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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Jul 14, 2023 - 6:25pm |
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black321 wrote:
Several California Assembly members this year introduced a constitutional amendment that declares housing a "fundamental right." Who knew? Lawmakers have wrestled with innumerable complex issues over the years, but finally someone realized that all they needed to do to magically solve any problem is to pass a new "right" to something.
Expected soon: constitutional amendments declaring "rights" to a million dollars, to a brand-new electric SUV, and to a dog that's properly housebroken.
https://reason.com/2023/07/14/...
what are rights?
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Steely_D
Location: Biscayne Bay Gender:
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Jul 14, 2023 - 2:29pm |
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black321 wrote:
Several California Assembly members this year introduced a constitutional amendment that declares housing a "fundamental right."
Obviously, when everything is a "right" then it loses its imperative, its importance.
My usual speech is that people survive without houses, even clothes, but not without food and water. Access to those is imperative #1.
All the other stuff comes afterward.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Jul 14, 2023 - 2:00pm |
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black321 wrote:
Several California Assembly members this year introduced a constitutional amendment that declares housing a "fundamental right." Who knew? Lawmakers have wrestled with innumerable complex issues over the years, but finally someone realized that all they needed to do to magically solve any problem is to pass a new "right" to something.
Expected soon: constitutional amendments declaring "rights" to a million dollars, to a brand-new electric SUV, and to a dog that's properly housebroken.
https://reason.com/2023/07/14/...
Well, it's a "proposed amendment" - not an approved amendment. It needs to be voted on and does not seem likely to pass.
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black321
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Jul 14, 2023 - 1:40pm |
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Several California Assembly members this year introduced a constitutional amendment that declares housing a "fundamental right." Who knew? Lawmakers have wrestled with innumerable complex issues over the years, but finally someone realized that all they needed to do to magically solve any problem is to pass a new "right" to something.
Expected soon: constitutional amendments declaring "rights" to a million dollars, to a brand-new electric SUV, and to a dog that's properly housebroken.
https://reason.com/2023/07/14/...
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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"...The snake is native to deserts and drier areas in southern Africa. The snake is highly venomous and will bite or spit if cornered. Experts say the snake can spit its venom as far as 9 feet."
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Feb 24, 2020 - 3:55pm |
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buddy wrote: jahgirl8 wrote:so much better now that the "new' is on top, why in the world did it take this long? maybe just DJ Bill had some bad advice. let's be careful how we use analogue and digital, they have very specific implications/meanings, and you use them incorrexly, I've noticed. you may want to read up and get a handle on that. R_P wrote:Experience: Iâve written a letter to my local paper every day for 40 yearsI also hate the overuse of the words âguttedâ, âamazingâ and âdevastatedâ â all of which are commonly found in local papers. Donât get me started on Brexit.
I donât sleep that well, maybe because I keep the radio on all night. I have a notebook next to the bed and, if something piques my interest, Iâll switch the light on and write it down. Iâm not one to moan quietly; I harrumph quite a bit. It drives my wife up the wall. She should probably write a letter of complaint.
Iâm sticking to my analogue ways in a digital world, and I donât really want to take up the social media sword. Twitter is full of inconsequential rubbish and the space restriction would hamper me â itâs quite hard to be nuanced in 280 characters. How fortunate DJ Bill & the rest of us have a new hall monitor. I thought it was a button away either way
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jahgirl8
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Feb 24, 2020 - 2:55pm |
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so much better now that the "new' is on top, why in the world did it take this long? maybe just DJ Bill had some bad advice. let's be careful how we use analogue and digital, they have very specific implications/meanings, and you use them incorrexly, I've noticed. you may want to read up and get a handle on that. R_P wrote:
Experience: Iâve written a letter to my local paper every day for 40 yearsI also hate the overuse of the words âguttedâ, âamazingâ and âdevastatedâ â all of which are commonly found in local papers. Donât get me started on Brexit.
I donât sleep that well, maybe because I keep the radio on all night. I have a notebook next to the bed and, if something piques my interest, Iâll switch the light on and write it down. Iâm not one to moan quietly; I harrumph quite a bit. It drives my wife up the wall. She should probably write a letter of complaint.
Iâm sticking to my analogue ways in a digital world, and I donât really want to take up the social media sword. Twitter is full of inconsequential rubbish and the space restriction would hamper me â itâs quite hard to be nuanced in 280 characters.
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R_P
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Feb 22, 2020 - 1:58pm |
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Experience: Iâve written a letter to my local paper every day for 40 yearsI also hate the overuse of the words âguttedâ, âamazingâ and âdevastatedâ â all of which are commonly found in local papers. Donât get me started on Brexit.
