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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t know that the Supreme Court is one of the three branches...
wordpress ^ | November 19, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 11/19/2018 3:25:57 AM PST by grundle

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To: grundle

She should shut up and go to Congress Class ,LOL


61 posted on 11/19/2018 6:55:14 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: missnry

This congresswoman elect may be dumber than a box of rocks and eats tons and tons of bowls of Stupid for breakfast - BUT - she is a microcosm of her generation. If you attack her for her stupidity you attack her generation.”””

I was helping a high school senior with some simple bookkeeping lessons. I brought out a small electric calculator with a roll of paper & put it on the table we were working on. He looked at that calculator like it was a rattle snake.

“WHAT IS THAT?” A Calculator.

He grabs his phone-—”I have a calculator here!”

OK- I say—”Make me a tape of the following columns added up.”

Stopped him in his tracks.

I have absolutely NO PROBLEM attacking her generation.

They are a complete loss.


62 posted on 11/19/2018 7:05:11 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Ancesthntr

AND—She has a college diploma!!!


63 posted on 11/19/2018 7:08:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: V_TWIN

I can teach a pig to square dance before Brit Hume can get anything across to Williams.


64 posted on 11/19/2018 7:13:01 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: grundle

The Supreme Court is not one of the three branches of government. The Judicial branch is.


65 posted on 11/19/2018 7:18:31 AM PST by jpsb
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To: grundle

Actually, the 3rd branch is NOT “The Supreme Court”. It’s the “judicial power”: “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish,”, according to Article III Section 1 of our Founding document, which almost nobody in America reads any more.


66 posted on 11/19/2018 8:08:10 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: ridesthemiles

Good grief. I’m 51 and I use a calculator on my phone. Why does it have to be on a paper tape?


67 posted on 11/19/2018 8:17:55 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Sometimes a paper tape is necessary so one can check the input for accuracy. Without a tape how can you know you didn’t make an entry mistake? The paper tape is auditable! This is necessary especially when the numbers don’t come out right, or in balance. Even a “backwoods-engineer” sometimes has to “work it out in pencil and on paper”! [Signed, “backwoods-CPA”.]


68 posted on 11/19/2018 8:52:02 AM PST by TIElniff (Autonomy is the guise of every graceless heart.)
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To: TIElniff

There is this thing called “Excel”...


69 posted on 11/19/2018 10:36:28 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

EXCEL is an excellent example of what I’m talking about—it creates a visual record that can be audited. The virtue of the “paper tape” (that started this discussion) is not the literal paper, but the visual record that can audited, so EXCEL is analogical to the paper tape.


70 posted on 11/19/2018 11:51:26 AM PST by TIElniff (Autonomy is the guise of every graceless heart.)
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To: grundle

Well actually, neither does the headline writer.

https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government

The Supreme Court is PART of one of the three branches; the judicial. The other two are legislative and executive.

Yes, we normally say Congress and the President/Administration for those.


71 posted on 11/19/2018 11:55:18 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Boycott ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC!)
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To: grundle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t know that the Supreme Court is one of the three branches of the federal government.

Actually, the "Supreme Court" is not a branch of the government, it is part of the Judicial Branch. That's akin to saying that the President is a branch of the government. The President is part of the Executive Branch.

Not to say that Occasionally-Coherent isn't an airhead more at home mixing drinks at some dive bar than making laws for the country, but let's not make ourselves look just as dumb by making equally false statements.

72 posted on 11/19/2018 11:58:00 AM PST by ssaftler (This space for rent.)
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To: dp0622

That’s right; the enemedia moved the goalposts, so centrist views appear “conservative” - and genuine conservative views disappear from the general discourse.


73 posted on 11/20/2018 2:57:50 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: V_TWIN

It seems as part of a general dumbing down to keep viewership up they have to push leftist ideology as well (for stupid viewers, who are often leftist viewers).


74 posted on 11/20/2018 3:02:55 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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