Exhibits A and B are the tweets below:
These would be laughable if they had been posted by 17-year-old high school students who had received little to no instruction in the precepts of the Constitution; but they were written by GROWN-UPS. Not only that, grownups that are on broadcast news. I’ve never seen the job application for NBC News and it’s low-IQ cable edition, but it would not surprise me in the least if the question “Do you understand the fundamentals of the Constitution and the rule of law? If you answered ‘yes’ to this question, please turn in your application and apply for a job at Fox News and/or Rush Limbaugh.”
I’m not going to insult my reading audience with the explanation of Republicanism, tyranny of the majority and the true intent of the Senate and its makeup; to do so would irritating to you and anyone with a functioning neocortex that may be passing by (because this week I AM going to remember to link this to my Twitter account). In truth, though, I could NEVER figure out how the requisite 3/4ths of the States were somehow convinced to give up the power to appoint their Senators and went ahead and passed the 17th Amendment. Dumb. Really dumb. If you wanted Senators to be directly elected from your state, you had the option to do so. But you had to go ruin it for the rest of us.
While there is no real danger of the Senate make-up or the Electoral College going the way of the Dodo, it’s important to see what would happen if these rampant crazies got their way.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you California. Land of the oppressively taxed and the perpetually outraged.
California, like most states, has a bicameral legislature – an Assembly and a Senate. Both are based on population. Which of course, begs the question – WHY have two houses, if the population is represented in like manner in both of them? My guess would be it’s a big state and a lot of people want jobs in government, with government benefits, government payments and per diem. Personally, I think the legislators in California are in office because they couldn’t get a high enough score on the civil service exam to work for the Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s worth noting that the voters of California, back when sanity prevailed, put an initiative on the ballot that created term limits. It’s also worth noting that when those in real power in the legislature are approaching their expiration date, they put on the ballot a referendum that changes the parameters for term limits – with of course a convenient clause that resets the clock for anyone currently in office. And it always goes down in defeat.
California has 58 counties, including the largest county in the United States – San Bernardino (to give you an idea, if you drive across the widest part, it would be roughly the equivalent of me leaving my office in Oakland, California and showing up at dorian’s front door in the Southland). The smallest county is San Francisco, comprised ONLY of the City itself. The intriguing thing is that once you get past the coastal areas, the state goes from light red to vivid red to the Nevada and Arizona borders. Blue and Red counties in and of themselves are almost evenly divided; yet, up until this last election, the Sacramento legislature enjoyed an almost supermajority which allowed them to pass an exclusively leftist, socialist agenda that apparently is just fine with the blue counties. Red counties might as well stay home on election day, except we care a great deal about sending Republicans to Congress.
To illustrate the even greater disparity in representation, consider this – the greater Los Angeles area sends almost half the Senate representation to Sacramento; the entirety of California’s Central Valley, representing easily 25% of California’s land mass – sends only 1. Yeah, nothing wrong there, and I’m sure the interests of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Orange County coincide nicely with their counterparts in Visalia.
Democrats always complain about our governmental checks and balances when they’re out of power. But nothing is more annoying than their apparent sudden realization that representation in the Senate is fair to every state. Well, okay, got it. But maybe they’re on to something. After all, every state isn’t equal. So I suggest that if we’re going to change the Senate, and since at least the original concept of the Senate was the for the representation of the individual states in the Federal system, AND since the population as a whole is already voiced in the House, why not make Senate representation based on LAND MASS? After all, shouldn’t size count? I can seen their faces now…..
….the minute they realize that the States of Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz are the new New York and California…..
And as always, this is your open thread for Sunday, so enjoy your sports and enjoy your families, friends and our furry best friends in the waning days of summer.
Ken Dilanian is DEEPLY implicated in the whole Russia hoax thing. He isn’t just dumb, he’s malign.
Barbarian, I stopped by to post this for you, I think you’ll love it. It’s a 1st amendment/civil rights case in Cali. A guy who owns a farm and puts on all sorts of re-enactments of events in American history is suing not just the school board but the board members individually. They looked at his social media posts, decided he was a conservative and cut off visits by the schools, thereby costing him beaucoup $$$ – because they didn’t like the content of his speech.
