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I did condo law litigation for over a decade. Every contractor, engineer, architect or anyone else who even looked at this condo is going to get sued.

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These things and the people who wear them deserve each other.

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So would we conjugate the verb "to trump"?

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Pelosi needs to leak a rumor that she's going to appoint AOC chair of the select committee - partly so whoever she does appoint will look friendly and bipartisan, but really just for shits and giggles.

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ex-significant other, to be exact.

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I don't think this is appeasement. Pelosi is playing the PR game. If she can find a Republican who is anti-Trump, and push that person into the spotlight, it could be very useful.

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No, their purpose will be to turn a serious effort into a clown show. That's not a good thing.

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She would do her damndest to slow everything down to a crawl, interfere anywhere she could. No seat there for Marjorie Traitor Guam.

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In bridge parlance β€˜trump’ is a noun. β€˜Ruff’ is the verb, as in: β€œOy vey, you ruffed my king!” We’re now playing in β€˜no trump,’ thanks to Joe Biden!

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Norm Goldman, Esq. used this appellation for years on his radio show.

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That’s one reason that I didn’t have that much confidence in him other than a seasoned politician from corporate-friendly Delaware. Like many, I didn’t know until recently that he had overcome stuttering, I’ll give a mulligan for anyone’s spoken gaffe if they acknowledge it.

I underestimated Biden profoundly, and I’m happy to admit it.

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That will be their purpose no matter whom they put on the committee. Might as well give them all the rope they need to hang themselves.

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There were somewhere between three and five. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar were two.

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No, you are missing a significant difference. The South was *unhappy* that Lincoln was elected, unhappy enough that they did not want to continue as a part of the country-- but they did not delude themselves into thinking that Lincoln had not been elected. The contagious insanity which has led a double-digit percentage of the country to detach from reality is something new, and in some ways worse than 1861: whether it will lead to a comparable death toll remains to be seen, but though it looks unlikely now it is not out of the question.

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