EvanTh
8mo ago
Have to agree "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is a better opener. But "The Cage" isn't; it's less polished and about a completely different crew.
EvanTh
8mo ago
"The Cage" was not published first! Part of it was filmed first, but it was broadcast much later!
And it's also not such a good place to begin.
EvanTh
9mo ago
He's not the only person; my parents just got an electric bill due the 30th of February...
EvanTh
9mo ago
this is probably illegal where enforced by law, but it still happens.
I strongly suspect the federal law making this illegal is unconstitutional under general principles of state sovereignty and anti-commandeering.
The Supreme Court acknowledged something similar in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) when they stated that state officials could help enforce the federal Fugitive Slave Act "if they choose... unless prohibited by state legislation." By implication, a state may legislate to prohibit officials from helping enforce federal laws; Northern states quickly took them up on that implication. I don't believe any court directly addressed any requirements for notification, but it seems to go with the general principle.
EvanTh
9mo ago
Employing illegals likely also involves financial crimes. After all, they do not have a social security number, so how are you paying social security for them? Even making sure they pay income taxes would create a paper trail most employers would likely avoid.
As a VITA tax prep volunteer, I strongly disagree. I have seen many illegal immigrants come to fill out their income taxes, with all of the proper tax forms, issued under false social security numbers. Their W-2's showed that their employers had withheld all the proper amounts for income tax and social security.
It's certainly possible some of their employers knew those social security numbers were false, which I assume would be against the law, but I'm sure many of their employers didn't. But either way, it wouldn't be a financial crime.
EvanTh
10mo ago
The Garden Tomb was only identified a couple hundred years ago; there's no ancient tradition there.
EvanTh
11mo ago
This is not a completely new thing; witness President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon "for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
EvanTh
11mo ago
Hi. I was a Scout, and I did indeed recite them every time with a straight face. Same with the Pledge of Allegiance when I recited that. We need a society that's able to recite things like that without cringe.
EvanTh
11mo ago
Unfortunately, according to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" or "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" with "intent to destroy, in whole or in part" the group also counts as genocide.
Maybe at this point we need a new word for "they're literally, I mean literally and it's not exaggeration, killing people."
I agree, except it shouldn't be Donald Trump. Why not John Marshall, who was on the $500 bill earlier?
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