Recent content by JSRG

Well, no. This verdict doesn't make anyone "know" that Trump committed a crime. All people "know" that they didn't before is that he was convicted of it. The key question is how much they think a conviction is worth. The pro-Trump and anti-Trump people don't really care about this result; the...

One should be a bit cautious in regards to the Federalist Papers as a source of the thinking behind the Constitution. There is a lot of great information in it, but we must remember something important: The Federalist Papers were essentially a work of propaganda. The whole reason they were...

Were they basically the same men? This was the committee who made the Articles of Confederation (each from a different state). John Dickinson (Pennsylvania) Samuel Adams (Massachusetts) Josiah Bartlett (New Hampshire) Button Gwinnett (Georgia) Joseph Hewes (North Carolina) Stephen Hopkins (Rhode...

While I think first past the post voting is extremely flawed, I'm not sure how much you can blame the Constitution itself for that. The Constitution doesn't require first past the post voting; it leaves the method of election up to the states and congress (which did basically all opt for first...

Some people might be tempted to say things like "slavery" or "universal suffrage" but the fact of the matter is those never would have passed at the time (it should also be noted that one thing no one could have plausibly foreseen was the invention of the cotton gin, which played a big role in...

Indeed. This is the big issue I have with the claim of those who say the Passover counted as a Sabbath. They simply assert it was a Sabbath, but never point to any instance of it being referred to as such. It's never clearly referred to as such in the Old Testament. Yes, it is a day they're...

The linked website unfortunately experienced an outage for a while earlier today, which was presumably when you tried to access it. It's working now.

Yes, that was the page I indeed saw in Tibetan Astrology. However, we still notice this isn't the page you claimed it was on and it is missing part of the quote you claimed it had ("Saturn's day always fell on the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th of each month" is nowhere to be found). While the page...

Well, if you'd like to see Schmidt's argument for it being legitimate, it can be found archived here.

This was directed at someone else, but to answer it, it's in Book 4 23.3. The translation of that section by Thomas C. Schmidt reads (footnotes included): For the first advent of our Lord in the flesh, when he was born in Bethlehem, was December 25th,3 Wednesday,4 while Augustus was in his...

Firstly, it would be much appreciated if you were to not put your quotes of works in a quotes box, because quotes within quotes are removed when replying. That is, when I quote your message, your quote disappears from the book (as seen above). When offering quotations from works, it is far...

I have not read his book, but I have read his article. Unless he changed things between the article and book, this is does not not seem an accurate representation. There was no actual need to defer adjudication in order to "do more damage", adjudication was deferred because going so far without...

It's not clear at all to me what this has to do with either your original mention or Citizens United or my response on the subject. In any event, you're presumably referring to Jeffrey Toobin's article on the subject. But the problem is, according to the facts of his article... Roberts didn't...

The photo evidence is just that he flew a flag. People aren't simply saying that. What people are saying, which ventures into areas of greater speculation, is that he did so specifically to try to show support for "stop the steal". Alito said that he didn't have anything to do with it and the...

Have you attempted to send them a private message? Some people have it set up to give them e-mail alerts which might catch their attention. (even if it doesn't, it at least means if they ever do come back to the forum they'd get an alert on it)