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We note once again that when the Republicans in Congress voted to extend the months of Daylight Savings Time, they made sure that it stopped just before the Tuesday of November elections, so as to try to make it less likely for some people to vote in the dark. This is not happenstance. Actually, I do not like Daylight Savings Time as a concept, as it interferes with the body’s natural time calendar, and it is certainly bad for animals, too. It has now become a stupid concept geared to getting people to work longer hours. I remember days when i worked later at the office, just because the light made it seem as if it were earlier than it was, more time to do things later. That’s the goal of it. Sure, it’s nice to walk around in the early evening daylight of summer, but summers would still be longer if there were year-round Standard Time. Rubio is trying to make Daylight Savings all year, same reason as noted above.
If Biden wins and the Dems retake the Senate as well, pack the courts, especially the SC–and then restore all the voting rights laws the fascist Court struck down. Also ban gerrymandering.
Enough congeniality. Go for their traitorous throats. Finish the job that was suspended in 1877.
The Cavalier and Borderer gentry must be stripped of power forever, and their semi-barbaric cultures must be re-educated into oblivion.
Selah.
That is very authoritarian. I can’t vote for that.
Go back and read what he’s suggesting. All of the steps that a Democratic Senate would take would UNDO the most restrictive and authoritarian things the Republicans have implemented since 2010.
In other words, it would give us back a less polarized country.
For example: if your district is gerrymandered so that only one party can win, then the tendency to get extreme versions of the politicians for either party is accentuated. If you only ever have 2 Republicans as viable candidates for a district, then they will try to out do each other in primaries because primaries are usually dominated by the most partisan voters.
What a Democratic Senate would do is enforce fairness and less partisanship, which you may interpret as authoritarian. I wouldn’t. But it does mean taking what looks like some drastic steps at first. That’s because what Republicans did to move the pendulum to the right was over a couple of decades. What Democrats would do to correct that would have to be done quickly.
That’s a great start, Ivory Bill Woodpecker!
Bes, Republicans blocked many of President Obama’s court picks — positions now filled by judges appointed by Trump. They used Senate rules to do this — and then they changed the rules, so Democrats could not block their picks. President Trump got to appoint judges for all of the vacancies that have come up in the last 4 years — plus many, many positions from President Obama’s 8 years. Funny — not one of those is African American. What IBW is proposing will address that injustice.
The federal court judges have long been overloaded and overworked — creating more positions is overdue.
Off topic: The Reaper herself finally succeeded where Dr. No and Blofeld and Goldfinger and all the others failed. 😦
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824
I liked him until he indicated boxing his wife’s ears was acceptable. I was not expecting that from such a seemingly genial man. I hope he evolved before he died. He was superb in The Wind and The Lion.
I hope that story was mistaken. That is a disappointment.
Diane Cilento, his first wife, revealed he hit her in her autobiography. It made big news when in a Playboy interview, he said, he did not think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman… He advocated slapping instead of using a closed fist.
He was so talented and charismatic, but it left a bad taste in my mouth that persists to this day. I stopped watching Bond movies until the new guys took over the role.
*sigh* It seems that every celebrity will find some way to disappoint us regular people sooner or later. Feet Of Clay and all that.
I preferred Connery to Moore. Moore always struck me as having a little too much smarmy lounge lizard in him.
Loved Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bonds.
Happy Halloween!
Thanks for posting this, RD. I hadn’t seen it, and I love it. She’s wonderful there.