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What pissed me off about the Harvey screwup wasn't so much the screwup itself, but rather subjecting the runner up to the humiliation of having the crown "ripped" off her head.

The classy way of doing it would be during a commercial break, or off-stage. Let her compose herself, or run off screaming, or whatever she wanted to do, out of the public eye.

You shoiuld have read the Wikipedia article:

"Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: محمد بن نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎‎; born 30 August 1959) is the Crown Prince, First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia."

It's not the way to get ruby star or a crown, but for long time members who don't really post much in the way of videos it could help get bronze. This is particuarly the case if they're only a few star points short of the 25.

The supreme court is in a position to take liberties because there is no court above it to which one can appeal.

Courts have a mandate to judge compliance with the law - not to redefine the law (that's the legislature's role).

If due process was followed, courts would find cases like 'yelling fire' as protected, and refer the law to the legislature to exempt-from-1st-amentment-protection any inappropriate behaviors via new written constitutional law.

As it stands, there are many judicial opinions that are enforcible via the legal system, that are never written down as law by the legislature.

Again, it's a matter of what people are willing to enforce. The courts are just people. The law is only as important to them as they will it to be. If everyone is on board with twisting the rules, then that's the norm.

(aside : Yelling fire is a stupid example. If you did it, everyone would look around, and then look at you, and would be like "wtf are you talking about?")



Words are written to convey meanings. They don't exist for their own sake. The 1791 meaning of "well regulated" is similar to today's meaning "well adjusted". It would be best summarized as "orderly" or "properly functioning". It has nothing to do with government regulation.

Similarly, "eminent domain" means "obvious domain" (obvious because republic, and every citizen (i.e. statesman) owns the country collectively, and you never actually owned your land, you only had a title to be the sole user).
Sounds weird by todays' standards, but back then the norm was that regular people had nothing and the crown (and its friends) owned everything. Republic sounded quite progressive at the time. Remember, the U.S. revolution was just prior to the French revolution. Kingdoms were the norm.

Sounds a bit different when translated from 1700's english to 2000's english.

-scheherazade

Let's fill up the court, indeed!

As Queen, I do hereby officially offer Princesshood to the great and glorious (and actually living pretty near me) @PlayhousePals. Wanna be crowned, Play?

We need a Merlin. A Wise One. One with benevolence and love and an all-seeing eye to look out for us all.

He knows who he is for me. He already looks out for us, for which I am grateful.

No need for any Knights in Armor, shining or otherwise. Mine is a peaceful queendom. (Well, striving for peace. Your Queen has some stuff to work on still.)

And my King? Paul Newman, please. Since this is fantasy, I can resurrect the dead and turn back time.

I question the 2-3 yr car replacement figure. When I used to commute 100 miles per day back in the 90's, I drove a crown victoria. It lasted me, by best recollection, well over 400k miles before I had to replace it due to the engine dying. Now I did maintain it religiously, so that may not be the average, but I think if you got a decent car and kept it serviced that it would last longer than 3 years.

I did some math, and assuming the average Uber driver puts 100 miles on his car per day, the car would just be out of warranty (100k) around 2.7 years. So I guess you would have to get another car if you only wanted to have it serviced under warranty, but realistically most cars can easily go well past 100k today and still run fine as long as they are maintained.

Good morning, Worm, your Honour... the Crown will plainly show, the prisoner, who stands before you, was caught red-handed showing... feelings... showing feelings of an almost... human nature...

...this will not do.

I do tend to believe Sanders has been boosted by a lack of negative attacks with Hilary believed to be the presumed nominee due to her influence over super delegates regardless of how the remaining states vote (and Hilary's lead overall).

If the Democratic primary were still in serious dispute I think you would see a lot more socialist labels from the right to try to discredit him which would dent his approval with independents and swing voters.

Polling this late in the primary might usually be pretty reliable but this year is exceptional because (1) most primaries are settled, nominees 'crowned' and challengers stepping to the wayside much earlier before the convention, (2) usually candidates who make it this far are much more 'establishment' material which makes them all a much more known quantity.

As a Canadian I would just like to say this is a bunch of bullshit. We have a lot of fucked up laws up here that they don't have down in the states. You can be sued for defamation and slander for mocking public figures here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_defamation_law

One of our Crown prosecutors tried to prosecute a man for disagreeing with some feminists on Twitter and northern Alberta has been turned into a toxic waste dump.

Our new Prime Minister is a sock puppets with a SJW's hand up his ass.

So if you see one of my smug countrymen telling you how much better it is up here you have my permission to kick him in the balls.

Please take an American history class not taught by Glen Beck. Many Americans would certainly be called 'refugees' by today's definition, many being forced to immigrate by the crown, and many more escaping religious and cultural persecution. Those that came by pure choice were few and far between.

The second amendment is intended to ensure freedom against our own government, and to remove the expensive, often culture destroying requirement for an ever expanding standing army, and since the industrialization of warfare has made little to no sense.

Please don't pretend you speak for 'all your generation and older'. You don't...and I'm incredibly glad you don't, because what you describe is a nation of Trumps. Thank Science his followers only make up 1/4 +- of the quickly dying party, so likely <10% of the population...and that 10% is made up entirely from the 25% of us that are intellectually and emotionally retarded.

*ban

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODzXKfPYFWo

He put the crown on my avatar when I got diamond or something... gosh it seems so long ago I am not sure! Anyways, it's so beautiful as you can see, I never wanted to change it, and I never will.

The Royal Canadian Mint is a Canadian Crown Corporation, and operates under the legislative basis of the Royal Canadian Mint Act. As a Crown Corporation, it is 100% owned by the Government of Canada, which is its sole shareholder. It also serves the public’s interest while mandated to operate “in anticipation of profit”, meaning that it functions in a commercial manner and does not rely on taxpayer support to fund its operations.

The government department responsible for the Royal Canadian Mint is the Department of Finance. There are currently 10 members of the Mint’s Board of Directors, and 12 members on its Executive Team.[14] The Royal Canadian Mint has four lines of business: Bullion and Refinery Service, Canadian Circulation, Foreign Business, and Numismatics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint