The Frankish Reich

Wow, look at that Bosa kid!

I had no idea anyone kept track of this. Can I place a wager on it now that I know? I'll take laces out at 25:1

I hated that circus, but I also hated the huge amounts of money pumped into a judicial election by both sides. Elections for judges have always bothered me, since they're supposed to be above the partisan political fray. I get it: today people view judges - including and maybe particularly high court judges - as politicians in robes. Obviously there's some truth to that. But this electioneering opens the floodgates to a particularly rotten circus. Life tenure is supposed to save federal judges from this. I think we need something in between, like set lengthy (15 year) terms.

So about 15% of voters agreed with Voter ID, but also voted for the liberal Supreme Court judge. Sometimes we do need to listen to the voice of the people. Maybe someday there will be a sensible political party again.

I saw that. And I think I would have voted in favor too. And I would also vote for the liberal Supreme Court justice, who so far is in good shape. I don't think there's anything inconsistent about those results, and I think it show what a weird place we are in politically that people consider them inconsistent.

Apparent reason: hey, don't forget about me! I'm made of presidential timber!! You try to create a perfect Democratic candidate, you start objectively with Cory Booker's attributes. Kind of an Obama Jr. But somehow the whole is way less than the sum of the parts. I just don't see it.

Right. Talk about Orwellian.

It was an illegal deportation. The Trumpistas are generally correctly citing the background. But here's the key: a judge found that he is properly deportable, but also found that it was more likely than not that he would be subject to extreme abuse (persecution) if returned to his native El Salvador. And this happened under Trump 1.0, so if his Homeland Security officials disagreed they had the right to appeal that decision to try to get it overturned. Apparently they didn't. So it became final. That meant that the U.S. could deport him to any country other than El Salvador. Get Venezuela to take him? Fine, off he goes. Get Mexico or Honduras or Vanuatu to take him, same thing. There's literally one place you can't send him: El Salvador. And they sent him to El Salvador. Yes, we should request his return, not to freedom in the USA, but to immigration detention in the USA. And then we should look for an alternative country that will let him in, and deport him to that country. Or if the DHS thinks they can show he'd no longer be subject to persecution in El Salvador, they can ask the judge to reopen the case to update the evidence and basically start again. That's how it works, that's what obeying court orders means. In America we fix our errors when we can, and try to get it right the second time around. At least we have for a couple centuries now.

Let's begin with some extra spacing so Tarheel can't pretend he just happened upon this. / / / / / / / / / / That should do it. The good thing is your vote is still private. Elon can't make you come in with your ballot, make sure you've ticked the Republican candidate, and then watch you deposit it in the box. But I'll admit here that this is a real concern with vote by mail and other non-voting booth old fashioned in-person voting ... ... Having said that, the fact that some Young Republican college organizer "won" the random drawing does raise and eyebrow, doesn't it?

I’m not sure it has anything to do with Trump directly. But has any Russian player said anything vaguely anti-Putin? That’s the kind of fear Putin strikes in any would be opponent. You’ll end up falling out of a window or grabbing a radioactive doorknob.

Sh!t. This is buried on Page 3 of the Moderna COVID warnings: Avoid severe impacts to the chest/thorax area, including those that may be incurred in a vehicular collision or during an NFL contest.

I thought we needed to eliminate the FBI? What's Pammy doing praising it? Good to see Kash is eyeballing foreign gangsters. Two at a time.

I guess Russians buy hockey skates too.

Yeah, I was - still am - kind of late to the whole "he's just trolling the left" party. I've been told that we did have a peaceful transition of power on January 20, 2021. You know, the peaceful transition that followed the violent attempt to stop that transition. It was all a joke!

Normal cycle in sports. 1970s: the "bump and run" stifles passing games. Nobody had ever thought about playing CB that way until some guys (I remember the name Jimmy Marsalis) started doing it. It wasn't against the rules, but it was messing with the game. The NFL outlawed it. 2024 MLB: the defensive shift was messing with the game as we'd always played it. Nobody had ever though of playing 3 guys on the right side of the infield against lefty hitters until some clever analytics nerd suggested it would work and it wasn't against the rules. A few years later everyone was doing it. It changed the game in a way that most fans didn't like, so it was banned. The tush push was illegal as "aiding the runner" when I was a kid. In the early part of the 2000s the NFL changed the rule (why?) but it took about 15 years for some clever coach (probably analytics nerd to be honest) thought about exploiting the rule change. To me it's made the game less interesting, more predictable as that 4th and 1 is automatic. (Or at least it was until we decided it requires the QB to go left) I'd rather see Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen rollout and make a great athletic play. Or a defender make a great athletic play to stop it. Ban it.