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  1. I'm a little surprised the gumbo didn't use a can of Cream of Chicken soup for the roux.
  2. I have a new coworker with Cajun parents. I'm talking to her about gumbo. Apparently, there's a special brand of rice and preferred andouile (it has some grandma on the label). She's going to pick up some of the rice for me while she's home for the holidays. Will report back on the next gumbo cook.
  3. Damn. Speak the truth. Our day is jammed up tomorrow. So I set aside today to make it, and it's always better the next day, right? Anyway, my 14 year old picked up a stomach bug, and we have ended up at urgent care due 2 hours (he's better now). So I didn't get started until around 1 pm today. Also was making pizza dough for Christmas day. I'm finished and so done right now. But Great Success!
  4. Timmy V2 works with just about everything.
  5. My brother produced the Moving Sidewalks before the ZZ days and was good friends with Billy. His opinion of Ham was similar.
  6. I have an early Christmas gathering with my side of the family. My sister is taking the lead on this one. She doesn't really elevate the dishes, but I get to plan Thanksgiving and don't care. She asked that I bring a rice or pasta side dish. So I looked around and found something that was straight-forward and easy and would go with a fairly mediocre main course and overall experience. I found and modified a recipe for zucchini and cheese rice dish. 2 cups of rice, 4 cups of chicken stock, a tablespoon of butter, salt, pepper, garlic powder, turmeric, 1 zucchini chopped, 1 cup of cheddar (I mixed 3/4 cup yellow cheddar, 1/4 cup smoked white cheddar, 2 tablespoons of cream. Cook the rice in the stock, when it's done, add everything else, and cook over low head for another 5 minutes. Delicious. Would make again.
  7. I think we can acknowledge what you're saying while still discussing the law. That's just my take.
  8. I don't think anyone here is bending over backward to justify improper acts by the Supreme Court by discussing how things ought or might go. We may not like it, but we aren't going to go all insurrectionist on the high court either.
  9. I don't think they'll go off the rails at that point. There's no hierarchy between the amendment and Article II, and I don't see any argument that they are disharmonious. I'm not a constitutional scholar per se, but doing my best to pretend to be is part of my day job sometimes. Generally, courts tend to follow the cannons of constitutional/statutory construction. The SCOTUS majority may indeed ignore these at their whim. But I'm not going to engage in the depressing exercise of what if. I instead prefer to reserve my shocked face for when things happen. I know I'm in the minority in this regard. Supremacy-of-Text Principle. The words of a governing text are of paramount concern, and what they convey, in their context, is what the text means. Principle of Interrelating Canons. No canon of interpretation is absolute. Each may be overcome by the strength of differing principles that point in other directions. Presumption of Validity. An interpretation that validates outweighs one that invalidates (ut res magis valeat quam pereat). Ordinary-Meaning Canon. Words are to be understood in their ordinary, everyday meanings — unless the context indicates that they bear a technical sense. Fixed-Meaning Canon. Words must be given the meaning they had when the text was adopted. Omitted-Case Canon. Nothing is to be added to what the text states or reasonably implies (casus omissus pro omisso habendus est). That is, a matter not covered is to be treated as not covered. General-Terms Canon. General terms are to be given their general meaning (generalia verba sunt generaliter intelligenda). Negative-Implication Canon. The expression of one thing implies the exclusion of others (expressio unius est exclusio alterius). Whole-Text Canon. The text must be construed as a whole. Presumption of Consistent Usage. A word or phrase is presumed to bear the same meaning throughout a text; a material variation in terms suggests a variation in meaning. Surplusage Canon. If possible, every word and every provision is to be given effect (verba cum effectu sunt accipienda). None should be ignored. None should needlessly be given an interpretation that causes it to duplicate another provision or to have no consequence. Absurdity Doctrine. A provision may be either disregarded or judicially corrected as an error (when the correction is textually simple) if failing to do so would result in a disposition that no reasonable person could approve.
  10. Maybe I'm missing your point, but I don't think Section 3 of the 14th Amendment contradicts this. In fact, it assumes that the person ineligible for election previously was elected but committed an act of insurrection. The amendment can be harmonized with Art. II, Sec. 1.
  11. At the very least, cases dismissed in Michigan and Minnesota are pending on appeal.
  12. Honestly, I think this will happen regardless. It's just a progression of disease.
  13. I haven't read the opinion, but since the President is the commander and chief of the military, and election to military office is precluded under Section 3, and we have a factual finding of insurrection from the trial court, I don't see how it could not apply to a Presidential candidate. Yes, I realize it's calvinball, and any SCOTUS opinion will be base on external factors, but my appellate brain won't let me go there. Some of us still do the job as intended.
  14. I'm a big proponent of "we'll see" when it comes to future-predicting. But whatever happens, I'm reasonably comfortable in saying that it's not going to be 9-0.
  15. Or maybe not a 20' PVC line? What did you replace it with?
  16. How much bigger than the opening is the TV? We have a built-in upstairs and when the world's greatest Samsung LED from forever ago eventually dies (or maybe it doesn't), we'd like to go larger and just "wall mount" it to a stud we would add to the edge of opening, which would allow the TV to be slightly larger and still appear flush (if that makes any sense).
  17. Million$ of them, I a$$ume.
  18. Well, the CO SCT's opinion rests on its interpretation of the the US Constitution, i.e., whether Section 3 applies to a candidate for President, even though election law is state by state issue. So the CO SCT's opinion is appealable to the SCOTUS.
  19. Colorado Supreme Court with the pile driver! https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/trump-colorado-supreme-court-14th-amendment/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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