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justice (small "j") thomas. punk arse couldn't even spell out the word in his dissent. Justice Harlan, in the 1971 cohen decision managed to spell out the word in spite o' being one o' the most puritanical members o' the Court, but thomas feels vindicated with punishing a student's speech for words uttered not on school grounds nor at some kinda school event, 'cause y'know kids need discipline and respect for teachers is essential or somesuch. small j thomas actual resorts to patently inappropriate use o' "f***" in a supreme Court opinion. one man's vulgarity is another man's lyric. small j thomas henceforth. some o' his recent shenanigans has been pushing the envelope, but he is a member o' the Court. even so, am done making excuses and claiming he is a fine judge even if we disagreed with him as a Justice.

could be an overstatement. am feeling bad we ain't confident that the overstatement is clear or significant. there is a noteworthy number o' kids who prioritize education when they is being recruited for football and basketball by the big schools. every year stanford gets some good players who were also recruited by usc, ohio state, alabama and every other big name school. also, am guaranteeing that a large % o' the time mom is in the room when a coach is making a recruiting pitch to her son. moms tend to be interested in the comparative educational strengths o' the programs recruiting her son to play football or basketball. you wanna disappoint mom? but yeah, almost all the kids being recruited by big universities believe they is gonna get drafted first round o' the pro draft. too many kids destined to never make to the nfl or nba, much less make it in the nfl or nba, are already picking out the car they is gonna buy when they get drafted, and the house they will buy for mom when they sign their first pro contract. w/o moms, the number o' kids focused on anything but education would be extreme high. as it is, the % o' kids focused on education is too low. HA! Good Fun!

happened to see a random youtube link for a guy doing video o' the wotr beta. am not a big fan o' watching other folks play games, but this guy is a bit different and kinda fun. depending on how organized he is, he could be a decent pnp dm-- he really gets into reading the all-too-often cringey wotr dialogues w/o the least bit o' self consciousness. is no way in hell we would watch all his videos, or even most, but we actual got some useful info outta a couple vids he uploaded. is a fair amount o' busted material in chapter 4, or at least we assume is busted. be able to see somebody struggle with same problems is kina validating and cathartic in a small way, though am admitted more curious to see if anybody else discovered a workaround. looks like the linked individual has played through chapter 4 multiple times, so he does have a couple "solutions" to busted quests. regardless, this is one o' the few persons we has seen with complete wotr beta gameplay... multiple characters. HA! Good Fun!

us state governments figured out how to craft driver's licenses. am pretty sure the fed could come up with a kinda vaccine id if such a thing were deemed necessary. the problem is you got 'tween 20% and 30% o' the country believing mandatory vaccination is unconstitutional and even ungodly. make illegal to work or shop for groceries or buy their guns at walmart w/o proof of vaccine only further convinces such people they is being persecuted. january 6 shows what happens when enough people, many o' whom howled 'bout the lawlessness o' blm and antifa during the summer, nevertheless feel complete justified in their own overt lawless behavior. joining a mob bent on stopping the electoral college process, and storming the Capitol to achieve such an end? many (most) o' the january 6 insurrectionists believed they were being patriotic as they forced their way into the Capitol, bent on overturning the election results. compel people to get proof o' vaccination will lead to further radicalization o' the lunatic fringe, and if you think am exaggerating, you weren't paying attention to a few o' the more vocal far right supporters who disappeared from these boards after the november 2020 elections, and you ain't listening to a few o' the diehard "i know my rights" persons who continue to post. the ultimate goal is to get more people vaccinated, yes? tell Americans they is required to do something and some significant percentage o' the population is gonna do the opposite just to prove they cannot be forced into doing anything against their will, even if by doing so they is hurting themselves and others. bears repeating, but mandatory vaccinations is, 'ccording to existing Court decisions, the law o' the land. the thing is, you can't actual force persons to be vaccinated, as contradictory as that sounds. can require vaccinations if you wanna go to school or be in military or even if you wanna work for state or fed or any number o' other circumstances, but you can't force persons to get injected. not wanna be injected as a private non essential military personage? can't force it. could require you to quarantine and potential could put you in prison, though that would be self defeating as you would then have a whole lotta unvaccinated people forced into crowded conditions ideal for spread o' disease. us ain't china. particular given how right wing media has turned vaccinations into a political and liberty issue for many, compulsory vaccinations would no doubt get a few more people vaccinated, but it would also guarantee that a significant number o' americans would oppose getting vaccinated under any circumstances, and you would no doubt help radicalize a considerable number o people, and not just those folks living in florida. HA! Good Fun!

