mpguy29.bsky.social
Business and Economics teacher. Financial and educational consultant. Music and entertainment archivist. B.S., M.S., MBA. Ph.D., 1992.
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I'll bet Harry would have some interesting opinions about the current Supreme Court. And, as they're such quality thoughts, he would probably demand filet mignon in exchange for sharing them.
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Face-eating leopards eating Latino faces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ig...
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When Dems get the trifecta, kill the filibuster for SC purposes. Expand the court to 17, with each case heard by nine selected through a computer random number generator. That will partly reduce importance of each Justice. Should be part of a larger Judicial branch update and reorganization.
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It's very much a public issue. Teams get tax subsidies, and not just for venues. There are significant economic development implications--some good, some bad. The presence of major league sports teams improves the status and visibility of major cities. Just look at Utah, with the NHL, maybe MLB.
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He really knows the game. Ron went to college on a basketball scholarship. A really good player at Palo Alto HS, which was part of a very competitive league. Several players in the SPAL went to the NBA. I saw him play when he played against Woodside HS, where I went to school.
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That whole thing is only five sentences. It takes him 8 lines to get to a period. The others are in lines 17, 23, 29, and at the end. And, apparently, it's all one paragraph. Has he ever heard of the idea of putting some space in there?
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Toro has excellent taste in beverages.
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I wondered about that. It would be an interesting legal test. USS could take the position that he's an elected official, not a "designee," which would require some other kind of documentation.
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If I'm reading this correctly, "U. S. Steel" can do any of those things ... as long as tRump is no longer POTUS. Which could happen in any number of ways. If you get my meaning.
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If you're referring to oil going out to China, why wouldn't the Iranians just let those ships go through while closing it off for other ships?
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Conservatives on the SC gave up their loyalty to law and reason a long time ago. They exchanged it for fealty to Cheeto Jesus. Anyone looking for consistency, logic, and adherence to basic Constitutional principles will have to look elsewhere. It's all about accommodating tRump.
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It's almost as bad when you give people a map of the U. S. and ask them to find states other than CA, NY, Florida, or Texas.
I was lucky enough to have gone to a HS where Geography was required course. We need for full year courses in both Geography and Economics to be required everywhere.
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Why do you think I put the word "justice" in quotation marks?
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Here are my questions:
1. We have sensitive weaponry stored within mountains in the Rockies. Why wouldn't mountainous Iran have done the same thing, anticipating this?
2. Iran has an alliance with Russia. What's to stop Putin from backfilling any losses of materials/equipment Iran sustained?
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Schumer may even shake his finger at him.
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He can't say -- or do -- anything until someone brings a case that goes through the "justice" system.
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Since when does Trump care about little things like THE LAW?
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As a Giants fan, I'll settle for arresting Betts, Ohtani, Freeman, and Smith just before we play them next time. Maybe we can win a few games from them.
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And it would be nice if the opposing viewpoint were well thought out. As opposed to showing blind adherence to a POTUS and movement that have no real tether to any philosophy besides self-interest and self-aggrandizement. If Scott Jennings had an avatar, it would be a parrot.
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Could his racism be any more obvious? He doesn't seem to have any problem with Presidents Day or Columbus Day. Funny that he comes up with this inane comment on a holiday honoring freedom for black people.
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The only thing that might temper the inflation rate is that he's driving the economy toward a recession. The increase in unemployment would cause demand to decrease enough to minimize price increases.
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" ... thus her son wouldn't be drafted." ??? We haven't had a military draft since the early 1970s. If her son doesn't want to go to war, all he has to do is decide not to enter the military. How uninformed ARE these MAGA folks?
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Yes. They need to find candidates who align with their districts. That might mean taking stands that Dems in very blue districts might find distasteful, but getting elected is the goal. We can work out the compromises once we have a majority in one or both chambers.
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I didn't see any point in replying to such nonsense. Is everyone who says something you don't like a "bot?" if so, there must be lots of "bots" out there.
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I agree that those are all nice things to do. Meanwhile, Republicans will pass their ridiculous Reconciliation Bill with no input from Democrats. Which is what will actually change (and not for the better) American society. Voting matters.
Dems need to swing a handful of House districts in 2026.
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You need to reread my post. I'm saying the same thing -- that Dems didn't vote when they should have in 2024. Voting is about choices among less than perfect alternatives.
