Wayne Shaw
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This thread sure has shown what colors people wear!
This thread sure has shown what colors people wear!
... but I am close friends with a guy who runs a well-known conservative think tank and has spent a lifetime working in Washington -- from aide to Sen. Charles Percy to assistant and speech writer for Ronald Reagan, he is about as close to a Constitutional expert as I know. I copied and pasted some of the posted comments and this is his reply ...
Your respondent is a total ignoramus.
The House passed its bill. The Senate completely ignored that bill (HR 3200), probably because it boldly declared ObamaCare penalties to be TAXES.
Instead, the Senate concocted its own bill and then grafted it into an insignificant House-passed bill (HR 3590).
At this point Teddy Kennedy died and Scott Brown won the special election, giving the Republicans 40 votes. That’s enough to prevent cloture on a motion to go to conference with the House on HR 3590.
So the Senate sent the House its language and demanded that the House swallow hard and approve the whole thing without asking for a conference – which the House did.
At the same time the Senate initiated a reconciliation bill that included some of the amendments that the House indicated it wanted, plus scrapped the Cornhusker Compromise and some other pork-financed provisions.
Reconciliation does not require a cloture vote – just 51, which the Dems had. The House concurred, and the ACA was thus amended even before it took effect.
Both chambers voted to approve the ACA (PL 111-148) and the reconciliation addendum.
The “thirty days to the President” is absurd. Every bill must be approved by both Houses identically, before it is sent to the president.
Wayne, I hope the guy who started the "gentleman" thread don't judge the benchrest sport by some of these comments.
By social courtesy the designation came to include any well-educated man of good family and distinction, analogous to the Latin generosus (its usual translation in English-Latin documents, although nobilis is found throughout pre-Reformation papal correspondence). To a degree, gentleman came to signify a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work....
"Gentlemen" -- from Wikipedia, one meaning:
So I would say no, benchrest shooters do not tend to be gentlemen. ut then in this thread, they do so show a disregard for the poor, so maybe they are, after all.
Seriously Charles, your benevolence is admirable. We should all try to do more for the truly needy. I have sometimes.
A lady with 3 kids just moved out owing me about $8,000 back rent but her husband had died and she had no place to go, does this count?
Seriously Charles, your benevolence is admirable. We should all try to do more for the truly needy. I have sometimes.
A lady with 3 kids just moved out owing me about $8,000 back rent but her husband had died and she had no place to go, does this count?
Yup. I'll take anyone who spouts wrong but acts right any day.
You'd like this one, Jerry. When my dad was young -- around 1918 -- the husbansd and wife on the neighboring farm died. They had four kids. Each of the neighbors took in a kid, and worked the farm enough to pay taxes & keep it viable for when the kids grew up. Around 1985, I met one of those "kids." He was then worth about a million dollars, and yes, he had helped others in his life.
What people should remember about this story is, it wasn't remarkable, nothing heroic, it was just how people lived then. Nice to see you're the same way.
BTW, you will find my name on match reports. Sadly though, these days you have to look down a whole lot farther...
I don't think so
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All I said was "I don't think it counts"
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In my will, after taking care of my wife & employees, the rest goes to Habitat for Humanity and the Food Bank.
You folks were chatting about Romney.
Actually the only things wrong with Romney were 1 his religion Mormon. Not popular with some folks , even though they are good people
2 he was from the corporate world running right after a financial melt down of the stock market.
The scandle of Berney Madoff and the bonus of the corporate chiefs set a hostile climate for anyone from the corporate sector
No.Do you have children?