you already asked that question and didn't like the answer. people who are known to have a communicable disease may be quarantined even against their will. am not gonna help you on this. direct ask the question you genuine wish to ask. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting the question you ask is not the one you want to have confirmed. in the US, if you are infected with a potential dangerous and communicable disease, you may be compelled to quarantine. HA! Good Fun!

men's college football and basketball represent a multi-billion dollar business which, for +90% of universities, isn't generating enough money to even cover the costs for all the other athletics programs those schools provide. men's football and basketball is why many schools are able to provide scholarships and facilities for women's fencing and men's lacrosse. as an aside, all o' this coulda' been avoided if the ncaa had gotten their act together in january, but partisan politics has even infected the ncaa. couldn't come to any resolution in their vote earlier this year which mighta' staved off the Court from needing get involved, a Court which is not capable o' coming up with solutions. keep in mid the decision actual allows individual conferences to keep the current limits in place. however, if you are the big ten and the sec has already allowed some kinda compensation, what do you believe is the obvious result? any conference with competitive men's football and basketball is gonna be granting some kinda additional compensation 'cause is no other way to stay competitive with recruits. even so, while the case has far reaching future implications, it isn't quite the paradigm altering decision it is being presented to be...save for in some limited scenarios like graduate schollies. HA! Good Fun!

@BruceVC am admitted not sure how to dispel your confusion. the above quoted material were your worst case scenario of the fantasized prosecution o' folks for expressing antigovernmental ideology, a hobgoblin gd conjured outta the internet ether with the help o' an obscure journalist and a red sharpie pen. you were also angered by putin's transparent whataboutism regarding january 6. russia declares opposition groups extremist and dangerous and then uses such as an excuse to imprison protesters and prevent anybody even tangential related to the extremist group in question from running for elected office in russia. according to putin is ok though, 'cause look at the chaos o' january 6 and see how the US jailed and prosecuted those individuals bringing their complaints to the Capitol on january 6. cringeworthy, and bruce agreed putin's actions and excuses regarding russian protesters were unjustified. nevertheless, when barr and trump were engaged in illegal behavior o' suppression, you defended them. barr and trump claimed their authority arose from the fact the protesters, as a group, were engaged in seditious behavior, anti-governmental behavior. blm and antifa were dangerous extremist groups. however, the individuals whisked away in unmarked vans and imprisoned were not subject to any probable cause findings and there were no warrants issued for their arrests. the American Citizens in portland and elsewhere, denied right to counsel and due process, were not committing crimes when they were treated much like russian protesters, and all too frequent subjected to similar levels o' violence and thuggery as part o' their apprehension and detention. the crime the folks whisked away by nameless agents in the dead o' night were guilty of was associating with blm. how do we know this? 'cause none of 'em were actually charged with crimes. you defended such actions as reasonable, 'cause blm and antifa, in your mind is dangerous. you didn't need proof that the persons denied basic Constitutional rights by trump and barr's stormtroopers actual committed crimes because, according to barr and trump, they were affiliated with blm. during the summer your were defending the same argument as putin made at his presser and you don't realize it or are purposeful ignoring. for putin, the denial o' basic freedoms and rights is okie dokie 'cause the people being prevented from running for office or who were detained during the recent widespread protests in russia were affiliated with dangerous extremist organizations. is exact same argument made by barr, trump (and bruce) during the summer when it were blm protesters who were being arrested w/o due process o' law. again, barr used sedition laws to claim he had authority to carry out his illegal suppression. blm and antifa, and anybody barr or trump claimed were affiliated with those undeserving o' basic rights o' every other American Citizen. but again, the proverbial cherry on top is, given an opportunity to imagine a "worse case scenario" o' the government denying freedoms and rights 'cause a person or group embraces the wrong ideology, you latch onto blm... as the source o' oppression. is something broken, and am not certain how to fix. HA! Good Fun!

steam summer sale *shrug* am not personal looking to buy anything, but for those who are... HA! Good Fun!

