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3 hours ago, B-Man said:
JUDGE HO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “The Importance of a Diverse Federal Judiciary.” The title of the hearing shows that the Committee had already reached the conclusion that a “diverse” federal judiciary is quite important. It brings to mind the old Johnny Carson show gag in which Ed McMahon might ask: “How important is it, Johnny?”
One of the Committee’s witnesses didn’t go along with the gag. Judge James Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit included the following observations in his prepared remarks:
Once everyone has had full and fair opportunity to be considered, you pick on the merits.
Both the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act make clear that it is wrong to hire people based on race.
That’s the law for a wide range of jobs. But it would be especially wrong to select judges based on race.
It is true that I am the only Asian American on my court. I’m also the only immigrant on my court.
But I would never suggest that a wise Asian would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a white judge. That would be antithetical to our legal system, and poisonous to civil society. No one should ever assume that I’m more likely to favor Asians or immigrants or anyone else—or that my colleagues are less likely to. . . .
I don’t say this because I think race is no longer an issue in our country. I’ve received racist hate mail and racially disparaging remarks because of positions I’ve taken in my career. I’ve been treated differently because of who I’m married to. And I also remember, back in high school, my college admissions adviser telling me that my grades, SAT scores, and activities were all strong enough to get me into my top choice of schools—if I wasn’t Asian.
Now, I’m not saying any of this here to complain. Whatever negative experiences I’ve had, they pale in comparison to my many blessings living in this great country. I was not born an American. But I thank God every day that I will die an American.
My point is just that I don’t come to my views because I think racism is behind us. Rather, I come to my views precisely because racism is not behind us. The last thing we should do is divide people by race. The last thing we should do is suggest that the racists are right. We don’t achieve equality of opportunity by denying it to anyone—we achieve it by securing it for everyone.
So make no mistake: It would be profoundly offensive—and un-American—to tell the world that you’re restricting a judgeship to members of only one race. It’s offensive to people of other races. And it’s offensive to people of that race—because you’re suggesting that the only way they’ll get the job is if you rig the rules in their favor.
God bless you sir.
Affirmative action was created to protect him from having the good grades, but still being passed over, because he's Asian. Just because everything our government rolls out is done wrong doesn't mean it wasn't necessary. Maybe try fixing the bad program, instead of just saying it's wrong/doesn't work, but then the Republicans would have anything to run on.
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On 3/24/2021 at 10:46 AM, Doc said:
CNN's and MSNBC's ratings are tanking. I wonder how long before Trump gets reinstated in Twitter and FB?
Did you leave Fox out of this list on purpose, or is that where you gathered these facts? Fox grabbed it's base after 9/11, and has been using the fear model ever since. Fox news Nov 2020: 3.4M-Fox news Jan 2021: 2.4M; MSNBC Nov 2020: 2.5M-MSNBC Jan 2021: 2.6M; CNN Nov 2020: 2.7M-CNN Jan 2021: 2.7M
Facts matter, but if your Twitterz base thinks everyone else is fake news, then yeah, you're right you can say CNN and MSNBC are TANKING. LOL
Let's reinstate Trumps Twitter so he can lie just like you just did, and have his minions lop up that coup-laid.
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4 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Nope. I have never been so stupid.
But they are starting to feel like it and are asking the same questions that everyone else is.
Remember, my comments today started when I read that POS Birx interview today in which she said we should have acted sooner---that Trump should have done something.
Uh huh.......
February 25th, 2020.
Let me guess. "But the CDC was gutted!" Yea sure.
If you're believing ANYTHING these bureaucrats are telling you, you're the problem. I'm not saying to not take caution you do you.
Birx isn't a bureaucrat, and she was saying the bureaucrats were a problem. What you posted was a CDC RECOMMENDATION(even though it was wrong), which is exactly the type of laissez faire you wanted??? It's pretty hard to use caution and do "you" when the information is incomplete/inaccurate.
2 minutes ago, Doc said:Not to mention Fauci's devastating "masks don't work" claim? I still don't see how he escaped major blame for that one considering mask-wearing is considered the one thing that would have prevented all those people dying (never mind the 20/20 hindsighting with shutting down the country sooner
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Suppose London is being blitzed, and you tell everyone to get in the bomb shelter, because that's what you believe is the safest measure, then the bomb shelter takes the direct hit. As someone in medicine, you have to know that you can only give what you consider to be your best advice given what you know at the time.
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2 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
I am sympathetic with anyone with kids during the epidemic and apologize to you for getting too strident on that. I still suggest, however, that if you are telling your children this will never end you reconsider doing so.
