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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Wordle 1,308 2/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #586 🟨πŸŸͺ🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1089 6️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  4. Wordle 1,307 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #585 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨πŸŸͺ🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1088 4️⃣5️⃣ 9️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  5. John Stewart is a national treasure.
  6. I wonder how many push-ups she can do.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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???
  10. Quite cold to very cold in the Wastes of West Texas.
  11. Welcome back! You were sorely missed.
  12. https://archive.is/Ko8eR Was this common knowledge before? Because I didn't have a clue. Fuck!
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  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I didn't have US183 on ignore before his "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?" posts. He is now.
  17. Thanks for catching that. Fixed.
  18. Normally, I get a little irked when people quote @Incredulity. Today, knowing that he got TrIgGeReD by me pointing out a prejudiced POS, put a little smile on my face.
  19. If anyone hasn't yet had the chance to neg a motherfucker yet over being a bigoted shitstain who blames the wildfires on DEI and lesbian bullshit, I've got some great news for you. Here are three of them, nearly in a row, starting with this one:
  20. All of your politically oriented and unoriginal questions/concerns have been discussed and given fairly thorough and technical answers by at least one subject matter expert in the Daily Texan thread. It might behoove you to digest the posts in that thread before popping off in the Cloak Room. Just my two cents.
  21. I guess it’s easy to blame the fires on Californians being woke treehuggers or whatever if you've forgotten the worst wildfire in Texas history was last February.
  22. There's still some shuffling that's going to take place for the 2025 season, but to the best of my ability, the following is how the conferences should look in 2026 once all of the announcements have finally taken place. Of course, the PAC still needs one more slot filled to make 8 full members who play FBS football. Y'all let me know if there are any errors.
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  24. That's happening because he posts a post posting another post. He needs to just post the original post. post post post post post post post post post post
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