Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings

[Fargo]

Well, if the punch is already ****ty, mine can only help.

Spoken like a true Carmelian... "It is the best poop, the biggest poop, it's so wonderfully roselike you will never tire of it!"

 

[churchmouse]

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Spoken like a true Carmelian... "It is the best poop, the biggest poop, it's so wonderfully roselike you will never tire of it!"

Well now... A 'Carmelian'. Thats a new one for me. Is that Your Honor Mayor Brainard approved?

Extra.

 

[T.Lex]

Spoken like a true Carmelian... "It is the best poop, the biggest poop, it's so wonderfully roselike you will never tire of it!"

Dude. True story. Carmel's wastewater treatment facility started converting its... uh... resource... into fertilizer years ago.

I guess it is really good ****.

Carmel Included in National League of Cities "Best Practices" | City of Carmel

 

[Fargo]

Well now... A 'Carmelian'. Thats a new one for me. Is that Your Honor Mayor Brainard approved?

Extra.

I really hope not, I find doing the opposite of what he would do to be something of a guiding moral principle.

 

[mmpsteve]

I believe the real estate case with Kav's mother as judge ended with Ford's parents keeping their home, so I don't think it's a vendetta thing. Also, I think Ford may be well enough educated to be able to fake a hypnosis session, if that's even possible.

 

[Fargo]

Dude. True story. Carmel's wastewater treatment facility started converting its... uh... resource... into fertilizer years ago.

I guess it is really good ****.

Carmel Included in National League of Cities "Best Practices" | City of Carmel

Of course it does, we are all so blessed to have Carmel's poo spread across the rest of the state. How else could we grow such healthy corrupt redevelopment commissions?

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

Dude. True story. Carmel's wastewater treatment facility started converting its... uh... resource... into fertilizer years ago.

I guess it is really good ****.

Carmel Included in National League of Cities "Best Practices" | City of Carmel

Priceless... How do we get a ticket to this utopia you speak of???

I wonder, do they add perfume?

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[ghuns]

Of course it does, we are all so blessed to have Carmel's poo spread across the rest of the state. How else could we grow such healthy corrupt redevelopment commissions?

I have always believed Carmelians thought their s**t don't stink.

 

[T.Lex]

Of course it does, we are all so blessed to have Carmel's poo spread across the rest of the state. How else could we grow such healthy corrupt redevelopment commissions?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa.

That "corruption" was brilliantly conceived (not by me) and, to my knowledge, remains legal. Or at least, unprosecuted. Heck, in all meaningful ways, uninvestigated.

 

[Fargo]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa.

That "corruption" was brilliantly conceived (not by me) and, to my knowledge, remains legal. Or at least, unprosecuted. Heck, in all meaningful ways, uninvestigated.

Years ago I did some research on it, at that time IIRC most violations of the statute were a C felony, despite not being part of the criminal code. It was amazing how you could do everything prohibited by the statute, as long as you washed it through a shell corporation which shared a majority of its board with the commission.

 

[T.Lex]

Years ago I did some research on it, at that time IIRC most violations of the statute were a C felony, despite not being part of the criminal code. It was amazing how you could do everything prohibited by the statute, as long as you washed it through a shell corporation which shared a majority of its board with the commission.

Dude.

You and I are of a like mind, I think.

Problem is, look at all the bright shiny things we have (financed by future, unquantifiable revenue). And all the complicated entities. And words that mean different things in different sections, and, well... eh... there's easier stuff to go after, with a higher chance of not risking one's reputation if it turns out that there's enough legal complexity to arise to reasonable doubt.

 

[Fargo]

Dude.

You and I are of a like mind, I think.

Problem is, look at all the bright shiny things we have (financed by future, unquantifiable revenue). And all the complicated entities. And words that mean different things in different sections, and, well... eh... there's easier stuff to go after, with a higher chance of not risking one's reputation if it turns out that there's enough legal complexity to arise to reasonable doubt.

At this point, I don't think that it is remediable under the current statute. If a damn had been given when the shell game started, one probably could have, but at this point it is business as usual for most of the state.

At this point, I think it actually requires a legislative fix, but there is a lot of ("Republican") money standing in the way of that.

 

[printcraft]

Does that go both directions?

I mean, how often are Dems labelled as "evil" or the functional equivalent ("Demoncrats," treasonous, etc.) around here?

I don’t see the violent rhetoric (and actions) like “chop off their dicks and feed it to them” concerning judges selected for the Supreme Court coming from the right in this country.

Maybe I missed it when Kagan and Sotomayor were nominated and seated... but I don’t believe so. (dicks not withstanding)

There is a difference, I know you see it.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

At this point, I don't think that it is remediable under the current statute. If a damn had been given when the shell game started, one probably could have, but at this point it is business as usual for most of the state.

At this point, I think it actually requires a legislative fix, but there is a lot of ("Republican") money standing in the way of that.

Add to that people like their old, delapedated train depots relocated and spruced up, new bike paths, and their downtown facades all spruced up with that "free" government money...not many of either party are in a mood to "fix" it.

 

[foszoe]

Uh oh


The t messages coming out that Kavanaugh was trying to get ahead of the New Yorker article

 

[Fargo]

Add to that people like their old, delapedated train depots relocated and spruced up, new bike paths, and their downtown facades all spruced up with that "free" government money...not many of either party are in a mood to "fix" it.

You can still do all those things via the normal funding mechanisms, but then you are accountable to the voters depending on how much you are spending. It's so much simpler when you get to spend their tax dollars without them having any meaningful say so.

 

[KG1]

I don’t see the violent rhetoric (and actions) like “chop off their dicks and feed it to them” concerning judges selected for the Supreme Court coming from the right in this country.

Maybe I missed it when Kagan and Sotomayor were nominated and seated... but I don’t believe so. (dicks not withstanding)

There is a difference, I know you see it.

Stop it. Take your dressing down like a man. You radical Ingo’er.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

You can still do all those things via the normal funding mechanisms, but then you are accountable to the voters depending on how much you are spending. It's so much simpler when you get to spend their tax dollars without them having any meaningful say so.

Exactly.

 

[two70]

Is the Hippocampus at Hippo University? Ever notice how psychology and complete bull**** sound alike? The difference being the letters after ones names?

There is a big difference between real psychology and what is portrayed as psychology by the media, in movies, and on tv. Much of what you see there is pure BS regardless of the letters after anyone's name. The psychologists that lend any credence to the theory of repressed memories are a distinct minority in the field, it is simply not supported by credible evidence.