It should be clear by now that the only way out of the government shutdown standoff is for the Senate to override the President’s veto, if one comes. If Republican Senators have the courage to live their oath and serve all citizens of the United States, they can easily gain bi-partisan support to override the President and THAT is how our government is intended to work!
When did we forget that the United States is not governed by a king?
Dear Republican Senators. You should be nervous, and the U.S. Constitution gives you the power to open the government, you simply override the President’s veto. You serve the citizens of the United States, you do not serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. Your job is not to just enable what the President wants, your job is to write laws that govern our country. Do your job. A good first step is to pass and override any veto to the appropriations laws to open the government. The next step is to replace Mitch McConnell as your Senate leader.
Simply serving at the pleasure of your party’s President is in practice nothing more than a monarchy/authoritarian rule. If you truly believe in democracy, if you are to uphold your oath to the Constitution, you will exert your authority as the co-equal branch of government who has as one of its primary purposes oversight of the executive branch of government.
Do your job. The Republic depends on you, otherwise we slip in to the same tyranny from which we revoluted against and it will be under your watch and will be your legacy.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked legislation on Wednesday that would reopen most of the government currently closed during the partial shutdown.
Again, McConnell is the reason for the government shutdown.
Amazon is testing an autonomous delivery cart. What it doesn’t show is where it starts from, how it delivers along its route, how one is notified it is waiting for you to pick up your delivery, and how it secures other people’s packages.
I do not like Amazon’s in-house delivery because it is not as professional as Fedex, UPS, or USPS. What I observe is that their drivers do not know their route and will “deliver” your package anywhere.. you might find in your neighbor’s back yard.
Why are glasses so expensive? Capitalism at its unchecked finest.
The real problem with the zeal in declaring anything fake news is the question of who decides what is real news? The problem isn’t whether or not something is fake, the real problem is how is something decided to be real.
When Trump says someone’s reporting is fake, what is really saying is that if he isn’t the one telling you then it is fake.
My Federated Wiki has reached 100 pages.
The exorbitant prices confound patients and doctors alike since insulin is nearly a century old now. The pricing is all the more infuriating when one considers that the discoverers of insulin sold the patent for $1 each to ensure that the medication would be affordable. Today the three main manufacturers of insulin are facing a lawsuit accusing them of deceptive pricing schemes, but it could be years before this yields any changes.
Again, to fix health care you have to address the pricing and the fact that ever component of health care is gaming the system.
Today I am thankful for my house that is my shelter from the cold and a furnace that keeps me comfortable.
The worst outcome for the #NFL. There is no reason why the Saints are not going to the Super Bowl other than a horrifically missed call by a ref. 🏈
It seems there is little point to the NFL having replay if it is not used for all calls. The point of replay is the correct egregious errors such as just occurred in the Saints/Rams game. 🏈
What Does Kirsten Gillibrand Stand For?
But her shift in views from a decade ago is already raising questions among Democrats and provoking attacks from Republicans eager to define her as a flip-flopper.
The above thinking is what is so dangerous about our current culture, which doesn’t appreciate that wisdom is gained over time and with it one should change their mind. Being open to new thinking is fundamental to what we need.
We have about three inches with more falling. I forgot how it is to walk in real snow, Google Fit should have a walk in snow category.
I’ve been doing some more wiki gardening. First, there is a page about what I have learned about federated wiki. I’ve also cleaned up the page of links to neighboring federated sites that I use to find changes in the federation.
Today I installed Docker on my Google Pixelbook by creating a new LXC container and installing Docker in it.
According to the weather people, we are to be getting real snow fall tomorrow.
When did it become the job of Congress to appease the President? McConnell’s impediment to Congress doing its job is actually the problem.
“After James Franklin’s tangles with the law in Boston, the next battle over the freedom of the press was staged in New York, the busiest port on the mainland, where African slaves owned by the Dutch had once built a wall at the edge of town, and African slaves owned by the English had taken it down, leaving Wall Street behind.” from “These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore
Google’s purchase of smartwatch intellectual property from Fossil is interesting. I don’t know if it is a harbinger of a Google watch but I find the statement that Google did the deal so that the IP will be available to all brands, interesting. If nothing else it affirms Google’s commitment to Wear OS.