nature, for possessing those items. How would they know what we were up to? That you were planning to rob banks is an assumption. Charges are based on facts, provable facts. And unless being in possession of those items was illegal, in that case you'd be charged with possession of illegal items of one kind or another, they have no justification beyond a reasonable doubt to charge you with conspiracy to commit robbery. Your line of reasoning opens up the law for all kinds of abuses. Let's say you and your buddy were heading out for a day of mountain climbing with the exact same items in the car. You get pulled over for the broken tail light and the cops arrest you for conspiracy to commit bank robbery or some other crime that tickled their senses. Some shady prosecutor and judge in some hick town charge and try you, a jury of locals convicts you, they take your car, and send you to the local jail. That scenario might be plausible too.

I would add, in my view the charge of falsifying business records on its own means little to nothing in regards to my viewing it as some sort of nefarious criminal act subject to imprisonment. There has to be a complementary or subsequent crime that is either being concealed or enabled by the act. And there being no indictment count for any associated crime, only some lame and illogical instructions from a judge that told the jury to pick any crime you'd like and as long as the total sum of the jury leads to 12 guilty verdicts, against no documented criminal charge I might add, then they defendant is guilty of an imaginary associated crime. You can argue the rule of law but they have the rule of law in North Korea and Russia and every country with dictators and theocracies but I wouldn't want to bet my life on that venue any more than I would a NYS court after this ruling. I conclude the entire thing is horseshit. So do most people.

With Trump it might not be mental decline but its clear to me he doesn't have a handle on the details of anything. If he did I'd be confident he'll "win" the debates. Rather than cite facts and figures along with the impact to American voters and citizens on issues ranging from the economy to the border crisis he makes bombastic statements and highly subjective commentary. See, while I prefer Trump over Biden as the cleaner Pig in the mud hole I can be critical. I'm not seeing people casting aside any criticisms of Biden and his agenda do that here like admitting he created the border problem, blamed it on somebody else, claimed he can't fix it, then issued an order to fix it while blaming others again. And he's a couple cans short of a six pack upstairs.

So why not end all the speculation and negative commentary by putting the entire issue to rest by submitting to a mental competency test?

What is definitely Trump's fault was his naive and dumb reliance on, dependence on, and taking counsel from, the very swamp creatures he claimed would be drained from power and control. Everywhere in his administration where establishment actors bent on disrupting and sabatogong any reform or transformation effort. That was his fault. I wonder if he's learned anything from that experience or if a second term will be a repeat?

Wow what? My point is perspective. I'm certain the people handing out those convictions felt they were just doing their jobs no different than Alvin Bragg.

Did you know that both Alexei Navalny and Nelson Mandela were known felons, charged, tried, and convicted by official court proceedings based on the rule of law?

These professional women's basketball players jealous of the attention Clark is getting are missing the big picture. Its in their best interests to put their emotions aside and think of the implications beyond the limelight. What all this attention does is enhance the overall popularity of the league. Which can bring more fans to the areas and more eyes on the broadcasts. Which in turn can lead to higher revenues for the league and much higher paychecks for the players.

I haven't seen or noticed the last several Star Wars movies. The last one I did watch several years ago was a boring and unentertaining dud. I understand subsequent movies were worse. Fans of the series want action and entertainment consistent with the original concepts of George Lucas. Not some gayed-up Disney cult indoctrination film or lectures and op-ed teaching moments about diversity and other lib themes. Just boring.

Good or bad, I don't recall it being a suggestion. I think the correct term was mandatory. Or else. Mandatory masks, mandatory distancing, mandatory lockdowns, mandatory closures, mandatory vaccination. Those and other "suggestions" based on unsupported "science".

If I put 30,000 Marines on the border it's shut.

This EO on the border is purely for show. There won't be any enforcement mechanism and Mexico won't cooperate.

And just maybe somebody should keep an eye on Mr Raskin too? Who says he's "clean"?

Joe was doing his best Montgomery Burns immitation. Excellent work Smithers.