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That's called Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Source: US Constitution

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday refused President Donald Trump’s demand that he try to block confirmation by Congress of Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States. Pence said in a letter that he did not believe, as Trump has claimed, that a vice president has the power to reject some Electoral College votes for a candidate. “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence wrote in his three-page letter addressed to members of Congress. His dramatic break from Trump came minutes before the Republican vice president began presiding over a joint session of Congress, which is meeting to declare the former Democratic vice president Biden the victor. Pence said in his letter that he shared “the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of this election,” which Trump and his supporters have claimed without evidence was corrupted by widespread ballot fraud. But Pence also wrote that “vesting the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to” the system of check-and-balances between branches of the government designed by the framers of the Constitution. SOURCE: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/mike-pence-rejects-trumps-call-to-overturn-biden-election.html

Invasion of privacy is a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his/her private affairs, discloses his/her private information, publicizes him/her in a false light, or appropriates his/her name for personal gain. https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/legal-right-privacy

You really don't read more than headlines that suit your narrative, do you? I realize the French Fries article may be a bit long, but you can do it.

You mean like this NOAA "Stuff?"

Brent, you are simply not, or choosing not to look at the climate situation on a macro scale. While you make it sound like increasing our (the US) output by 16 billion tons per year is nothing. It very much is something. You fail to address that in the past 30 years, the world as ACCUMULATED AND TRAPPED in the atmosphere 1.5 trillion tons of CO2, methane, etc. It can't go anywhere. The US, China and the EU are responsible for more than 50% of the total 36 billion tons being pumped into the atmosphere each year. Each year, we increase these emissions by 50%. That's year over year. Brother, you've got to get away from the popular mainstream anti-climate change rhetoric and do some real learning about the science of climate change. Like say: NASA Or, maybe the thirteen participating agencies that aggregate their findings to GlobalChange.gov

If the writer did their job.

Nope. The message and its interpretation to the reader is upon the writer.

Incorrect. It is the responsibility of the writer to ensure the interpretation is fully understood by the reader.

As you know, I live in the reddest of red and am red myself, but I have been hearing my fellow redsters insist that DJT is going to be the next President. I scratch my head, OK, help me understand how you believe he will be the next President? Well, once everything is recounted, we'll see that he had more votes than Biden. Really. So, help me understand how four years ago when Hillary won the popular vote and our argument was, but the Electoral College!!! Why would the opposite not be true if Trump did win the popular vote, but the Electoral College has spoken?

That which has divided the world; is the same uniting in humanity.

The main sticking point other countries seem to not get is that we have a US Constitution that provides a "right" that shall not be infringed versus a "privilege" like driving a car. Before you dogpile, please remember the post from about three years back. I'm not arguing gun ownership/licensing in this thread, I'm explaining where the difference lies.

Yes. Really. Take a look at your paraphrase. Listen to the video you posted. And then, see Bill's summary in post #11. Instead of arguing with the scientists on here; why don't you ask them for some reference material to read?

My bad.

Steve Milloy? Seriously, Brent? Mr. Milloy is a nonscientist carnival barker that's backed and funded by tobacco, Oil & Gas, Coal, etc. whose found an audience by being loud. Your quote kinda cracks me up . . . That's quite the literary license you've taken as a "Paraphrase" cause that's not even close to what Feynman said or even to what he was referring . Sometimes I think you just get off on the argumentation about climate change.

This article has been floating around the Internet of late and has been re-published by many different venues. http://thinkaboutnow.com/2016/06/study-guns-stop-crime-2-5-million-times-each-year/ Fact is: EDIT: You'll notice Kleck's research is cited in the first article. The first article pops up about once a year even though it was written in 2016 and has been debunked several times since its first publication.

Sure - let's do that. Here's the entire list unless you have something new.

The university's goal is to "change our narrative, not our name." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/12/09/johns-hopkins-university-person-slavery-name-change/3866364001/

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944906903/johns-hopkins-long-believed-an-abolitionist-actually-owned-slaves-university-say What say you? Change the name? Other?

I Locked on to this one. But, you can just type "Knee Brace" into Amazon and there's everything from the high dollar Donjoy to every knockoff brand. EDIT: Go up one size

Fake News. Joe, this all started back in 2017 when the 165th was mobilized to Savannah in support of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. That area is a joint operations base that supports FEMA's response to Florida, Puerto Rico and the VI. As a National Guard unit, no congressional approval is needed, just the Secretary of the Air Force.

You are correct. I did miss that. My apologies. Happy Thanksgiving.

When kids are throwing hissy fits; you don't reward them with attention; you ignore them until the hissy fit becomes irrelevant. Enjoy the holidays and in less than 60 days this too shall pass.

I was just giving Nigel some shit. And, Trump is yesterday's news. You guys can let it go now.