All_Pro_Bills

So shopping for a venue where a judge and jury would most likely render a conviction? How about North Korea? I understand that jurisdiction is very friendly to ALL government cases with a 100% conviction rate.

You can't say the word for lady-parts but you can stock the local school library with transsexual pornography. That's how low our moral and ethical standards of behavior have fallen. Decadence is a common theme of failing societies like our own is in the process of becoming. From a sociological perspective, allowing ideas previously the exclusive domain of mental hospital patients and perverts to become core social beliefs. What's amazing is how few actually believe any of it yet so many go along.

Reality check: both parties do this already. Both love wars and unlimited spending.

They shouldn't impeach Biden for a couple reasons. The first being any such action would likely fail. And why stoop to the no-class level actions the Democrats pulled with Trump, twice. The second being the same reason allied military commanders near the end of World War 2 discouraged any plans to assassinate or remove Hitler. He was a terrible military strategist and his lousy decisions hurt the German war effort. Eliminating him risked having the decision making authority transferred to military commanders with the competence to make better decisions. Joe is just a lousy President. As demonstrated by his poor job performance polling numbers. Imagine how much more damage Joe can do before November 2024. Why impeach him? Let an extremely unpopular President run for a second term or force the DNC to go in another direction against an incumbent President's re-election bid. Another candidate could easily disassociate their campaign from the awful record of the incumbent.

Washington does have a pointless war agenda. And has lost every single one of them either militarily, politically, and economically while spending countless dollars making certain corporations and individuals rich and others gainfully employed to protect the racket.

So something like Delta House being on Dean Werner's double-secret probation list?

The irony and perhaps comedy value of this entire charade is how rags like the NY Times, other media, and all the associated twits our friend here cites lots of sources that claim to have access to secret and confidential forms of evidence and communications proving the guilt of the former President, and now apparently others in some wild conspiracy. Which if true was leaked illegally by somebody and published illegally by somebody. So you're using illegally gained confidential government information to support the arrest and conviction of somebody in possession of confidential and secret government information. The exact same thing. Do any of the clowns signing off on these stories realize the contradiction of the very laws they express so much concern over?

I think "the" major difference in the media is a concentration of power into just a few people and the "type" of people employed by media outlets. Historically, these were individuals that had an interest in reporting and investigating the events of the day. Digging into stories, asking the tough questions, investigating to dig into the details to uncover the truth. People that likely went to journalism school, got a degree in it or in communications. Started in the newsroom and worked their way up. Today, you have networks and newspapers across the political spectrum committed to communicating and interpreting events from a specific ideological viewpoint. And the people they employ are more political operatives from various government agencies and think tanks representing specific and sometime undisclosed interest eager to tell a story or interpret an event to communicate the "story" from a point of view of their personal or professional self-interest. These are not the Woodward and Bernstein journalist of the Watergate days of uncovering corruption.

All I know is the FBI sure works a lot different than they do on all those TV shows. The good guys always saving the day in selfless acts of heroism. Imagine a real script. Violating FISA rules, hiding evidence against powerful officials, spying on political parties, setting up entrapment operations to railroad undesirable groups, stonewalling motions and orders for the release of documents and information, hiding and protecting themselves from oversight, and so on. Maybe way too much reality for the viewer to handle?

I've run across lots of different animals on my property and nearby wooded areas. Rabbits, Squirrels, Woodchucks, Chipmunks, Deer, Foxes, Skunks. During these encounters I don't get a sense that any of them were suffering from any gender identity crisis. They seemed way too busy focused on finding food, survival, building shelters & nests, and not getting killed to be concerned with such frivolous nonsense as Human's commit themselves too. When seeing and dealing with idiots and mental patients consumed with narcissism and anxiety focused on their self-identity I wonder if we're really the "higher" form of life and intelligence.

Major Atlantic Hurricanes by year (1851 to 2017) 8 - 1950 7 - 1961, 2005 6 - 1926, 1933, 1955, 1964, 1996, 2004, 2017 5 - 1893, 1916, 1951, 1958, 1969, 1995, 1999, 2008, 2010 4 - 1886, 1894, 1909, 1932, 1948, 1953, 2001, 2011, 2016 3 - 15 years 2 - 45 years 1 - 48 years 0 - 31 years My expectation is current weather monitoring, measurement, and predictive systems have improved over time so measurement of storm strength should be more accurate over the last 25 to 30 years than it was prior.

When they told Joe they were hiring "influencers" he retorted that "we already have enough people working in my administration that are under the influence. Why are we hiring more?"

The basis of all insurance business models is risk management. The premium costs and insurer's decisions to sell policies in Florida have everything to do with the risk profile of the market and very little to do with the person holding the governor's office. I expect you can get hurricane insurance in Buffalo a 100x cheaper than you can in Tampa and that has everything to do with probability and impact of loss in that specific market. Its got nothing to do with Kathy Hochul being the governor or blue state politics.

If required to do what? Half the country has concluded the rule of law doesn't exist. Or at the very least is applied on a case by case basis subject to political consideration. Those law enforcement and military organizations employ a significant number of those very people. You think they're going to obey orders to shoot their brothers and sisters in the streets? You're going to order military units to kill American citizens? You've got a real surprise coming if you think its going to play out that way. Now I don't expect it will come to anything close to that, and I hope it doesn't. But I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of social unrest or a general strike in the form of what happened with the Canadian truckers. But more widespread. You can only push people around so much until they've had enough.

