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originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: imthegoat
People are reading this electoral college thing all wrong, IMO. The ruling was that the Colorado Secretary of State violated the Constitution when they removed an elector because they refused to give their vote to Hillary Clinton. Clinton won the popular vote in Colorado. These states are trying to subvert the Constitution by tying the electoral votes to the popular vote. The court effectively shut that down.
Sure, this also means the elector can vote for whoever they want, but they can also, by the same token, run afoul of the people who elected them to represent them.
This court ruling is a good thing, IMO.
ETA: A good example of this would be New York state. In New York the popular vote is almost always going to swing to the Democrats because New York City is always going to vote Democrat. What the judge ruled is that an elector from the rural part of the state is free to vote for a conservative despite New York State's popular vote going to a Democrat because of the sheer numbers of one city.
In 1912 a group of Danish businessmen, led by Mr. Hans. N. Andersen, acted on a grant by the Danish Crown to set up a business in St. Thomas, partly to support the island’s economy. They saw the viability with the opening of the Panama Canal that it would be a business for bunkering coal on a larger scale. The East Asiatic Company a joint-stock company was formed in December of 1912 and they called that venture The West Indian Company Limited.
The President and Department Heads were from Denmark. They were housed on the property known as Beltjens Road, Ross Estate which were part of The West Indian Company holdings. All of the buildings had names such as: Villa Epsilon, Villa Gama Delta, Villa Apha Beta, Villa Orient, Villa Marion & Villa Iota. Other properties, including, but not limited to the Vitraco area had a large building that housed the power plant. That building extended to the main road, east of Paul M. Pearson Gardens.
Richard Branson has a nickname among employees at his Virgin empire--"Doctor Yes." He got that nickname because of how often he says yes to things.
During World War I, Denmark finally sold Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix to the U.S. for $25 million in gold coin.
Every March 31, the U.S. Virgin Islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix observe “Transfer Day” to commemorate the sale of the islands from Denmark to the United States. Of the U.S.’s five permanently inhabited territories, the U.S. Virgin Islands is the only one the country ever purchased from another imperial power. The two powers negotiated over the three islands for more than 50 years before finally transferring power in 1917.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: pianopraze
No high-ranking Congressional or MSM people are pushing to see Epstein's autopsy results are they? My God..everyone in authority within Congress and the MSM must have attended his parties, or have a friend/relative who has!
originally posted by: PioneerFigureSkating
a reply to: LanceCorvette
But a criminal trial against Epstein cannot proceed. So his lawyers are correct when it comes to any recourse against his alleged "co-conspirators?"
Man, they really dropped the ball with Epstein.