It would’ve been 6-7 liberal votes each decision. Instead now it’s 5-6 conservative votes. As Jolly said better err on the side of conservative when it comes to judicial rulings, IMO.

Congrats, Jon. Great news for the Alpha-1 Foundation too.

@Mik said in No sense of irony: Fighting is easy. Governing is hard. Easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. One of my favorite aphorisms.

@jon-nyc said in This right here is why I hate federal funding.: That the government uses threats of revoking existing funding from private and state/municipal actors in order to push its political agenda is well established. You just haven’t been paying attention. If you had been paying attention to the conversation, you would know I haven’t claimed differently. But here we are.

@taiwan_girl said in The Caterpillar Crawls South: Is Miami safer than Chicago? EDIT: To answer my own question, Miami has a higher per capital gun violence than Chicago and Florida as a state has a higher per capita gun violence than Illinois. The guy that shoots you in Chicago will at least speak English, more or less.

@LuFins-Dad said in Thomas goes there...: @jon-nyc said in Thomas goes there...: @jon-nyc It’s worth mentioning that she quit talking that way once she got on the court Did you just tag yourself? Yeah. I’d hit me. Really though I was on the phone and it was easier to hit the reply to the last post (mine) then the general reply button which gets obscured sometimes.

@Mik said in Hey there, Rainman: Where’d he post? Haven’t seen it. He posted twice very briefly, just a few words expressing agreement or whatever. Said something very nice to Jon about his new chairmanship. Easy to miss.

@George-K You rock, Rooster! LOL.

Haha. Dreadnought holiday just got another follower

@Jolly said in Another Bleak Retirement Savings Survey: Many times, it takes money to make money. This!! I often think of the example. If someone has $1000 USD and gets a 10% return, he makes $100 USD If someone has $1,000,000 and gets a 5% return, he makes $50,000 USD And if that happens year after year..........

Cool stuff!!! Definitely got the moneys worth from this project!!

@Jolly said in New York Heat: Alito's concurrence... What a breath of fresh air! It is about time.

The famous flying Saint Joseph of Cupertino.... [image: 1656097326440-07657940-c0c4-48e3-960d-2ed77c202b18-image.png]

@Mik said in Holy Crap, That Was Close: @Aqua-Letifer said in Holy Crap, That Was Close: @Mik said in Holy Crap, That Was Close: Life finds a way. And they were so busy trying to figure out if they could, they never stopped to question whether they should. [image: ?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FQgixZj4y3TwnS%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1] Your trifecta of posts are today's P(s)OTD