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He says that the very nature of the relationship made any requests into tacit orders. The @jonmx mother/child analogy seems pretty good. So you can comb through the itemized list all you want and say "they never made the companies do anything!", that is irrelevant. So you need to disagree with the concept in my first sentence, and he provides a precedent for it. I don't want to go down the sidetrack of Covid being an emergency, except to say it was, then it wasn't, but the government held on way too long, in part to continue justifying the EUA on the vaxxes.

I find that we often fall into the traps of these false dichotomies. It is possible to think that people in power in the administration believed that the vaccines were the best course of action, and that the Left has worked to control the media and messaging for decades. In fact if you had posted here as long as I have, you would know that media bias is my biggest soapbox. I was saying 10+ years ago that CNN is Left while all of the liberals were saying "nonono that's MSNBC, which is the opposite of Fox. CNN is neutral!"

Dood is exciting. I just hope that Corbin Carroll holds on for ROY; he's having a great season and a full season to boot! Speaking of which, went to the DBacks/Pirates game Saturday and saw this: The rest of the weekend, actually past four days, has been making our quarterly bulk trash pile, which meant several hours outside each morning when it was ONLY 100 degrees out (got over 110 by mid afternoon). Drank at least a gallon of water each day and was still a worthless tired ball of flesh by the evening (like usual). Tomorrow we get new furniture that is part of our remodel, and Thursday is my tri-weekly immuno day. An old buddy of mine is a member of a golf course by Mayo and invited me to play before treatment when I want; Ima wait until the weather cools a little. Have a great week geeks!

Ooh, what a burn by the Left! I did like this which came up below that tweet, seems Newsome isn't getting the love he's hoping for.

The reason I don't think you read my posts is because when I quoted the judge with his citation defining the legal requirements for coercion, you responded with: Please go back, read what he said again (since you claim to have read it already), and see if you understand it this time around. Regarding lifting the injunction, I'm no lawyer so I can't say. I will say that it seems like a potential overreach, given the lack of an emergency (I honestly can't recall if Biden lifted emergency status on Covid tho). Unless the trial is a long time in the future, then I can see wanting to curtail things pending the trial. One thing I think this shows is that we need transparency in the dealings between the government and the media companies. At a certain level it is important that the government can coordinate messaging for emergencies. The problem is they screwed the pooch in the way they handled Covid messaging. This was largely due to the somewhat unique circumstance that the accelerated authorization of the vaxxes required the absence of potential alternatives, so they squashed any discussion of potential alternatives. And please, don't say they didn't do that, it is obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together that that is exactly what happened. While that is clearly Machiavellian, IMO it was motivated by good intentions (as the road to Hell often is). So, here we are, unable/unwilling to trust our government, which is very sad because next time around we may have an actual emergency and need to believe them. Again, the only way I see that happening, or at least following them with a wary eye, is for such communication to be as transparent as possible. That is the end game I see (hope) coming out of this exercise.

There is no link there either, and it is just somebody's opinion. There are two other opinion posts -- one says warm water, and the other says it doesn't matter. Phayle post.

Study finds 16 Celsius (60 F) is ideal for rehydration. Yahtzee$#@!

I wonder, if I posted for a 3rd time the judge's statement defining coercion including legal precedents, if you would bother to read it that time? Nah, fool me twice... Does that include most of the recent grads who need college loan relief so badly?

I think I've heard that chugging cold water is not good for you. Asians drink it at room temp, and they know things... I'm doing yardwork today; just finished a glass (it's 110+ here the past week or more) and I'll refill it before going back out, so that it warms up a little.

First paragraph from your link: On July 4, federal Judge Terry A. Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden, a case that basically turns some elected Republicans’ fixation on social media censorship into legal reality. The impetus behind the case is the now thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that the government is somehow strong-arming Big Tech into censoring conservative speech and speakers in violation of the First Amendment. You couldn't find something less biased, maybe Huff Po or Daily Kos?

Your ability to read my post and interpret from it that I am racist is impressive. You used to post on a site that required nuance and intelligence, have you had a lobotomy since then?

You've gone this far, don't reintroduce it. It should get better soon.

He also doesn't drink the leftist koolaid, so no way he can be part black, because the blacks have to toe the lefty line, amirite?!

The fake pictures she has posted here in the past showed her as very thin with no boobage, basically a boy bod.

I addressed the question of coercion in the OP: We know you know more about constitutional law than judges, but this guy cites precedents and everything.

What is the health care legislation to which you reference?

That's a great point.

I don't eat them except when grabbing a sammich or sub, and then I'll often pick Sun Chips or Ruffles Sour Cream and Cheddar. Then again, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be boycotting here. As a sales/marketing professional, I presume they are trying to associate the brand with blacks. That's a strategy I guess, but I would question it since it seems that Doritos is a flagship brand that appeals beyond such a small demographic.

Since we all can agree that the woman in that video does not have a big butt, can we move on to the concept of "hourglass?" I'm a big fan, but some folks like @Hardcore troubadourhave taken it to mean fat. It doesn't -- it means a small waist to hip ratio (WHR), which is correlated to increased fertility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist–hip_ratio "Attractiveness" is, at the end of the day, a proxy for fertility. Breasteses indicate an ability to feed children. Smooth skin denotes youth and an ability to bear children. And curvy hips indicate an ability to get pregnant and deliver the baby. It's science.

Is that around when the great Republican JFK said "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. "?

I don't seek it out, but if it comes on after a ballgame (which seems to happen often), I find myself watching. Since it is curated for TV a lot of the hands they show have either (1) a great play by someone, or (2) a bad beat.

Nobody recalls what was on her laptop, because she destroyed it and then said it was just emails about Chelsea's wedding. Like someone said earlier, bless your heart. It must be peaceful going through life so compliant and gullible.

On the (sorta) topic: both of my daughters are libruhl and recently said they didn't know if they could date a conservative. I told them that when her mom and I got married, the church had us take a compatibility test where we had to rate the importance of topics like: having children, attending church, sex (that was awkward), saving money, parent staying at home with the kids, etc. I don't even recall if politics was a topic back then. I also explained that congresspeople used to cross the aisle and vote for good things, vs. today where everyone just votes on party lines and nothing gets done. I know we old farts always have nostalgia, but on this topic, things were indeed better then.

That reminds me, I never got a chance to comment on your muggle story, and I'm too lazy to look now so... glad you are OK, and I'll admit that a small part of me worries we aren't going to see you again when you disappear like you do, and I was glad you only got your skull broke.

Yeah, we went to the day game on the 4th. Last minute the Mets decide to bench some scrub for Scherzer, oof. Ended up a fun game regardless, 8-5 I think with the DBacks getting the tying or winning run to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Six HRs total I think as well. The next game was the killer being one strike away from the win and then imploding. Oh well, they've been hella fun to watch compete with teams with much higher payrolls. We're going either tomorrow or Sunday, both are day games. The DBacks have this deal where from June through August (3 months), you can attend any home game for $99 total. So we got two of those. So far we've gone to 7 games, we'll probably go to at least that many in the next 7 weeks. Which would come out to like $7 per game.