Discovery is going to be glorious.
https://www.scribd.com/document/390751806/Complaint-Against-Claremont-USD-Et-Al-Dkt-1-as-Filed-10-12-18
Today, that is an apt question. There really isn’t much point to having two houses at the state level.
When the system was created, however, there was a reason for it. The state Senate was apportioned similarly to the way the US Senate is, only using counties. Each county had one Senator, and the idea was that it kept the densely-populated urban areas from outvoting the rest of the state. Made perfect sense.
Along came the Warren Court and a case called Reynolds v. Sims.
And that is how California got as screwed up as it is today, to a large degree.
Off topic, but I didn’t want to forget. Bavaria rejects Merkel’s muslim invasion.
“Voters in Germany’s economically dominant southern state of Bavaria delivered a stunning rebuke to the ruling Christian Social Union, in an election that underscored the evaporation of support for the parties in Angela Merkel’s grand coalition in Berlin.
With all eyes on Sunday’s Bavaria election, moments ago the first exit polls showed a historic collapse for the ruling CSU party, which has ruled Bavaria continuously since 1957, and which saw its share of the vote collapse from 47.7% in the 2013 election to just 35.5%, losing its absolute majority and suffering its worst result since 1950, as voters defected in their droves to the Greens and the far-right Alternative for Germany.
German newspaper Welt called the election “the most painful election defeat of the past 50 years for the CSU”. As predicted in the polls, the CSU experienced a “historic debacle” in the Bavarian state elections, according to Welt. The CSU was followed by the Greens which soared in the election, more than doubling to 18.5% from 8.6% in 2013, the Free Voters also rose to 11% from 9.0%, in 2013.”
@ eaglesoars:
No judge assignment yet, I see, and it’s in Los Angeles. Oooeee, this is First Amendment violation at its finest. They should have a judge assignment sometime Monday – probably a Magistrate at first, which is common practice. If anyone declines, they’ll get a district court judge assigned.
Don’t know the law firm – I’ll check them out on Monday. Be interesting to see if the School District farms it out or requests County Counsel. Probably will farm it out.
I’ll stick this in my PACER alerts. If something gets filed I’ll get a head’s up.
@ The Barbarian:
oh, I’m SO glad you like it, please keep me posted.
yenta-fada wrote:
which, of course, is NOT far right, it IS anti-immigrant. I wonder how much having to put up with being told to fuck off by the likes of Poland helped.
https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2018/10/14/2018-in-one-tweet-this-nbc-news-correction-about-trump-and-robert-e-lee-will-make-you-lol/
@ Twitchy
NBC puts out a tweet that Trump was lauding Robert E Lee. The video proves that it was actually U.S Grant.,
not Leee. You will not believe their lame “correction.”
@ RIX:
A new low, even for Cuomo:
@ lobo91:
talk about living in somebody’s head rent-free…………..
@ lobo91:
The thing about Cuomo is that he is so arrogant and stupid that he can not be shamed.
@ eaglesoars:
The word ‘right’ as used in current geopolitics is always accompanied with the prefix “far”.
@ yenta-fada:
or ‘alt-‘. And I still have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.
eaglesoars wrote:
“really far”?
@ lobo91:
or ‘nazi’. yeah, definitely ‘nazi’.
Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes asking really predictable/dumb questions of Trump
“Will you pledge not to shut down the Mueller investigation?”
didn’t we do that one already? Like 5 times?
@ eaglesoars:
Never mind that the actual Nazis were far-left, ideologically.
Details, details…
AHAHAHAHAHHAAAA!
Ok, Barbarian, have at it!
The Senate gives the average black American only 75 percent as much representation as the average white American. The average Asian-American has 72 percent as much representation as a white person. The average Hispanic American has only 55 percent as much.
And why it’s time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the 51st and 52nd states.
