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1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:
"GOV. DOSEN'T OWN ME", but maybe spelling does.
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On 4/21/2020 at 8:06 AM, Mo Horn said:
Nathan Fillion gif appropriate.
Question: John and Jim each contribute $1.00 to a political action group. Betsy contributes $2.00 to the same group. What is the average donation amount? Hint: Your answer must be in even dollars.
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2 hours ago, DixonHur said:
Another medical deferment
Unfit to serve 50 years ago. Unfit to serve now.
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2 hours ago, Red Five said:
1000000% sure he hasn't read that book.
Speaking of books, whatever happened to the John Bolton tome?
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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:
How exactly is a sporting arena or a movie theater going to implement "strict physical distancing protocols"? Are they gonna only sell every 4th seat?
This dumb motherfucker and all you dumb motherfuckers who voted for this dumb motherfucker are idiots. God dammit, man.
Texas DB's practiced social distancing all last fall.
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12 minutes ago, JustBecause said:
Wouldn't any law like that need to be passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor? If that is the case then NC, MI, PA and WI have dem Governors and I doubt that a law would pass with veto-proof majorities.
Maybe, maybe not. The Constitution specifically says that the electors are appointed in the manner as the legislature of each state may direct. No mention of vetos, overrides, etc. If it is left to the courts to decide, any guess how SCOTUS will go?
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I haven't seen this discussed, but I have seen at least one article about it. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-cancel-election-day-constitution-state-electors-coronavirus.html. Given Trump's willingness to do literally anything possible to secure re-election and the Republicans party's complete obeisance to him, I see a real possibility that state legislatures controlled by Republicans (see "gerrymandering") could use the pandemic as an excuse to cancel the public vote and choose the presidential electors themselves.
In its entirety, this clause of the Constitution reads: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
While all the states have adopted popular vote as the means of selection of the electors, that can be changed. In the McPherson case in 1892, the Supreme Court said:
"The constitution does not provide that the appointment of electors shall be by popular vote, nor that the electors shall be voted for upon a general ticket, nor that the majority of those who exercise the elective franchise can alone choose the electors. It recognizes that the people act through their representatives in the legislature, and leaves it to the legislature exclusively to define the method of effecting the object."
That was reiterated in 2000 in Bush v. Gore:
"The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the electoral college. . . This is the source for the statement in McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U.S. 1, 35, 13 S.Ct. 3, 36 L.Ed. 869 (1892), that the state legislature's power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary; it may, if it so chooses, select the electors itself, which indeed was the manner used by state legislatures in several States for many years after the framing of our Constitution."
While the process would vary from state to state, I assume that through some sort of special session a state legislature could adopt emergency bills to grant itself the right to choose the electors for 2020, depriving its citizens of the right to vote. This would not have to happen on a large scale, just a few crucial states with a Republican governor and legislative majority - Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Arizona, Texas. Am I just paranoid?
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18 minutes ago, Spankytoes said:
Is Trump really a racist?
Yes.
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2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
Church in Tampa, Florida this morning.
Morons.The Book of Moron?
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8 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:
Trump: "See, it works. He didn't get the Chinese virus."
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59 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:
That's the part I disagree with. I think Sanders beats Trump more easily than Biden.
Trump won in 2016 because he swept the midwest - Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan. In those states, do you really think a self-described socialist who looks and acts like Dr. Emmett Brown and has had a recent heart attack has a better chance of beating Trump than Good Ol' Joe? I'm not buying it. It's all about the map in 2020.
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Guess I'm pretty well caught up on Jimbo's recruiting. Anyone know where I can go for a little Oline talk?
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I'm just hoping to hear Andy Reid say "Keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys." And maybe KC will win on a last second field goal by Jan Stenerud.
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17 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:
If there is a God in... well, maybe not Heaven. Where is Loki, these days?
But if there is a God up in heaven, He drives a silver Thunderbird.
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18 hours ago, Radical Larry said:
Bucky
*Buc-ee.
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Saw these gems on the Baylor site:
QuoteWould Urban Meyer come outta retirement for a smaller gig or is he too controversial still?
QuoteWhat a phony. Good riddance. I loved the wins, but he's untrustworthy and has done serious damage to our program leaving like this.
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13 hours ago, clapclapclap said:
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11 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:
Damn that's close. Real time, I agree with the overturn. Slo mo, it looked like he had it for 3 steps.
Three steps is three steps, at full speed or slo mo.
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2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:
All of this. We’ve been bitching about FISA generally since its conception. Conservatives loved that shit when it served their fascist impulses. They only turned all ACLU on us when the system was used to attempt to thwart fascism.
Par for the conservative course, really. The defining principle of “conservative” ideology these days is preservation of unfair advantages and pathetic whining when those advantages are opened to others.
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9 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:
Maybe get your facts straight before posting?
Wow, sorry. I just saw #6 heading up the tunnel. Too far away to read thr name. Made an honest mistake. Thanks to Sock Monkey for the correction.
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When the game ended today, I saw DD immediately head up the tunnel with a towel over his head. Didn't stay for the Eyes. Didn't shake hands. Just left. Anyone know what was up with that?
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8 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Dak was incredible
3&2 - run left -3 yards
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54 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:
the problem here is the owner of the Texans is a longhorn alum and played for coach royal on a national title team. cannot put the aggies on him like that (note NOT A TEXANS fan)
And the owner of the Cowboys was a co-captain on Arkie's national championship team. I doubt he appreciates the idea of burnt orange on a Cowboys' helmet.
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Amusing idea - using college colors on NFL helmets. https://thesportsdrop.com/combining-nfl-helmets-with-the-colors-of-local-college-teams/
"With all due respect to any other city in the state of Texas, only Dallas would get the honor of combining the legendary Dallas Cowboys color scheme with that of the beloved University of Texas Longhorns."
"While there are some people in the state who’d argue any college-NFL helmet for the state of Texas should be burnt orange, there’s nice symmetry here."
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