Jim Sylvester

War Presidents are popular.
Therefore, if I launch a war, I will be popular.

It goes no deeper than that.

Here's the puzzle: having access to that kind of material might make us all guilty of possessing kiddie porn.

a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face . ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face .

I am so surprised.

Season 4 is superb. Lots of very good to great episodes in it.

And that stuborness is why I'm saying if there is *anything* that would shake the faith, it's paying more for gas. It's personal.

Will he ever lose a huge block of the faithful? No. But among all his faults and errors, higher gas prices is more likely to cost him *some* support than anything else.

It was a wrong turn. People readily refer to specific episodes from 1966 to 2005. Nothing since enjoys that distinction.

JJ Abrams is insufferable. Kurtzman is nothing but the Master of Mediocrity. He often just boldly goes where other series have gone before. It's been 20 years of B grade stuff

I think it would be a revival of Cardassia and would be told from the perspective of the heroes of the Obsidian Order.

There's an argument to which I ascribe that the franchise took a very wrong turn after 2005 with the JJ Abrams movies and then the Kurtzman regime.

I haven't watched Prodigy, but apart from that I've seen nothing on par with TNG, DS9, snd VOY.

ST needs a new Michael Piller or a long hiatus.

No recipe I make will involve fewer than 6-8 garlic cloves.

I was excused from a a criminal panel when the defense attorney indicated his client didn't have a few guns, but rather an arsenal of "a lot of them."

"Would any of you hold that against my client?"

I had to ask "May I approach the bench." I was excused very quickly.

"Your Honor, I have a question ... the state wouldn't go to all this trouble if the guy were innocent, would they?"

(Probably jury misconduct and chance of an instant mistrial.)

Btw, I'm an attorney and have been on two juries. I was the foreman both times. In each case, it was a big mistake by one of the two sides to let me be seated.

As a general rule, they want malleable sheep, not people who can lead.

If you want to be picked, say as little as possible.

If you want to be excused, say stuff, volunteer info, and ... if you can, ask a question. That almost always works.

If it's a criminal trial, do avoid saying, "The state wouldn't go to all this trouble if the defendant were innocent, right?"

The damage will reverberate for a few centuries. For those killed, the loss is total and permanent.

Make your own list.

I'm sure there are areas where gas prices are higher than average (It is an "average.") California is > $5/gallon.

I'm just going by the reported mean that's about $3.50 for regular.

$7 for diesel is a (!!). There are at least 10 states > $6 for diesel. That's a huge add to transportation costs.

Coverage will be denied by the insurance carriers and if something happens there'd be huge losses that would be dropped on the owners of the ships and the oil. Any loss of life would give rise to an additional set of huge claims.

Have these people never spent any time in the business world?

Strong circumstantial evidence he's vulnerable to blackmail.

What do you call it when you give an elderly pedophile unconstrained authority over the federal government?

Making America Great Again!

When the average price of a gallon of just regular gas hits $4.00, the loyalty of the MAGAs will be tested.

Trump says it's a "small price to pay" (for something). They won't like paying it.

They'll put up with a huge amount of his tripe, but paying more for gas is very real.

A few weeks ago the Dow was at 50,000. Futures right now have it at 47,000 (-6.0%) while oil is headed to > $100/barrel (a jump of 11%). Jobs Report on Friday was weak.

So much winning.

If Congress approves a bill and he does nothing for 10 days while they remain in session, it automatically becomes law. Art. 1, Sec. 7.

Does he know how Section 7 of Article One works?

If Congress sends him an approved bill and it sits on his desk for ten days while Congress is in session, it becomes law without his signature.

Article One, Section 7. If Congress is in session and he doesn't sign a bill sent to him, it automatically becomes law after 10 days.

But he's not real big on knowing much about the Constitution.

Instituting a draft without getting a bill through Congress would face resistance.

Even if Congress passed a new law authorizing conscription, there would be massive resistance.

How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

In 1975 my number was 81. Had I been exposed to the draft a year earlier, that would have been just low enough to be within the call.

But by 1975, we were out of the war and were down to just about Embassy staff. I was safe, purely by chance.

Otherwise, yes 💯, the draft drove the protests.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve doesn't have a lot of oil in it. One of the things Trump ignored in getting ready for this fiasco was to replenish that stock. What it has might last a week or two.