The Frankish Reich

Saving that for the debate.

Spelled the same way? If so, that's some devotion.

Look, there's going to be a debate in a few weeks. I don't expect it, but here's what I'd like to see: basic questions about the world and the USA. Who is the President/Prime Minister of Spain? (I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head, but I'm not running for President). What is the price of crude oil, and how has it been trending year to date? How many cases are pending in our immigration courts? Do you have a plan to address that? They say the mods will kill the mics of the candidate not responding. Good. Give them time to show their mastery (or lack thereof) on various topics.

I have to agree. Where did this "better to post some unknown's tweet than to say it myself" thing come from? It makes it look like some kind of appeal to authority, but what authority? In most cases, none at all.

Biden is killing it in his D-Day speech. Let the "they shot him up with something" rumors begin.

Another beautiful LAMP thread I think I did this in middle school. "By responding to my insult you are here by agreeing that you are a dork." It was an early warning sign of a lawyer to be.

And don't you dare try to make lab-grown meat!

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I know by now that I should know better. But I still find myself checking to make sure we're not getting pranked. And yes, it appears that we are not getting pranked and that a U.S. Congresswoman actually said this. EDIT: But probably not! Which proves the point: you just can't tell without researching it. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3590Z4/ RELATED: Kyrie "Flat Earth" Irving plays tomorrow night. Still can't beat Senate candidate Herschel Walker, from the same fine state: "How come if human are descended from apes there's still apes?"

It was civil disobedience, and I'm not going to criticize these people for engaging in it. But here's what comes with civil disobedience: arrest and prosecution. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/final-defendant-sentenced-federal-conspiracy-against-rights-and-freedom-access-clinic

I don't know who "Thomas Tatum" is, but it is important to note that the issue here is not constitutional; it is one of statutory interpretation. I do think that this Supreme Court will find that section 1512 doesn't apply to Capitol protesters, although to get there they will have to go beyond the plain words of the text and look to legislative history, which is something the Alito types say you really shouldn't do. Unless of course it achieves a result they otherwise want.

So did Russian state media run Tucker's show? Yes or no. then, if yes, the next question is "did he approve of them running it" through a licensing agreement, etc.

Wasn't aware that George Floyd was the presumptive presidential nominee of a major political party.

And who derailed it?

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/colorado-gop-call-burn-gay-pride-flags/73-e5156582-2888-46d2-b535-d5981c149817 I live in Colorado. It wasn't so long ago (10 years?) that I voted for Republican Senator Cory Gardner, a decent and honorable man. He has no place in the current party. What has happened to the Republican Party here is disgusting. They are lost in Trumpian "own the libs" nonsense that is losing them a whole generation. Or generations. It's not just "burn the flag" - it's a semi-official endorsement of a truly offensive banner. Click on the link.

Yep. What happens when you ignore crime because it's "minor" and we don't want to label more people "criminals."

The defense is pretty straightforward here: Hunter's attorney is arguing that the phrasing on the ATF form allow wiggle room It is basically "are you addicted or a user of [controlled substances]," phrased like that, in the present tense. It's kind of a Clintonesque "depends what the meaning of is is" loophole. He's arguing that while he was a user/addict, he didn't knowingly provide a false declaration because on the day he filled out the form he has come out of rehab and was no longer a user. I'm not sure what evidence there is for that other than his own testimony, which of course he may decide not to offer. He's boxed in though: his own memoir has him heavily using right up to the time he got back to Delaware, and there's a text to his (official) girlfriend at the time, Hallie Biden, the very next day in which he clearly says he's meeting with a "dealer." So the wiggle room would seem to be: a was an addict user up until the start of the month; I then rehabbed and stopped using; I then signed the declaration; the very next day I fell off the wagon and contacted my dealer again. So ... circumstantial. Just like Trump in the hush money case, this is the stupid case to bring. The tax case coming up later this summer is the one that matters, as is Trump's DC (and GA) cases, which are unfortunately stalled due to a meddling S.Ct. and a horny stupid unethical GA DA.

I was prescribed ivermectin years ago, in a cream form to treat rosacea. Worked like a charm. Fascinating reason why. And yes, we all have them, but it only causes problems in some people and often from time to time. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/25/multimedia/bugs-halloween-kids-ar-ul.html Face Mite These scaly microscopic mites live in the hair follicles and oil glands of your face. (Two face mite species are found just on humans. Lucky us). We don’t know what they’re eating exactly — it could be our oils, skin cells or microbes — but it’s enough to keep them content for their entire lives (a few weeks). “I like to think of them as grazers,” Dunn says. Face mites mostly move around your face during the night because they don’t like bright light.

there's a lot of nutty things about the MAGA "philosophy," but the nuttiest one is the merging of the RFK Jr. anti-vax thing into MAGA. Other than the Paul Ryan-engineered tax cut, Operation Warp Speed was the signature achievement of the Trump presidency. Yet he runs away from it.

Sounds like I may be gaining on you ...

It's a pretty crazily skewed demographic problem. The ultra Orthodox are growing in population and political power, egging on some of the most extreme policies like expansion of West Bank settlements. Yet they have been exempt from military service despite stirring up tensions that require a strong military. The situation isn't what we had in the USA in the Vietnam era, since the exemptions/deferments weren't skewed toward proponents of one party or policy. By the way, what ever became of Trump's famous bone spurs?

You take the man's money, yes, you have to do what he tells you to do.

Still a federal charge. And you get the jury you chose by committing the crime there.

I think I was about 13? Some kid's older brother wore a black armband to honor them. Really.

Don't let the virtual door hit you in your physical butt on the way out. See you on the football side.