That could be very good, or very bad, depending. But it certainly sounds intriguing.
vxbush
7/1/2026 6:30:28 AM
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So one writer at PJ Media thought Kurt Schlichter's article on the birthright citizenship case was positive, and I guess it is, but it also left a bad taste in my mouth--mostly for reasons that he has no control over, such as the insane ways politics creeps in to everything in DC. Oh, the political aspects were a very minor thing in the article, but it still rankles. If I had to summarize it, I'd do so as "son of judge sees ray of hope in ruling."
I agree with him on the EO part. That an EO was not the correct path. I'm not a big fan of EOs anyway. Especially when they are used in lieu of proper legislative process. If the feckless party, that would be Republicans, could get off their asses they could write legislative the defines the term, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Many years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multimillion dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past. The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and stated, "This is where your problem is." The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again. The company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service. They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges. The engineer responded briefly: "One chalk mark $1. Knowing where to put it $49,999"
vxbush
7/1/2026 9:52:28 AM
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In #5 JCM said: I agree with him on the EO part. That an EO was not the correct path. I'm not a big fan of EOs anyway. Especially when they are used in lieu of proper legislative process. If the feckless party, that would be Republicans, could get off their asses they could write legislative the defines the term, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
Or, you could reintroduce a bill that Harry Reid submitted back in the dark ages of... 1993. Moreno just did this, and the language of the bill is very specific:
Any person born after the date of enactment of this title to a mother who is neither a citizen of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident… shall be considered as born subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United States.
vxbush
7/1/2026 9:53:23 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 8:
But I'm with you on executive orders in general, JCM. They are a workaround that gets thorny quick.
vxbush
7/1/2026 9:57:50 AM
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In #6 JCM said: Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI fails to match human expertise
I would agree for lots of deep knowledge in many areas. I have had one significant success with AI that I didn't expect, and that was using the corporate AI that was built into my work emails and documents. I gave it a prompt to write an overview report of a project, and it actually did a passable job. I had to go back and tweak things, but that worked better than I expected.
I think the problem is contextual memory. Humans simply have a larger contextual memory than AI, and I don't know how quickly--or if--that can be fixed anytime soon.
JCM
7/1/2026 10:24:29 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 8:
Geeze don't tell the democrats, they tear down his statues!
Pretty much what I think the path forward should be..... Heck they should use Harry's proposal just to induce a meltdown!
JCM
6/28/2026 7:59:14 PM
Kosh's Shadow
6/30/2026 7:18:38 PM