The Senate: Affirmative Action for White People
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/opinion/dc-puerto-rico-statehood-senate.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
Yes, they really are out to get you. A Progressive site gets taken down in the facebook purge. Facebook moves goalposts if The Hive is threatened by too much thinking. BADTHINK is still here.
https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/12/libertarian-and-police-accountability-pa
lobo91 wrote:
The New World Order Dictionary:
Nazi (NAH-tsee) Definitions, A person who disagrees with you in an argument. Anybody telling you what to do if they are not from the GOVERNMENT. eg. your parents, teachers, neighbors. A person who criticizes the GOVERNMENT.
This Miss Teen America contestant is an example of a good citizen. You may remember her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
yenta-fada wrote:
well, THAT was cruel
How will Future History deal with this man?
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ul-1XyspQIo/W78z8KbkwNI/AAAAAAABv4s/WBXvS8ktzQYhFrZ1e46soqSM1cz5mpidACHMYCw/s1600-h/churchill%2Bquote%2Bfascists%255B4%255D
Nobody is talking to me. It’s my hair, isn’t it? My skin color?
Or you may just have a life. 🙂
Exit polls predict Merkel win, but she loses majority status & has to form a coalition.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/14/bavarian-election-exit-poll-merkel-allies-see-huge-losses-as-greens-and-populists-surge/
Green Party surges. How can a vote for Nature be bad, right? Oy veh.
wow
ravens beat the titans 21-0
Mariota sacked 11 times
says in an interview
“I have to be better”
well no fucking shit
@ yenta-fada:
{{{yenta}}}
yenta-fada wrote:
I have 2 dogs who are in the process of killing each other, which is fine, but the house ends up collateral damage and I happen to like my walls
@ rain of lead:
@ eaglesoars:
Hi {{{mockers}}}
@ yenta-fada:
hi yerself but it’s bedtime. the heathen are finally snoring so it’s lights out.
nite.
It’s October 14, 10:25pm local time, and it’s snowing in Kansas.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/top-3-of-u-s-taxpayers-paid-majority-of-income-taxes-in-2016#gs.m7Tlr0k
let that sink in
right_wing2 wrote:
global warming. it aint snow, its otherly enabled moisture.
morning y”all
so trump goes on 60 minutes and beats leslie stahls ass like a drum
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/14/indefatigable-trump-president-donald-j-trump-60-minutes-interview/
“I’m President, and you’re not“
bwahahahahaha
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/trump-calls-out-leftwing-hack-leslie-stahl-on-60-minutes-i-never-knew-how-dishonest-the-media-was-you-treated-me-different-than-obama/
dis for da barbarian
https://www.scribd.com/document/390751806/Complaint-Against-Claremont-USD-Et-Al-Dkt-1-as-Filed-10-12-18
coldwarrior wrote:
Heat challenged moisture, thermally prejudiced moisture, entropy moribund moisture.
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/german-press-reveals-saudi-spook-saga-behind-khashoggi-disappearance/
Germany’s leading right-of-center daily Die Welt this morning
reveals that Jamal Khashoggi was not a journalist, but a high-level
operative for the Saudi intelligence service, an intimate of Osama bin
Laden, and the nephew of the shadiest of all Arab arms dealers, the
infamous Adnan Khashoggi. John Bradley reported last week in the Spectator
that Khashoggi, who allegedly met a grisly end in a Saudi consulate in
Istanbul, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist
organization that among other things wants to replace the Saudi monarchy
with a modern Islamist totalitarian state.
@ doriangrey:
Ahhhh…glad they cut him into tiny pieces.
I knew tthat there was more to this
coldwarrior wrote:
One must ALWAYS remember, that in accordance with Islamic Theology, no Muslim is bound by moral or ethical requirement to be honest in their dealings with the infidels.
doriangrey wrote:
AND with each other since they all lie as a matter of habit. Consider 7 years of war between Iran and Iraq, Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, and the current Saudi war against Yemen. That’s just off the top of my head.
@ eaglesoars:
Alternative. But the news here always tags them far-right or populist.
yenta-fada wrote:
Oh dear…. You put the words “OFF” “MY” and “Head” in the same sentence regarding Muslims.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
yeah, but alternative to what?
CNN is reporting that Saudi Arabia is about to own up to the death of Khashoggi.
