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Today (Saturday) is Women’s Baseball Day
A day on which Barnes, as usual, strikes out!
Apparently, there is a 1905 SCOTUS decision that provides the backing for Biden's vaccine mandate. There is another in 1921 or 1922.
Here are those citations, CHB.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/Designed-Public-Vaccination-Mandates
Thanks for the Lawfare citation.
It will be interesting to see this play out. The current SCOTUS pays lip service to precedent and is firmly ensconced in the delusion that originalism is actually a good approach to constitutional interpretation. I would not be surprised to see SCOTUS reject certain measures as exceeding executive authority, either constitutionally or as overreaching statutory authority granted by Congress. This is the legacy of Reagan and, more currently, Leonard Leo.
And we have Susan "Ditzy" Collins' word that Brett Kavanaugh respects precedent. At least until he votes to overrule it.
“He who dares not offend, cannot be honest” Thomas Paine
“Honesty is the best policy”. Sir Edwin Sandys..
Ergo….I offend for the benefit of mankind.
I have to admit I’m struggling with today, balancing the respect and solemnity of the occasion and the US lives lost (as well as the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians) with our Toby Keith bravado. We’ve yet to invade the country most responsible for the proliferation of global terror.
My being conflicted on this day is pretty well summed up by Krugman, in this article:
. . . that which America voluntarily surrendered of itself in the aftermath of those attacks, and in the response to them, is our own ongoing loss.
(On a personal note, it was my disgust with the Democratic Party’s failures and collective willful feebleness in response to the Bush Administration’s disastrous lies and machinations that directly led me leave the Party and to reregister as “unaffiliated.”)
"No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. is very informative regarding the things we gave up after 9/11.
It is a fairly old book, so I imagine what was scary then is terrifying now.
We lost more than just innocent lives on that day. We lost our liberty, our bravery, our democratic values, our credibility. We said never forget and then immediately forgot our American values. How quickly we forgot that President Bush failed us – and then rewarded him with imperial powers. We wandered into the unknowables with Rumsfeld and gave Cheney a blank check.
We took the tragedy of one day and stretched that tragedy across the globe over two decades.
I was a Republican when the planes hit the WTC and Pentagon. It wasn't a popular position to be 'anti-war / anti-Dubya'. In that twenty years our nation has wreaked havoc in the Middle East, we now shake down old ladies at airport screening stations. We taught ourselves to fear Muslims. Passed (and reauthorized) the Patriot Act (who could be against it!) We've allowed the slow erosion of our civil liberties, tortured and killed innocent people, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan citizens, and left an environmental disaster in its wake.
We eventually found and assassinated Osama bin Laden, but then decided to stick around ten more years in a futile attempt to nation-build.
We've spit on our first responders, created a domestic army in our police force. We ignored the domestic terror threat from white nationalists next door.
Sadly, this is not our best day.
I lived and worked in downtown Oklahoma City in 1995. So 9/11 reminds me of very different things, like the fact that a white, catholic army veteran blew in my office windows.
Unpopular opinion on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 – the terrorists won.
I’d argue our decline began post-Vietnam and Reagan’s economic approach absolutely quickened our decline. But 9/11 and our subsequent response put us on the fast track to failure.
9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.
The Dixie Chicks had some choice words for Toby…..
Remember it well. Things haven’t changed much. Same play, new actors.
The Dixie Chicks backlash begins
But the Chicks are back, and calling out all Gaslighters:
"The country most responsible for terror?"
Do you mean Texas or Florida, Michael?
I had Saudi Arabia on my mind given 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, but your comment is a gentle reminder that terrorism comes in many forms and from a broad base of geographies.
Which made Trump's exception for Saudi Arabia to his "Muslim ban" all the more ironic.
I'm sure his close relationship with MBS had nothing to do with carving out that exception.
The hilarious Trump orb photo is a nearly perfect metaphor for his foreign policy
And yet another one of those deplorables who crawled out of the basket…..
Joseph Angel Alvarez Killed Lawyer Over Biden Vote: Police (lawandcrime.com)
I still can’t stand to watch George W Bush mouth his pious hypocrisies. That’s where the commemmorations lost me.
He and Cheney saw political advantage (“I’m a war president”.) and billions to be made. So they struck back at the wrong country, let the hunt for Bin Laden grow cold while the war raged, killed at least a million non-combatants in various countries, legitimized torture as standard US practice, grew the surveillance state.
The one positive thing Shrub did was refuse to stigmatize American Muslims. And that, too, was at least partly due to who was buttering his bread.
Beschloss, the historian, asked on MSNBC this morning whether Trump would have had the grace and patriotism Al Gore showed, after 9/11, when Gore said, “George Bush is my Commander” and asked people to support him. Well, we don’t actually wonder about that too much.
Senator Hog Castrator doesn't know whether to shit or go blind.
Biden set to declassify 9/11 documents.
