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• JohnS commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Robert Prior @ 2458: "I'd read he was spending big bucks on Facepalm in anti-impeachment ads, as his "strategy" to stop the impeachment, as though it were a political campaign...." As I understand American politics, it is a political campaign. He has to persuade enough senators not to convict him, and ideally make enough congressmen scared of electoral consequences that they vote against impeachment so that it doesn't reach the senate. It's certainly not a criminal trial conducted by a trained and impartial judiciary. (Although with what I've heard about how judges are elected and/or appointed I wonder how impartial...
• Rick Moen commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Robert Prior @ 2458: As I understand American politics, it is a political campaign. I think of it as an employment performance review, one conducted by the Legislative Branch. The intent of impeachment (synonyms: accusation, indictment) by the House and possible subsequent conviction by the Senate is to decide whether or not a Federal officer has been fulfilling his/her oath of office, either doing the job or screwing up and failing. Federal officers judged to have woefully failed get sacked (and sometimes also told 'and also you are blacklisted for future employment'). That's what it's about. It's frequently been clarified...
• Trottelreiner commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  Hm, one could parse statements like hcmeyer's according to the philosophy of eternalism, where every moment is in existence at once. Thinking like that has a certain appeal to it, most objections to it boiling down to "I don't like it" and "but free will!!!eleventy"[1] hardly make for arguments against it. That being said, time to join the people saying condolences to you and your family. Sorry for being late, as usual, new job, and oh the joys[2] of underfunded public transport services... [1] "collides with free will" is more or less an argument FOR something these days. Though then,...
• Swedish15 commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  Just read this - my deepest condolences :(...
• Bwoollcombe commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
  In a similar chunk of time my father died and my mother had a massive stroke. Your writing, and the strange bag of weirdness that is this blog, has given me much comfort over the years. To you, and all the wonderful folks that pour thought and humour into the ethersphere, thank you. All of you....