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Bats right, politics left.
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Played Zork on a system running RT-11.
Never expected to end up in technical sales, but been doing it for over 30 years.
Upstate NY guy, Red Sox fan, grew up in Western North Carolina.
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Possibly prudent but not allowed under 25A. That doesn’t remove the President from office and the VP only becomes “Acting President”. Why? Because the President could potentially recover from the disability and be reinstated.
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25th Amendment requires *the save number* Senators to vote for permanent removal from power (and not from office) as to convict on impeachment.
It’s 2/3 of both houses to remove under 25A, only half of 1 and 2/3 of the other to impeach/convict.
It’s not a short cut.
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And now off to the T!
#RedSox
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And here it is, strike 3 from Chapman to close it out.
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Still, a pretty great night for the kid.
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And history says…not this time.
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That was a *terrible* AB.
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Yeah, like that.
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Sox relievers need to throw more strikes.
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He got it, though. 97 pitches. Terrific night for Buehler.
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Here’s the start of the swing that ended the bottom of the 6th.
#RedSox
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Typo, 79. I’d still bring him back.
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Right after the third bloop/weak hit of the game vs. Buehler. #RedSox
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Rafaela didn’t have a big lead on that one but stole it easily. #RedSox
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Duran was limping slightly coming off the field after that last swing.
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My favorite stat of the game at the moment is 51 pitches through 4 with 1 run allowed.
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About 4 seconds before he went deep. :-)
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And it doesn’t move Johnson to VP. The 25th only makes the VP “Acting President”, it doesn’t fully remove the President from office like impeachment would.
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If you can get 2/3 of the House to act under the 25th, you can get a simple majority to impeach.
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It’s not a short cut that’s easier than impeachment.
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So how does it work? Say Vance gets a majority of the Cabinet to certify and becomes Acting President. Then Trump sends a letter certifying that no inability exists and resumes office. Now what? In the end it takes 2/3 vote of *both* houses to remove his power. If you can do that, you can impeach.
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No, actually. I think Vance is smart enough to know that he couldn’t hold power if he was seen as a usurper.
1/2
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Nothing. Remember, grand jurors only hear the prosecution’s side of the case.
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I’ve read that amendment, and I’m curious how, exactly, you think that would work?
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And Will Flemming goes full John Sterling with the silly nickname. He was so good last year and sometimes this year he seems unable to just be himself.
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And...not yet, at least. There are still bleacher seats available for <$30.
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My Roman Anthony lottery ticket (to the #RedSox game Wednesday) came in! Need to look at Ace Ticket and see if prices for the game jumped. :-)
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Which is reason #457 that I hate, hate, HATE the way virtually all the "how to" information on the web has pivoted to video.
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I really wonder what would happen if the next ICE event was met by a delegation of members of Congress backed by 100,000 or so of their constitutents.
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Let's hope "enjoy" is the right word. :-) I'm buying a Roman Anthony lottery ticket for Wednesday since I'll be in Boston and the weather looks good. :-)
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Perhaps you’re not as good at delivering it as you think since I wasn’t the only one who didn’t get it?
No, the problem must be other people.
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Can’t explain anything to someone who’s determined to argue against what they imagine other people said. Hope that works out for you.
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More places are doing vote by mail than are doing boat on the weekend, so if there’s anything that hasn’t been tried, it’s your suggestion and has the other poster pointed out. It doesn’t help people who have to work on the weekend.
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He’s not saying “Tuesday isn’t a problem”, he’s saying “moving it to the weekend doesn’t solve the problem”. And he’s right.
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Right now he’s hitting better than Duran and playing better defense, and he’s two years younger. The only knock on him is the platoon split, and we have Ref on the roster to help with that.
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...to make the team better without giving something up. Bad management gets paralyzed in those situations. Good management realizes they have to break the status quo, makes a choice and explains why. You can see which we have so far.