Sogo
Sogo's JournalI wish the House Managers would have had all this J6 Committee evidence
at the time of the second impeachment....
How is it legitimate for Alito to base an opinion of US law on 17th Century English law?
What's that saying: "Everything Trump touches dies...."
Today that centers on the Supreme Court....
The Jewish abortion rights lawsuit in FL may save abortion rights....
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/jewish-abortion-rights-advocates-use-religious-freedom-suit-access-rcna34178The Christian Right is violating the First Amendment by banning abortion
Imposing Christian morality and Christian dogma on non-Christians is a good working definition of religious tyranny.
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But not everyone is Christian. And imposing Christian morality and Christian dogma on non-Christians is a good working definition of religious tyranny — which the First Amendment of the Constitution explicitly rejects.
That principle of religious freedom is the basis of a lawsuit brought by Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, a synagogue in Boynton Beach, Florida, against a sweeping state abortion ban set to take effect on July 1. Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor is challenging a single law on behalf of a single religion. But the case is also a broader challenge to the anti-abortion rights movement, which conflates a right-wing Christian demand for forced birth with universal morality, and insists on subjugating the country to a sectarian code.
The new Florida law bans most abortions after 15 weeks. There are no exceptions for cases of incest, rape or human trafficking. It does allow an abortion to save a pregnant person’s life or to prevent serious physical injury. But these exceptions aren’t enough to keep the law from violating the free exercise of the Jewish faith. The congregation’s lawsuit states that the Florida law violates Jewish religious beliefs holding that abortion “is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman,” among other reasons.
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People's Petrol Union - Power of the Purse
I took a road trip this weekend; just a short trip to visit an art show in a community along the Mississippi River. It's a favorite place of mine to visit, because the river is so beautiful (even though it's very muddy water - They don't call it the Big Muddy for nothin'!)
Anyway, halfway between my small town and the Mississippi is another small town that has a Pilot gas station at the exit off the interstate. I don't know much about Pilot, but their gas is always priced at least $.20 less than anyone else's in the region. Right now, it's $.39 less - $4.40 vs. $4.79 in towns all around and pretty much statewide. Needless to say, I was happy to stop and fill up on my way back from my little trip.
In the same small town where Pilot is, every other gas station has met or exceeded their price....BP and Walmart are at $4.39. It occurred to me, then, that oil companies can, indeed, afford to sell their gas at a lower price. In such a local market, they can't afford NOT to sell at a lower price, because obviously, everyone would go to Pilot rather than pay their higher price.
So then an idea came to me that we should form a national union of gasoline users (virtually ALL of us) to begin "bargaining" with oil companies about their prices. Begin by approaching the biggest; say, for example, BP: We request that they lower their price by $.40 per gallon within the next two days, and if they don't, then the People's Petrol Union members (all of us) will stop patronizing their gas stations and go to any other gas station besides them (essentially a boycott of BP). After some time, when they've lost all their customers, BP will see the light and lower their prices. Immediately, everyone will flock to their lower priced gas, thus making up in volume what they lost in price the previous two days. The kicker will be that all the other gas stations will than have to follow BP's lower price in order to maintain their customer base. Virtually overnight, gas is now down $.40 per gallon nationwide.
We enjoy this reduced price for a couple of weeks, and then again approach BP with the request that they lower their price by $ .40. They will immediately understand this request, and overnight, their prices are lower by $.40. In another day or two, all the other gas stations are also down another $ .40. Voila, in a couple of months, gas prices are down by $ .80 nationwide.
Rinse and repeat....
Let's show them we are not at their mercy nor at the mercy of the government taking a tax holiday on gas..... We have the numbers and power of the purse. Let's use it and take control of this situation!
(Remember, you heard it here first!) 
Could Biden invoke the Defense Production Act to force oil companies
to produce more gasoline and thus bring down prices?
I read that part of the problem of high prices is that oil companies took some refineries off-line during the pandemic and have not brought them back on, which has kept production of gas low and prices high....
What did Grassley know and when did he know it?
We still need an explanation for this:
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/01/05/grassley-suggests-he-may-preside-over-senate-debate-on-electoral-college-votes/
Grassley suggests he may preside over Senate debate on Electoral College votes
Seditious Conspiracy
Trump
Flynn
Powell
Giuliani
Eastman
G. Thomas
Meadows
all members of Congress who asked for pardons
Cruz
Hawley
Grassley
Bannon
Hannity
Carlson
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