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  1. I haven't read it yet, but here's an archive link that should work for you. https://archive.is/H7273
  2. You're in Houston, right? You guys got up into the mid-60s yesterday, and the ground isn't going to flash freeze and destroy any underground pipes when you guys hit a low of 18 Tuesday night (early Wednesday morning), per the current NWS forecast. It's highly unlikely your pipes will burst, but I would just drip the faucets and keep the cabinet doors under the sinks open to allow the ambient room temperature to help keep the pipes warm. If you're super concerned, place space heaters near any sinks facing an exterior wall. This too shall pass.
  3. Enraging Wordle 1,310 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #588 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1091 7️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  4. Wordle 1,309 3/6 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #587 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟪🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1090 7️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  5. Pure conjecture response if one were to buy that hypothesis, which also happened to cross my mind:
  6. Imagine what the King of Debt would do with an American sovereign wealth fund. U.S. Faces Record Debt Levels as Republicans Plan Tax Cuts The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that annual deficits will top $21 trillion over the next decade. The United States is poised to add trillions of dollars to the national debt over the next decade as the mounting costs of social safety net programs and growing interest expenses dig the nation into a deeper fiscal hole, according to a report released on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office. The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion. That will be piled on to a national debt that currently exceeds $36 trillion. By 2035, the debt as a share of the U.S. economy will rise to 118 percent, the largest in history. The debt is currently 100 percent of gross domestic product. Although the figures show slightly smaller deficits than what the C.B.O. projected last June, thanks to higher salaries and stock values, the nation’s fiscal situation is poised to become far more precarious. That’s because the budget office’s outlook assumes that the 2017 tax cuts that are scheduled to expire this year will actually come to an end, and that tax revenues will start to increase next year. But with President-elect Donald J. Trump set to retake the White House next week and Republicans fully in control of Congress, those tax cuts are almost certainly going to be extended. Continuing the tax cuts is expected to cost more than $4 trillion over the next decade, according to previous estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
  7. Biden Will Commute Sentences of Nearly 2,500 Drug Offenders The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, will be the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president. President Biden announced on Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates serving long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenses, the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president. The commutations are for offenders who received harsher sentences for drug crimes than they would under current practices, a move aimed at reversing longstanding criminal justice disparities, Mr. Biden said. Those disparities disproportionately affected Black people and fueled mass incarceration, many experts say. “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. The commutations add to Mr. Biden’s sweeping use of his clemency powers as he prepares to leave office. In recent weeks, he has also commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row and set what was a single-day record of 1,500 commutations for those moved to home confinement during the pandemic. Mr. Biden said he would consider additional pardons, which wipe out convictions, and commutations, which leave the guilty verdict intact but reduce some or all of the punishment, in the coming days. Among others, Mr. Biden has been considering pre-emptive pardons for a number of former elected officials and other people his successor, President-elect Donald J. Trump, may target for political retribution.
  8. So, the main gist from what I’m reading there is that Article V is silent on the amount of time allocated to ratification; therefore, the imposition of a deadline is unconstitutional. As a result, the 1921 decision by SCOTUS to allow for one on Prohibition was wrong. Smarty pants lawyers, am I reading that correctly?
  9. Yeah, I agree with Brian that it was stupid to wait, but with this timing, I'm guessing Biden is just farting in the elevator before getting off. I'm certainly no lawyer, but a reading of this makes it pretty clear that Congress has been empowered to impose a time limit on ratification since SCOTUS's decision in 1921. This did not apply to the 27th Amendment since that Congress put no time limit on its ratification. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artV-4-2-1/ALDE_00013054/ Now, I do think there's a valid question about why such a restriction would be put on ratification in the first place. I suppose you could make the argument that if an amendment can't get ratified by X number of states within a certain period of time, then it's not worth passage. Of course, that's a dubious proposition when a chunk of the country is too entrenched in its own prejudices. Regardless, I applaud shining a light on the issue, so let's see if the Dems can make any hay from it (narrator: they can't). I'd appreciate it if anyone could point to the ABA language providing an opinion on why the amendment actually should be valid.
  10. Hope you're not allergic to dust, too, because West Texas is also blowing your way. It's going to be a miserable, itchy, sneezy, runny nose day.
  11. Wordle 1,308 2/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #586 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1089 6️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  12. Wordle 1,307 4/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #585 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🙂 Daily Quordle 1088 4️⃣5️⃣ 9️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  13. John Stewart is a national treasure.
  14. I wonder how many push-ups she can do.
  15. I'm not even sure how to emotionally respond to that series of questions/answers. Just fucking bizarro world, simpleton showmanship shit. Like, I know a lot of stupid people. A whole fucking lot. Just look at my FB timeline and the regards I went to high school with. Some of the dumbest ones might well be impressed, but even the most mediocre ones can figure out this is Dumbass 101 stuff. The real problem is they are constitutionally incapable of recognizing or reckoning with what they've wrought, which is a terrible tragedy.
  16. We had the FCA kids, too. It was kind of a weird deal that I had some trouble wrapping my head around. In early high school, I was still in the thrall of Reaganism because I was being raised in a Republican Southern Baptist household and still called myself a Christian at the time, but the notion that Christianity was linked to athletic performance didn’t really settle with me. It just felt a little fake, ya know? Like a bad taste in my mouth kind of thing. Then, there was the whole FFA vs. FCA confusion that I could never keep very straight because all the FFA kids were also in the FCA. I dunno; I’ve never been good with acronyms, but the blue jackets helped sort it out sometimes.
  17. Hold up. In the confirmation hearing, Hegseth was seriously asked how many push-ups he does/did/could do? Y'all are joking, right? Right???
  18. Quite cold to very cold in the Wastes of West Texas.
  19. Welcome back! You were sorely missed.
  20. https://archive.is/Ko8eR Was this common knowledge before? Because I didn't have a clue. Fuck!
  21. Wordle 1,306 3/6 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #584 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1087 6️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣9️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  22. What a fun little show and nice surprise that turned out to be. Got serious ET vibes when the kids all took off in the forest on their bikes.
  23. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of shit going on in America feels a bit like the mid-to-late 1980s. It's crossed my mind a couple of times, but this really brings back that decade when we had fashionable & performative high school popularity contest bullshit like: WWJD bracelets Choose Life T-shirts Prayer around the (flag)Pole A bunch of fucking Alex Keatons running around (this time with podcasts) I dunno. Maybe I'm off base and just matching up various memories to get a handle on things, but it does have that overall vibe.
  24. I didn't have US183 on ignore before his "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?" posts. He is now.
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