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Cal33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 10:50 AM
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Senate Repubs. block potential Elizabeth Warren recess appointment. I thought
it was up to Reid to have a pro forma senate open or not.

How come Dems. don't think of doing something like this when the shoe
is on the other foot?
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 11:22 AM
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1. Last night I saw a Wall Streeter cheering on Fox. Does this tell
you Wall Street is back to it same old games.

Warren was to be responsible for protecting CONSUMERS.

I have to assume Wall Street perceives protecting consumers
as a threat to their way of doing business. It must be
crooked.

Yes, Wall Street can depend on GOP to help them screw
the American People.
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 11:57 AM
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2. As I recall, we have done this sort of thing before. n/t
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Jumping John Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-28-11 03:01 PM
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3. It seems Dems only think it is possible to
do this when they are in the majority.

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When Democrats took over Congress in 2007, Reid blocked Bush from making any recess appointments by holding such sessions, which could last as little as a few seconds, with the clerk opening the chamber and a Senator striking a gavel to close it.

While the Constitution specifies no minimum number of days required for a recess appointment, a March 2010 Congressional Research Service report referenced a Clinton-era Justice Department brief suggesting it was more than three days.

The CRS report also noted that "(a)lthough President Theodore Roosevelt once made recess appointments during an intra-session recess of less than one day, the shortest recess during which appointments have been made over the past 20 years was 10 days."

http://vitter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=31e96dc0-802a-23ad-4883-6af0a46666ac&Region_id=&Issue_id=


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Cal33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 06:48 AM
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4. Thanks for the information. It does look as though the Dem. leadership are afraid
of the Neocons.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 06:54 AM
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5. Why Starfleet has the Kobiashi Maru test.
Edited on Sun May-29-11 07:45 AM by RandomThoughts
Think about that.

Are you graded by your survival, or by your choices and what you would do to survive, and how you would handle that tougher situation of mortal fears.

:shrug:

Kirk Quote
"I reprogram the test, I don't like to lose, and I don't believe in the no win scenario" :)


Loreena McKennitt- Beneath a Phrygian Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siXe7bKt1q0

See how it all forms up, the military Caste is the most compassionate, and it should be that way, out of the three Castes. "Our love must make us strong."

And I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences.




Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1414069/brothers_in_arms_dire_straits/

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY



It is what I been saying from the beginning, and I think this society honors soldiers also doesn't it?

"The 13th Warrior"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhm7DMvapGA

(You have to see it without the violence.)



Highlander- there can be only one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOs2OTgofII
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