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Paint someone else with that brush

Your attempted Socratic method is failing with me. Those are not mutually exclusive sets, nor are they complete.

can I have multiple choices?

A criminal is defined as someone who does not obey the law. That is not a good argument for not having laws. It is a good argument for having law enforcement.

Bob Dylan John Hiatt Paul Westerberg For me it comes down to how creative their lyrics are.

oops. Completely mis-read that.

I am curious about this statement. Isn't Biden saying the opposite of Trump, that the election was not rigged? And isn't he saying it waaaaaaaay less often? And doesn't he only feel the need to say it so that Trump's lie does not go unchallenged?

More often than not I think of the name calling as lazy. But the name calling is also very generic and non-specific. You were very specific which made it more of a personal attack. My reaction was more visceral, less intellectual. When I see nitwit, dum dum, and the like I mostly roll my eyes. Your post made me cringe. For me that is the difference, my level of immediate reaction.

I just listened to The Rewatchables podcast on "A Few Good Men" during my bike ride. In their Unanswerable segment they asked "Was Jonathan Kendrick at the Capitol on Jan. 6?" I almost wiped out laughing.

The personal attack makes it hard to pay any attention to anything else you said.

He was ranked #1 once and took second in SV. He beat his seed twice, missed it twice but still AAed, and was injured once. Hardly choke stuff.

Just found him. One of the all-time great names, too. Sam Manella. His parents must have had a good sense of humor. Oh, and he played from 1978 to 1981. Not late 80's.

There wa a guy who played basketball at DePaul in the late 80's, Sam something. I can't remeber his last name, but his nickname was "The People's Choice". The crowd would go crazy whenever he entered the game. He was truly beloved. But legendary? No, I can't even remember his last name. Iowa wrestlers who don't win titles will be filed under "what ever happened to that guy?" in 20 -30 years.

I saw the coyotes making a home for themselves in my backyard high pawing each other.

Illinois Supreme Court Upholds State's Ban on Semi-Automatic Weapons Progress being made in The Land of Lincoln.

Offshore accounts are used as a tax arbitrage. Most of finance is about gaining favorable tax treatment. If you can do a transaction in a jurisdiction with low taxes it is better than doing it in a jurisdiction with high taxes. Sometimes that happens domestically, for example a lot of people move to Florida, or at least move there part-time to lower their taxes. As with all things there are legal ways to do this and illegal ways to do this. If you claim to live in Florida more than half the year and thereby receive a tax benefit, but do not actually live in Florida the minimum required time, that is illegal. I am not sure how often that is noticed or prosecuted. Corporations use offshore accounts all the time. Coca Cola, McDonalds, and many other US corporations, rarely repatriate profits earned overseas in order to avoid paying US taxes on top of local taxes. There have been many attempts over the years to force repatriation, though I am not sure of the current status. Hedge funds are often incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda or Ireland because those jurisdictions recruit them by offering low, or no, tax regimes. It is why FTX and its associated trading firms were all located in Bermuda. As for why you and I do not use offshore bank accounts and shell companies, we are nowhere rich enough. To set these up requires lawyers, accountants, banks, and others. And everyone gets paid. So it only makes sense if you have a lot of money with a large potential tax benefit. The existence of offshore accounts could hint at illegal activity, or it could just be good estate and tax planning.

That is in no way equivalent. A closer equivalent would be: Selling access through selling hotel rooms. And then selling the hotel once you are no longer president.

Being a Hawkeye has nothing to do with it. And notice I left out legend? Second, DNP is hardly legendary.

But isn't that how you do it? "Let's not do something crass like talk business with my father, The Vice President, on the phone. You know because my father, The Vice President of the United States, is just on the phone because he really loves me, The Son of The Vice President of the United States who he will probably have dinner with later, but always talks to all the time because of the father / son thing we have between us. And by us I mean me, The Beloved Son of The Vice President of The United States, and him, The Vice President of The United States, who, funny trivia bit here, they often describe as being one heart beat away from being The President of The United States. But enough about or close, loving, caring, did I mention close, relationship, a relationship that includes me being able to get the second most powerful, by some accounts, man in the world to drop whatever matters of vital interest to our country he was working on, to say hello to you, my potential future business partner who I definitely do not want to discuss business with at this very moment. Have I made my self clear?"

It's a good thing I am so damn likeable.

People?

I wasn't addressing Biden's claim, just answering Art's question about how it is possible. As for canned practice responses, he is a politician after all. Trump's go to was Fake News any time someone asked him an uncomfortable question. And if you watch a presidential debate it is exceedingly rare for any candidate of any party to answer any question. All "answers" are just redirections to talking points.

50M people immigrated to Alaska?

The mask in the car always got me. That is some serious fear. So much so, I don't know how they function. But then there are a lot of frightened people out there. If it wasn't going to be Covid, it was going to be something else. I just keep reminding myself that everyone is dealing with something. I got together with a childhood friend I do not see very often. He told me his wife still would not leave the house until they have a cure for long Covid. I thought it really isn't about Covid, is it?