I donât sleep that well, maybe because I keep the radio on all night. I have a notebook next to the bed and, if something piques my interest, Iâll switch the light on and write it down. Iâm not one to moan quietly; I harrumph quite a bit. It drives my wife up the wall. She should probably write a letter of complaint.
Iâm sticking to my analogue ways in a digital world, and I donât really want to take up the social media sword. Twitter is full of inconsequential rubbish and the space restriction would hamper me â itâs quite hard to be nuanced in 280 characters.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 8:19am |
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Red_Dragon wrote:
Good for them - seriously.
The university and the Governor have been working on methods of having that statue and others "relocated" but it's met with a lot of resistance from the Conservative corners. The students had just returned in the last week or so and they apparently decided to take matters into their own hands. Some of the talk around here is that they figured if they waited for an "official" removal, that a Charlottesville-type calamity would ensue, though the video of the toppling looks more frenzied than calculated.
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Welly
Location: Lotusland Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 8:10am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: Welly wrote: So, all in all, an improvement? Or simply further disaster averted? Oh and....You guys sure do elect a lot of people. I've never even heard of Precinct Committeeman before!
Party officials, not government positions. The governor will be fine; current gov. is fine, but a little bit of a game-player. Didn't advocate for Medicare expansion then once it was defeated, fought for it. No change yet for our congressional delegation; I hope Barrasso falters but don't count on it. If the local defeated candidates take a hint and stop trying to install their hateful agenda, it would be a good day. As a 3:1 political minority in this state, being able to avoid the nutjobs is pretty much a blue ribbon day. That goes for all of us these days. We have a federal election coming up next year (already? I know!) and the Conservatives are ramping up their fear mongering of 'the other' already. The Koch bros are funnelling money into elections up here too, via the resource extraction industry. Thankfully, Canadians didn't bite on that crap the last time around.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 8:02am |
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Welly wrote:
So, all in all, an improvement? Or simply further disaster averted? Oh and....You guys sure do elect a lot of people. I've never even heard of Precinct Committeeman before!
Party officials, not government positions. The governor will be fine; current gov. is fine, but a little bit of a game-player. Didn't advocate for Medicare expansion then once it was defeated, fought for it. No change yet for our congressional delegation; I hope Barrasso falters but don't count on it. If the local defeated candidates take a hint and stop trying to install their hateful agenda, it would be a good day. As a 3:1 political minority in this state, being able to avoid the nutjobs is pretty much a blue ribbon day.
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Welly
Location: Lotusland Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 7:47am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:Well, the Wyoming primaries were yesterday, and while Barrasshole and Cheneysdottir both advanced, they also both had challengers that took 1/3+ of the vote. In a GOP state like this, to have the GOP primaries involving an incumbent be contested at all is sort of unheard of. Cheney will win the general in a walk, probably nearing 75%, but Barrasso has a challenger whose only negative for those who talk to him is the (D) by his name. He can sell his vision to anyone, if he can get them to drop the blind party loyalty. Gary Trauner #CountryB4Party The race for Governor went to a guy who endured withering anonymous attacks, some terrible negative advertising, glossy mailings, really nasty stuff that literally made me change parties to vote for the guy. If he upsets the Tea Party wing so much, he's got to be the best of the lot. He beat out Foster Friess, the out-of-state billionaire who backed Trump and decided that in exchange for his support there, the Trump machine would support his bid for elective office. Steve Bannon suggested he run against Barrasso, but decided to run for Governor. He has a home in Jackson Hole, but probably could have run for any of a few states. Don Trump Junior sent the most lackluster endorsement letter I've ever seen. "From the desk of Donald J. Trump, Jr." all set in Times Roman and just looking like a rough draft. It did have typos. Friess was the guy who advocated using aspirin as birth control. Ladies, just put the tablet between your knees. But the 3rd place out of 7 was a fossil fuels activist and while she would have been better than Friess, she still would have sold our public lands to ...Foster Friess and oil cos. The two of them together split the right-right-wing vote. A couple of gerrymandered state districts changed hands, a long-time stick-in-the-mud from the next county finally lost to a guy I don't really care for (retired school administrator) but he's eminently more qualified for the position. Our county commissioners' race had several super-right, tea party is RINO, candidates who all lost. They had run for precinct committeeman a few years ago and were up for it again, and even lost there. I've always said that real, local, Wyomingites are conservative, but not hateful. These ones who got beat are all from somewhere else and moved here to try to make it an Idaho panhandle white nationalist enclave. So, all in all, an improvement? Or simply further disaster averted? Oh and....You guys sure do elect a lot of people. I've never even heard of Precinct Committeeman before!
