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  1. Originalism is a deliberate interpretive choice. It's not the only the means of interpreting constitutional text and its relatively new compared to other forms of interpretation (Brennan / T. Marshall "living constitutionalism"). It really hit the legal mainstream under Reagan, championed by Scalia. To interpret the Constitution under originalism is to disregard most, if not all, historical and legal context that has occurred in this country since its ratification. It seeks to enshrine law and the definitions of terms in the Constitution perpetually in 1783 or 1865 (ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments). There is no evidence, that I've run across, that any of the Federalists or drafters of the constitution were under the illusion that the Constitution was a static document. J. Marshall directly states that it is not, and since Madison wrote the damn thing, you think he would've argued the point in Marbury. He didn't. In practice, originalism does not seek to protect civil rights. The only civil rights that originalism has successfully "protected" have been 2A rights (which are relatively new in historical interpretation) and putting its thumb on the religion side of the state / religion scale. I can assure that modern 4th Amendment jurisprudence does not reflect 1783 realities, for example. How the hell could it? Most civil rights, as we know them, have been derived by judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment (substantive due process). There are problems with the way the Court has defined those rights and where they "come" from (the first substantive due process case was actually Dred Scott), but originalism works against substantive due process, not with it. It's a legal response to the recognition of all sorts of civil rights under the 14th Amendment in the post-WWII era. It was "invented" strictly as a means of limiting constitutional scope and protections. It's a more educated Rush Limbaugh telling you the Constitution doesn't technically offer protections because they are not enumerated verbatim. That's not what the Constitution was, is, or was ever intended to be. At least not to my eyes. Scalia, and others, have argued that it is meant to force legislative responsibility back on Congress, rather than have the judiciary be the final arbiter of what can be interpreted out of the 14th Amendment. In other words, Congress should pass laws or Constitutional amendments codifying interpretations of civil rights, so that they cannot be taken away by later Court opinions (like... abortion). That sounds nice in theory, but we have used the Court as a political proving ground going all the way back to Marbury. The amendment process is more or less dead in our current political gridlock (ERA been on the block for... 40ish years now?). It would be nice if we relied on judicial interpretation less, but its been baked into the system so to speak. There was never in any real chance that the federal government would suddenly become better legislators because a few hardcore conservative justices decided to be pedantic dicks about everything and go out of there way to make life for many Americans harder than it needs to be, and it's already hard enough for a lot of folks. Originalism is the trickle-down economics of constitutional interpretation. It's spun up bullshit to keep certain interests in power perpetually. The shinejob that the Founders never intended the Constitution to be interpreted in a context outside of their own is a marketing ploy to conservatives to make them feel better about fucking people over legally. Finally, the ultimate irony of originalism and its prohibition on substantive due process is that gets tossed out the window by Scalia, its chief proponent, when he goes looking for constitutional protections for the 2nd Amendment in Heller and and for religion in Hobby Lobby. Like every other weapon in the conservative's limited arsenal, it is not meant to be equitable. It's just another power grab under shoddy veneer.
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  2. 5. Safety Leon O'Neal Jr. Gave up a touchdown catch to a ball boy during warmups. Seriously. Kyle Shanahan threw the pass. O'Neal let the ball boy cross his face on a post route and could not recover in time to catch him. To be fair, the 49ers are known to have excellent ball boys. this gem was discovered by @Rickylovesweed.
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  4. He only got cut because by the time he showed up, training camp was over. #slowneal
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  5. The Wagner thugs fucked around with Americans in Syria not long ago and found out what the River Styx looks like.
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  9. This is a shit take and you should be ashamed you got on this website and typed it out.
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  13. First bird in at least a week. Whew. Wordle 679 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #463 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Daily Quordle 460 5️⃣8️⃣ 9️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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  16. Wordle 679 3/6 [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834]🟨🟨 🟩[emoji834]🟨🟩[emoji834] 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Good finish to the week. Went 5-6-3-3-3-3
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  17. And they reacted fast after the last hits, and they went deep at a strategic position. Now hit the fucking bridge again.
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  18. Leon truly is one of the great aggies of this generation. His ability to carefully look at those facts and then come up with that conclusion is… well, perfectly aggie. A rare combination of hubris, delusion and ignorance, on top of a massive persecution complex underscored by not knowing when to shut the fuck up. It’s like he was made in a laboratory.
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  19. Congrats to one of the best longhorns ever.
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  21. This'll help A&M's recruiting, I'm sure.
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  23. That dog has to walk himself.
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  24. Russians have been trying to dogfight Americans in the skies over Syria. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/europe/russia-fighter-pilots-dogfight-us-jets-syria-intl-hnk/index.html They have tried to goad American pilots into dogfights dozens of times over the last few months. Americans are too disciplined but holy shit the Russians are fucking stupid.