For what a taxpayer shells out to raise other people's children, you'd think they would deserve some say. I know this is way off topic, but people having kids as a way to get government hand outs is a sticky subject with me. It should be based on households, whether it be 1, 2, or 20 people. You only pay rent, gas, and electric once. I'm all for helping the poor, but giving an able-bodied 28 year old 10x what you'd give a 60 year old couple(or worse widowed) is ridiculous. I don't want any kids to be needy, but people need to have a better family building plan than rely on the government.
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1 minute ago, Big Blitz said:
Gtfo with that nonsense. I'm not your concern. And you're not mine. My concern is my family. Nothing else. As it should be yours. Our job isn't to fake try to do what we can to "slow the spread."
Breaking news.....it's never going away. Ever. So when does you and your virtue signaling fakery regarding your care for others actually end so my kids (and 50 million others) can have normal childhoods and not want to kill themselves every day.
Trump said it was going to magically disappear. Also, try googling viruses that have been eradicated. You'll find what we in the science community call a LIST OF FACTS.
4 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:Who said anything about socialism and fox news? I don't watch fake TV and staged dramas out of DC
FWIW, even though you're often wrong, you do seem to debate in good faith. There are millions upon million of Americans who do hang on every lie that Fox spreads. I hope Dominion whips the crap out of them in court so they will be less likely to spread nonsense. Any news that has people on to tell their 'expert opinion' isn't news. It's propaganda.
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2 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
All this crap started because Trump put it in people’s heads that if he lost it must be fraud. Absolutely no day to suggest that happened but because the Republican Party has ceded control and fealty to this guy, here we are. They’ve ceded control to a guy who lost the Executive and legislative branches.
When the Republicans get beat in 2022 and 2024, because the extreme Trump supported candidates lose, we’ll get back to some sense of normality. Or until he gets arrested.
I'll save them from replying to your post:
ARRESTED FOR WHAT EXACTLY?
Now I'll save them from replying to me:
For planning a rally about a big lie of election fraud on the day of certification, then leading people to the Capitol to try to undo a certified American election after telling them they will lose their country if they don't.
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I can't wait to see what the Covid relief plan for mass evictions is going to be. People expect to be bailed out in this country now. Instead of the big TV to stimulate South Koreas economy, maybe they should have handed out rent vouchers instead.
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4 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
They are not all lying unless you count the former President. Vaccinations are the best way to prevent viral diseases. And if you can’t get a vaccine, like with HIV, you work like hell to find treatments to hold down infectivity. And while doing so you counsel people of behaviors to help prevent spread.
Honest to God, you don’t have the first damn clue about science. The people fighting this aren’t lying and the only dupe here is you. Because your agenda is clear: you want people to continue to die and for your kids and others to suffer so you can go off on a message board. How sad.
It's ironic once again that those who watch Fox news all day talk about this slippery slope into socialism say others are "scared". If it wasn't hypocritical it wouldn't be conservative.
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2 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Because some people, especially those in lower socioeconomic circumstances, may not have either a photo ID currently, nor have the ability to access one. When I am asked for an ID I either have to show my driver’s license or a passport. Some people have neither.
I suggest a federal form of ID as they already do thus with a Social Security card. Maybe that’s the answer, show your SS card and say an electric bill or something to verify.
My point is simple: I can see the point of an ID but then the corollary is that there should be no state laws that actively try to limit or take away someone’s access to vote. The games like limiting polling places in areas where more people of the opposing party vote, or the truly disgusting law that tells me I can’t offer a bottle of water to someone waiting to carry out their constitutional right to vote, need to disappear.
This is my issue as well. They want to take poor people who owe a fine they can't afford to pay(or many other reasons) to lose their voting rights. I know many conservatives have been pushing for voter ID for years and I understand their concerns, BUT I'm completely displeased that these same people can't see what the Republicans are trying to do here. it's clear as day. If you accuse your neighbor's dog of pooping in your yard(even though he didn't), and you put up a fence the next day, we all know the reasoning for it.
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6 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Just stop. You are being irrational and dangerous and dumb all at once. First, a primer on vaccinations and viral disease. They help prevent viruses from entering your cells, and unless they can enter your cells they can’t replicate. And they die off. That’s why you don’t die from smallpox and a host of other viral diseases now. You probably know that but choose to play dumb for some reason.