By law enforcement do you mean the FBI?

His rejection of the perpetual war program makes West as undesirable to the Washington establishment as RFK Jr., or Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries. Or dare I say Trump in 2016. Outsiders not welcome here is the motto in Washington. And a third party candidacy makes it dangerous for the chosen Democratic nominee for 2024 (I don't think it will be Biden). So while West is a card carrying member of the liberal set that checks off all the correct boxes his anti-war stance will subject him to merciless attacks on orders dispatched to the troops from high above.

Regardless of what's being said currently. I'm not expecting Biden will be running for re-election in 2024. His popularity continues to decline and there's nothing out there to change the direction of that indicator. He's becoming a major liability that has outlived his usefulness to the party leadership. We can't expect this payoff scandal to be contained by the administration (w/DOJ & FBI running interference) which will result in his re-election bid becoming an impossibility. Regardless, he did his job, he defeated Trump, enemy of the establishment. You have an articulate and skilled debater in RFK Jr. with more traditional liberal views than Biden entering the race for the nomination. But clearly not somebody the party leadership can tolerate as the nominee mainly because he's an outsider that doesn't support the establishment's war agenda. Expect the DNC to present a chosen candidate to the voters, one that says all the right progressive things to say, supports all the social justice causes, and most importantly backs any and all military interventions and confrontations of the Washington establishment. A wildcard, Cornell West, a progressive disciple of Bernie Sanders, has declared a third party bid for the Presidency, not a bid for the Democratic nomination. I haven't seen much chatter about his announcement, but his message might resonate with enough progressive voters, especially younger people (18-34 which disapprove of Biden at 56%), to drain enough votes from a Democratic party candidate which would allow the Republican challenger to win the Electoral College vote by carrying some additional States. This worries DNC leadership and expect them to fight tooth and nail to keep West off the ballot in as many States as possible by whatever means are necessary. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/10/cornel-west-against-joe-biden-00101246

More like a list of guiding principles you find in a mission statement.

Straight out of the handbook.

I think race relations are better now than at any point in time in the history of our nation. I think the left is more racist than the right simply because of woke dogma which claims to be based on tolerance and inclusion but is actually based on racism and stereotyping. Such as a core tenant. They "believe in a world that is divided into oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited and that these groups are easily identified by the color of their skin". That's also core to DEI too. How much more racist can you get than that? To presume you know everything about somebody based on their appearance which allows you to put them into a specific pre-defined group. Add in separate but equal race exclusive thinking, events, and ideas and there you have your racism. Generated by liberal think tanks, academics, NGO's, DEI obsessed corporations, and government officials.

Its been a while since I was in high school but our history lessons included the Civil War, the practice of slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass, the Underground Railroad, abolitionists, John Brown, and so on. What we didn't get was a focus on moralizing and judging the ethics and acts of historical figures against the current social norms in order to demonize the history of the country. Then go marching out of the school demanding it be renamed or that monuments or symbols of the past be erased consistent with the Cultural Revolution. I'll wager I could take an account of the historical record of mankind, look at 4 or 5 thousand years of history, the practices and ethics of those empires, countries, and kingdoms and nations. The atrocities they committed, their standard of ethics and morals, and reach a conclusion every single one of them were immoral and bad actors based on today's standards of civilized behavior. Given that should we raze the Roman Colosseum, the Pyramids of Egypt, and all other vestiges of that past because all those people acted outside today's norms? Teachers should be teaching kids the historical record and how to objectively and logically think about history not what to think of it while moralizing based on their personal opinions.

White House Backtracks: Admits China Had A Spy Base In Cuba For Years, Blames Trump China has been using a secret base in Cuba to spy on the United States since at least 2019, a Biden administration official has confirmed, in a revelation which comes of the heels of a last Thursday Wall Street Journal report which triggered a swift denial from the White House and NSC spokesman John Kirby. The admin official further told The Associated Press that the US intelligence community has considered Chinese spying from Cuba to in reality be an "ongoing" matter and "not a new development" - despite the Biden White House having strongly downplayed the reports of an expanding Chinese spy presence a mere 100 miles from Florida and the American southeast, which hosts dozens of military bases. An official says that the administration “inherited” the problem. "This is an ongoing issue and not a new development," the widely cited source, identified as a senior White House official, emphasized. "The PRC [People’s Republic of China] conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019. This is well-documented in the intelligence record."

Unless you delude yourself into believing you are always championing the cause of some oppressed and silenced group and anyone that dares to express an opposing view represents evil which must be vanquished by any means necessary. That's the mindset of the people you're debating with here.

More appropriate for mental health awareness month.

The folks in Washington are very busy. They classify an average of 50 million documents every year. I find it intriguing the government can have so many secrets. Some opinions I've read suggest the government suffers from a thing called over-classification. To hide not just secrets but instances of incompetence and embarrassment. Just who exactly they're keeping secrets from, our enemies or the American public is uncertain. What always gives me a hearty chuckle is situations where some person decides to expose a "top secret" document detailing government maleficence, illegal activity, our outright lies. The funny part is the people breaking the law and attempting to keep something secret get off free and clear and the guy exposing the illegal activity gets the book thrown at him for revealing secrets. The moral is keeping illegal actions secret is okay, exposing them is not.