See especially the part about bankruptcy law.
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren: A short guide to big differences
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Both annoying and dangerous
Cops generally expect and tolerate people driving up to 15 mph above the posted speed limit.
Posted speed limits are, I suppose, adjusted down to allow for the fact that most of the traffic will be speeding at least close to 15 mph above them.
Now think about the phenomenon of auto insurance companies offering cheaper rates to people willing to allow them to be constantly tracked by GPS to ensure they don't drive above the posted speed limits.
Trying to be annoying and cause wrecks?
Posted speed limits are, I suppose, adjusted down to allow for the fact that most of the traffic will be speeding at least close to 15 mph above them.
Now think about the phenomenon of auto insurance companies offering cheaper rates to people willing to allow them to be constantly tracked by GPS to ensure they don't drive above the posted speed limits.
Trying to be annoying and cause wrecks?
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Individual mandate unconstitutional?
So says the appeals court.
Court strikes down Obamacare's individual mandate as unconstitutional
And what is the opposed argument in defense of its constitutionality?
Well, back when the flap started, it was this.
Defending the constitutionality of the mandate, the government’s primary argument was that Congress can require everyone to buy health insurance using its power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, because the failure to buy insurance shifts the costs of health care for the uninsured to health care providers, insurance companies, and everyone who does have health insurance.
. . . .
Justice Ginsburg (joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan) agreed with the Chief Justice’s bottom line – that the mandate is constitutional under Congress’s ability to tax – even while disagreeing with his Commerce Clause conclusion; those four Justices would have held that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce to pass the mandate.
Court strikes down Obamacare's individual mandate as unconstitutional
And what is the opposed argument in defense of its constitutionality?
Well, back when the flap started, it was this.
Defending the constitutionality of the mandate, the government’s primary argument was that Congress can require everyone to buy health insurance using its power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, because the failure to buy insurance shifts the costs of health care for the uninsured to health care providers, insurance companies, and everyone who does have health insurance.
. . . .
Justice Ginsburg (joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan) agreed with the Chief Justice’s bottom line – that the mandate is constitutional under Congress’s ability to tax – even while disagreeing with his Commerce Clause conclusion; those four Justices would have held that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce to pass the mandate.
Monday, December 30, 2019
Vlad's boy in DC
Trump's latest call with Putin raises more questions than it answers
Per Trump, the real bad guy and corrupt guy and enemy of the US is the president of Ukraine, and not the president of Russia.
That he takes this line is more important and more revealing than the Biden shtick.
Per Trump, the real bad guy and corrupt guy and enemy of the US is the president of Ukraine, and not the president of Russia.
That he takes this line is more important and more revealing than the Biden shtick.
He said what?
Joe Biden says he would consider a Republican for his running mate
Doddering off into senility, is he?
Almost as idiotically offensive to the true blue as Clinton's repulsive kiss of the Republican ass, "The era of Big Government is over."
What is Big Government?
The regulatory and welfare state.
The progressive state.
Everything built to tame capitalism and protect everybody who isn't a capitalist since McKinley's day.
Doddering off into senility, is he?
Almost as idiotically offensive to the true blue as Clinton's repulsive kiss of the Republican ass, "The era of Big Government is over."
What is Big Government?
The regulatory and welfare state.
The progressive state.
Everything built to tame capitalism and protect everybody who isn't a capitalist since McKinley's day.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Add it to the list
POTUS outs whistleblower.
Trump has now tweeted out the alleged identity of the whistleblower who anonymously accused him of abusing his office in a complaint that has since been broadly corroborated.
Federal law protects the whistleblower from retaliation and POTUS just outed him.
Trump has now tweeted out the alleged identity of the whistleblower who anonymously accused him of abusing his office in a complaint that has since been broadly corroborated.
Federal law protects the whistleblower from retaliation and POTUS just outed him.
Friday, December 27, 2019
People are fundamentally good? Americans are fundamentally good?
A mother was sentenced to 7 years in prison for injecting feces into her son's IV during cancer treatment
The Wolcott, Indiana, mother was arrested and charged in 2016 after she used a syringe to inject feces into her son's IV while he was undergoing cancer treatments at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.
She knowingly placed him "in a situation that endangered the dependent's life or health," Marion County Superior Court documents said.
Alberts said her actions were meant to get her son moved from the intensive care unit to another Riley unit, where she believed "the treatment was better," the documents state.
Her son had been receiving treatment for leukemia since early August 2016 at the hospital, a Marion County police affidavit said. He was released and returned to the hospital a few days later, in early September 2016, with a fever, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the report.
Blood tests of the boy showed organisms that are normally found in feces caused a bacterial infection and sepsis, which an extensive medical evaluation could not to explain.
The Wolcott, Indiana, mother was arrested and charged in 2016 after she used a syringe to inject feces into her son's IV while he was undergoing cancer treatments at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis.
She knowingly placed him "in a situation that endangered the dependent's life or health," Marion County Superior Court documents said.
Alberts said her actions were meant to get her son moved from the intensive care unit to another Riley unit, where she believed "the treatment was better," the documents state.
Her son had been receiving treatment for leukemia since early August 2016 at the hospital, a Marion County police affidavit said. He was released and returned to the hospital a few days later, in early September 2016, with a fever, vomiting and diarrhea, according to the report.
Blood tests of the boy showed organisms that are normally found in feces caused a bacterial infection and sepsis, which an extensive medical evaluation could not to explain.
So, the presidency actually is an entry level job?
AOC for president? The buzz has begun
What, now?
Nah.
In the future, after some years or a decade or so in federal elective office, sure.
A little bit of the cursus honorem is good for a would be president.
What, now?
Nah.
In the future, after some years or a decade or so in federal elective office, sure.
A little bit of the cursus honorem is good for a would be president.
Trump derangement syndrome
From the night of the election many of the more committed Dems have cast about for ways to get rid of the Duce, delegitimate his presidency, of even impeach him.
Their venomous hatred has been abundantly obvious to all.
But it is also abundantly obvious the president is exactly the stupid, ignorant thug, the mob boss, the political ass, the crook, the sexual predator, the instinctive racist, and the national disgrace they have always said he is.
And it is equally true that his crimes, at least as bad as Nixon's and in many ways similar to Nixon's, do justify removal from office.
The truth of the complaint that the Big Dog also deserved to be removed from office makes Trump no less worthy of removal.
But it does remind us payback is a bitch.
Their venomous hatred has been abundantly obvious to all.
But it is also abundantly obvious the president is exactly the stupid, ignorant thug, the mob boss, the political ass, the crook, the sexual predator, the instinctive racist, and the national disgrace they have always said he is.
And it is equally true that his crimes, at least as bad as Nixon's and in many ways similar to Nixon's, do justify removal from office.
The truth of the complaint that the Big Dog also deserved to be removed from office makes Trump no less worthy of removal.
But it does remind us payback is a bitch.
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