The exit strategy is to get enough people vaccinated. Since the beginning of this thing that has been the case but you want to play dumb. You complain about no exit strategy and such, but here’s the deal. When you have people actually follow the science instead of claiming things like masks don’t work when they do, or that vaccines are actually a way for Bill Gates to control you (which is laughingly absurd) then it becomes harder to get to the finish line. Which, again, is getting people vaccinated. Instead of barking at the moon about what the government is doing, if you really wanted to get to the other side you’d be telling everyone to get behind the science. The science, like how as more data comes in the theories and such about how to handle things, like spacing at 3feet vs. 6 feet, change. But you’d rather play your victim card.
Has it sucked for kids this year? Absolutely. I have a niece that teaches 3rd grade, and it has been challenging at very best. I teach college classes and again a challenge. My daughter is a freshman in college and it has been very hard for her. But was it child abuse? Absolutely not. And did it save even more lives from being lost, or from thousands getting Covid and having long term effects? Absolutely. You claim high schools are done and that is absolute crap. Absolute, complete, and total crap. My wife is a counselor at one, and since the beginning of this they have had both virtual and on site classes. Kids switch every day. They have already said they will be having all in person classes in the fall. Other school systems around us have already gone back to in person. So again, to put it bluntly, take the high schools are gone crap and stick it.
I have refrained from calling out your nonsense for a while but I just couldn’t sit still and read your drivel anymore. Because what I suspect is really happening is this: you WANT this to continue so you can continue to complain and rail about government. You’d rather have more people die and your own kids be kept out of school and such so you can try and justify some ridiculous point about your twisted views. And that is dangerous, irrational, and stupid, to use your words.
These people want more Q supporters, and bar room politicians like MTG, Boebert, and Gaetz. They cheer for the people that chant fweedumb, and spurn those who follow logic and science.
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9 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
That might work but States have some leeway in how they handle elections so it might be at that level. But I am still not clear on what fact based and objective concerns people have against the requirement of people identifying themselves as "valid" voters? What is so difficult or such a big imposition of having to show some form of valid ID? What keep citizens, specifically objections about how it impacts minorities, from acquiring a valid voter registration ID? Many of us are "proofed" almost daily and I'd expect those same objections should apply to these other requirements but I hear no objections to those situations.
My issue is that Georgia loses bigly(and Trump spreads the big lie), and then decides it's time for voter law changes. The end game of being "proofed" is keeping substances out of the hands of children, because it's a FACT that they will try to obtain them illegally. These laws were passed based on LIES about voter fraud. Huge difference. I'm all for voter ID if the federal government recognizes voting as a RIGHT, and provides them for everyone. Trust me, the government knows who each and every citizen in this country is. if you thinks it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, try not paying your taxes. If you'd like to show me "fact based" reasoning FOR voter ID, then I'd appreciate that. 1.000 cases of voter fraud out of billions of votes doesn't show a need for voter ID.
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25 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Sweet dream.
You can still spread it when vaccinated.
And with the new metrics no one hears about (no cases or deaths) you'll be mitigating for life because there are going to be cases and deaths for YEARS.
The doctor who agrees with you about this also tells you why you need to still wear a mask LOL:
“You leave that room and you go into another room with somebody that has not had the vaccine. And you talk loud and you cough once in a while or you sneeze... then for that particular person you just put them at risk now because what's in your nose has been, you know, aerosolized,”
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7 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
A standard federal voter ID should be made available to all over the age of 18. And it needs to be a uniform way to get it that allow those in rural areas, or inner cities where travel is difficult, or for the elderly to have equal access.
Exactly. Why should you even have to register in a country that has no trouble finding you if you owe taxes. If voting is a RIGHT, then I should be sent 5 voter ID cards in case I lose the first 4.
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12 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Big facts:
And it's "Fweeedom." Not "Freedumb."
And you'll never have anything close to it again because you're 1. Scared and 2. Will never be able to admit how wrong you were.
It's number 2 mostly.
I'll settle on Fweedumb. Also, it's comical you post from the country that gave us taxation without representation as the role model against tyranny, because they want proof of vaccinations. Try to get your kids in school(or even yourself) without records of vaccinations. I suppose I'm just scared and wrong about measles, mumps, rubella, etc
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25 minutes ago, NewEra said:
They have all of their first rd picks for the next 50 years.....and all of the rest of their picks. They have enough to make it work, as we have no clue what other teams may be offering.....and BB has a few years left and clearly wants to win now. No one knows if how many of those picks he may trade to give him his best chance to win another super bowl.
if Watson turns out to be innocent of all this, he may trade 5+ first rd picks....and would be worth it IMO. If Watson doesn’t come up innocent and makes even more sense if he’s isn’t suspended for more than the 2021 season, considering the price will be much lower
It would be interesting to see a team choose to not go the route of franchise QB. Trade him for 6 first rounders instead of paying him $50M, and go with a good FA QB for $10M. I know it's usually the good QB that wins the SB, but the Bucs just won last year with an ancient star QB. Just an interesting idea.
