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DDD Dad

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  1. I believe the quote to which I responded contended that the ORIGINAL gerrymander was in the Senate. The makeup of senate seats is in the Constitution, which predates the 1889 Omnibus bill by a few years, and I'm pretty sure (although I haven't done the research) that the original states and signatories to the Constitution weren't admitted to specifically to balance slaves versus free states but instead were all separate British colonies. The ORIGINAL gerrymander got its name from Gov. Gerry, in a newspaper article that described the district that was drawn as looking like a salamander, and hence coined the term gerrymander. I don't dispute that subsequent to the original gerrymander there have been political grounds for the drawing of state lines (all of which had nothing to do with providing representation in the senate to citizens based on the relative population of each state), but that's not gerrymandering. Pedantic thread drift over.
  2. Wut? (Original gerrymander was done by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's administration in drawing up STATE senate districts. While there has been SCOTUS case law involving gerrymandering involving senate seats (how votes were counted in Georgia Democratic senate primary, Gray v. Sanders), U.S. Senate seats are specifically incapable of being gerrymandered so long as they are elected statewide and each vote counts.
  3. No one's impeaching her for this. She faces no consequences beyond whatever the Chief Judge of the Southern District or the Judicial Conference somehow takes action (a la John McBryde). As of 2017, only 15 federal judges were ever impeached and only 8 convicted following impeachment.
  4. I'd still take Delaware Joe over the Dotard. Only way Trump knocks Biden over is if he sits on him.
  5. I fully expect Trump to try to insult the moderators, refuse to follow whatever rules they will have agreed to in advance, and then generally make an ass of himself. In other words, just another Thursday for him.
  6. You might consider getting a putting lesson/fitting with a knowledgeable teacher. In addition to helping you cure any stroke mechanic faults he or she can help you determine if the style of putter you are using is conducive to the type of stroke you use. By way of example my putting is old school swinging gate. I need a putter with lots of toe hang. If you are a straight back and through putter, you need a balanced face or your short putts will be very inconsistent since you’re fighting the weight of the putter head through the stroke.
  7. Too soon.
  8. She’s gorgeous. But she looks like she’s either got an eating disorder or something else is wrong. Really thin like unhealthy thin.
  9. That's Marilyn Manson.
  10. DDD Dad

    LBGTQ

    A friend of my wife posted something on FB last night about this, praising this POS for his courage. I told her she needed to unfriend that person.
  11. Friend of mine would bring along a Speakman shower head and wrench on golf trips to replace low flow shower heads at the hotel/lodge where we stayed. /csb
  12. Reminds me of when I made the poor decision of watching "Poor Things" with my 30 year old daughter (yes there were pics on the old site).
  13. More like "WrongHorn" amirite?
  14. Pull your pants up. Your ass is showing.
  15. You realize this is the internet, right? Reasonable discussion is highly disfavored.
  16. Saw this trailer last night before an episode of Dark Matter. Looks promising.
  17. Bear Dip = Chrispy = Donkey Cigar
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