There is so much blood in the water… let the feeding frenzy commence in earnest!
Insert Jaws theme music…
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Just when they thought they were home free, an adult stepped into the room.
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“Can we just put a stop on the crime until after the election?” he said as he knelt to say his daily prayers for RBG’s continued health.
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Yeah, forcing things up the appellate route over issues like privilege is their best move in terms of delay.
I’d like to see Koh call their bluff on that as well, maybe with a ruling that “fine, if you’re not going to produce these things, then I’m not going to consider them to be part of the administrative record, rendering the administrative record insufficient to support any other judgment than that the decision was arbitrary and capricious.”
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The last time Wilbur had to produce a “rationale” for his decisions regarding the census Justice Roberts sniffed it and then scratched cat litter over the entire thing.
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Feature, not bug.
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Finally, a judge who recognizes when someone is dragging their feet.
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I don’t think old men dyed their hair dark brown back then.
True–I guess. I read non-fiction; Scrooge is one of the few Dickens characters I can reliably name.
Since there’s nothing about it on the census, how did or do they plan on eliminating undocumented people from the count for Congress purposes? Just drop anyone whose name ends in “ez”?
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I’m a census supervisor, and my team has been in the field in western NY since late July. Our zone (Buffalo suburbs) is on “phase 2,” which means the most productive enumerators are going back to already-visited addresses to try to get head counts. Mind you, some of these addresses have been visited up to six times, despite the occupants refusing, threatening enumerators, etc.
Now everyone’s being sent into the city of Buffalo, where many of them won’t go. Middle-aged, white ladies with census packs sent into the middle of areas full of drug and gang activity. Believe me, I’m not unsympathetic to the plight of the people of Buffalo, but what a mess.
The enumerator’s phones are loaded with a case list every day, and now that a lot of the work is done, the cases are often scattered and in “bad” areas. If one of my guys is afraid, I encourage him/her to map out their cases, and go to the addresses where they feel most comfortable/least uncomfortable. A big part of my job as supervisor is to support my team, and if they’re scared to go somewhere, I’m gonna try to help them avoid the place.
It’s been like this from the beginning–a lot of creative thinking to work with a census system that doesn’t give a tenth of a shit about the individual employee. They throw cases at people and throw people at cases; that’s the depth of thought employed here.
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Or they.could take the Stepien Bridgegate approach, which is to scan every page of every document crookedly onto a flatbed scanner, then concatenate all the images into a single multi-gigabyte file, and deliver that to the opposition.
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Sykes, Carker, Flintwitch, Murdstone, Krook, Heep…shit, I can imagine Ross’ face in all of them.
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jrw’s three reasons are spot-on!
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New avatar?
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OT: Good!
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New here, anyway.
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And now, this:
Some say the owner got $ 300K for releasing the stupid tape of Nancy. I hope she enjoys her newfound wealth - her 40 pieces of silver.
Pity for those who rented chairs in her business, since now they have to find new places to work.
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Cross-checks with donor lists.
Maybe they already shredded the documents!
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