I'm telling people TO VOTE -- in 2026. Unless they do, this MAGA nonsense is going to continue.
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The reality of the moment is that Dems don't have any power. I'm all for the protest demonstrations across the country. But all of the has exactly ZERO impact on tRump and the GOP Congress right now.
If all of that activity doesn't translate into actual votes in 2026, none of it means anything.
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"And if the candidate doesn't give me everything I want, I'm staying home. Even if I mostly agree with him/her and the other party's candidate is reprehensible."
Sounds a lot like how we got here. The old saying, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" applies. It's about choices.
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OK. You and others who think that way can choose to sit the 2026 election out because the Dems aren't perfect. And then we can continue with the current GOP idiocy until at least 2029. Enjoy your life, ignoring the fact that "the lesser of two evils" is pretty much a feature of our system.
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For the most part, they didn't. Most of those votes were either zero or, at most, a handful of Dems and all (or almost all) of the GOP. Republicans have the majority in the Senate--because Dem voters decided to punish their own party over Gaza, etc. People voted for this. Do better in 2026.
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I don't know what you want the Dems to do. Go in with guns a-blazin'? Stash a bunch of Republicans, stage a coup and take over Congress? Seize the Fox News studio?
You should be angry at the feckless Dem VOTERS, whose disinterest and misplaced anger last fall caused this.
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Done strategically (not as proposed) there's a place for this. Develop entirely new communities in rural areas. Create jobs, build housing. Use the profits to actually reduce the debt. But the government needs to be a partner in these developments to maximize value before the sale.
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This is why I never believe anybody who says something like, "l'll vote for a candidate who will work for the common people instead of the special interests. I don't care what party they belong to."
Bullhonkey. 99 times out of 100, they'll vote against those people if they're in the wrong party.
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People are missing the significance of this. Both the MN State House and Senate had one seat majorities for the Dems. Dems now can't pass any legislation there.
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Won't the next Dem POTUS and the members of his administration have to pay this back? Unless they use the same kinds of tactics on the MAGA folks that Trump has been using, can we get to the point where we can have a discussion about how to prevent this in the future?
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The next to last sentence is the one that puzzles me.
Is he saying that a country with nuclear weapons CAN'T be a great country? If that's true, what does it say about the U. S.?
Among other reasons, Iran probably wants them BECAUSE it wants to elevate its status among nations.
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Next Dem POTUS has to pay the GOP back. Handcuff GOP Sens/Reps when they protest. Render Heritge Foundation + CPAC folks to foreign prison. Meet GOP protestors with force. Arrest Noem, Homan, Miller.
Once MAGA feels retribution, we can have a conversation about preventing such incidents.
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How do we know the inflation rate is declining, since we can't trust the numbers coming out of this administration. Wasn't it Lutnick who said that if they didn't like the numbers, they would just change them to suit their purposes?
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I have a little coffee drink mix I buy on Amazon. The price had been $3.38 for a long time, and sometimes was even down in the $2.80 range. I went to order some a few days ago. The price is now $4.18.
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The protesters ought to borrow a page from the bands at college football games. Someone should organize the people to spell out in huge letters something like "TRUMP IS A FOOL" or something like that. Makes a statement. It's completely peaceful. And he would be furious. An all-time troll.
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Your friends might not have to be persuaded to leave FB. Suckerberg is kicking lots of people who don't support tRump off of there for "violating community standards." Too bad someone doesn't create a similar, alternative platform. They'd have lots of customers.
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If he wants to find lots of illegal immigrants, it's interesting that he doesn't raid meat packing plants in the Midwest, home builders in Texas and Florida, farms in the CA central valley, and hotels/restaurants in the southern red states. I wonder why? Something to do with red vs. blue states?
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Since we can't believe the numbers coming out of Donnie's admin, it's hard to know whether or not this is true.
One thing we know for sure -- CNBC and its on-air hosts are (with maybe the exception of Scott Wapner) utterly in the bag for tRump. My mute button gets overworked watching CNBC.
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Why would anyone expect right wing media to tell the truth and portray the situation as it is? So much better to exaggerate in order to gin up the base.
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Using the military to fight against our own citizens. America's enemies are high-fiving each other tonight.
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Oregon says, "YES!!!"