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2 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Yeah, because during the Great Plague I'm sure they would have just allowed everyone on the planes, and called it freedumb.
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1 minute ago, oldmanfan said:
Vaccinations. And still take precautions while this is done. Schools are having in person classes again, businesses are opening up. You know this but you’d prefer to whine like a baby day after day after day with your doomsday nonsense. Pipe down.
It's ironic, and funny as hell the way that those who call others snowflakes cry about the dumbest stuff. If it wasn't hypocritical it wouldn't be conservative is my new motto.
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On 3/23/2021 at 8:21 AM, All_Pro_Bills said:
As for the American Way of Life I find it curious the left speaks frequently about threats to "democracy" when it suits their purposes. Democracy they say, we must protect it from those looking to threaten it. But they never express concerns or speak of threats to our "freedoms" and "individual liberties". Why is that? After all, those are the core beliefs that laid the foundation for our nation almost 250 years ago. The foundation of the republic, our legal system, the core principals expressed by various Amendments and law, the limitations placed on Government, the great documents that define it, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and many others all speak to liberty and freedom. The undeniable rights of men and women.
But the left? Never. A basic defect in their thinking is their view of democracy. Simply, the ability of the "majority" to dictate to the minority any and all things without regards for their rights and needs through whatever means are necessarily. That's not democracy that's tyranny.
...and the right thinks their religion of the minority should lead to legislation favoring them, because we're a "Christian nation". I find it hilarious that your "basic defect" is EXACTLY what the majority whites did to the minority groups for 99% of this countries existence. LOLZ!
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33 minutes ago, B-Man said:
Future generations will mock our fear, mock our cowardice, mock our willingness to surrender our liberties int he face of a danger wherein over 99% of the afflicted recover.
They will judge us harshly for cowering at the feet of "experts".
And they'll be absolutely correct in doing so.
It's REALLY, REALLY, funny that those telling us about how history will judge us have zero knowledge of actual history. The policy failures of Spanish flu in places like Philadelphia are widely documented.
3 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:Show me the data that says mandated masks made a significant difference please.
I'll wait. Gladly.
Next time you sneeze or cough into your hand check your hand for the EVIDENCE.
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I would have thought that the 5 year prison sentence for voter fraud would have been a better deterrent than showing ID. Kids get cigarettes and alcohol with fake ID.
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Now the right wants to pretend that the insurrection based on the big lie of voter fraud is yet another big lie. Just how much farther detached from reality can they get.
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I think everyone should have to present ID when they enter a store. There's 10 million times more shoplifting than their is proven voter fraud.
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1 hour ago, SoCal Deek said:
I look at in the inverse. The point is not to stop businesses from outsourcing their jobs. The point is for government to make domestic conditions more enticing for them to want to keep their production here in the first place. If after doing that, a company still wants to relocate operations, they are free to do so. And when/if they do, then government again steps in to make sure that company is not taking advantage of government created loop-holes to the benefit of the executives, etc.
The problem with this is the corporations have 50 states competing for their jobs. They basically hold them hostage until they get a deal where taxpayers subsidize their business. If anybody thinks there is an easy solution, or this problem is being caused by "weak minded whiners" , then they need their head examined.
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16 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
I’m willing to do whatever I have to to feed my family.
I spent summers pushing lawnmowers 70/80 hours a week for minimum wage and no OT and living like a pauper to pay for my own education.
I create jobs and work for a company that competes globally, including Mexico and India.
I do blame weak minded whiners for sitting around expecting any politician, who doesn’t care a whit about them, to hand you your life, standard of living and then b!tch and complain it’s too hard to compete, because the worlds a tough place.
There are plenty of jobs to go around, and they are being taken by people who immigrated here because they know it’s easy to eat lazy American kids lunch because they don’t particularly like to work too hard and think STEM is a waste of time.
this is what our future sounds like 👎
save me government save me! Give me give me. It’s not fair because Jeff Bezos and Mark Z have all the money.
and I know you keep wanting to talk about your sociopathic orange lunatic heart throb. But I could care less about him or your pandering binary politics.
Who besides government can stop American businesses from outsourcing your job and your company to places where they will have less costs, and higher profits. You're a very passionate, but niave man.
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
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They perpetuate the lie, because that's what they are told to do. Good little sycophants.