the color o' the crosstek reminds us o' a friend we had who, for reasons known only to her, painted the ceiling o' the great room in her home that exact shade o' blue. the room were enormous and had a significant vault... and were all exposed cedar planks. she painted an exposed cedar ceiling pale blue. and jesus wept. am s'posing is an ok car color, if not our first choice. then again, our grandfather, in addition to the f-150, had a lime green station wagon with wood paneling and we thought it looked keen. am maybe not the best judge. am wondering if am ever again gonna buy a new car. is plenty o' good reasons to buy a new car as 'posed to used but am now fully in our curmudgeon stage o' dotage, so dealing with the all the annoyance which accompanies new car sales is the kinda thing we do not need... and given our intermittent frugality (can't consider self genuine cheap insofar as car purchases if we got the two buicks for no good reason save "'because,") buy used just saves us so much money in most cases. also less o' the near inevitable buyer's remorse with used. less. am embarrassed to admit our all-time best car, from a functionality pov, were the 97 chrysler t&c lxi minivan we got specific for the dogs. could take out as many seats as needed so were plenty o' room for the dogs to lie down comfortably and be sheltered from weather as 'posed to our pickups. with enormous side and back doors, load and unload dogs or even a refrigerator were a relative ez task. the thing were low, which helped with the load and unload efforts and when the border collies started getting older, they could still jump in and out with little effort for a couple more years after which we needed do the lifting. the minivan were also relative dependable. relative. our sense o' vanity is kinda non existent. had more than a few acquaintances ask us how we could drive the fugly minivan w/o shame. were never a factor. dogs were satisfied and as long as the vehicle weren't in the shop, we were pleased. other than daily commute, we got more use from the minivan than all our other vehicles combined. 'course daily commute were kinda a big exception, though the bmw x5 we drove last few years we were gainful employed were hardly much o' an upgrade from the minivan. the dogs loved the minivan and we didn't care that loose border collie fur somehow weaved itself into the fabric which lined the floor o' the vehicle, becoming inextricable and irrevocably part o' the car forever. HA! Good Fun!

no. the article is a bit misleading. the ruling in the case in question were extreme narrow, and it looks like five (at least) Justices is agreeing that US corporations may be sued under the ATS (alien tort statute), but the particular case in question did not present a justiciable cause o' action. in this specific case, a us corporation (nestlé) bought product from private farms operating in the ivory coast, private owned farms not owned or operated by the us corporation. ats is old law btw. 1789. might need to be updated to recognize how corporations should not be allowed to avoid responsibility just 'cause they is only tangential involved in wrongdoing or if they maybe knowingly traffic with nogoodniks but do not explicit engage in the tortious behavior from which plaintiffs seek recovery. the Court simple recognized the judiciary lacks authority to create new causes o' action, but again, multiple Justices, in a concurring opinion, made it extreme clear that US corporations is not able to avoid legal responsibility just 'cause wrongdoing happens beyond the borders o' the US. however, because is not the US, Congress needs to create authority to sue and the ats current has a few gaps in coverage. is another situation where Congress needs fix a problem. don't hold your breath waiting. HA! Good Fun!

if ratification is your linchpin for 13th amendment, then vote and sign by enough delegates to make the deceleration something other than thomas jefferson's personal manifesto don't happen 'til august 2, 1776. HA! Good Fun!

*chuckle* HA! Good Fun! edit: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-insurrection/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Extended_Trailer&utm_content=Video might trigger a few folks.

made 'bout three quarts o' red beans. why so much? start with 1 lb o' dry red beans... *shrug* if we start with 1lb o' beans, then we end up with 'bout three quarts. as often as not we use kidney instead o' small red 'cause we learned from the tv show justified that kidneys is the, "cadillac of beans." didn't have kidney though. the main reason we made the beans is 'cause is so hot. am not gonna turn on the oven save at gunpoint for some number o' days, and grilling outdoors is requiring us to mop sweat outta our eyes constant as the temps is in the +100F range... 109 for the daily high temp. cooked beans stovetop at 5:00 am when it were relative cool and we were almost done by the time the temps outside hit mid 90s. so now we got an easily microwavable meal o' which we will be indulging frequent for the weekend and beyond... along with our corn and snow peas. s'posed, 'ccording to science, spicy food makes a person feel cooler, so perhaps the beans help. am needing be careful. have overindulged our red beans once or twice and had genuine unpleasant heartburn as a result. am no doubt a bit gassy as well, but the dogs has never once complained. HA! Good Fun!