Saudi Arabia Issues Statement of Innocence – and Indignation – in Advance of 9/11 Documents Release
I can’t figure out how to post from my iPad, but check out Bush’s remarks today at the Pennsylvania memorial, in which he equates the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as the same terrorism as 9-11.
The far righties on PJ Media are already lambasting Bush for daring to compare the 9/11 terrorists with the "patriotic tourists" at the Capitol on January 6.
Heard the NPR broadcast this morning, "live" from PA. Both before and after Pres. Bush's speech, the host (Inskeep, I think) kept wondering about how today will play politically. Whether Biden should be giving a speech instead of releasing a video. If the end of the Afghanistan War made him look bad today and how that would impact the 2022 and 2024 elections.
I decided I could do without exposure to media comments. I'll read speech texts and probably will watch video in the coming week. But for today, I'm done with simplistic views and reactions.
The Colorado Sun has the story dated almost 3 pm yesterday, the 10th.
Republican Heidi Ganahl files to run for Colorado governor in 2022
September 11, 2001 is the day Saudi Arabia attacked the USA and killed 3000+ people living here.
The "Kingdom" has never suffered any consequences for its actions.
We need to get to true energy independence and fuck OPEC.
“f. OPEC…………” Hmmm. So you would prefer to turn over more of our public lands to the oil & gas industry? The energy industry is sitting today on several hundred thousand acres of undeveloped leases just in the Western U.S., as enhancements to the bottom lines. You want “energy independence,” then go after the energy barons.
What we import from OPEC today is almost di minimis. (About equal to what we export to Mexico)
We could offset close to 40% of our domestic use with advanced biofuels made from ag waste products alone. We have an OPEC right here beneath our feet (electrification and increasing fuel standards will help, too).
September 12, 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
And what, pray tell, is so significant about a 63rd anniversary? If you are determined to continued your parade of inanities, at least pick a number like 50 or 75.
I see that Klannie Oakley has decided to start screaming about Benghazi. In the year 2021, after Covid and Jan. 6 and everything that’s happened in the intervening years, this is what she chooses to try to make noise about.
I would really love to see her try to name the men who died in Benghazi without Googling it. #NeverForget indeed, right?
It’s apparently the newest ‘thing’. If one ever feels out of touch with reality all you have to do is scroll by one of these posts and be reminded you’re not as far gone as you sometimes think!
![](https://i.postimg.cc/VN4S5ypt/BE66-B818-9-A7-F-4-DB1-A1-DC-D5-D068234724.jpg)
Next she's be onto the Yalta secret protocols FDR signed off on.
If a male politician made this their twitter profile pic, they’d be flayed and roasted.
It’s essentially her Glock-wearing ass (OK, her hip). What does it have to do with governance? representation? At least it’s her personal, not her official, account. Small mercies.
Nebraska Senate candidate Jan Morgan decided that, since the gun porn schtick works so well for PewPew, she’ll do a full-body giant gun take on it. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-8EQeXX0Bkf3kr?format=jpg&name=medium
Holy crap!! It most resembles an ad where the WWE and the NRA had a baby…
I was just recalling a video of our congresswoman giving a speech with no podium behind which she can hide. She cannot stand still, moving like an evangelist preacher from one applause line to the next with the sinuous motion of a cobra.
It's like when you are a tiresome, off-key, singer, who doesn't really know all the words, but you gotta sell that song anyway…😉
It is all in the presentation when the message is crap.
Got that right.
It almost enough to make me miss Paula White.
Where IS Paula now – somehow I think Mar-A-Lago.
She actually seems crazier than Trump. ..Or not…Wonder how much of that "Angels from Africa – Strike! " act she has to rehearse privately.
The "towel guy" walking back and forth was genius.
By "Nebraska," you of course mean "Arkansas"? . . .
Someone didn’t get their Sarah Palin action doll as a child (current inspiration: Klannie Oakley) Jan has broad life experiences to qualify her for one of the most august political bodies ever known (and she’ll make a fine pairing with Cotton):
I think they meant Tennessee?
Jan Morgan is the MAGAt running a primary against JOHN BOOZEMAN? This should be entertaining.
She was mischaracterized above. She’s in the AR primary running against Boozman.
Oops. Shows to go you can't trust the Twitters for accurate info. Thanks for correcting.
Nebraska is smarter than that.
Nebraskans? Maybe. Their governor? Not so much.
Pro-Trump Rally Expecting 10,000 Attendees Sees Only a Few Hundred Show Up (msn.com)
I wonder if Tina Peters was there incognito.
She was spotted with a pillowcase over her head. Eyeholes, and a peaked design.
It’s Mike Lindell’s latest niche market ploy.
I imagine the pillowcase was white to match the white sheets many of these folk like to wear.
Not all white sheet costumes are bad. I'm recalling the toga party in the movie "Animal House."