Boddhisatva

I’m sure they are also pretty effective for people with more nefarious uses for them.

Great spot to hang out and watch the world from!

My cats have that cat tree with the bag/bed and that three-way tube toy as well. They love them both. Brownie is appropriately spoiled.

That would be nice. That way if Trump kicks in office we’ll have our first female president and she’ll be perfect for the GOP. After all, it was their lord and savior, Saint Reagan, who said “Someone once said that politics is the second-oldest profession. I’m beginning to think it bears resemblance to the first.” By that metric she is well suited for Republican politics.

I wonder if Congress can withhold SCOTUS operational funding until something is done?

They could do a hell of a lot more than that. The Constitution defines the SCOTUS and states:

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

Congress has the power to modify the powers of the Supreme court. They could, if they had the will, take away the vast majority of the power of SCOTUS. Congress could add exceptions to the SCOTUS’ appellate powers for all matters except matters “affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party.” With the President’s assistance, Congress could even expand the court and alter the current majority.

They could do all this, but they won’t, and for the same reason they won’t impeach the blatantly ethically bereft members of the court. Because the Republicans are benefiting from the status quo and they will never allow the Democrats to change it as long as they have more than 40 seats in the Senate and a majority in the House.

No one is above the law.

Sadly, the evidence appears to suggest otherwise. Until the Democrats and Republicans in Congress get together and pass laws to enforce ethics rules on the SCOTUS, as they have with all other federal courts, then the members of SCOTUS are indeed above the law.

Yep, give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself. He won’t be able to stop himself.

Because they don’t want to see it. They want to feel superior to everyone else by claiming the moral high ground but don’t actually want to adhere to the morality they pretend to believe in. Feed the poor? Not with my tax dollars! Love thy neighbor? No way! One side is Muslims and the others are black! The meek shall inherit the Earth? Not on my watch!

Home mag-lev. Build the super-conductor into the flooring of your home. Equip heavy furniture and appliances with electromagnets in the feet. Dial up the power on the magnets and the furniture will float up and you can slide it to it’s new location. Dial down the magnets and furniture will settle back to the ground.

Of course they flee on roads. Far faster way of escape than taking a hiking trail or a bike path.

It’s an app. Maybe it requires GPS access so they can track that data point. VPN says USA, GPS says Germany, they block access.

Color me shocked. The only thing I’m wondering is why the name length needs to be greater than 7 for the query?