am wondering if this is a teachable moment. bruce were angered by putin trying to use the response to january 6 in the US as some kinda excuse for suppressing any anti-governmental protest. some o' those russian protesters might have advocated and even used violence, and putin used such as an excuse to suppress any and all protest as well as denying anybody even tangential related to protest groups the right to run for elected office. nevertheless, when the US is the example o' potential antigovernmental suppression, bruce immediate sees blm as the potential threat. ... attorney general barr and president trump sent fed troops to apprehend and detain blm protesters last summer with the excuse the protesters were seditionists. unlike january 6 arrests and prosecutions where d-bags is being arrested and prosecuted for specific acts o' violence, vandalism and trespass, there were literal hundreds of examples o' blm protesters being thrown into unmarked vans, w/o being given right to counsel, held against their will for considerable amounts o' time w/o charges being filed. the blm protesters were arrested and not charged frequent w/o any specific evidence o' violence or vandalism on the part o' the protesters. guilt of being a protester were transitive property guilt of being a seditionist. bruce were ok with such governmental exercises o' power. your clear example o' what you find offensive with putin, and you see as potential possible if people don't "bend the knee in reverence to blm," already were happening last year in the US and you supported such at the time. bass ackwards bruce. HA! Good Fun!

as noted (with emphasis added): from the presser: "It found that the two most lethal elements of today’s domestic terrorism threat are (1) racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race and (2) anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, such as militia violent extremists." purposeful leave out the "violent extremist" portion is not accidental but perhaps is what makes meme worthy? ordinary violent extremists is typical the responsibility o' state agencies. antigovernmental and or racial, ethnic and religious motivations is what gives the fed authority to investigate and prosecute. HA! Good Fun!

gd not seeing the difference 'tween posting a meme to reveal the absurdity o' a position or behavior v. post a meme to show support o' the underlying premise is a battle we may never win, but we won't give up trying to enlighten. HA! Good Fun! ps ever seen where some clown is making a post clear full o' spite and venom and then is adding an emoji as final punctuation to suggest the author were keeding. no doubt you roll your eyes at such infantile deflection, no? recall the poster named sharp_one? he liked to post memes too. misogynist and anti-semitic. got his account temporarily suspended in part for doing such after which he public wet the bed and then ran off... never to be seen or heard from again. were all very amusing. the thing is, sharp_one also used the "just a meme" bit o' deflection. why take serious if is just a meme. sure, sharp_one were trying to make a point 'bout what he saw as the evils o' a woke society, or somesuch, but do in meme form means anybody who criticizes is humorless and not seeing the joke, yes? am not suggest @Guard Dog is as much o' a tool as were the long absent poster known as sharp_one. gd ain't indulging anywhere near the same levels o' crude, vulgar and stoopid as were sharp_one. nevertheless, gd is doing the same deflection with the meme stuff. gd believes the underlying message o' the meme, but simultaneous claims he were just keeding. am expecting better than sharp_one level o' deflection from gd. again, so is clear, am not suggesting gd memes is crude or vulgar, though am thinking even gd will concede most memes is kinda stoopid. not comparing gd meme use to the crass indulgence o' sharp_one save to observe how your use o' memes is a similar kinda deflection.

in the sac valley it were 43C yesterday. will be the same today. never got particular cool at night which is the genuine killer. when it gets hot during the day but cools nice at night, the dry sac valley heat is almost bearable... until fire season. at least yesterday there were no oppressive and omnipresent layer o' ash and smoke from the wildfires. 'course given the historic drought the US west is suffering, the predicted wildfire season is anticipated to be epic terrible, which when one considers how awful it has been the last two or three years makes us quail at the thought o' what epic terrible will be. HA! Good Fun!

the only good news is that when is state as plaintiff, cases move up the ladder relative fast. unless you are a potential death penalty victim, as an ordinary citizen and voter, your case may take years to reach SCOTUS and is no guarantee the Court will even take your case. mississippi and other states need not wait so long as ordinary joe american. btw, is already other states doing same or more overt than mississippi. if mississippi wins, then then those states will know their rather draconian limits on abortions is likely to survive Constitutional review by the courts. https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/725139713/what-abortion-was-like-in-the-u-s-before-roe-v-wade the best reading o' roe leaves a legal educated person questioning the basis for the decision. that said, is impossible to ignore the reality o' pre roe. full disclosure: we were raised catholic, so am having difficulty personal considering abortion w/o serious reservations, but am not so arrogant as to believe our pov should serve to deny a woman the right to make such an important and life altering choice. Congress should do something. "Congress should do," has been the prefatory refrain all too often. HA! Good Fun!

