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I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.
I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.
Agreed. For the Senate race, Katie Porter is the progressive choice, endorsed by Elizabeth Warren.
https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2024/02/07/katie-porter-is-the-progressive-choice/
Her competitor, Adam Schiff, is the old-school Nancy Pelosi choice. He has been running ads that boost the Republican Steve Garvey in an attempt to eliminate Porter from the race.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I, for one, had not known that (tho’ I am not Jewish). Thx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
If your employer is a great corporation then they will not mind paying a fair portion of their profits toward taxes.
So … we were supposed to skim instead of read. Mea culpa – I was reading instead, trying to understand the arguments and get the points. I was weary by the time I got there.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.