Yes. Essentially, the military filled its ranks starting with Lotto pick #1 and kept going until they had what they needed.
My birthday was No. 140 for the 1971 lottery. A while later I received a card with the status of “1-H” on it.
jsc1953
January 5, 2019, 4:04pm
28906
I’ve thought of a brilliant way out of the shutdown. “Chuck and Nancy” (I hate the disrespect shown by Trump) say: “Mr President, how about this: we pass a continuing resolution with no funding for the wall, and government re-opens. You then invoke your emergency powers to get the $5.6B for the wall. Everyone declares victory.”
The sucker falls for it. As soon as he issues his “emergency” order, a judge slaps it down as violating the 1976 Emergency Powers act.
It is going to unsettle just about everyone who works. Plus people who inherited huge dividend-paying portfolios I suppose.Trump claimed most furloughed workers are Democrats as a way of downplaying the consequences. If they weren’t before, they probably are now!
People are expected to work without getting paid. I mean, it’s literally the opposite of a strike.
This is a Republican president. Making an argument that as long as the Americans that are harmed are from the opposing party, that it’s fine.
I can identify with that.
Red_Wiggler:
Yes. Essentially, the military filled its ranks starting with Lotto pick #1 and kept going until they had what they needed.
My birthday was No. 140 for the 1971 lottery. A while later I received a card with the status of “1-H” on it.
Thanks for the explanation.
Folacin
January 5, 2019, 4:54pm
28911
If you inherited a huge dividend-paying portfolio and are getting a tax refund, you should fire your CPA. If she’s doing her job, you should be writing a check for $100 or so every April 15th.
Yah well if I had inherited a huge dividend-paying portfolio I would have known that.
kaylasdad99:
I registered in 1974. Never got a number, but my classification was 1H, which, in hindsight, I presume meant “Stand by. If we decide to hold another lottery, we’ll let you know.”
Or something.
Huh.
Just for shits and giggles I decided to see if a lottery was held for my birth year, 1956. Turns out it was, and my number was 329.
I was born in 1956. We registered but weren’t subject to the draft. I didn’t know there was a lottery, but I knew darn well there was an unsigned bill in Ford’s bottom right hand drawer with my name on it to go to boot camp.
Guest-starring_Id:
Interesting stat: In 1989, there were 29 women in congress, with 16 Democrats and 13 Republicans, while today there are 102, with 89 Democrats, and still 13 Republicans. At 35:28. one more, since then?
I didn’t realize it was quite that lopsided. For the sake of accuracy, those numbers are for the House. From the Senate, there’s an additional 17 Democrats and 8 Republicans.
carnivorousplant:
My number was 003.
So, how did you enjoy your time working for our Uncle?
The People vs. Donald J. Trump He is demonstrably unfit for office. What are we waiting for?
This is truly the one thing I can’t figure out.
…
The negligence and perfidy of President Trump — his high crimes and misdemeanors — can be separated into four categories. This list is conservative. It does not include the possibility that his campaign coordinated strategy with Russia, which remains uncertain. It also does not include his lazy approach to the job, like his refusal to read briefing books or the many empty hours on his schedule. It instead focuses on demonstrable ways that he has broken the law or violated his constitutional oath.
Trump has used the presidency for personal enrichment.
Trump has violated campaign finance law.
Trump has obstructed justice.
Trump has subverted democracy.
What now?
The most relevant precedent for the removal of Trump is Nixon, the only American president to be forced from office because of his conduct. And two aspects of Nixon’s departure tend to get overlooked today. One, he was never impeached. Two, most Republicans — both voters and elites — stuck by him until almost the very end. His approval rating among Republicans was still about 50 percent when, realizing in the summer of 1974 that he was doomed, he resigned.
The current political dynamics have some similarities. Whether the House of Representatives, under Democratic control, impeaches Trump is not the big question. The question is whether he loses the support of a meaningful slice of Republicans.
They know. They know he is unfit for office. They do not need to be persuaded of the truth. They need to be persuaded to act on it.
Finally, there is the hope — naïve though it may seem — that some Republicans will choose to act on principle. There now exists a small club of former Trump administration officials who were widely respected before joining the administration and whom Trump has sullied, to greater or lesser degrees. It includes Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster and Jim Mattis. Imagine if one of them gave a television interview and told the truth about Trump. Doing so would be a service to their country at a time of national need. It would be an illustration of duty.
(Emphasis in the original)
carnivorousplant:
My number was 003.
:eek:
Good thing Gerry was successfully making do with volunteers that year.
My number was 130-something. I joined the Air Force.
Trump says that former Presidents told him that they wish they had built the wall. Those former Presidents say, '“Nope.”
Asked if Clinton told Trump that he should have built a border wall, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said, “He did not. In fact, they’ve not talked since the inauguration.”
NAME THEM, you God-Damned Liar!Rick Kitchen , but at the America-hating fuckstick
Smapti
January 5, 2019, 7:51pm
28922
kaylasdad99:
NAME THEM, you God-Damned Liar!Rick Kitchen , but at the America-hating fuckstick
He got a call from his friend, the great Andrew Jackson, about it just the other day.
Frederick Douglass, too. He was a president, right?
Smapti:
He got a call from his friend, the great Andrew Jackson, about it just the other day.
Frederick Douglass, too. He was a president, right?
Proof that the Kenyan born Obama was not the first Black President!
Clever framing, if he can make it work:
“Strike” = worker walkouts = union thugs. One of the favorite right-wing boogeymen.