gonna oversimplify. state legislation<federal legislation<The US Constitution the thing is, while the Constitution outright forbids the fed from legislating a few issues (e.g. police power) most power to legislate is s'posed to be handled by the individual states-- federalism and all that. regardless, who decides? who decides if a state law is superseded by a fed law, or if the fed law which is superseding is Constitutional? the Court kinda decided on its own way back in the 1700s that such questions is an article three issue and the fed courts get to decide if a state law is illegitimate 'cause it undermines valid fed laws with SCOTUS the ultimate arbiter. so, mississippi writes a law they know is in conflict with roe v. wade. the fed courts immediate enjoin the mississippi law from being applied, but mississippi appeals and eventually SCOTUS decides whether or not they wanna hear the case. just 'cause "everybody knows" the mississippi law is impossible to read consistent with roe v. wade, roe is not the Constitution and is only law as long as SCOTUS says it is law. the mississippi law were written specific 'cause it would result in a cause of action which would eventual, possibly, get SCOTUS review. states legislators, governors and ags read the tea leaves, they observed the composition o' the Court change dramatic in a short period of time. folks like alito and thomas has been less than subtle o' late that they would welcome a chance to overturn precedent in more than a couple cases. so, if you wann kill roe, now looks like a good time to take a shot, yes? ... if the plaintiff is not a state, the whole process o' getting maybe review from SCOTUS may take years, which btw is part o' the gameplan behind voter suppression efforts in texas and florida. even if a florida law is eventual rejected by the Court as repugnant to the Constitution, what 'bout the results o' the election (or two) which nevertheless took place while the law were being applied in the land o' sinkholes and swamps? ain't gonna be no do-over election. even if the republicans lose in Court, they know they is gonna benefit from one or two elections where their voter suppression efforts is applied with full legal force. curiously, the most recent appointee to the Court who were critical of roe v. wade before becoming a Justice was the late rgb. no person with aspirations o' becoming a fed judge or Justice ever public criticizes a handful o' cases. roe is one such case. is impossible to say with certainty how acb, gorsuch, kavanaugh will decide on a roe case 'cause they has all spent the last decade or two avoiding such a question with oftentimes amusing degrees o' success. nevertheless, mississippi and many is betting at least a couple o' those new faces is antagonistic to roe. the important thing to remember is roe ain't a fed law. the cowards in Congress has never chosen to step forward and address abortion direct. is Court precedent and the Court is free to change their minds. ordinarily altering precedent is a big deal and Justices is reluctant to do so, but a few current Justices has been kinda bold o' late in their advocacy o' the need to reexamine precedent. @Guard Dog show us a quote from biden or anybody senior in the administration. condemn POTUS with words o' some obscure journalist we has never heard o' not quoting biden is hardly convincing. hell, at least when you condemned obama for advocating a national police force (something he never did) you at least used a tortured and outta context reading o' a line from an obama speech to do so. the fbi is constant on the lookout for those persons who is anti government and is showing a willingness to use violence to bring 'bout their desired change. duh. is not as if every milquetoast wannabee anarchist ends up on some government watchlist. oh, wait... is this the point where you says you were just sharing the meme, even though is perfect aligning with your usual garden variety paranoia. will nevertheless defend the position that the dems is coming after anybody who don't embrace their new progressive religion, as well as your guns. HA! Good Fun!

simple? ok, the decision isn't all that significant and it ain't genuine surprising. what we do know is that alito, thomas and acb is not fans o' the roberts decision which saved obamacare and would happily vote against the roberts position if a case came before them which would give 'em an opportunity to do so. gorsuch? he would probable kneecap obamacare if given the chance. joining with alito's angry dissent, which had little in common with established standing jurisprudence, makes it at least a matter o' concern for obamacare fans that gorsuch were willing to act as a cheerleader for the alito's borderline unhinged dissent. kavanaugh? no idea. kavanaugh is too unpredictable for our taste. he is consistent, save for when a case o' pivotal importance is before the Court. worst kinda Justice from our pov. the media and the dems fighting the acb appointment presented to bruce and others that the case before the court were a referendum o' sorts on the constitutionality o' obamacare and that were never truth. obamacare is not safer today from acb, alito and the Conservative Court majority than it were yesterday, but this particular case were never the danger it were being spun. HA! Good Fun!

