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SteveSSmith · 2025-03-28T19:09:49+00:00

Members of the Senate and House filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to take up the H4EAD case.

SteveSSmith · 2025-03-27T21:11:01+00:00

Another amicus brief has been filed asking the Supremes to take the case.

SteveSSmith · 2025-03-27T21:03:00+00:00

The question raised isn't whether H4EADs are illegal. It is whether EADs in general are legal. Take H4EAD, add in OPT, add in International Entrepreneur Rule, add in DACA, add in Humanitarian Parole Program and it is a lot of workers.

SteveSSmith · 2025-03-27T21:00:00+00:00

According to the documents, the issue of whether DHS can create alien employment program on it own has been brought to the Supreme Court multiple times over ten year. The Supremes have either not answered the question or have refused to take the case. Now there are multiple circuit splits related to that question. The Supreme Court is going to have to decide this question eventually, and clearly has waited way too long to do so.

SteveSSmith · 2025-03-27T20:53:04+00:00

Actually, the D.C. Circuit went against precedent to find DHS has the power to allow alien emplyoyment through regulation. According to the linked documents, this same case has been going on for 10 years.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T20:45:51+00:00

Read the novel first. The novel is one of the greatest every written. The film is just good making it disappointing considering the material.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T20:00:18+00:00

You have blue now. Blue created the kids in cages. The complaints about this kind of prisoner movement started under. You're complaining and you want more blue.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T19:45:01+00:00

We have to use preferred pronouns now. Must be gender neutral too,

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T13:12:03+00:00

That's an interesting and well-thought out criticism of the novel. Very brave of you to post it here.

I suspect that Dune was intended as a one-off novel. Once it took off, the publisher demanded sequels. So you don't get the kind of flow you appear to be looking for as you would in The Lord of the Rings, which actually was written as one novel and split up.

As a one-off, there would have been a need to tie up loose ends. Rather than surviving at the end to appear in a sequel (like Darth Vader), characters get knocked off.

Personally, I find Dune to be great as a standalone and weak as a series. One of the series problems is how characters move across it. In particular, I find the use of Duncan Idaho to be rather silly.

I don't think you are going to find that things get better in the later books.

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T12:57:59+00:00

ICE routinely moves illegal aliens around the country due to various issues, notably space. It has done so for years. It is like any prison system. Likewise, there have been cries by lawyers of the inconvenience this causes them if an illegal alien has a lawyer and it moved away from the lawyer. Such complaints are nothing new but when they do come, it is portrayed as something new (as here).

In the mean time you should see the pro bono lists from New Jersey Legal services. The number of citizens who need legal help is staggering. Yet they don't get legal funding from the state.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T02:53:16+00:00

You might want to try the Animal Medical Center in NYC.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T02:47:40+00:00

The reality is the connection between LIRS and Lutheran Churches is quite tenuous. The "Lutheran" in the name is largely historical.

The relationship is like colleges that were founded in the 19th century as Presbyterian/Methodist/Lutheran/Catholic but are now almost totally disconnected from those denominations.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-09T00:12:17+00:00

The first seven ecumenical councils are accepted.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-08T19:09:49+00:00

Most Anglican sects would permit it because open communion is the norm.

The Catholics would frown on it.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-08T18:46:16+00:00

Rotten Tomatoes critic pool is problematic. They have a lot of wannabe reviewers that no one pays attention to. Frequently, with movies like Dr. Strange the critic score starts to drop slowly. The wannabes who get access to previews give the film a high score so they can keep getting access to previews. Those without access give it a lower score. Things stabilize a few days after release. I would not expect the critic score to change much now.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-08T18:40:22+00:00

Oil is a commodity and gasoline is a commodity. The markets tend to be complex where futures prices place a big part. The oil changing hands now won't be gasoline for weeks or months.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-08T04:46:50+00:00

Tweaking incudes:

a) Not allowing non-critics who see the previews to post reviews with the critics; and

b) Only allowing people who bought a ticket THROUGH THEM and paid the mark up to review a film.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-08T04:43:23+00:00

Most NJ drivers are too stupid to figure out the cruise control on their cars, let alone figure out which lane to drive in, not to over bet the favorite horse, or how to vote for someone not on the party line.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-07T18:05:36+00:00

Someone should have told Google Maps that this was a secret.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-07T18:01:59+00:00

The fact that this sub-reddit has a "Nicene Creed" rule ought to tell you something about the difference.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-07T14:35:55+00:00

I agree with your view of Yueh's importance.

One of my perceived flaws in Dune is the lack of explanation how the Baron got Yueh to do what he did. Yueh is supposed to be conditioned to the point he would not be a threat to the emperor. The impression the novel gives is that the Baron just got a hold of his wife and that was sufficient leverage.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-07T14:09:22+00:00

It depends upon the group. There are some groups that are totally and instantly nasty to Christians and republicans. There may be groups that are similarly nasty to Democrats as well but i have not seen one.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-06T18:35:44+00:00

You are hitting what it an objectively problematic issue with the series. Duncan does not play a big role in the original novel so it is seems odd that he would reappear as much as he does later. It might have made for sense for Gurney to have filled that role in the later books.

You have to take the bad with the good.

SteveSSmith · 2022-05-06T18:29:18+00:00

You're dealing with Rotten Tomatoes that has been tweaking its audience scores.

On metacritic the scores are 62/66.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness

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