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I don't know who he is - so there's that.

But add some stipulations.

- You must submit tax returns for thorough review by 3 independent agencies (or 3 tax focused Artificial Intellegences). These agencies would submit their findings simultaneously on a public server - with all personal information redacted. This would be for 5 years prior to taking office, while in office and 5 years after leaving office.
- The tax returns of your spouse, parents, children and extedned family would be given similar review, but less in depth. The goal would be to check for unusual movement of money, sudden gain in wealth. Any large anomolies would be made public.
- There would be no possibility of Presidential immunity for the politician if it is found he or she has committed a tax felony. Any time served would be in medium security Federal Penetentiary for the general public. No easy time.

The specifics here are no important. The principal is to pay 435 congressmen enough money that bribery is less likely - and they will value their paycheck and their position. You also want to prevent things like the decades long corruption of the Biden crime family. Any set of rules that would get us close to the goal of that has my vote.

Of course, we'll never have any such rules, even if 90% of the US voters agreed we should - apart from a revoluton to throw them all out and start all over.

Every bad call changes the dynamic, strategy and the emotion of the game. I ask you to put yourself in the shoes of the Auburn players and coaching staff during the OK and GA games. I imagine it's hard to play your best game when you see what is either incompetence or corruption working against you at every turn. Those calling for Freeze to be fired are the ones always wanting to see the second string QB go in. I'm here to tell you - the grass is not always greener.

Nope, but the milk is free

Love to see her sit down with Putin. Perhaps she could blow up his light and solve everything. It's worked for her in the past.

Every person is different - even med studens. A doctor that chooses to educate himself beyond the standards of current western medicine is a treasure. A doctor who is nothing more than a pill dispenser is a hazard to public health.

In the end, you have to have a populace that is willing to listen to common sense. Lazy people would rather pop a pill than eat a clean diet and have moderate excercise. Each will find what he is looking for in the medical field.

Putin has used blood and treasure to get a foothold in Ukraine. Balance against what he and Russia have lost and I think you'll find that it was an ill advised move.

We and the EUROPEANS now know...

1. That Putin and the Russian people are OK with invading another country for the flimsiest of reasons. There are no protests or dissent in Russia.
2. Europe is pushing toward 5% GDP spending to defend the continent from the current and future agression.
3. The Russian miliatary is a joke. They should hav crushed Ukrain in two weeks. But due to corruption, poor battlefield tech, poor training, poor leadership and poor planning Ukraine has exacted a pound of flesh from the Russians. Russia could be subdued quickly with the full force of the US and European alllies - and probably would be if not for all their nuclear weapons.

Daddy is no longer paying their full defense bill.

I always understood it to mean the roots of Christianity were in Judaism. There wasn't a lot of Jews around in 1776. There were somewhere between 1,000 to 3,000 Jews in the colonies during Revolutionary War times

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Jews are highly intelligent, frugal, have great family units and they are highly supportive of each other. All if those things are admirable qualities.

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So are Indians and other Asians. They aren't getting Nobel Prizes at 110 the rate per capita. That's over two orders of magnitude. Before you brush it off to culture alone - stop and think about that for a minute. It's not explainable by natural means.

Per Grok....

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The probability of an event occurring at 110 times the normal rate is effectively 0% (less than $ 10^{-100} $) for a normal distribution with a large z-score (e.g., z = 5), as such an extreme deviation is virtually impossible under standard conditions.

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