am wondering if you read the linked. you did notice how dismissive the virologists were o' the lab created theory, yes? as we has observed previous, the possibility some sample escaped from the lab would not shock us in the least. the thing is you had your shorts in a twist over the engineered virus conspiracy theory and any article which even mentions such fuels your imagination regardless o' whether the experts cited in those articles appear to be critical o' lab creation theory. and again, am not saying covid-19 as a lab creation is impossible. am not complete writing such a possibility off as an issue not worthy o' consideration. however, thus far there is almost no legit scientific support for such a theory and what evidence does exist is speculative and correlative in the most transparent way possible. you wanna find more articles, such as the one linked, which support Gromnir's criticism o' dp's premature lab creation nightmares? please, continue. nevertheless, am suggesting you wait for some genuine support, 'cause every time you post on this subject you is giving anybody who bothers to actual read the article a chance to kick you in the teeth once more with your premature embrace o' the lab created origin conspiracy theory. why do you wanna set your self up for that kinda ridicule? HA! Good Fun! ps we will note that there is a confirmation bias issue with the wet market explanations for the origins o' covid-19. the common worst case pandemic scenario for the past couple decades has included some kinda avian flu making the leap from birds to humans. wet markets were considered a likely origin for the anticipated initial animal-to-human leap recognizing the ideal unfortunate conditions in such markets. so, when there were an outbreak in wuhan, it were a comfortable working theory for the science guys to believe a wet market in wuhan were the likely origin. even when it were clear covid-19 were not a strain o' influenza and were unlikely avian origin, the wet market theory were a kinda intellectual lodestone 'cause that is what the big brains had been warning 'bout for decades. similar kinda correlation mistake as dp is making even if a bit more informed.

the dogs are getting dog food, which is likely causing a considerable level o' confusion. ordinary the pups get some portion o' whatever meat Gromnir indulges. no meat for Gromnir means dogs need eat what is in their food bowls. *gasp* HA! Good Fun! ps as odd as it sounds, one major reason we ain't moved away from the sac valley with all its heat and wildfire smoke is 'cause o' the local produce and meat... and as crazy as it sounds, fish.

the dogs are confused. the local farm where we buy most o' our produce from late may 'til mid/late september is having snow peas and corn in season. they got loads o' other stuff available, but the snow peas and corn is particular noteworthy. steamer basket a bunch o' snow peas. maybe we add a little olive oil and balsamic, but ordinary we eat unadulterated. don't even need salt for the snow peas. the local corn is the best we has had anywhere, and recall we lived midwest. microwave an ear o' corn, in husk, and then add salt and butter and eat from the cob. am not joking when we say that we have had a meal of snow peas and corn multiple times in the last couple weeks and we don't feel at all bad 'bout such. can pick your own vegetables on tuesday and saturday morning 'tween sunrise and 1pm, but there is a $20 dollar minimum. $.40 per pound. takes considerable effort to pick 50lbs o' vegetables. alternatively, a 2.5 bag o' snow peas sets us back $4.50. a bag o' eight ears o' corn costs us $4. down side to all the vegetable meals is the dogs is confused. and am perfect aware snow peas and corn is 'bout the least healthy vegetables you could possible name. don't care. add a freaking kale salad would ruin the enjoyment, though we do try to get some broccoli into the rotation along with other greens. regardless, the next month, or as long as the snow peas last, is gonna be rough on the dogs. HA! Good Fun!

am gonna admit the first name we thought o' when question o' famous asian-americans arose, purposeful excluding actors, were fred korematsu. we realized he were not famous to most, so we paused to reflect... connie chung were next name which came to mind. no joke. michio kaku were number three for us and also not too obvious, but as a teenager he tried to build a death ray in his parent's garage and while he didn't manage to create antimatter, he did get scholarships to the most prestigious universities in the nation. daniel inouye deserved to be ahead o' connie chung. kinda feel bad he were not our number one. as for the @Darkpriest predictable putin fanboi post if you wanna find textbook examples o' whatboutism and deflection, then putin is a winner. some o' our boardies who indulge in such tactics to a comic degree no doubt found the putin response to be an award worthy performance. otherwise, this response made the putin presser cringeworthy. but serious, connie chung? early 2000s were last we recall seeing her do news and yet she were first to come to mind. HA! Good Fun! ps trump is still angry at cancer causing windmills.