Still not buying it
There is something to be said about a Kristoff ligero Maduro and a neat 1942 don Julio.
Paul Allen has died. Cancer. I had no idea he was ill.
@ coldwarrior:
There is even more to be said for slamming shots of vodka after a really really bad day at work
And as soon as I actually get home, I’m gonna give it a try.
@ rain of lead:
@ rain of lead:
Mix 3 of em with a bunch of ice and a little dry vermouth…
MARTINI!!!
Or, you can do shots until symptoms subside.
Ah Judge Otero, I knew you wouldn’t let me down….
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Against Donald Trump
DISMISSED
https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2018/10/15/breaking-stormys-lawsuit-against-trump-gets-dismissed/
This is an appealable, of course. Oh, and Stormy has to pay President Trump’s reasonalbe attorneys’ fees.
“The world is gripped by a febrile madness.”
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1051522609677029377
rain of lead wrote:
Is this a ‘people of Walmart’ thing?
The Barbarian wrote:
when does this asshole get disbarred?
@ yenta-fada:
more like an employees of walmart thing
one of my cashiers did something so stupid it makes my head hurt
now I’m down even more and don’t have the staff to run my dept
4 more days then off for 12
Guhhhh
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1051940535374700550
This is good.
Here is the Notice of Appeal we just filed with the Ninth Circuit relating to the defamation claim against Trump. His record before the Ninth Circuit has been anything but good
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1051995988276047872
rain of lead wrote:
what? do tell……..
yenta-fada wrote:
If they are the wrong kind of muslim, then they are also considered infidels.
@ eaglesoars:
got into a shouting match then pulled a knife
no one was hurt thank god
like I said brain pain inducing stupid
@ rain of lead:
oh
Is that covered in the HR manual?
@ rain of lead:
That’s on the level of the guy that showed up at a call center drunk with booze in his water bottle and got hands with his female boss
oH! Oh!
Carter Page is suing the DNC!
I wonder what finally pissed him off, because he was sort of ‘live and let live’ about it before.
Discovery is going to be a hoot. I wonder who is lawyer is?
right_wing2 wrote:
so one day the phone rings and I answer. Someone asks for Hubby, who wasn’t home. Want to leave a msg about the STD test he took in Vegas.
uh huh.
Unfortunately for Dumbass, I spent 10 years in telecom and I know who to talk to and what to ask for to get a call traced.
He was out of a job 2 hrs later. Boy was HE surprised.
rain of lead wrote:
Ya know, some people just aren’t made for customer service positions. 😉
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/red-state-blues-okeefe-strikes-in-missouri-mccaskill-and-clan-exposed-as-fakes-in-guns-lies-and-videotape/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/15/pro-life-film-on-the-trial-of-kermit-gosnell-defie/
It has emerged as the No. 1 indie film in the U.S. over the weekend and No. 10 among all box office offerings according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, an industry source.
“To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/15/elizabeth-warren-melts-down-in-wake-of-dna-disaster/
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/30214-nasa-sees-climate-cooling-trend-thanks-to-low-sun-activity
Quote of the Day
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
—Richard Dawkins
@ rain of lead:
I wish him all the best at stemming any blue wave.
eaglesoars wrote:
Hey, Avenutti – how’s his record before the Supreme Court?
Oh, and this isn’t a liberal policy decision, dumbsh*t, where they are making a statement for social justice. This is an appeal from a motion to dismiss. I’ve had 8 motions to dismiss get appealed at the 9th Circuit in the last 15 years. They upheld all but ONE of them. The “one” was a class action that they thought was dismissed prematurely and thought discovery should have proceeded.
Oh, and Trump just appointed three conservatives justices to the 9th, Avenutti. Replaced three LIBERALS. And the hot bench three is a luck of the draw.
By the way, Avenutti, what’s YOUR record in front of the 9th Circuit?
The Barbarian wrote:
Do courts ever look at the names of the lawyers on the motion and go, “yeah, not dealing with THIS asshole. DISMISSED!”?
Lizzy Borden… err Warren had an axe
Gave her DNA 40 whacks
When she saw what she had done
She was only 1/1024 In..d..iAN…