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Impeachment exists because the President is immune from civil prosecution. 1
But the President is not immune from criminal prosecution. 2
But if the President appoints an Attorney General who is a lap-dog who refuses to allow criminal proceedings, then the rationale breaks down. 3
Further, if the Congress refuses to use the tool of impeachment, then the rationale for its existence is destroyed. 4
So, whichizzit? There has to a check on the President. Either civil suits or impeachment has to work. And criminal suits are always valid. Trump’s arguments against the impeachment process are completely bogus. 5
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I figured something out about America today. The notion of “states’ rights” ended when the South seceded from the union and Lincoln had to fight a nasty war to put it back together. 1
Fighting that war demanded lots of new bureaucratic infrastructure, and that’s when the Federal government became a Big Thing, and simultaneously that’s when the rights of states became subordinate to the Federal government. 2
Before the South seceded, it was considered normal that individual states could have their own very particular laws and ways of doing things that were off-limits to any Federal oversight. "State’s rights” carried a lot of water in the ante-bellum USA. 3
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Apple’s Word processing program comes with lots of elegant, colorful templates. I’ve never once used any of them. 1
I do, however, make my own templates and use them for almost every document I create.

When I create a new document, the template chooser dialog appears on the screen. I click on one and that becomes the template for my new document. 2
The templates that I have created, and that I use every single time are at the bottom of the long collection of never-used Apple templates. I have to scroll down to the very bottom. The “End” key has been inconveniently disabled, so can’t even do this with one button. 3
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@rvr @theitskeptic @CGLambdin @neil_killick @agileschools @jeffpatton @RonJeffries Yes, “construction” is not a good term to use for software. However, neither are “engineering” nor “development” really helpful or accurate. I agree that software is fundamentally different. 1
@rvr @theitskeptic @CGLambdin @neil_killick @agileschools @jeffpatton @RonJeffries And yet, software has to be conceived of, designed, engineered, and constructed. Those various parts of the continuous process by which software gets created tend to be very different in their goals, methods, and processes. 2
@rvr @theitskeptic @CGLambdin @neil_killick @agileschools @jeffpatton @RonJeffries I’m as guilty as the next tweeter of trying to encapsulate this complexity in a tweet. Shame on me. It doesn’t work. But none of this detracts from the truth that software is built and we don’t really know how to do it well. 3
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