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If she was throwing down like the silenced Marg Greene, I can see it. if she wasn't, then the speaker overstepped. The problem is we don't know from this story. We need to see what happened for ourselves like C-Span
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Infinite Frontiers collapsed with the firing of Dan Didio. I think there have been ten reboots. There was the original Crisis, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, 52. Convergence, Flashpoint, Rebirth, Doomsday Clock, and two more I think revolving around the Dark Metal stuff going on with its villianous Batman.
 
Infinite Frontiers was the tail end of 5G where all the main heroes like Clark Kent/Superman were replaced by their kids. There was supposed to be a timeline and everything. Dan Didio got fired before that happened.
 
Geoff Johns is writing a time travel thing where new characters are being introduced as displaced characters like jay Garrick's daughter, Judy.
 
DC Comics right now is full of fan fiction writers made good so no one knows what the actual continuity right now is except for individual stories, and it's come out I think in Wonder Woman that Shazam has just killed Zeus and made Hera his replacement as the Queen of the Sky.
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I'm finally home in Florida. I was surprised to meet so many in Canada that are so aware of our politics here. When they heard I was from Florida they offered immediate sympathies. Everyone knows DeSantis. 

Both the Roosevelts seemed anti business abuse. I remembered the old cartoons of Ted dropping blockbusters on industries
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The Reagan Revolution occurred during my teenage years and I bought in whole-heartedly. I believed less government was better, people should look not to government to solve their problems but to themselves, and that lower taxes on the wealthy and less regulation on businesses would make us all wealthier.
 
So when it came time for college, of course I chose Business Administration. And that's where I learned how things really worked. You can't administer a modern business without understanding this stuff, so how things work were stated plainly and in positive terms. Things like transfer pricing to minimize taxes, regulatory capture to blunt regulation, and public relations to manage perceptions were just items on the syllabus.
 
That sort of stuff nudged me a little to the left, but one of the things that drew me over the line was learning the history of business in the US. One of the key lessons was antitrust, because it intersects with so many outrageous abuses by monied interests.
 
But of course, by the time I was in college, antitrust had already been undermined by the neoliberal view that all that mattered when it came to antitrust was "consumer harm." That led to 40 years of weak antitrust enforcement that's allowed some of the abuses of the past to come back -- as long as a figleaf claim of no "consumer harm" could be made, industries across the economy were allowed to combine and grow more powerful with little pushback. Who cares if all the buyers of a given farm commodity combine and farmers are forced to sell to the one remaining buyer in their area at ruinous rates, as long as consumers aren't affected? And if that one buyer slowly but steadily raises prices on consumers as well, then no one's going to be able to show "consumer harm."
 
So one of the few bright spots recently has been the Biden administration's antitrust stance. Finally we have an FTC that is at least making noises about doing its actual job. Along with Chairwoman Lina Khan and Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya is making waves. Bedoya's recent speech made plain the early history of antitrust in this country, how judicial activism worked before FDR brought the courts to heel for a while, and how much suffering the system tolerated even as laws changed and decades passed.
 
The speech is fully footnoted and is a good read for anyone interested in the intersection of antitrust, the courts, the legislature, and labor.
 
Here's a link to the PDF if anyone's interested:
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/bedoya-aiming-dollars-not-men.pdf
 

Watched John Wick 4. Once again Wick shows he loves dogs more than people. Also the callback to the first meeting with the Marquis was unexpected but shows how WInston is one of the most conniving guys around.
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I think I need two picks for my draft. I would like to pick Merlin of Amber as my professor of interdimensional studies, and the Tardis for my field trip bus.
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I think I need two picks for my draft. I would like to pick Merlin of Amber as my professor of interdimensional studies, and the Tardis for my field trip bus.
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I'm picking Luka, the god of fortune raccoon, as a pledge to the fraternity.
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I'm picking Luka, the god of fortune raccoon, as a pledge to the fraternity.
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The villian's ability is blinding people. So he blinded a blind man
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What about: Head Financier? 

I would like to option John Taylor as my distinguished alumni. His ability to find things makes him a natural for the school
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I would like to pick Hermione Granger as my star pupil
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Gun tracing would be helped by automated processing like the fingerprint system, or Vicap, but the ATF is forbidden to computerize their records. Their Gov page tries to paint a rosy picture of the process but this is what NBC Chicago says:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/violence-in-chicago/how-crime-guns-are-traced-in-the-us-one-page-at-a-time/2615068/  
 
Pay attention to the fact that when they get a request to track a gun, someone has to go into the record area and manually search for the number from the manufacturer, and then call the manufacturer to find out the chain of deals that happened with any one gun.
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I would like to pick John Constantine as my university pick as contract law professor
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I would like to pick John Constantine as my university pick as contract law professor
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I would like to pick John Constantine as my university pick as contract law professor
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Nick Tesla is still free. Robo is his robotic son and successor as the protector of humanity from weird stuff
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I need two archaeologists in my department.
 
I am picking Dr. Henry Jones Jr as one of those.
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Department of Archaeology
The Dean is Dr Kent Nelson.
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Department of Archaeology
The Dean is Dr Kent Nelson.
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He says that it's not his gun. He's only holding it for a friend.

The part that stood out to me was prior to the study there were only five a decade and then all of sudden there are five in a month. I don't want to say there is a causal link with the Obama and Trump Admins but 5/decade then 21/2010, and five in the last two years.
 
That's not counting the things like the Pelosi attack. We're just looking at mass shootings.
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Something that has come up here locally (I actually didn't know which thread to post it in, but decided on this one because it is kind of about a proposed new law), Representatives here in NC want to ban the use of mug shots in public forums. They state that it compromises the future of people with minor crimes by being identified by hypothetical employers and others.
 
This is the opposite of laws being put in effect to keep police body camera footage from the public except by a subpoena by other reps.
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