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36 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

 

yes, the textbooks say they INTERPRET the law, so that settles it for 90% of people.... like you i guess? 

 

the courts MAKE the law whenever they want to

 

sadly it's often because our elected legislatures won't do this when it's required of them

 

 

There’s a lot more that goes into writing a law than you apparently know. Yes, the courts do make rulings, but that’s not the same as actually writing a bill/law.

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28 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

So he's a lawyer, but with less personality?

 

Not even close. Lawyers can't do math (other than billing, oddly enough.)

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27 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Not even close. Lawyers can't do math (other than billing, oddly enough.)

Even some are proteges of Bendini, Lambert, & Locke's accounting method.  

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I knew it was  associated with law somehow. Your memory gets a lire fuzzy in your 60s.

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33 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

So he counts eyeballs and spleens and other gross stuff?  

He specializes in crayonz---wax on and then wax off. Very detail oriented.

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5 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

He specializes in crayonz---wax on and then wax off. Very detail oriented.

 

90% quasi-lapidary data-intensive work

5% boredom

5% sheer terror when things get reviewed in detail

 

 

18 hours ago, Koko78 said:

 

Not even close. Lawyers can't do math (other than billing, oddly enough.)

 

Receivership/corporate recovery lawyers are usually good at math.

 

 

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8 hours ago, row_33 said:

Receivership/corporate recovery lawyers are usually good at math.

 

 

 

at first glance i thought you that said they were good at meth :lol:

 

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To put a super majority on the court for decades to represent a dying minority would not stand. 

 

 

But this is not, by any reasonable measure, the largest problem evangelicals face. It is, instead, the massive sell-off of evangelicalism among the young. About 26 percent of Americans 65 and older identify as white evangelical Protestants. Among those ages 18 to 29, the figure is 8 percent. Why this demographic abyss does not cause greater panic — panic concerning the existence of evangelicalism as a major force in the United States — is a mystery and a scandal. With their focus on repeal of the Johnson Amendment and the right to say “Merry Christmas,” some evangelical leaders are tidying up the kitchen while the house burns down around them.

 

Why is that point so low? There are a number of reasons, but one of them, Campbell argued, is “an allergic reaction to the religious right.” This sets up an irony. “One of the main rationales for the very existence of this movement was to assert the role of religion in the public square in America. And, instead, what’s happening in that very movement has actually driven an increasing share of Americans out of religion.” This alienation preceded the current president, but it has intensified during the Trump era.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelical-leaders-are-tidying-the-kitchen-while-the-house-burns-down/2019/08/29/49d09a14-ca95-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html

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13 hours ago, Koko78 said:

 

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you can't even imagine what some meetings look like  :D

 

when we are called in by lawyers we expect they aren't too advanced on the um...... more complex matters of accounting.

 

often the receivership/corporate recovery lawyers are very well  into it and know the file a lot better than i would expect

 

fortunately accountants have a special language (like every guild and trade) and can make outsiders cower with a few jargon sentences.

 

 

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as for making law, Roe v. Wade was completely invented and made law by the SC and we still are arguing every single jot and tittle of this outrageous decision (before one bothers to put MORAL concerns into it)

 

quite an accomplishment!!!

 

 

in Canada, jury nullification during the trial of the most publicity seeking abortionist has resulted in practically no law whatsoever for 35?? years, and no Parliament would dare resurrect the issue.

 

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and by the way, if you retain lawyers to do work that has accounting or tax issues, INSIST they hire accountants to do this work

 

quite often firms are giving this work to junior staff, delusionally thinking they can take the stand instead of certified accountants for expert witness testimony

 

it is a pure pleasure to destroy them with 3 basic questions that they cannot answer about accounting, getting all their work bounced.

 

 

 

 

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Trump should announce his next judge appointment now and have the Senate take it up.  No reason not too. If RBG is gonna hang on til death due to spite, then Trump should appoint a replacement so that the court has 9 healthy judges.  It's like getting a new puppy when the old dog is on its last legs. 

 

 

38 minutes ago, Nanker said:

When she does eventually pass, it will be interesting to see how the media treats her passing as compared to that of Anton Scalia. 

 

She will be celebrated in that crowd more than any American ever. 

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