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 22, 2018 - 7:47am |
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Proclivities wrote: Good for them - seriously.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 7:46am |
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 7:44am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:Well, the Wyoming primaries were yesterday, and while Barrasshole and Cheneysdottir both advanced, they also both had challengers that took 1/3+ of the vote. In a GOP state like this, to have the GOP primaries involving an incumbent be contested at all is sort of unheard of. Cheney will win the general in a walk, probably nearing 75%, but Barrasso has a challenger whose only negative for those who talk to him is the (D) by his name. He can sell his vision to anyone, if he can get them to drop the blind party loyalty. Gary Trauner #CountryB4Party The race for Governor went to a guy who endured withering anonymous attacks, some terrible negative advertising, glossy mailings, really nasty stuff that literally made me change parties to vote for the guy. If he upsets the Tea Party wing so much, he's got to be the best of the lot. He beat out Foster Friess, the out-of-state billionaire who backed Trump and decided that in exchange for his support there, the Trump machine would support his bid for elective office. Steve Bannon suggested he run against Barrasso, but decided to run for Governor. He has a home in Jackson Hole, but probably could have run for any of a few states. Don Trump Junior sent the most lackluster endorsement letter I've ever seen. "From the desk of Donald J. Trump, Jr." all set in Times Roman and just looking like a rough draft. It did have typos. Friess was the guy who advocated using aspirin as birth control. Ladies, just put the tablet between your knees. But the 3rd place out of 7 was a fossil fuels activist and while she would have been better than Friess, she still would have sold our public lands to ...Foster Friess and oil cos. The two of them together split the right-right-wing vote. A couple of gerrymandered state districts changed hands, a long-time stick-in-the-mud from the next county finally lost to a guy I don't really care for (retired school administrator) but he's eminently more qualified for the position. Our county commissioners' race had several super-right, tea party is RINO, candidates who all lost. They had run for precinct committeeman a few years ago and were up for it again, and even lost there. I've always said that real, local, Wyomingites are conservative, but not hateful. These ones who got beat are all from somewhere else and moved here to try to make it an Idaho panhandle white nationalist enclave. AnnaBanana posted yesterdays results next door and I was taken by how only about 20K Democrats voted as opposed to over 100K Republicans...I know it was hotly contested on that side but still, dang.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Aug 22, 2018 - 7:38am |
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Well, the Wyoming primaries were yesterday, and while Barrasshole and Cheneysdottir both advanced, they also both had challengers that took 1/3+ of the vote. In a GOP state like this, to have the GOP primaries involving an incumbent be contested at all is sort of unheard of. Cheney will win the general in a walk, probably nearing 75%, but Barrasso has a challenger whose only negative for those who talk to him is the (D) by his name. He can sell his vision to anyone, if he can get them to drop the blind party loyalty. Gary Trauner #CountryB4Party The race for Governor went to a guy who endured withering anonymous attacks, some terrible negative advertising, glossy mailings, really nasty stuff that literally made me change parties to vote for the guy. If he upsets the Tea Party wing so much, he's got to be the best of the lot. He beat out Foster Friess, the out-of-state billionaire who backed Trump and decided that in exchange for his support there, the Trump machine would support his bid for elective office. Steve Bannon suggested he run against Barrasso, but decided to run for Governor. He has a home in Jackson Hole, but probably could have run for any of a few states. Don Trump Junior sent the most lackluster endorsement letter I've ever seen. "From the desk of Donald J. Trump, Jr." all set in Times Roman and just looking like a rough draft. It did have typos. Friess was the guy who advocated using aspirin as birth control. Ladies, just put the tablet between your knees. But the 3rd place out of 7 was a fossil fuels activist and while she would have been better than Friess, she still would have sold our public lands to ...Foster Friess and oil cos. The two of them together split the right-right-wing vote. A couple of gerrymandered state districts changed hands, a long-time stick-in-the-mud from the next county finally lost to a guy I don't really care for (retired school administrator) but he's eminently more qualified for the position. Our county commissioners' race had several super-right, tea party is RINO, candidates who all lost. They had run for precinct committeeman a few years ago and were up for it again, and even lost there. I've always said that real, local, Wyomingites are conservative, but not hateful. These ones who got beat are all from somewhere else and moved here to try to make it an Idaho panhandle white nationalist enclave. :cheers:
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lily34
Location: GTFO Gender:
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Nov 3, 2017 - 6:14am |
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Proclivities wrote: I saw that a few days ago. It's funny how often I've debated with people about having to use hyphens for compound adjectives (even in here on occasion) and have my argument dismissed as "old-fashioned".
yeah, i saw that a few days ago, too. i'm with you. old-fashioned.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Nov 3, 2017 - 6:11am |
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meower wrote: I saw that a few days ago. It's funny how often I've debated with people about having to use hyphens for compound adjectives (even in here on occasion) and have my argument dismissed as "old-fashioned".
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Nov 3, 2017 - 5:23am |
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black321
Location: An earth without maps Gender:
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