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Tannin 
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Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Yep. Essentially, the two houses of parliament (Congress and Senate, both pretty similar to our House and Senate) make the laws, the Executive (President and his appointed officers) carries them out (but does not have the power to make them), and the judiciary enforces them.
The President is not a member of parliament, still less the leader of the ruling party (the House and Senate Majority Leaders have those roles), and as well as being the head of executive government he is the Head of State. In that capacity, his signature is necessary for any new law. The US President's role is thus a cross between that of our Prime Minister and of our Governor General.
So Chewy has the right of it: a US law must be (a) passed by Congress, (b) passed by the Senate, and (c) signed off by the President. This gives the President effective veto power, so new laws often go through a long and often acrimonious negotiation process between House, Senate, and President before they are enacted. It gets especially difficult when one or another of the three is controlled by a different party - say a House Republican majority with a Democrat majority in the Senate, or both houses Republican but a Democrat President.
In recent years, it has become effectively impossible for the Democrats to win control of the House because of disgraceful gerrymandering by Republican state governments. (US state governments have control over the details of the federal electoral process, and are not shy about putting a thumb in the scales. If you remember the corrupt Bjelke-Petersen government in Queensland and the way Joh gamed the Australian electoral system back in the Seventies, you've got the idea. Only it's ten times worse in the USA. For example, you might remember Al Gore narrowly won the 2000 Presidential Election only to be thwarted by the corrupt Republican state government in Florida.
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Skids 
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
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Last month, French President Francois Hollande ridiculed the idea that the massive numbers of Muslim migrants entering his country were any kind of threat. Those who argue that we are being invaded are manipulators and falsifiers, who do this only for political reasons, to scare, the left-wing politician huffed. And then the pudgy little Socialist had to be rapidly evacuated from Frances national soccer stadium after one of those refugees blew himself up trying to reach Monsieur le Prsident, and Merkels Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The migrant crisis is an invasion. The bodies in Paris could just as easily have been stacked up in any country that was foolish and feckless enough to open the door to ISIS by taking in refugees.
If Obama and Kerry succeed in their plan to bring tens of thousands of Syrian migrants to America, the next brutal massacre might not happen in Paris. It might happen in one of our cities instead.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/
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Hungary tries refugees for illegal entry
Hungary rid itself almost entirely of migrants by building a border fence. It also deemed entering the country without permission a crime
http://www.dw.com/en/hungary-tries-refugees-for-illegal-entry/a-18874859
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| Hungary tries refugees for illegal entry
Hungary rid itself of migrants by building a border fence deemed entering the country without permission a crime
httpwww dotdwdot comenhungary-tries-refugees-for-illegal-entrya-18874859? |
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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
Location: Between London and Melbourne
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| Skids wrote: | Last month, French President Francois Hollande ridiculed the idea that the massive numbers of Muslim migrants entering his country were any kind of threat. Those who argue that we are being invaded are manipulators and falsifiers, who do this only for political reasons, to scare, the left-wing politician huffed. And then the pudgy little Socialist had to be rapidly evacuated from Frances national soccer stadium after one of those refugees blew himself up trying to reach Monsieur le Prsident, and Merkels Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The migrant crisis is an invasion. The bodies in Paris could just as easily have been stacked up in any country that was foolish and feckless enough to open the door to ISIS by taking in refugees.
If Obama and Kerry succeed in their plan to bring tens of thousands of Syrian migrants to America, the next brutal massacre might not happen in Paris. It might happen in one of our cities instead.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/ |
I certainly agree that Hollande is a fool - the archetypal French political enarque who has never had a job outside politics and presides over a country where the state originates about 55% of GDP and unemployment never budges below 10%.
He put up the top tax rate to 75% "for symbolic reasons of solidarity" and raised Capital Gains Tax on his accession to the presidency, and saw a capital flight to London which depressed the French tax base from high earners. Meanwhile he presides over a system of employment protection which entrenches the privileges of various in-work interest groups largely at the expense of the young, and especially those of North African heritage who suffer an unemployment rate of more than 25%. His Marianne impression in response to a problem he has fostered and denied is deeply distasteful.
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Wokko 
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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| Wokko wrote: | http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/18/muslim-rape-gang-charged-trafficking-white-girls/
At least this lot have been caught and charged. |
As the father of a 17 year old daughter, am I really the only one questioning the proper parenting or lack there of here? Surely, a responsible parent must at least be interested in the whereabouts of a 14 year old daughter when she is not at home? Am I the only odd one out here? Have I been the fool who loved/respected my daughter enough to care in a mutually reciprocated manner?
If so, whatever has happened to the concept of responsible parenting as guiding/advising/supporting agents when not one word in the said article or indeed the following comments mentions this point? 
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I ask that every time a teen gets in trouble,
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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Pi 
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Location: SA
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As fellow atheist this guy may have a case...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2cjYaXC1sg
although i hope acts of arson dont become too much of a habit for him 
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ronrat
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Location: Thailand
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Dead man walking I am afraid. Be a fatwa on him already
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