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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I threw this up without comment yesterday, but I want to touch on it again. Cyber Ninjas has been told to produce these documents three or four times now, and keeps appealing and weaseling out. It sounds like the judge has had enough. I'm very curious about what it is that they are so anxious to hide.

    It's paywalled, but if you google "cyber ninjas document subpoena" you get a list of articles from various dates.

     
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  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    You could also call it a year of jubilee. But that would be lost on the people so in love with using the Bible as a cudgel that they never get around to studying it.
     
  3. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

  4. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I'm....not sure I think it's going to be an overall good for society. Or maybe it will - but not in the way people imagine.

    If you forgive the debts, I'm not sure anyone would expect anything different than free college going forward. And, maybe, if you can no longer put random folks on the hook for a lot of money, maybe the colleges tighten their admissions a lot more and focus a lot less on trying to con students into dropping tons of money because of a cool campus or a lazy river.
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I'm kinda torn on the student debt bailout idea. I went to a state school in the 90s, and it cost about $9K-$10K a year, including personal expenses. Using an inflation calculator, $10K in 1994 would be a little more than $19K now. Looking on my alma mater's website, billed charges are $23K, and that's not counting personal expenses or books. So a student would be out probably an additional $7.5 K a year, which could end up being $30K in student loans after four years beyond what it would have been if the student had gone to school when I was there. So I understand it.

    At the same time, my oldest is currently wrapping up his third year. He gets scholarships, (much better grades than your's truly, plus he's better looking and doesn't lack confidence with the female sex), state and financial aid, and his state school's price is roughly the same $23K plus personal expenses. His scholarships and aid probably pay around $14K. He, my wife, and I split the remainder three ways so we each pay about $3K a year. He works full time in the summer in one of the careers he's pursuing to pay his $3K college costs, his car expenses, set aside some for school personal expense and for some summer fun. He also does some lawn mowing for neighbors and odd jobs for some summer pocket cash. He also works two jobs about 10-15 hours a week combined on campus during the year for more personal expense money

    He'll likely graduate with zero in student loans, or we may decide to take a couple of thousand out for his senior year just to build up his credit a little. So it also can be done with little to no debt.

    Someone else suggested on here, but rather than just wipe the slate clean for everyone, which isn't fair to those who already sacrificed or are sacrificing now, wipe out a certain amount (heck, let's say $10K, although that can be flexible), reduce the total of interest down to a small percentage so mostly the principal remains, and have some reforms for the loan industry (I'm open to ideas).
     
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  6. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Have not been following the McCarthy tape(s) story very closely. Has it been revealed who recorded the tape(s) and how TNYT came in possession of it/them?
     
  7. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Not to my knowledge, but the Trump inner circle is well known for being a nest of vipers. If you add the incentive of giving the investigators evidence in exchange for favorable treatment, well - the list of possibles is pretty long.
     
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  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


    8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

    9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

    10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

    11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

    12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

    13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
     
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  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Instead of splitting apart, R's will stick together as McCarthy stays Speaker and nutters such as Jordan (Judiciary), MGT, Gaetz, Gosar etc are given key committee chairs.

    Is that how it works?
     
  10. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    She he agrees with soon-to-be Justice Brown that it's a ridiculous question.
     
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  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Catholic Church For Helping Migrants: ‘Satan’s Controlling the Church’

    We are supposed to love one another, but their definition of what love one another means, means destroying our laws. It means completely perverting what our Constitution says. It means taking unreal advantage of the American taxpayer. And it means pushing a globalist policy on the American people and forcing America to become something that we are not supposed to be.

    if only you had yielded on abortion
     
  12. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    And he's damn glad to meet you.
     
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