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  25. Pretty obvious it's you, sunshine. I'm not wasting a second with you as you already know you're a miserable person that wallows in misery. It's unfortunate, but I can understand given our common mental background. But you continually seek the misery, you continually engage with others with hostility to produce misery. Message boards are fun and entertaining. Sports are fun and entertaining. None of it impacts one bit in how you feel in life except for what you allow. You're miserable about Texas basketball because you choose to be miserable. You have nothing to do with the players, the staff, or the program. You're not an employee, you have no financial stake, there is not a single reason to be so overwhelmingly emotional about something that you have absolutely zero control over. If Texas follows up an EE year with a losing record and doesn't make the CBI, the misery it brings in your life is equal to the exact amount that you create in your own head. Texas/RT is not responsible for your happiness, you are.
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  28. Well that’s fucking insane. Death sentences for $40. This is America
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  31. Seventy years ago this fall in the skies over North Korea, U.S. Navy fighter pilot Royce Williams pulled off what many experts say is one of the greatest feats in aviation history. For 35 minutes, he engaged solo in an aerial dogfight with seven Soviet MiG-15 pilots, downing at least four jets before escaping to land his heavily damaged F9F-5 Panther jet on a U.S. aircraft carrier. Capt. Williams’ aerial heroics have been a legend for decades among pilots coming up through the Navy’s Top Gun school, and the incident was recorded in Soviet Union military history. But no trace of Williams’ daring flight on Nov. 18, 1952, exists in the U.S. military archives. Rather than acknowledge an air battle that might have had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Korean War, the U.S. Navy and National Security Agency scrubbed the dogfight from its records and Williams was sworn to secrecy for more than 50 years. As a result, when the nation awarded 146 Medals of Honor to U.S. servicemen for extraordinary valor in the Korean War, Williams didn’t make the list. But this past week, all five members of the San Diego U.S. Congressional delegation joined forces to not only bring Williams’ heroism to the public’s attention, but also to right what they see as a historic wrong. Congress members Darrell Issa, Scott Peters, Sara Jacobs, Juan Vargas and Mike Levin are preparing an amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to include the Medal of Honor for Williams. Now 97 and long retired, Williams lives in a scenic mountainside home in Escondido’s Hidden Meadows community. Spinal injuries from a long-ago plane crash in El Centro make it hard for Williams to maneuver around his home, but his memory of the 1952 dogfight remains as fresh today as it was seven decades ago. Asked how it would feel to be awarded the Medal of Honor now, Williams takes a few seconds to consider his answer. “If it happened, I would be awed,” Williams said on Monday. “I wish my dad could know. It would mean even more to my friends to know that I finally received it.” Over the past eight years, retired Rear Adm. Doniphan “Don” Shelton of Del Mar tried repeatedly to get the Navy and Department of Defense to award the medal to Williams, but Shelton passed away last October. The newly assembled delegation’s effort, nicknamed “Operation Just Reward,” is now seen as the last chance to get the medal to Williams before he passes away. “Royce Williams is a hero like no other, and his uncommon valor and resolute courage in battle is a history everyone should know,” Issa said in a statement. “His recognition with the Congressional Medal of Honor is overdue and we’re going to get it done.” But even with the support of the bipartisan delegation, the medal award is no sure thing. Steve Lewandowski, a Navy veteran from Del Mar who assisted Shelton’s efforts for three years, said he believes Williams’ chances of getting the medal are only about 75 percent. But he hopes that will be enough. “This is it ... ‘once more unto the breach.’ It’s a ragtag, zero-resources effort, but it’s the right thing to do. This old man needs to be recognized for this unbelievable dogfight, when quite frankly anyone else would’ve run the other way. He’s the real Top Gun,” said Lewandowski, who is past commander of American Legion Post 416 in Encinitas. 7v1 Encounter From their early childhood in South Dakota, Williams said he and his brother dreamed of growing up to fly airplanes. They got their wish after enlisting for war duty in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. Williams was still in flight training when World War II ended, but he stayed in the Navy and while finishing up a college degree in Minnesota, the Korean conflict began. After training to fly the F9F-5 Panther jet, Williams shipped overseas and was eventually assigned to provide air support for a fleet of carriers off the North Korean coastal city of Chongjin, about 100 miles south of the Russian city of Vladivostok. On Nov, 18, 1952, Williams said he and three other Panther pilots were assigned to do combat air patrol along the Yalu River, which separated the North Korean and Soviet territories. At the time, the Soviets weren’t involved in the war and were not seen as a threat, but they had been sending more planes into the skies to protect their airspace. While climbing through snow clouds below 12,000 feet, Williams said he and his patrol group learned that seven unknown aircraft were approaching at a high elevation. Meanwhile, the captain of the four-plane U.S. patrol experienced an engine problem, so he and his wingman returned to the ship, leaving Williams and his wingman behind. As the unidentified planes flew overhead, Williams recognized them as Soviet MiG-15s. He and his wingman were instructed to head back toward the fleet and set up an aerial barricade to protect the ships, but Williams and his fellow pilot soon found themselves “bracketed” at 26,000 feet by the MiGs, and four of them began firing at the two Navy planes. Williams’ wingman broke away and safely returned to the fleet, but Williams was trapped. Suddenly, Williams found himself facing the incomprehensibly long odds of surviving a “7v1” encounter, meaning seven planes against one. He describes the next 35 minutes as a never-ending battle of strategy and constant maneuvering to avoid being hit from behind, while taking the occasional shot whenever it presented itself. He said he was so busy thinking, he never had time to get scared. Royce Williams, 97, of Escondido holds a model of the Navy F9F-5 Panther jet he flew in an aerial dogfight in the Korean War. (Charlie Neuman/For The San Diego Union-Tribune) “I was engaged mentally at the time. A lot of it was awareness of where they were and how I had to maneuver to avoid them. They were taking turns. I decided if I concentrated on shooting them down, then I’d become an easy target. So my initial goal was to look for defensive opportunities when they made mistakes,” he said. Lewandowski said Williams’ air battle is now known as the longest dogfight in Naval history. “Before that, the longest one was five minutes,” Lewandowski said. “Even in the most extreme circumstances, pilots know that if you can run, you run. And you only ever train for 3 on 1. To go 7 on 1 is beyond imagining.” Eventually, Williams ran out of ammunition, and cannon fire from a MiG took out control of his rudder and hydraulics. By that point, only one of the seven original Soviet planes was still in the air with him. He managed to escape by playing cat-and-mouse in the clouds with the MiG all the way back to the protection of the fleet. After he landed, he counted 263 holes in his jet, but he was uninjured. The story of his dogfight was hushed up immediately, but a couple weeks later Williams was invited to have a private meeting with President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower in Seoul, South Korea. Williams said he shared a cocktail with Eisenhower — who had come to visit the troops to fulfill a campaign pledge — but they never discussed the dogfight since “officially, it never happened.” Forgotten hero Williams went on to serve in the Navy an additional 23 years, including flying 110 missions in the Vietnam War. He retired in 1975 with a display case full of medals that include the Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and the Legion of Merit with combat “V.” True to his word, he never told anyone about the dogfight — not even his wife, Camilla, or his pilot brother — until the early 2000s, when the Korean War records were officially declassified. Although the declassified U.S. documents for the Korean War have no record of the dogfight, the air battle was written up in detail in Soviet documents. When the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990s, those records were released. Russian military historian Igor Seidov wrote about the dogfight in his 2014 book “Red Devils Over the Yalu: A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War.” He wrote that of the seven MiGs that left Vladivostik that morning, only one returned to base. Four were shot down by a single U.S. aircraft, one plane was shot up and crashed on its way back and the seventh plane was never found. After reading Seidov’s book, Adm. Shelton launched his campaign for Williams to receive the Medal of Honor. Lewandowski said Shelton gathered signatures of support from nearly 100 Navy, Marine and Army flag officers, as well as resolutions from the American Legion and Distinguished Flying Cross Association. But by not involving Congress members early enough in the process to receive a congressionally awarded medal, Shelton’s efforts ultimately failed. Lewandowski said there are still hurdles to overcome, as the Navy and Department of Defense have already twice rejected the application. But Lewandowski said he hopes the battle for the medal can now be fought in the court of public opinion and the bipartisan coalition’s support will turn the tide. “What we’re conveying is that this needs to happen not now, but right now,” Lewandowski said. “He’s the real deal and our country thirsts for heroes. We’ve got to get his award for him before it’s too late.”
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  32. So, you know who posted this. The thread just disappeared ...
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  33. I’ve grown tired trying to maintain humidity in my office shed (long story), so I decided to see if I could build a quality wall case that has enough of a seal that I can throw a humidipak in them and maintain humidity in the case for a nice/old guitar. I think it looks pretty bueno. Tomorrow I’ll put the door on, seal it with some felt and throw the humidipak in it to see how well it holds humidity over the next week while I’m out of town for work. If results are good, I’ll be making some more. Fun little project either way.
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  34. More Russia on fire. Would hate to be a firefighter there.
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  35. Bill Maher is the Joe Rogan of Dennis Millers. You can arrange those name in any order that you like and the conclusion remains the same.
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  36. Wordle 679 3/6 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 460 3️⃣8️⃣ 9️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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  37. Wordle 679 4/6* ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 460 3️⃣6️⃣ 4️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Blossom Puzzle, April 29 Letters: A D E N L R V My score: 297 points My longest word: 10 letters 🌺 🌹 🏵 🌻 💐 🌸 🌷 💮 🌼 🌺 Play Blossom: https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game #Worldle #463 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 ⭐⭐⭐🏙️🪙 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
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  38. Wordle 679 4/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    8 points
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